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    Close Call In Houston This Morning

    https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/firefighter-hurt-botany-lane-house-fire-arson-investigation/285-c55b1371-a8bc-4de9-a994-f2f9d1648796
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    8/4/25 Brooklyn 10-75 Box 1289

    National business news recently reported that the restaurant business in NYC was booming. Retail restaurant space vacancy was the lowest in over ten years. In fact, some owners are modifying other vacant commercial space to allow eating establishments - "If you can vent it, you can rent it!"
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    8/6/25 Bronx 10-77 Box 4723

    OMG! someone stole the Harlem River!
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    The Monopoly Game Goes To War

    It's always satisfying to learn something interesting or neat to know. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/monopoly-standard-board--134896951331766273/ In 1935 Parker Bros introduced Atlantic City and the board game Monopoly To America. Victor Watson, the head of Waddingtons, a British printing...
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    A Bad Day In Boston

    A thousand words isn't enough. July 22, 1975 129 Marlboro Street 3-1536 third alarm two minutes after the box by Ladder 17
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    Houston FD Fleet Investigative Report

    Wayne Dolcefino is a well known investigative reporter in Houston. I think he was a high school classmate of my wife. He started as a reporter for the Houston ABC affiliate 40 years ago. He is a local world-class %!&#- stirrer. The union guys love him. The late Sylvester Turner was the Houston...
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    7-20-1978 A wild night in Boston

    Nobody wants that on their tombstone.
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    7-20-1978 A wild night in Boston

    An interesting summer. Six weeks after this, the first Metrofire 10th alarm happened on the night of September 1, 1978 at Somerville Box 21- Medford and South Streets for a former meat packing plant at 37-41 Medford Street. The box at 2352 hrs and the 10th at 0312 hrs; all-out at 2059 hrs on...
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    7-20-1978 A wild night in Boston

    The history books list the two five alarm fire as occurring on July 20, 1978
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    Suffield, Ct Barn Fire 7/19/25

    Thank you. That was both interesting and informative. I am familiar with the tobacco curing barns in Lancaster County. Those wiley Amish farmers aren't stupid. They know folks will pay more for something to smoke than to eat. I thought the only thing "grown" in Connecticut was nutmeg.
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    Suffield, Ct Barn Fire 7/19/25

    I didn't know that tobacco was grown north of Lancaster County.
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    Illinois/ Chicago Public Pensions

    Illinois/ Chicago have the lowest credit rating in the country. Illinois state pension debt is $172 billion- worst, by far, in the US. Chicago has the worst funded pensions and highest fixed costs of any big city. Illinois/Chicago have the highest taxes in the US Illinois was one of three...
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    Our Favorite Singers Who Are No Longer With Us

    In an era of girl groups, Connie Francis was the number one female pop star from Elvis until the arrival of the Beatles. Less well known is that, starting in 1959, she would make over a dozen albums of traditional and ethnic songs in German, Spanish, Irish, French, Yiddish, Latin, and, of...
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    MRI DANGER REMINDER.

    To improve exercise efficiency, runners will wear a weighted vest. The usual dose is ten percent of body weight to start. I would suggest that the only exercise done near an MRI scanner should be caution.
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    7/21/25 Manhattan All Hands 10-77 Box 0686

    Workers drying their clothes on the roof that extends into a shaft. How, exactly, does that work?
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    MRI DANGER REMINDER.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92745&page=1
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    Bill Moyers RIP

    Bill Moyers recently passed away on June 26 at age 91. An advisor to Presidents and a well respected newsman, he was one of the few in the national news media to pay attention to The War Years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Moyers
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    Just Another Day In Los Angeles

    Someone impersonating a SPAAMFAA member? That has to be against the law.
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    31 workers rescued after Los Angeles tunnel collapse 7/9/25

    https://www.tumblr.com/ironcites/615279942988611584/the-22nd-street-tunnel-disaster-in-chicago Underground- always dangerous territory!
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    Just Another Day In Los Angeles

    I wonder if he belongs to SPAAMFAA?
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