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    8/26/25 Baltimore MD Box 40-62

    What a first alarm assignment- Engine 53 and Truck 27 on the box! There's nothing else left in West Baltimore. What else was going on?
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    Fatal Houston Area Fire

    https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/woman-child-rescued-house-fire-redding-springs-lane/285-db8a9fc2-b732-47fe-8129-1890680ef929 This is a fairly nice neighborhood. not a third world country. Obviously no smoke/CO detectors. Why would they need burglar bars, much less bars on the second...
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    Houston FD Burns Up Another Apartment

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/figurative Or, in less polite society: &%@#'em if they can't take a joke!
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    Houston FD Burns Up Another Apartment

    https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/3-corners-west-apartments-fire-aftermath/285-6f4aa022-2c3c-4377-a91f-8613891702d0
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    Houston FD Burns Up Another Apartment

    https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/08/20/emergency-crews-at-scene-of-apartment-fire-in-nw-houston/
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    Houston FD Burns Up Another Apartment

    https://abc13.com/post/houston-fire-department-crews-battle-apartment-gulf-freeway-southeast/17587703/ What heat? It was raining off and on all day and only made it up to 94 degrees today . It was 101 degrees the last two days. I got 3.2 inches of rain (plus hail) last night in about 90...
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    8/14/25 Manhattan 10-75 Box 458

    At the time Engine 28 was at 604 East 11th, Ladder 11 at 742 East 5th, and Engine 11 at 437 East Houston Street.
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    Emergent City

    This means little to me, but youse guys from Brooklyn might find this interesting. Tonight, Monday, at 10 p.m. PBS will televise the documentary Emergent City. The story revolves around the working-class enclave of Sunset Park and their fight against developers trying to rezone and "revitalize"...
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    8/11/25 Manhattan 10-77 Box 2040

    One hundred years ago there, if you weren't standing on a pier, you were swimming in the Hudson.
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    8/17/75. 50 years ago in Philly

    Thanks Loo, I knew it was one those refinery fires in 1975. In the mid 1950's, my father worked at the Naval Air Material Command Center at Mustin Field in the Philadelphia Naval Base. Once in a while he would take me to work with him. I had a run of the place. They used to test the catapults...
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    8/17/75. 50 years ago in Philly

    Joe Rizzo's brother Frank, then the Mayor of Philadelphia, was on the scene of this fire also. When the place flashed over/ blew up, everyone took off running. One of the Mayor's bodyguards ran right over Frank, breaking his hip.
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    New Salem Borough, York County PA, Trench Rescue 8/13/25 Box 08-01

    Go for the ACE! Special call Maryland Line or Parkton. Make it a five county/ two state response.
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    Houston Second Alarm Commercial Occupancies

    The third multiple alarm in the last five days: at 0301 this morning. Seems like the first due engine on the second alarm-Engine 63-on Will Clayton Parkway is at least 6 miles away. The rest of the second alarm assignment came from Porter FD on mutual aid. 101 and 103 are still out there. In...
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    Chicago contract

    If Local 2 wants to get paid, they may need to start looking under the sofa cushions for loose change. https://www.city-journal.org/article/how-debt-ate-chicago
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    George Herzlinger

    George Herzlinger passed away Sunday August 10th at age 82. Yeah, I know. I'd never heard of the guy either. But we all know what he did. He invented a medical device that. starting with our soldiers on the line in Iraq, is thought to have saved a million lives- so far. The count continues to...
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    Interview of Commissioner Tucker

    Eventually is bureaucrat speak for "When hell freezes over". This move ought to done by sundown tomorrow.
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    Clairton, PA Explosion at US Steel Plant Kills, 1, Injures Dozens 8/11/25

    The workers of the Clairton Coke Works helped create the wealth that paid for the Frick Mansion/Museum on 5th Avenue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frick_Collection
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    Interview of Commissioner Tucker

    We are coming up on the 100th anniversary of fire department provided emergency medical services to citizens. Now, lots of fire departments, both large and small, do an excellent job of that every day. Some have even changed their institutional names (however dopey it sounds) to reflect that EMS...
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    Houston Second Alarm Commercial Occupancies

    Two hours ago...This started out as a trash fire for Engine 83. They got the box a minute later. https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/fire-high-star-drive/285-359def9f-3064-4640-9b7b-7bf529e8bba0 Everybody is still operating there. Not bad out this afternoon. Temperature is only 92 degrees.
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    Houston Second Alarm Commercial Occupancies

    https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/tire-shop-total-loss-fire/285-132511c2-15b6-443d-bf33-d455434425d0 Two right hand turns to the freeway for 28's. 51's and Engine 60 not far behind. Engine 68 and Engine 13 on watch until shift change this morning
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