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Exactly what problem is this order meant to address? Exactly what is the definition of a working fire? Forget victims. If the attack begins as a defensive operation, under what circumstances is it "legal" to switch to offensive tactics? Exactly why is a hi-rise building treated differently...

Deftly played Cap!

Born in Mississippi. Graduated from Yale University. United States Marine Corps. Two tours in Vietnam as a rifle platoon officer and forward air controller. Silver Star, Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts. At age 26 founded FedEx in April. 1973 at Memphis. On the first day FedEx delivered 186...

For what it's worth..... Back in the day (1977), a good friend and I bought a 1950 L Model Mack at a municipal auction (originally Engine Company 4 of the Memphis Fire Department). Although we were both heteronormative, binary males, we were shocked to learn that the English language term fire...

Doesn't have to be a small business that proves your point Cap. Around 2012 United Airlines took over Houston's beloved Continental Airlines. For several years afterwards, everyone in town felt it was easy to tell which uniformed United flight crews originally learned the job at Continental.

Security cameras, transit cameras, Ring cameras; surveillance cameras are everywhere. As noted above, they cover the entire State of California to look for wildfires. The big problem is that we don't have people to look at them 24/7. That's about to change. The company Pano AI, located in San...

Looks like they've been there before.

I recall when Doctor Solomon suddenly appeared in the pages of Fire Engineering or the old Western Fire Journal extolling the science of the lime green paint scheme. My guess is that the ALF General Manager. wanting an advertising edge for the introduction of the ugly Pioneer cab, knew safety...

NTSB transcription of bridge audio recording on containership Dali. Time from loss of power and control until bridge strike- 240 seconds Power loss until order to close bridge to vehicular traffic- 90 seconds These guys did the best they could with absolutely no control

Those wrecker dolleys are kept in the prop department of that big production studio over in Queens. Where they film the other soap operas.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/06/02/commercial-fire-rages-near-i-45-and-n-shepherd-dr/ Rush hour traffic on the North Freeway. 92 degrees out this afternoon. And the second day of hurricane season!

I'll bet this is why Goodwill Fire Company missed the run.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/05/29/where-am-i-going-to-sleep-30-year-resident-displaced-after-deadly-apartment-fire-in-houston/ Decades ago, before HFD went crypto, I used to hear this box "Number Six Burress at Airline" come in all the time. After all these years I would...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/05/29/3-rescued-1-dead-after-fire-breaks-out-at-assisted-living-apartment-in-north-houston/

Weren't the old National Fire Protection Association offices on Batterymarch Street?

Seems like the Hilton had an electrical fire in the basement a couple of years ago that went to a second alarm. Also, isn't that 54th Street entrance where the United Health CEO got shot?

https://www.cnn.com/travel/margraten-netherlands-american-soldiers-gravesites At any time there is a waiting list of about one thousand Dutch citizens who want to "adopt" an American serviceman's grave.

https://www.honorstates.org/profiles/85928/ When I was a kid and heard the name Chuck Lamont in my house, it was always followed by "a great guy" and "just a great pilot" Almost 81 years have passed: still MIA RIP Lieutenant Lamont.

The word on the street is that a Bronx gang, well known for street graffiti and tagging subway and railcars, declined an offer of a shipment of stolen Omaha Orange (not agent orange) paint' They said; "Way too gaudy for us." The stuff was later sold at an abandoned property auction to a company...