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Captain Dave Meyer, assigned to Truck 29 on the city's West Side was killed when a roofing beam fell on him while fighting a garage fire in the 5500 block of West Crystal. Signal 3-3-5. Rest in Peace Captain.

On this date LtCol James Doolittle led a force of 16 B-25 bombers from the deck of the USS Hornet to bomb the Japanese capital of Tokyo. Although the raid cause minor damage it convinced them that their homeland was not safe from attack. They then drew up plans to attack and occupy the island of...

Chicago has a 2-11 fire @ 5039 W Lake on the city's West Side. Squad 7, a 2 piece rescue and snorkel unit company was s/c. Unit is normally stationed @ O'Hare. Fire in a 300 x 100 commercial building fully involved. The CTA elevated runs on this street. If I remember there are a series of one...

2-11 fire location 5439 North Kenmore, fire in a high rise with occupants trapped. S/C 2 additional ladders to raise 40' and 50' ladders to rescue occupants. Fire building is 8 story 60 x 125. Update EMS Plan 2 by 2-1-22

Waltham is fighting a fourth alarm with numerous heavy streams in a defensive operation.

Received the total Chicago company runs for 2024. There were a total of 940,997 responses with 688,725 ems or 1881 daily and 252272 fire, 689 daily. Total company responses.

Truck fire/HazMat incident in Oak Brook Illinois on I-294 @ 22nd street northbound for a fully loaded gasoline tanker fire. Info from Kane/DuPage County scanner feed.

I received a notification via FB of a new FDNY photo book to be published Summer of 2025. The author is Matt Daley, the title is "We're loading up the box". It will have approximately 200 pages and will be printed by MT publishing.

Friday night Lynn firefighters fought a six alarm fire in an apartment building with extension to an Evangelican church in typical New England winter conditions.

Boston had a third alarm this morning for a fire in a 3 decker @ 151 Saratoga Street.

Unofficial BFD 2024 totals. Busiest engine, E-14 4394, ladder L-4 5559*, busiest house E-14/L-4 9953. Slowest engine E-49 788, slowest ladder L-21 1023, slowest house E-56/L-21 1930. R-1 1971, R-2 2613. * busiest company in the city, again. Companies alternate ems runs monthly.

Chicago company runs for 2024: Busiest Engine, E-122 6065 total, fire related E-63 2234, ems E-122 3850 runs. Truck Companies, T-49 5544 runs, fire related T-34 3201, ems T-29 3281. Slowest companies: E-104 232 total, 122 fire related, and 110 ems runs. Slowest truck T-61 391 total, 276 fire...

Chicago, the birthplace of the snorkel has none of its 54' Rosenbauer units in service. 3 out of the 4 units are OOS. Squad 7 @ O'Hare still has theirs but that is a FAA purchase

Box 2443 for a fire @ 205 Boylston in a 3.5 story wood frame. Info from Box 52 FB page. Box transmitted @ 2310 on 2/1.

Fox news is showing the results of a small plane crash in Philadelphia.

Cambridge firefighters battled a 3-alarm fire in a multi story mixed business and residential building this morning. Fire location was the 300 block of Broadway.

Quincy has a third alarm for a house fire @ 117 Arlington, going defensive.

Everett MA has a third alarm @ 85 Woodlawn in a large 2.5 story wood frame. Defensive ops with three ladder pipes in operation.

How old are some of Chicago's apparatus? This spare is running as Engine 26 on the West Side

A 2-11 alarm and EMS Plan 2for a fire @ 7465 S South Shore Drive for a fire in a 150x75 story apartment building with fire through the roof. Numerous rescues made, info from Tri-States Fire Alert post on FB.