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    Super Pumper and Super Tender to be reunited in Michigan

    Man oh man, if there was a way to get the Fire Fighter into the lakes other than a very long, very expensive and very unlikely trip around the Canadian Maritimes that would be a hell of a meet up. All three of W.F. Gibbs designs for FDNY in the same spot. It would be something to see Fighter...
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    Adds on the Website

    Download the AdBlock Plus browser and use that instead of your current one. Ive had it for years and while it does make certain sites inaccessible if you dont let them do ads you can always whitelist the ones you trust. On a desktop or laptop you can add it to Google Chrome as an add-on app...
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    11/28/25 Bronx 4th Alarm Box 2771

    Wierd, would that be a vagrant or something similar? Not trying to pry
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    11/23/25 Bronx Mutual Aide Box 6300

    My personal take on the Newark ship fire was that the department was not "ready" for that kind of confined space fire. They attacked it as they would any structure fire but in a car carrier with hundreds of gas and oil filled sources on rubber and confined to multiple levels of steel decking and...
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    FDNY Supervising Fire Alarm Dispatcher “Booch” Signs Off

    A great sendoff to a long timer. Happy and healthy retirement to him.
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    Mount Vernon - 5th Alarm 11/23/25

    Im surprised to see New Rochelle didnt get tapped for more assets, Yorktown always seemed to get the lionshare of Mt Vernon assignments from their fleet. Especially with rigs coming all the way down from White Plains, thats a haul. Interesting to see Larchmont TL7 on the job, that rig is old...
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    Louisville plane crash

    Holy F...those poor guys were trying to get airborne until the last second.
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    Louisville plane crash

    The pics coming in today are very haunting. Shades of AA191 at O'Hare in 1979. There are also rumors the accident aircraft was delayed 2hrs for maintenance on the same engine thats now on the side of the runway. What an awful event for all involved.
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    Louisville plane crash

    Fully loaded for Honolulu no less, thats 8+ hours of fuel at a minimum plus everything that goes to the islands themselves and onward. Heavy, heavy bird. Condolences to the crews families and those on the ground, certainly doesnt look good.
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    10/17/25 Brooklyn Barge Fire Box 1422

    Likely a garbage barge at the transfer station but Vane keeps a lot of their MDO and heating oil barges in the Gowanus for layby and maintenance
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    10/10/25 - McEwen, Tennessee Ammunition Factory Explosion

    Sounds like a multi-casualty event, as of 1325 EST 10/10 several dead and as many as 19 missing. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c0e9lyypedjt
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    10/1/25 Bronx All Hands 10-60 Box 2154

    Wow that is an entire flank of the building, no wonder they went with the 10-60
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    Apparatus OOS due to MVAs

    I know L28 is an older rig but Im surprised to see it hasnt been more cannibalized for parts. Is it not FDNY practice to take OOS rigs that are heading to the farm and picking them clean of reusable parts? For a newer rigs Id image things like tool compartment doors, bumpers, cab doors would...
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    Multiple Casualty Bus Rollover on I-90 outside of Buffalo/Rochester

    Currently standing at 5 fatal and a number of injuries, some required helo ops. Local scanner reports are indicating the overturned bus had to be lifted to complete recovery. https://www.btpm.org/local/2025-08-22/developing-i-90-closed-near-pembroke-due-to-tour-bus-crash...
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    8/15/25 Bronx 2nd Alarm Box 2412

    FC per D-6. Grappler in operation. Does that mean the junk yard grappler moving stuff to get to the fire? SOC has a lot of toys but I dont think they have one of those. Side question, Sat-2 was there, why not use the deck gun?
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    Clairton, PA Explosion at US Steel Plant Kills, 1, Injures Dozens 8/11/25

    Very sad news, from the overhead video it also looks like there was a team truck or team lead in the area when the blast went off. Old-tech coking ovens are no joke, like blast furnaces they are usually attached to they rarely ever go cold and to do so requires a hell of a lot of forethought...
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    7/29/25 Fremont NE Feed Plant Explosion Kills 3

    Grain dust is amazingly explosive in the right conditons and concentrations. I wonder if the mill lost air circ control during operarions and either didnt stop the process early enough or didnt wait long enough to restart the fans. Or both. Either way, very sad to hear about the lives lost
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    RET CPT THOMAS P. TRACY MAR*1 WTC RELATED.

    My cousin worked with Tom on M1 and I met him in passing when they were stationed at Pier 40 when he was retired and stopping by to see "how the boat was doing". He was a good kind guy and definitely someone you could tell had a huge depth of knowledge and skill. RIP.
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    Unusual Incident, Westbury NY - Man into MRI Apparatus

    From: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2n39dvp0po A 61-year-old man has died after he was sucked into a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine at a medical centre while he was wearing a heavy metal necklace. The man, who has not been identified, entered a room at Nassau Open MRI in...
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