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Engine 1 got a rescue squad on 3/21/19. Thereafter, they were still listed on the running cards as Engine 1. Engine 1 became Rescue 1 on 6/30 71. On that same day, Engine 1 was reborn using manpower from the disbanded High Pressure Hose Companies. They were moved to #11 Truck House on West North...

Back in the day, it would have been more rare than Manhattanhenge: If you were standing on the west side of the intersection of Lombard and Paca (William Paca, a signer of the Declaration of Independence) Streets when BFD Headquarters struck out a Downtown box you would have seen: all at the...

Back in the day, Engine 15 would have been first due- right turn out of quarters and start looking for a hydrant' Engine Company 15 was formed in 1890 and was the first fully paid fire company in BFD. On 11/2/1891 it moved into a remodeled 1870 building at 308 West Lombard Street (directly...

Note two things: The new-fangled status board- completely unused, but makes a nice stand to display running cards of working boxes. The front plate of the bin holding the Brooklyn running cards: the paint worn off by the bellies of a thousand dispatchers over the years.

Johnny Allen running the platform on Empire Blvd. April 6, 1968. Not that long ago.

This episode received extensive coverage, including the editorial page, in this morning's Wall Street Journal. The story is now world-wide.

This fire is still burning at 1600 hours CST but down to a flare. The Fire Department units have taken up, Centerpoint Energy is rewiring the area.

Like everything else- Galveston Bay

https://pvnpms.phmsa.dot.gov/PublicViewer/ What can I tell you? The headquarters of most pipeline companies are in Houston. There are more pipeline engineers here than the rest of the world.

This thing is still burning 23 hours later. They need to burn off twenty miles of pipeline natural gas. Reports indicate this was torched off after a SUV ran through a fence and hit an aboveground control valve- supposedly stupidity, not terrorist. Deer Park, La Porte, and Pasadena (who brag...

La Porte is the home of the battlefield of The Battle of San Jacinto where the Alamo was officially remembered. Today it's 95 degrees out.

With a White House press pass, Penguinsix records activities in Washington, DC riding around town on an e-scooter.

Back in the late 1970's, I was buffing a second alarm in the South Bronx in the early morning at daybreak. I was walking carefully down the usual trash filled alley to get a photo of the rear of the fire building when I stepped on a body in the near darkness. Talk about shocked! Luckily, I got...

Let me do the math here. It's an eight foot deep trench. They say he buried up to between his waist and his shoulders. So, that makes him, what? ten feet tall?

The London Fire Brigade never stood a chance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire

For comparison: In London on 7th September, 1940....the first day of The Blitz- From Station Officer Gerry Knight of Pageant's Wharf in the Docklands area to his watchroom: "Send every bloody pump you've got. The whole bloody world's on fire!" The three Firewomen on duty reportedly were more...

I concur with observations made. In addition, Where is closed captioning when you would really love to see it? Around here that event would be described as a good old East Texas ass-whuppin'; usually done in the parking lot of some high school or at closing time at a beer joint in some small...

Fire alarm dispatchers (Control) even get recognized

East London is like a third world country....and not just because the LFB doesn't have air horns.