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https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/05/29/where-am-i-going-to-sleep-30-year-resident-displaced-after-deadly-apartment-fire-in-houston/ Decades ago, before HFD went crypto, I used to hear this box "Number Six Burress at Airline" come in all the time. After all these years I would...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/05/29/3-rescued-1-dead-after-fire-breaks-out-at-assisted-living-apartment-in-north-houston/

Weren't the old National Fire Protection Association offices on Batterymarch Street?

Seems like the Hilton had an electrical fire in the basement a couple of years ago that went to a second alarm. Also, isn't that 54th Street entrance where the United Health CEO got shot?

https://www.cnn.com/travel/margraten-netherlands-american-soldiers-gravesites At any time there is a waiting list of about one thousand Dutch citizens who want to "adopt" an American serviceman's grave.

https://www.honorstates.org/profiles/85928/ When I was a kid and heard the name Chuck Lamont in my house, it was always followed by "a great guy" and "just a great pilot" Almost 81 years have passed: still MIA RIP Lieutenant Lamont.

The word on the street is that a Bronx gang, well known for street graffiti and tagging subway and railcars, declined an offer of a shipment of stolen Omaha Orange (not agent orange) paint' They said; "Way too gaudy for us." The stuff was later sold at an abandoned property auction to a company...

Our former Governor down here in Texas, Rick Perry, always reminded the citizens that gun control consisted of always keeping both hands on the pistol grip.

In 1955, the Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Yankees to win the World Series. At the time Ebbets Field was small and falling down. The Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley had to make a move. He offered the City to buy and build a new stadium at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues himself. To practically and...

Since this is the Upper West Side, we'll call it street theater. When will this episode of "Pranked" be shown.

I don't see any signs, According to the curb painting, this car looks legally parked. If this was a critical space, why didn't the curb lane and adjacent bike lane have emergency striping and prohibited standing signs? This would be a great (and appropriate) use of Omaha Orange paint. I know...

As always, better call Sal!

Lt. Mark Dranbauer, age 44, a 23 year veteran died after a medical problem and fall down an aerial ladder at a multiple alarm fire on Saratoga Street on Monday May 12th. After donation of organs, he was taken off life support on Friday May 16th. EVD Charles Mudra,a 17 year veteran from Truck...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/05/14/fire-crews-battling-large-fire-at-magnolia-terrace-apartments-in-west-houston/ I just drove by that building the other day. A long run for everybody. The troops have been out there all day. It was 96 degrees today. Getting early training for...

Hook & Ladder 5 was organized on Aisquith Street on 4/1/1887- 138 years ago. The truck house moved to 1220 Harford Avenue on 11/27/1905 and then to 25th Street in 2000. Engine 9, from Madison and Regester Streets, moved into Truck 5's quarters on 2/16/1969 until disbanded about five years...

It's been almost sixty years now. It wasn't fair then and will never be right. My sincere condolences Chief.

At some point in time property owners found that tenements could be more valuable when converted to manufacturing occupancies. Most of these were north of Canal Street and used in the garment trade. These conversions had retro-installed elevators, roof water tanks, and altered interior walls...

Hell's Hundred Acres- Boundaries: Chambers Street on the south; the Bowery on the east; West Broadway on the west; West 8th Street on the north. This area had a large number of tenements converted to lofts with removal of structural partitions to allow manufacturing operations. Hundreds of...

Engine Company No. 36 began service in a new firehouse built on the southeast corner of Edmonson Avenue and Bentalou Street on November 5, 1910. Their first rig was an 1895 LaFrance Steam Engine.

And speaking of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, let's take a stroll down memory lane to 7643 West Santa Monica Blvd. For the grandaddy of them all!