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This MD-11 suffered a No. 1 (left) engine fire just after the abort point on takeoff. It got up to about 175 feet at less than 200 knots. After that there was no place to go.

In the 1940's Engine 282 was detailed to Red Hook for Election Night. In the book "They Only Played Cards" Paul DeGaeta tells the story of the covering newly promoted lieutenant who ordered the company to put out a bonfire after they told him that would be a poor idea. Then the officer...

Let's not forget the still on the air NBC Today Show with Dave Garroway, Jack Lescoulie, Edwin Newman, and J Frede Muggs. In the mid-1950's the Today Show did a live remote at Mustin Field in the Philadelphia Navy Yard where my father worked using the NBC Philly affiliate. I got to shake...

In Houston, this would probably be labeled minor flooding or merely "high water" and can happen anywhere with a training thunderstorm. Tip offs are cars driving through water only up to the axle and people wading through water without a stick or mop handle to check for potholes. Another sign can...

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/fire-olympia-drive-houston-texas/285-64f6d832-573a-4b46-981a-19b1caa8343e This about one mile northwest of the Westchase Hilton Hotel at 9999 Westheimer Road. The Westchase Hilton is a twelve story hotel. It had smoke detectors, but was not sprinklered...

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...

In the good old days this would have been for Box 187, Milwaukee and Orion Streets The assignment would have been Engines 26, 58, 5 and Truck 5, Squads 2 and 3 and the 2nd Battalion The only company still in existence from then is Engine 58 (now 10). This box is in the famous Hill District...

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...

The automotive industry has taken a real hit from the ravages of fire recently. Several weeks ago the fire in Oswego damaged the production of aluminum sheet metal. Ford has halted production at three plants (including the main profit center, the F-150) for the duration. Now, production of Jeep...

Nicholas Hartman's family lived on Port and Market Street in Denver Harbor. At 4:00 am this morning about 14 blocks west at Market and Lockwood........ https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/10/21/3-to-4-people-rescued-from-burning-apartment-complex-in-fifth-ward/

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...

1346 is the correct box number. You'd think I could read by now. Twenty six firefighters were injured. An underground accumulated gas explosion put 230 street alarm boxes out of service as well as telegraph circuits to three firehouses. Engine Co. 7 was hooked up at a nearby hydrant and fell...

On October 20th, 1944 my mother, then a 24 year old graduate nursing student at Western Reserve University, was working at the University Hospital on Euclid Avenue. This was about three miles south of the explosion site. Although she was busy with the wave of injured citizens, she told me that...

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...

The Dental exam requirement started with Department buying horses. Luckily for you guys, they dropped the mandate to obtain only geldings.

As if the work place wasn't dangerous enough already!

Hold on Loo; think of this post like that cod liver oil your mom gave you when you were a kid- good for you. First, that article reflected what a whole bunch of people think who, nine months ago, were running the US government, Also, in 2016 a sitting US President used up a whole lot of...

I'd refer you to the thread title.

It's a free country and some people see things differently, https://www.thecollegefix.com/black-student-alliance-hosts-day-long-celebration-for-cop-killer-assata-shakur/