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Last night about 11:30 pm Engine 84/Ladder84 first due at a apartment fire in Greenspoint (known to all as Gunpoint) area west of Bush Airport with two children fatalities...

KIA in Dog White Sector on Omaha Beach on a landing craft before he made it to shore. Identified by a DNA swab from his mother. Never knowing, Momma died three years ago at age 101. Greeted at the airport by the on-duty crews of HFD ARFF stations and escorted by HPD Solo Motorcycle VIP unit...

Today marks the 81st anniversary of the East Ohio Gas Co Explosion in Cleveland, Ohio. It joins a list of devastating urban accidental explosions such as Delft (1654),Texas City (1947), Beirut (2020), and of course, Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1917. The LNG holding company - between East 61st and...

Joann Chesimard (Assata Shakur) died on 9/25/25 at age 78 in Havana, Cuba. A cop killer on the run from the law since 1979: couldn't outrun Father Time. https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/joanne-deborah-chesimard/download.pdf https://pub.njleg.gov/Bills/2024/SR/23_I1.HTM...

On September 16th a fire struck the Novelis aluminum plant in Oswego, NY. This plant produces 40% of the aluminum sheet metal used in the US automotive industry. It is expected that the plant will be offline for repairs until next year. Replacement of aluminum sheet inventory will require...

HFD has responded to an explosion on the 17th floor of a hotel under construction downtown about two hours ago. This was reported as a boiler explosion with five burn injuries. Since it's 91 degrees out today, it certainly wasn't heating the occupancy. This building at Texas and Austin is a...

The NYC budget for 2025 is reported as $112.4 Billion. NYC income for 2024 is reported as $104.8 Billion. Pandemic money has dried up. What could go wrong? When asked on TV about possible Federal help , the US Secretary of Treasury replied: "Drop Dead" The City of Santa Monica, California...

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/apartment-fire-holly-hall-houston-texas/285-960ef9ed-34fa-4688-ad20-7184281a65fe Last night. Just down the street from the old Astrodome The usual suspects: 33, 21, 46, 25, 37. fifty years ago, Engines 24 and 10 would have been on the box. Now they are...

GM has issued a recall of some 23,000 Corvette models ZO6 and ZR1 which cost over $100,000 each for fires while refueling. This is either justice or a terrible injustice. The cause was determined to be a two step event- and the Corvette was not the root issue, The fire would start when a...

In the aftermath of 9/11 a classified ad appeared in the Village Voice from filmmakers Steven Rosenbaum and Pamela Yoder: "Do you have video footage from the week of 9/11?". Over 100 people responded with more than 500 hours of video. The couple used some in the 2002 documentary "7 days in...

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-firefighter-medical-emergency/285-da571c57-a318-4e48-af2a-52bac0a86798 Whatever this is, it sounds bad.

Smitty is an HFD institution. He got on the job in 1973. I saw him a couple of years ago at a funeral. In addition to the 9/11Memorial, that station is wall to wall pictures of 28's at work over the years...

Today is the 125th anniversary of the largest natural disaster in United States history- the unnamed hurricane that struck Galveston on September 8th, 1900. It destroyed the city killing an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 citizens. In the aftermath, the port was moved 50-odd miles inland creating the...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/09/05/16-units-burn-at-sw-houston-apartments-after-bad-pump-in-firetruck-complicates-response/

Did they take their gun belts off first? https://abc13.com/post/2-galveston-police-officers-hospitalized-water-rescue-training-incident-schlitterbahn-authorities-say/17732647/

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/woman-child-rescued-house-fire-redding-springs-lane/285-db8a9fc2-b732-47fe-8129-1890680ef929 This is a fairly nice neighborhood. not a third world country. Obviously no smoke/CO detectors. Why would they need burglar bars, much less bars on the second...

https://abc13.com/post/houston-fire-department-crews-battle-apartment-gulf-freeway-southeast/17587703/ What heat? It was raining off and on all day and only made it up to 94 degrees today . It was 101 degrees the last two days. I got 3.2 inches of rain (plus hail) last night in about 90...

This means little to me, but youse guys from Brooklyn might find this interesting. Tonight, Monday, at 10 p.m. PBS will televise the documentary Emergent City. The story revolves around the working-class enclave of Sunset Park and their fight against developers trying to rezone and "revitalize"...

George Herzlinger passed away Sunday August 10th at age 82. Yeah, I know. I'd never heard of the guy either. But we all know what he did. He invented a medical device that. starting with our soldiers on the line in Iraq, is thought to have saved a million lives- so far. The count continues to...

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/tire-shop-total-loss-fire/285-132511c2-15b6-443d-bf33-d455434425d0 Two right hand turns to the freeway for 28's. 51's and Engine 60 not far behind. Engine 68 and Engine 13 on watch until shift change this morning