Recent content by grumpy grizzly

Didn't the 2002 ALF assigned to Engine 34, AP02001, end up as that?

I live in a small bedroom community between Bloomington/Normal and Peoria Illinois with a population of 1400. This is a town where they know you at the bank, post office, gas station by your first name because there are not that many in town. There are no businesses here so you need to go...

Crews from the LaSalle Technical Rescue Unit, MABAS 25 and the Normal Technical Rescue Unit, MABAS 41 spent 8 hours Thursday rescuing a man from a grain bin in Gridley Illinois which is in Livingston County Illinois.

Sorry a little late with this but it should get out there. Deputy Musil leaves three children, ages 5, 11, and 12. The driver of the truck was charged with one count of reckless homicide and three counts of aggrevated DUI causing death. In addition there were charges of failure to reduce speed...

Well if it is that many how about a run for SP1?

Boston units are responding to reports of an active shooter in East Boston. BFD staging is Engine 56 quarters. Silent approach per C-6. Incident has been terminated by C-6, neighboring school lockdown terminated by BPD.

I noticed another video on YouTube that shows the first alarm responding and going to work. First due units were hampered by devices over the windows.

yes you get a Chelsea engine on the second in East Boston. Photos show how close those buildings are to each other, both in Eastie and Southie.

Lou Conter, the last surviving member of the crew of the battleship USS Arizona has passed away. He was 102 and retired as a lieutenant commander after 28 years of service.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery and a Happy Easter.

Part of Boston's first alarm response is the RIT engine which is the first due on the second.

So will the fifth engine be the one that would have been first due on the second alarm? That is how Boston determines who the RIT engine will be, first due on the second.

To those who served we were the best America had. To those who returned, Welcome Home. To our 58,000 brothers and sisters who did not a slow hand salute.

I remember a Boston's District Chief reasoning: Hey I can always send them back!

Due the city and county share a firehouse or is it just a coincident that both companies were # 57?