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https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/fire-office-building-sam-houston-tollway-bellaire-boulevard/285-abda727e-a93d-4ba9-b641-7a73e340a090 Four story office building heavily involved on the west side this evening. I think Tunnels-to-Towers Foundation has a new facility just north of that...

https://www.6sqft.com/historic-map-shows-the-manufacturing-industries-of-1919-nyc/ There are three basic ways to create wealth in a society- agriculture, mineral extraction, and manufacturing. One hundred years ago New York City was the manufacturing center of the world. For many reasons...

This fire is obviously a blow to the community- lost tax base, employment, neighborhood small businesses. Will Warren Buffet rebuild? and where? Perhaps Jenkintown- or somewhere else? Of course, it will all come down to the hard facts of running a business.

https://www.pccfasteners.com/companies/pcc-fasteners/sps-jenkintown.html Life is complex. Every little thing is important- like fasteners. SPS Technologies- a unit of Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffet) Precision Castparts makes fasteners for power plants, medical devices and 15% of the aviation...

https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/sps-technologies-fire-volunteer-firefighters/ I don't think this Jenkintown incident got the attention that it deserves. Searching a 560,000 sq ft one hundred year old building while generating a water supply to attack an advanced fire in a high, cold...

https://www.khou.com/video/news/live_breaking/houston-firefighters-are-battling-a-3-alarm-fire-in-southwest-houston/285-f9ff13b7-6f7d-4887-9bea-3a6ce9cf532b...

Firstly, last night the largest rodeo in the world opened in Houston and tonight is Armed Forces Appreciation Day. Next, locally its' known as the box or the Ben Taub (the county hospital) taxi. Since Houston FD EMS premiered in April, 1971 (with 21 units and 126 firefighters), everyone coming...

The Fire Commissioner indicated he was looking for help. I'm trying to be helpful. The fire service likes to say that all fire chiefs begin their career on the back step. To my knowledge at least two prior Houston Fire Chiefs spent time as "street" paramedics before getting the Chief's job. I...

Quod Erat Demonstratum!

Sorry your honor. I was speaking de facto, not de jure.

The FDNY/EMS is a mongrel dog who sadly will never be best in show. Everyone knows that with municipal fire departments, EMS is the tail that wags the dog. For example, at 0630 this morning (shift change), the Houston Fire Department had 37 active incidents in progress; 36 EMS calls and one...

manual transmission, flip-flops, and didn't take out any pedestrians or motorcycles!

On February 9, 1967, The roof of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church at Fourth St. and Washburn Avenue in the Brooklyn section of south Baltimore collapsed after a snow storm. This occurred during morning services trapping around 100 worshipers. The officer of Truck 21 transmitted a second alarm...

I'm surprised. They don't advertise it: "Great views! A front row seat! Migratory birds surrounded by around-the-clock, non-stop airport operations"?

One of the ironies of public safety agencies, particularly EMS, is that the members with the least pay and the lowest rank are the ones who frequently make the most life-or-death decisions. The corollary to this is that everyone is an expert after 5 o'clock.

It's been a long, sad fall of the great LAFD. In July, 1964, The National Board of Fire Underwriters (after a six months evaluation) declared that LAFD continued to be the only city with a population over 500,000 in the United States with a Class 1 rating. After that Chief Engineer William L...

And with Okinawa, it was only going to get worse. In 1944, the US Navy, on a half mile by half mile property, built a hospital in Houston for the anticipated casualties of the invasion of Japan. It was not needed. Later, it was built out as a VA hospital. Station 33 would be first due at Box...

The Blue Hulk! I think Pete also did the painting of Hegar the Horrible in the nightgown lighting the way with the candle on the side of the 7th Division rig when Vince Dunn was a Deputy Chief there. No?

You need to consider that inexhaustible portion of the populace that insist on mixing beer and cocaine with stupidity and a motorcycle.

In the EMS world, this phenomenon is known as the "Frequent Flyer". But the real All-Stars are those individuals who have taken two or more EMS transports by helicopter. Of course, all of these activities will be fully funded by the taxpayer.