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    September Nor’Easter 9/25-9/27

    Have they activated the Cajun Navy yet? If there's one organization that bring order to this chaos, it's a bunch of hungover redneck creoles and their pirogues or bass boats! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_Navy
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    EDISON NJ Elks Lodge (09/26/2026)

    The now Elks less Edison.... https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/fire-tears-through-edison-elks-lodge-leaving-firefighters-mourning-a-place-many-called-their-own/
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    September Nor’Easter 9/25-9/27

    Remember..."Stay high...until it's dry!"
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    9/23/26 Bronx 2nd Alarm Box 2929

    The German word schadenfreude is employed world-wide for this situation.
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    Scanning some old sides for Joe Sullivan

    Jeez Cap....You must not have gotten that AUC....it's now SI.
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    Television from a different time

    One of the popular kid shows beginning in the 60's was Bozo The Clown (BTC). It was a franchise on TV around the country. The biggest show was on WGN TV in Chicago. It was shown at noon since Chicago schools let kids go home for lunch. Since it was live with kids, disasters were always a...
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    9/21/26 Brooklyn 10-77 Box 590

    When you rent a 7th floor apartment in an eight story MD under construction, is the heavy clutter already installed? Does the new renter get a set of irons? And an instructional video?
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    9/12/26 Bronx 10-21 Box 4451 Mutual Aid Pelham Manor

    To put the Super Pumper in historical perspective: I'm guessing that Ferrara used Red Adair's old associates " Boots and Coots" in the design of the FDNY Super Pumper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_%26_Coots Or it was Williams Fire and Hazard Control.
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    9/12/26 Bronx 10-21 Box 4451 Mutual Aid Pelham Manor

    From the legendary Red Adair on how to put out an oil well fire: "First, round up a whole bunch of water!" https://authentictexas.com/paul-red-adair/
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    The Houston Twin

    One of the members who died on 9/11 was Keithroy Maynard, He was assigned to Ladder 122, but detailed to Engine 33 for the tour. I believe his father was a former Captain at Engine Company 47. At the time, his twin brother Kevin worked in Houston for Continental Airlines. Afterwards, he did...
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    9/14/26 Queens 10-75 Box 4512

    In Houston, this is how they decide when a fire is under control: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hhuXdWXZsAY
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    9/12/26 Bronx 10-21 Box 4451 Mutual Aid Pelham Manor

    Hey! That just might work. Back at the beginning didn't Squad One answer 10-75 Signal citywide for a while?
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    9/12/26 Bronx 10-21 Box 4451 Mutual Aid Pelham Manor

    How come they didn't send the Superpumper to this? Looks like the perfect solution to the problem. Were the tires flat, or is that asset too important to be allowed outside the city limits?
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    Miami Plane Crash 9/6/26 1400 hours

    So much for the Crew Resource Management that was sold to the fire service.
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    La Habra CA (LA County) Hazmat Incident 9/8/26

    It was long before 1970. In 1948 my father-in-law started college in Pasadena. He joked that he was there a year before he realized that the San Gabriel Mountain range was just north of campus.
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