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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!

Los Angeles County has numerous municipalities with their own fire departments; the largest being LAFD. There are no incorporated cities in Baltimore County, so it's all one big operation. The County does provide volunteer companies with an annual stipend as well as operational support with...

Lol! All well and good. However, I was identifying large, iconic, world known places that were the sole independent city in their respective state (or Commonwealth).....and had Major League Baseball and NFL teams.

All those stations are in Baltimore County and dispatched by County 911. As Baltimore City has closed companies over last forty years, both Baltimore County (paid and volunteer) and Anne Arundel County have responded or relocated into the City. This usually happens after a third alarm or...

The items in this strategic plan are certainly reasonable. Industry is working night and day to reduce and eliminate battery fires. Regulations will help in the meantime. Obviously, the biggest challenge is what to do about EMS. Between 2020 and 2023, the NYC population increased only five...

Although they're not showing up on the work list, considering their first due district, I am impressed by Ladder 43's run total. Think of it. They have no second due district to the east or west. Going north, it ends about 113th Street and there's not that many doorman's calls running south...

Usually, as years go by, what happened in history becomes clearer as more facts become known, more analysis done. But sometimes not. Fifty years ago today, US Army helicopters were evacuating the last few souls off the roof of the US embassy in Saigon. They would fly to aircraft carriers off...

Exposure 3 for this fire is the Allegheny River. Back in the day, Fire Alarm would have used Box 537- 51st and Butler Streets The first alarm assignment was: Engines 9 (four blocks around the corner at Butler and McCandless), Engine 6, and Engine and Truck 36, Battalion Chief 3, and Squad...

When you charge for transportation, you are Uber. However well intentioned, the Fire Commissioner has made at least two missteps. 1) Never poke a skunk 2) Don't step in it. I would observe that the final say on this subject will be made well above the Commissioner's pay grade. Also, nobody...

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Hope it doesn't spread to the nuclear reactor!

The other night I watched, for the third time, the best motion picture of 1938- "The Adventures of Robin Hood". Every kid who ever wore short pants knows the story. In the movie Errol Flynn plays Robin Hood, Maid Marion is Olivia de Havilland, and Little John is Alan Hale, Sr, (Yes, Alan, Jr was...

Marine firefighting....better call Sal!

https://abc13.com/post/crews-fighting-warehouse-fire-mcallister-road-dacoma-street-could-seen-highway-290/16190792/

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/04/17/southwest-plane-makes-emergency-landing-at-hobby-airport-after-engine-fire/ While the third alarm was going on across town, Stations 81 (arff), 36, and 61 took in this Alert 2 on Runway 22 at Hobby Airport with an evacuation on the field.

Warehouse fire in northwest Houston now. Alarm time 0801 DST 2-11 so far Engine 50 first due https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/fire-us290-houston-smoke/285-6ff24991-2f09-4c89-a79a-07e447f7a490...

That all makes perfect sense. But that was then. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that, 250 years ago, our Founding Fathers risked their lives so that every red-blooded, patriotic American firefighter would have the right to go to a job clinging to the side of a Mack Fire Truck with a...