Recent content by fotowun

You're welcome, and thanks for the kind words, guys!  I try to make it readable...the research is half  (Or more) of the fun of writing it.

I write a blog about famous, infamous and unusual disasters aand incidents, and I just finished a post about the Brooklyn Theater Fire. All of us know that this one was the fourth worst structure fire, loss-of-life wise in U.S. history, and there were multiple factors factors before the fire...

I've got a book, which I've had for about fifty years, written by a guy named Burr Leyson  about the FDNY. The book was already old when I got it... It was written in the late '30s or early '40s and was obviously aimed at older kids who had an interest in fire-fighting. It details the operations...