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    JoAnne Chesimard Gone.....Good Riddance

    Joann Chesimard (Assata Shakur) died on 9/25/25 at age 78 in Havana, Cuba. A cop killer on the run from the law since 1979: couldn't outrun Father Time. https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/joanne-deborah-chesimard/download.pdf https://pub.njleg.gov/Bills/2024/SR/23_I1.HTM...
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    Oswego, NY Third Alarm Burns Wall Street

    On September 16th a fire struck the Novelis aluminum plant in Oswego, NY. This plant produces 40% of the aluminum sheet metal used in the US automotive industry. It is expected that the plant will be offline for repairs until next year. Replacement of aluminum sheet inventory will require...
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    Houston Hi-Rise Explosion

    https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/fire-explosion-texas-street-downtown-houston/285-66a5d686-7298-4355-9079-fe04f80e2c94
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    Houston Hi-Rise Explosion

    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...
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    10/1/25 Bronx All Hands 10-60 Box 2154

    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...
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    10/1/25 Bronx All Hands 10-60 Box 2154

    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?
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    (9-28) Newark, NJ, Fourth Alarm Fire

    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.
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    (9-28) Newark, NJ, Fourth Alarm Fire

    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...
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    ANOTHER WAR YEARS VET PASSES.

    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."
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    VINTAGE FDNY WAR YEAR LIDS

    Rudy Kaminski...Ladder 7
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    125th Anniversary of the Great Galveston Hurricane

    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...
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    NYC Finances....No Worries Mate

    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...
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    The Ventures/Days of Doo Wop

    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...
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    DC Firefighter shot 9/22/25

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    9/17/25 Brooklyn 5th Alarm Box 1387

    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...
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    9/19/25 Water Rescue Box 8478

    Looks like our superhero wasn't a super swimmer. Seems like Aquaman should have been on the CAD assignment.
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    9/17/25 Brooklyn 5th Alarm Box 1387

    The typical artist's understanding and appreciation of common sense approaches zero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ship_warehouse_fire
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    Pittsburgh City, Allegheny County PA, Commercial Structure Fire 9/17/25

    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...
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    Houston...The Beat Goes On

    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...
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    Houston Firefighter/Medic Has Sudden Medical Emergency Tonight On Duty

    FF/Paramedic Scott of Station 102 has passed away.
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