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Chicago has a 3-11 in a 300 x 100 commercial truck repair garage. Defensive ops with numerous explosions and a collapse zone set up. Address is 4100 S Oakley. S/C hose wagon 6-1-1.

However Queens is very difficult to monitor.

The OpenMHZ site is working. The only problem I see is if the Bronx has a 30 second transmission you will be playing catch up for the remaining, if any, transmissions. I believe you can lock onto one boro instead of monitoring all 5.

CFD has a Still & Box for a fire in a high rise (FDNY 10-77) with an EMS Plan 1. Fire address is 401 N Wabash, the 91 story Trump Building. S&B has been struck out as well as the EMS Plan. Fire was confined to one car on the sixth floor of the parking garage.

Some of this makes no sense. 5 Rescues, 12 rescue squads, 5 snorkels. CFD has no Rescues, the squads. 4 of them, are two piece units with a 55' snorkel. They have no stand alone snorkel. Maybe I am just reading this all wrong.

Haz-Mat x 2.

There is a FB site I follow, Second Battalion CFD, check it out. Status of the CFD fleet, especially OOS apparatus.

As of the end of November Chicago fleet Management stated there were 5 2001 Spartan engines, 2 2002 Pierce ladders and zero tower ladders available as spares.

A Happy Thanksgiving to all those deployed this holiday, including my son who is somewhere in Africa. Continue to wear RED on Fridays to Remember Everyone Deployed! And a Happy Thanksgiving to all on this site as well.

While we are on the subject of communication I noticed that OpenMHZ does not have Brooklyn listed, just the other four.

I wonder if that was what they used for the game "Assassin's Creed"?

Several years ago PBS did a 2 hour show on Nova showing the rebuilding process. They actually used scenes from a video game to help in the re-building.

Keep us advised of his sentence if you can.

Looking at a 2011 Unit location chart and there is a heading for District Offices, such as District 3 @ Engine 26. Are they still around, if so what are their functions? Thanx.

Wow some long runs for some companies, Quincy for one!

Box 52 Assoc said 8 alarms in 22 minutes.

During Chelsea's busy times some Boston companies had as much fire duty there as they did in their own department.

Illinois State University in Normal Illinois has banned the indoor use and storage of all E transportation devices on its campus. They must be stored outside and seeing as how ISU has no outdoor charging stations for them this will pose a significant problem for their users. Officials stated...

Today is the 152nd anniversary of the Great Boston Fire of November 9 and 10, 1872. Box 52 was sounded. 77 buildings were destroyed and 1/2 of the downtown section was destroyed. Damage figures were 73 million dollars, 1.7 billion in todays dollars. 30 people were killed, including 12 firefighters.

Two simultaneous third alarms in the Metro Boston area, one fire in Somerville is in a three decker with exposure problems, the other is in Reading with extensive brush. Reading is 16 miles North of Boston