Posts Categorized: Cooking
Engine 51′s four-burner
Happy shares some caffeinated love at Engine 51.
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Darwin Visits Florida
A PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA, TEENAGER was seriously burned Monday evening after he boyfriend tried to juice up an outdoor cooking fire with gasoline.
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Culinary Training
SOMEBODY HAS TAKEN THE time and effort to make a video presentation on How to Eat a Chicken Wing.
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Kentucky Night Club Fire To Be Re-examined
FIREGEEZER REPORTED ON OCTOBER 20 about a review of the evidence from the tragic Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Kentucky in 1977 (see story and video report HERE).
Yesterday the Governor of Kentucky, Steve Beshear, appointed a panel to review the ass…
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Morning Lineup – October 29
It appears that every month we'll be getting a new "portable" desktop computer released by a different brand. In August we first saw the innovative HP model that has the entire computer built into the monitor housing, much like a laptop without a lid.…
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A Cultural Gap Arises In Buffalo
IN THE BUFFALO SUBURB OF HAMBURG, NEW YORK, a man stood and watched as an employee of the China King restaurant non-chalantly dragged a road-kill deer across the parking lot and in through the front door of the restaurant.
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Another Meth Lab Endangers Firefighters
MADERA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, FIREFIGHTERS WERE CALLED FOR A HOUSE FIRE late Friday night in a rural area near Fresno. When they arrived on the scene, however, they found that the fire was in two large sheds in the back yard behind the house.
After putti…
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Move Over, Pizzetta!
NO SOONER HAD WE POSTED THE STORY of the Pierce Pizza & Beer pumper (HERE), when one of our regular readers in Germany sent us this picture of the Paulaner Brewery's Fire Wagon/Beer Wagon. This one is more in the "antique" category.
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Reluctant Resident Dies In Apartment Fire
A MAN IN HIS EIGHTIES PERISHED THIS MORNING (Monday) in Seattle, Washington, from a fire that started in his apartment.
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Post-Intelligencer / Jeffrey Lake photo
When Seattle firefighters arrived o…
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The Co$t of Access
Hello from Las Vegas. Fossilmedic is attending the 20th anniversary EMS Expo.
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Normally I post between sessions ... OK it is often during boring sessions ... but NOT during this show. Here is the reason.
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Don't Forget: Turn It Off
FROM SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA, THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS is reporting that a routine food-on-the-stove call has caused some embarrassment at Fire Station 3.
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Station 3 (North Shelby FD photo)
The North Shelby F…
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If At First You Don't Succeed …..
WHEN AN EL PASO,TEXAS, WOMAN'S HOUSE WAS TORCHED for the third time in two months on Saturday, several neighbors had witnessed the act and chased the arsonist down.
The fire-setter, Michael Strebin, 40, is the ex-husband of the woman who has been target…
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Morning Lineup – September 29
One of the myriad of things that governmental agencies have been studying lately is the rapidly-increasing usage of cell phones and in particular, the shifting over to cell-only usage and the gradual abandonment of wired phone service.
Earlier this year…
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Wrong Air Bag
TWO AUTOMOBILES IN MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, COLLIDED HEAVILY and ended up partly inside a supermarket that was closed at the time.
The loud crash brought many neighbors to their windows and when they looked out they were able to witness a self-inflating lat…
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Ambulance Crash – Ohio
A COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO, AMBULANCE was traveling non-emergency to pick up a patient Friday afternoon when a car traveling the opposite direction drifted across the center line and they collided head-on.
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Hot Idaho Potatoes
BOISE, IDAHO, ENGINE 8 WAS HAVING A BUSY evening on Christmas Eve. Mostly medical calls, they were running a succession of emergencies when they started fixing a quick dinner, including Idaho's specialty, Tater-Tots.
Shortly after, another medical ass…
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Morning Lineup – December 28
File this one under "Bureaucratic Blunders."Â One of the inherent problems of governmental hierarchies is the tendency of the bureaucrats to meddle in something that they know nothing about, yet have the authority to make costly decisions about it anywa…
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Rare Stamp Brings $825,000
WHAT IS ARGUABLY THE MOSTÂ WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN STAMP is the famous "Jenny" with the inverted plane in the center.
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Several sheets came out of the printing press with the picture upside-down. But all of them were ca…
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British FF Honored by Prime Minister
FIREFIGHTER MICHAEL COLEMANÂ WAS HONORED LAST WEEK at #10 Downing St. when he and nine other "unsung heroes" met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown at a special reception.
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FF Michael Coleman at the UK's mo…
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Doggone…..Pie's Gone!
THE WORLD PIE-EATING CHAMPIONSHIPS IN WIGAN, ENGLAND, were thrown into turmoil when Charlie, the organizer's dog, got into the stock and ate ten of the competition pies.
The event staff is hoping that local bakers can provide replacements in time. Not…
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Emergency Pet Ambulance?
A DETROIT, MICHIGAN, COUPLE WANT TO BE ABLE to run warning lights and siren on their pet ambulance.
In an audacious move to elevate animals to the moral equivalent of humans, Nell and Larry Knapp are lobbying the state legislature to amend the state law…
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Hospital Fire In Barcelona
IN BARCELONA, SPAIN, YESTERDAY a fire in the basement workshop of the Germans Tries i Pujol hospital generated thick smoke and caused the evacuation of 110 patients.Â
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Firehouse Cooking Empties Office Bldg.
THE ALICETOWN FIRE STATION IN HUTT CITY, New Zealand, gave their adjoining office building an unscheduled fire drill yesterday when the firefighters burnt their morning tea snack.
They were fixing a tray of cheese-on-toast when everybody had their atten…
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Morning Lineup – December 13
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Apparatus collisions at controlled intersections are just about always triggered by somebody passing through the red light. Sometimes it's us, sometimes it's them. Whoever is at fault, it often bec…
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For A Merry, Beery Christmas
THE TRADITION OF CHRISTMAS ALES FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON continues. William Brand of What's on Tap? gives reviews of some of his choices for this year HERE.
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