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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

https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/firefighter-hurt-botany-lane-house-fire-arson-investigation/285-c55b1371-a8bc-4de9-a994-f2f9d1648796

It's always satisfying to learn something interesting or neat to know. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/monopoly-standard-board--134896951331766273/ In 1935 Parker Bros introduced Atlantic City and the board game Monopoly To America. Victor Watson, the head of Waddingtons, a British printing...

A thousand words isn't enough. July 22, 1975 129 Marlboro Street 3-1536 third alarm two minutes after the box by Ladder 17

Wayne Dolcefino is a well known investigative reporter in Houston. I think he was a high school classmate of my wife. He started as a reporter for the Houston ABC affiliate 40 years ago. He is a local world-class %!&#- stirrer. The union guys love him. The late Sylvester Turner was the Houston...

Illinois/ Chicago have the lowest credit rating in the country. Illinois state pension debt is $172 billion- worst, by far, in the US. Chicago has the worst funded pensions and highest fixed costs of any big city. Illinois/Chicago have the highest taxes in the US Illinois was one of three...

Bill Moyers recently passed away on June 26 at age 91. An advisor to Presidents and a well respected newsman, he was one of the few in the national news media to pay attention to The War Years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Moyers

I wonder if he belongs to SPAAMFAA?