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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...

Robert Moses/NYCHA were the largest and best known, but they were not alone. In St Louis was the Pruitt-Igoe Project- the architect's next design project was the World Trade Center in New York. In Chicago was the Robert Taylor Homes and Cabrini- Green Project (among others). Mercifully, they...

Interesting pattern of structural failure. Isn't the only gas source at the bottom of the shaft? Is this a structural failure first with gas problem afterwards? Where is the structural steel? Were the adjacent apartments compromised?

Grump, just like the dope who reads the news on TV, all I've got is the printed NFD fire alarm stations and assignments from 1957.

From 1957: Station 3148 Bloomfield Ave. and Webster Street First Alarm Engines 9, 23, 4, 5 Ladders 2, 7 BC 3, Dep 3 Salvage Wagon 1 Second Alarm Engines 22, 2, 7, 28 Ladder 6 BC 1, Rescue Squad 1 Searchlight 1 Relocations E8 to 9, E17 to 15 L2 to 9 Third Alarm Engines 13, 11, 20 Ladder...

Sorry for yet another loss, Cap! To quote my late good friend Captain John McGinnis from 25 Engine of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire: "It's tough when you get to that age where the only exercise you get is burying your friends."

Rudy Kaminski...Ladder 7

Fifty-five years later, the Seabrook Volunteer Fire Department goes back to the Seabrook Shipyard. This time without Entropychaser. This time with a lot more success...

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...

Bobby Hart passed away two weeks ago at age 86. Best known for the hit song "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite?" with his partner Tommy Boyce (d 1994) released in 1968. Their greatest work , however, was producing and song writing for the NBC sitcom "The Monkees" which opened in September, 1966...

CIDS reflect that this occupancy is/was fully sprinklered. What happened to the Class 3 water flow alarm? If all you get is a phone alarm for smoke after nightfall on a remote street, you know it's gonna be a long night. If the OS&Y valve was closed (known to some as the Brooklyn business...

Looks like our superhero wasn't a super swimmer. Seems like Aquaman should have been on the CAD assignment.

The typical artist's understanding and appreciation of common sense approaches zero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ship_warehouse_fire

Back in the day, Box 516....25 Engine first due...left turn out of the house....up Butler Street....left on 38th Street with the truck following. Engine 9 from 52nd and Butler, Engine 6 from 44th and Calvin right behind. Then, put down the watch and look at the calendar waiting for Squad 3...

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...

FF/Paramedic Scott of Station 102 has passed away.

There have been no public updates of FF/Paramedic Scott's condition since the evening of 9/14 after his on-duty emergency. The word in the firehouse: He sustained a ruptured aortic aneurysm, had a twelve hour operation, is in the ICU, and will need another operation at some point. He is at...

Cap, Let's remember...not everyone is stuck in Midtown traffic.