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    Houston Paper Boy...Finally Back From Normandy

    KIA in Dog White Sector on Omaha Beach on a landing craft before he made it to shore. Identified by a DNA swab from his mother. Never knowing, Momma died three years ago at age 101. Greeted at the airport by the on-duty crews of HFD ARFF stations and escorted by HPD Solo Motorcycle VIP unit...
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    East Ohio Gas Co. Explosion October 20, 1944

    1346 is the correct box number. You'd think I could read by now. Twenty six firefighters were injured. An underground accumulated gas explosion put 230 street alarm boxes out of service as well as telegraph circuits to three firehouses. Engine Co. 7 was hooked up at a nearby hydrant and fell...
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    East Ohio Gas Co. Explosion October 20, 1944

    On October 20th, 1944 my mother, then a 24 year old graduate nursing student at Western Reserve University, was working at the University Hospital on Euclid Avenue. This was about three miles south of the explosion site. Although she was busy with the wave of injured citizens, she told me that...
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    East Ohio Gas Co. Explosion October 20, 1944

    Today marks the 81st anniversary of the East Ohio Gas Co Explosion in Cleveland, Ohio. It joins a list of devastating urban accidental explosions such as Delft (1654),Texas City (1947), Beirut (2020), and of course, Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1917. The LNG holding company - between East 61st and...
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    FDNY Vetting

    The Dental exam requirement started with Department buying horses. Luckily for you guys, they dropped the mandate to obtain only geldings.
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    FF Arrested 🤦

    As if the work place wasn't dangerous enough already!
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    JoAnne Chesimard Gone.....Good Riddance

    Hold on Loo; think of this post like that cod liver oil your mom gave you when you were a kid- good for you. First, that article reflected what a whole bunch of people think who, nine months ago, were running the US government, Also, in 2016 a sitting US President used up a whole lot of...
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    JoAnne Chesimard Gone.....Good Riddance

    I'd refer you to the thread title.
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    JoAnne Chesimard Gone.....Good Riddance

    It's a free country and some people see things differently, https://www.thecollegefix.com/black-student-alliance-hosts-day-long-celebration-for-cop-killer-assata-shakur/
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    JoAnne Chesimard Gone.....Good Riddance

    Joann Chesimard (Assata Shakur) died on 9/25/25 at age 78 in Havana, Cuba. A cop killer on the run from the law since 1979: couldn't outrun Father Time. https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/joanne-deborah-chesimard/download.pdf https://pub.njleg.gov/Bills/2024/SR/23_I1.HTM...
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    Oswego, NY Third Alarm Burns Wall Street

    On September 16th a fire struck the Novelis aluminum plant in Oswego, NY. This plant produces 40% of the aluminum sheet metal used in the US automotive industry. It is expected that the plant will be offline for repairs until next year. Replacement of aluminum sheet inventory will require...
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    Houston Hi-Rise Explosion

    https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/fire-explosion-texas-street-downtown-houston/285-66a5d686-7298-4355-9079-fe04f80e2c94
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    Houston Hi-Rise Explosion

    HFD has responded to an explosion on the 17th floor of a hotel under construction downtown about two hours ago. This was reported as a boiler explosion with five burn injuries. Since it's 91 degrees out today, it certainly wasn't heating the occupancy. This building at Texas and Austin is a...
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    10/1/25 Bronx All Hands 10-60 Box 2154

    Robert Moses/NYCHA were the largest and best known, but they were not alone. In St Louis was the Pruitt-Igoe Project- the architect's next design project was the World Trade Center in New York. In Chicago was the Robert Taylor Homes and Cabrini- Green Project (among others). Mercifully, they...
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    10/1/25 Bronx All Hands 10-60 Box 2154

    Interesting pattern of structural failure. Isn't the only gas source at the bottom of the shaft? Is this a structural failure first with gas problem afterwards? Where is the structural steel? Were the adjacent apartments compromised?
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    (9-28) Newark, NJ, Fourth Alarm Fire

    Grump, just like the dope who reads the news on TV, all I've got is the printed NFD fire alarm stations and assignments from 1957.
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    (9-28) Newark, NJ, Fourth Alarm Fire

    From 1957: Station 3148 Bloomfield Ave. and Webster Street First Alarm Engines 9, 23, 4, 5 Ladders 2, 7 BC 3, Dep 3 Salvage Wagon 1 Second Alarm Engines 22, 2, 7, 28 Ladder 6 BC 1, Rescue Squad 1 Searchlight 1 Relocations E8 to 9, E17 to 15 L2 to 9 Third Alarm Engines 13, 11, 20 Ladder...
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    ANOTHER WAR YEARS VET PASSES.

    Sorry for yet another loss, Cap! To quote my late good friend Captain John McGinnis from 25 Engine of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire: "It's tough when you get to that age where the only exercise you get is burying your friends."
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    VINTAGE FDNY WAR YEAR LIDS

    Rudy Kaminski...Ladder 7
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    125th Anniversary of the Great Galveston Hurricane

    Fifty-five years later, the Seabrook Volunteer Fire Department goes back to the Seabrook Shipyard. This time without Entropychaser. This time with a lot more success...
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