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Usually, as years go by, what happened in history becomes clearer as more facts become known, more analysis done. But sometimes not. Fifty years ago today, US Army helicopters were evacuating the last few souls off the roof of the US embassy in Saigon. They would fly to aircraft carriers off...

Exposure 3 for this fire is the Allegheny River. Back in the day, Fire Alarm would have used Box 537- 51st and Butler Streets The first alarm assignment was: Engines 9 (four blocks around the corner at Butler and McCandless), Engine 6, and Engine and Truck 36, Battalion Chief 3, and Squad...

When you charge for transportation, you are Uber. However well intentioned, the Fire Commissioner has made at least two missteps. 1) Never poke a skunk 2) Don't step in it. I would observe that the final say on this subject will be made well above the Commissioner's pay grade. Also, nobody...

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Hope it doesn't spread to the nuclear reactor!

The other night I watched, for the third time, the best motion picture of 1938- "The Adventures of Robin Hood". Every kid who ever wore short pants knows the story. In the movie Errol Flynn plays Robin Hood, Maid Marion is Olivia de Havilland, and Little John is Alan Hale, Sr, (Yes, Alan, Jr was...

Marine firefighting....better call Sal!

https://abc13.com/post/crews-fighting-warehouse-fire-mcallister-road-dacoma-street-could-seen-highway-290/16190792/

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/04/17/southwest-plane-makes-emergency-landing-at-hobby-airport-after-engine-fire/ While the third alarm was going on across town, Stations 81 (arff), 36, and 61 took in this Alert 2 on Runway 22 at Hobby Airport with an evacuation on the field.

Warehouse fire in northwest Houston now. Alarm time 0801 DST 2-11 so far Engine 50 first due https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/fire-us290-houston-smoke/285-6ff24991-2f09-4c89-a79a-07e447f7a490...

That all makes perfect sense. But that was then. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that, 250 years ago, our Founding Fathers risked their lives so that every red-blooded, patriotic American firefighter would have the right to go to a job clinging to the side of a Mack Fire Truck with a...

The Lake Street Elevated Railroad opened on November 6, 1893. There were two firehouses on West Lake Street further in town whose company's responded to the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. Engine 17 at 80 W. Lake St. built in 1864 during the Civil War. It closed on 1/16/1968 and was the last...

Forget all this. I wanna know what happened to Mack Fire Trucks and when are they coming back.

Saturday, March 12th Galveston FD fought a fire in a historic mansion built when Galveston was the wealthiest city in Texas and survived the 1900 hurricane. On the same day up the Gulf Freeway, Houston FD had three multiple alarm fires...

The BCFD Glory Days ended in the mid 1970's. It's been a slow descent in the decades since. Omaha Orange is characterized as a fluorescent covering and has been noted that exposure increases the risk of eye disease. The "new" exciting rig paint scheme serves as the perfect metaphor for...