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https://abc13.com/post/2-firefighters-driver-hurt-critically-high-speed-crash-gulf-freeway-clear-lake-hpd-says/18346549/ https://abc13.com/post/1-person-injured-metro-bus-flips-crash-vehicle-sh-288-mcgowen-officials-say/18347843/...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/01/01/fireworks-blamed-for-new-years-day-apartment-fire-that-displaced-dozens-in-west-houston/ And the first multiple shooting of the New Year-...

This apartment is about 400-600 feet up Braesridge Drive from Engine 82's quarters. Obviously they had heavy fire on arrival. It's funny; when you go up Braesridge to the north, it is a nice quiet neighborhood. When going south about 1000 feet to West Bellfort Avenue. it immediately becomes the...

A Mexican Navy aircraft crashed on approach into Galveston Scholes Airport a couple of hours ago in the fog. This crash was in West Bay adjacent to the Gulf Freeway. Galveston Sheriff's and Galveston FD had rescuers in 4-5 feet of water. Eight people were on board. There are four confirmed...

Yesterday was Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday. Of more interest, it was John Davidson's Birthday also. On May 28, 1977 Davidson , a well known entertainer, actor, and TV personality was the headliner at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky. He was just about to go onstage when a...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency estimates there are more than 1500 MIA's from the Vietnam War. Since 2016 that agency has spent $86 million, but resolved only 25 cases. Vietnam used to be a French colony so the country has a well developed bureaucracy skilled in producing paperwork. The...

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-condo-fire-plaza-verde-three-alarm-firefighter-mayday/285-64678c09-b433-4cc4-b1a9-3eb86ecfe595 And in other news...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Milner_(firefighter)#/media/File:Her_Majesty_Queen_Elizabeth_visits_the_London_Fire_Brigade_Headquarters,_Lambeth_(cropped).jpg Joe Milner was born in Manchester, England in October, 1922. After joining the Army in 1938, he later served in the war as a...

For decades boaters on Galveston Bay, unless they were a harbor pilot navigating on the Houston Ship Channel (busiest port in the US in tonnage) by channel markers or using GPS, used the old Houston Lighting & Power generation plant in Bacliff as a landmark. Since you could see it over most of...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/11/10/firefighter-injured-after-roof-collapses-during-building-fire-in-houstons-third-ward/ https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/mollys-pub-fire-el-camino-real-houston-texas/285-88105ad2-f28c-4172-85f5-141a29492ed7 The NASA employees at Johnson...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/11/07/houston-firefighters-say-eco-friendly-ambulances-cant-keep-up-with-citys-pace/ Who in their right mind would think this was a good idea? Looks like they skipped the Beta testing phase. Wonder who got the "finder's fee"?

Yesterday in Houston it was 87 degrees at 2:00PM. At 4:00PM the first cold front of Fall came through with over a half inch of rain in twenty minutes. This morning it was a near-arctic 58 degrees with a 25 to 35mph northwest wind and a desert-like 47% humidity. Some furnaces may have gotten...

Houston FD Station 28 joins Stations 2 and 16 has having a City of Houston maintenance worker fall down a pole hole over the years. You have to wonder. It's not like tripping over the family cat. And not like Houston has a lot of two story fire houses. And it's not like the time Engine 7 dumped...

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...