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The NYC budget for 2025 is reported as $112.4 Billion. NYC income for 2024 is reported as $104.8 Billion. Pandemic money has dried up. What could go wrong? When asked on TV about possible Federal help , the US Secretary of Treasury replied: "Drop Dead" The City of Santa Monica, California...

Bobby Hart passed away two weeks ago at age 86. Best known for the hit song "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite?" with his partner Tommy Boyce (d 1994) released in 1968. Their greatest work , however, was producing and song writing for the NBC sitcom "The Monkees" which opened in September, 1966...

CIDS reflect that this occupancy is/was fully sprinklered. What happened to the Class 3 water flow alarm? If all you get is a phone alarm for smoke after nightfall on a remote street, you know it's gonna be a long night. If the OS&Y valve was closed (known to some as the Brooklyn business...

Looks like our superhero wasn't a super swimmer. Seems like Aquaman should have been on the CAD assignment.

The typical artist's understanding and appreciation of common sense approaches zero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ship_warehouse_fire

Back in the day, Box 516....25 Engine first due...left turn out of the house....up Butler Street....left on 38th Street with the truck following. Engine 9 from 52nd and Butler, Engine 6 from 44th and Calvin right behind. Then, put down the watch and look at the calendar waiting for Squad 3...

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/apartment-fire-holly-hall-houston-texas/285-960ef9ed-34fa-4688-ad20-7184281a65fe Last night. Just down the street from the old Astrodome The usual suspects: 33, 21, 46, 25, 37. fifty years ago, Engines 24 and 10 would have been on the box. Now they are...

FF/Paramedic Scott of Station 102 has passed away.

There have been no public updates of FF/Paramedic Scott's condition since the evening of 9/14 after his on-duty emergency. The word in the firehouse: He sustained a ruptured aortic aneurysm, had a twelve hour operation, is in the ICU, and will need another operation at some point. He is at...

Cap, Let's remember...not everyone is stuck in Midtown traffic.

GM has issued a recall of some 23,000 Corvette models ZO6 and ZR1 which cost over $100,000 each for fires while refueling. This is either justice or a terrible injustice. The cause was determined to be a two step event- and the Corvette was not the root issue, The fire would start when a...

In the aftermath of 9/11 a classified ad appeared in the Village Voice from filmmakers Steven Rosenbaum and Pamela Yoder: "Do you have video footage from the week of 9/11?". Over 100 people responded with more than 500 hours of video. The couple used some in the 2002 documentary "7 days in...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/09/14/houston-firefighter-flown-to-hospital-after-suffering-medical-emergency-while-transporting-patient/ Out of surgery late last night. Present status unknown. He joined HFD in 1996. Used to work at Station 9 on Hogan St. north of downtown. Still...

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-firefighter-medical-emergency/285-da571c57-a318-4e48-af2a-52bac0a86798 Whatever this is, it sounds bad.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-fire-truck-unused/285-3575a741-d97f-4bff-b5b9-405be2a678a8 Probably the first due truck for this church fire.

Smitty is an HFD institution. He got on the job in 1973. I saw him a couple of years ago at a funeral. In addition to the 9/11Memorial, that station is wall to wall pictures of 28's at work over the years...

In 2008, China and the US began construction of two high speed rail lines: Beijing to Shanghai ang San Francisco to Los Angeles. China opened their line in 2011 spending $36 billion. The US has opened a small segment in the middle of nowhere so far. Completion estimate today is maybe 2030 and...

According to our in-house Ladder 103 authority; back in the day when Ladder 10 was relocated to Sheffield Ave at the start of the night tour until midnight (as Ladder 193?), those guys had to sit/sleep on the rig. That had to be further insult to a bunch of old timers hoping for a quiet night in...