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Buzz Aldrin...New Jersey native...USMA Class of 1951....Korean War Veteran... and along with Neil Armstrong became the first two humans to set foot on the surface of the moon on July 21, 1969 turned 96 today. As such, he remains a national treasure: in my eyes even more so after he punched out...

I recently reviewed Rescue 3's company journal from 5/7/47 to 4/6/48 similar to the 1944/1945 journal posted previously. As a first installment, it might be useful to look at the historical antecedents and experience of the members on the 1947 company roster. The roster consisted of three...

It' always something! First it was stealing copper wiring. Then it was stealing catalytic converters for platinum. Now it's stealing grave markers for bronze. Scrap bronze sells for around $3 a pound, and around $8.7 billion were sold last year. Drug users are responsible for most of this...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/01/15/10-units-destroyed-in-large-apartment-fire-in-north-houston/ This is in Engine 84's still district. After the first alarm, it's gonna be a long wait for help A good friend of mine worked as a paramedic at Station 74 out there years ago. He...

https://www.khou.com/video/news/local/beltway-8-back-open-after-hazmat-response-to-tanker-fire-near-beechnut/285-96cfdada-de41-4b43-8599-ab7d84e46c16 https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/memorial-city-mall-evacuated-ammonia-leak/285-d6c8f92b-3877-49ed-94e3-c3abd6c468d5 On Sunday morning...

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/building-fire-west-loop-south/285-3685d58e-67fe-4c17-8770-11bc0d2cd691 This building used to be the United States headquarters of ARAMCO, aka Saudi Aramco, owned by Saudi Arabia and is the largest oil producer in the world. They moved out several years...

https://abc13.com/post/2-firefighters-driver-hurt-critically-high-speed-crash-gulf-freeway-clear-lake-hpd-says/18346549/ https://abc13.com/post/1-person-injured-metro-bus-flips-crash-vehicle-sh-288-mcgowen-officials-say/18347843/...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/01/01/fireworks-blamed-for-new-years-day-apartment-fire-that-displaced-dozens-in-west-houston/ And the first multiple shooting of the New Year-...

This apartment is about 400-600 feet up Braesridge Drive from Engine 82's quarters. Obviously they had heavy fire on arrival. It's funny; when you go up Braesridge to the north, it is a nice quiet neighborhood. When going south about 1000 feet to West Bellfort Avenue. it immediately becomes the...

A Mexican Navy aircraft crashed on approach into Galveston Scholes Airport a couple of hours ago in the fog. This crash was in West Bay adjacent to the Gulf Freeway. Galveston Sheriff's and Galveston FD had rescuers in 4-5 feet of water. Eight people were on board. There are four confirmed...

Yesterday was Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday. Of more interest, it was John Davidson's Birthday also. On May 28, 1977 Davidson , a well known entertainer, actor, and TV personality was the headliner at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky. He was just about to go onstage when a...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency estimates there are more than 1500 MIA's from the Vietnam War. Since 2016 that agency has spent $86 million, but resolved only 25 cases. Vietnam used to be a French colony so the country has a well developed bureaucracy skilled in producing paperwork. The...

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-condo-fire-plaza-verde-three-alarm-firefighter-mayday/285-64678c09-b433-4cc4-b1a9-3eb86ecfe595 And in other news...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Milner_(firefighter)#/media/File:Her_Majesty_Queen_Elizabeth_visits_the_London_Fire_Brigade_Headquarters,_Lambeth_(cropped).jpg Joe Milner was born in Manchester, England in October, 1922. After joining the Army in 1938, he later served in the war as a...

For decades boaters on Galveston Bay, unless they were a harbor pilot navigating on the Houston Ship Channel (busiest port in the US in tonnage) by channel markers or using GPS, used the old Houston Lighting & Power generation plant in Bacliff as a landmark. Since you could see it over most of...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/11/10/firefighter-injured-after-roof-collapses-during-building-fire-in-houstons-third-ward/ https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/mollys-pub-fire-el-camino-real-houston-texas/285-88105ad2-f28c-4172-85f5-141a29492ed7 The NASA employees at Johnson...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/11/07/houston-firefighters-say-eco-friendly-ambulances-cant-keep-up-with-citys-pace/ Who in their right mind would think this was a good idea? Looks like they skipped the Beta testing phase. Wonder who got the "finder's fee"?

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...

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...