Posts Categorized: Dogs
Hidden Message
Two drunken men are lying on the sidewalk in front of a liquor store at noon on a beautiful late summer day. Both are well known to the rescue crew. Both are now in the rescue; one of them, less inebriated than the other, sits on the bench seat, buckle…
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Vote for Woof !
WHICH FDNY FIREDOG IS THE CUTEST OF THEM ALL? You have the opportunity to pick your favorite and vote for it.
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Alaskan Automatic Alarm Dog
This image from Trooper Shanigan's dash cam shows Buddy leading him through the maze of forest roads to the house on fire.
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Fire Dog Gets New Duties
And now it has even come down to giving the fire dog some extra responsibilities.
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Nice Doggie….Down, Boy!
A CASSELTON, NORTH DAKOTA, FARM FAMILY has what may be the world's tallest and longest dog. They'll find out after they hear back from the Guinness Book of Records people later.
"Boomer" is a 3-yr.-old Landseer Newfoundland canine that stands 3 ft. at…
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Fire Started by Coffee Beans. Firegeezer Devastated.
THE SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA, FIRE DEPARTMENT responded to a call for smoke in the building at 2:20 am Thursday morning. On arriving at the Cafe des Croissants Grateful Bagels they found extensive smoke and heat throughout the building and fire in the co…
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PCB's Showing Up on eBay
Enviro.BLR, a website maintained by Business & Legal Reports, has posted an item about a New York company listing an electrical capacitor for sale on eBay without properly identifying it as containing PCB's. They write:
Advertising old electrical…
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Sentencing Begins for Cudahy Firesetters
THE FIRST OF THE TWO BROTHERS WHO PLEADED guilty to accidentally starting the $50 million fire at the Cudahy Packing plant in Wisconsin was sentenced yesterday. Joshua Popp, 23, and his brother Kurtis, 25, pleaded guilty under a plea-bargain agreement …
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Morning Lineup – October 9
A hot news item was released yesterday evening, but beyond the announcement there isn't much else to say. So I'll cover it here instead of a full posting. New York City's Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetti announced yesterday that he will be steppi…
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Grace
Grace Monday, August 17, 2009
This is Grace. I was at the Doctor's office waiting for the Mrs. when a lady came in with her. The doctor wouldn't let the lady in with the dog so yours truly ended up with her. It only took fifteen minutes, I'm in love…
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Pool
http://www.projo.com/news/content/BUCKLIN_POOL_08-19-09_74FEK1N_v27.3c198f1.html
Thoughts and prayers for the kids and their families.
In a sane world, six Advanced Life Support vehicles would be enough resources for a city the size of Providence. We …
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Partners
Six months ago, Adam showed up at Rescue 1 to begin his six month detail. He started on a Sunday night. By weeks end we had survived a bloody suicide attempt, a ten year old in cardiac arrest who almost made it and a couple of shootings that didn't. You …
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Let's Go
Somebody calls for help. We respond.
http://callitasiseefit.blogspot.com/
This is the right thing to do. So let's go.
Thanks
Oh, and read this if you are wondering why I care.
http://pinkwarmdry.com/blog/
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Abused Angels
http://www.mcauleyri.org/index.php
1022 hrs, Rescue 1 responds to 622 Elmwood Avenue for an intoxicated male. This is an everyday occurrence. The Mcauley House is run by some truly great, patient, benevolent people. Hundreds line up daily outside year…
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What's Next?
It's Friday Morning, 0820 hrs. I've been here since 1700 hrs. last night and won't be free until 0700 hrs. tomorrow morning. Typical Thursday Night, three intoxicated men, a seventeen year old girl who was released from the hospital two hours prior to c…
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Semper Fi
I was still a little fired up from the last one, a thirty year old female unconscious, intoxicated, overdosed on tylenol and surrounded by belligerent family members. When one of them, a twenty something shirtless tattooed tough guy refused to get out of…
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Nice Finish
The Captain of Engine 14 met me at the bottom of the stairs.
"We're going to need a board."
It was the last call of the day for all of us, at least we hoped so. Shift change happens at 1700 hrs., this call came in at 1645. It was a blistering hot summe…
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New Sherrif in Town
"Rescue 1, Respond to 82 Lincoln Street for a pedestrian struck."
"Rescue 1, on the way."
82 Lincoln Street borders one of the local colleges, plenty of kids walking around and plenty of kids driving like morons to run them over. We hit the lights and …
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Castle on High
A recent Brown University graduate, Michael Morgenstern spent years making a film that was accepted into this years Rhode Island International Film Festival. Congratulations, Michael, and best of luck with the film.People can RSVP on Facebook to the two …
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Morning Lineup – July24
It's Show Time
FossilMedic (left), GeezerDotter and Firegeezer
are ready to meet and greet.
Well, we got off to a good start yesterday. Thanks to Mike Legeros for recording the opening day activities and taking the photo above. You can see that …
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The Night We Got The Dog Drunk
A LASTING MEMORY FROM THE APOLLO 11 LANDING WAS WATCHING OUR DOG RECOVER FROM A CHAMPAGNE HANGOVER ON MONDAY JULY 21st.
My parents hosted a neighborhood moon landing party. TVs were playing in four different rooms and the house was jammed with their fr…
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Valuable Tech. Tips
CAN YOU TAKE YOUR NEW BlackBerry Tour smartphone apart and put it back together in 5 minutes? Would you even want to?
Well, if you do .... here's how it's done:
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A Fire Chief That Puts His Money Where His Mouth Is
YOU CAN'T SAY THAT FRANKTON, INDIANA, FIRE CHIEF ROB AMICK isn't dedicated. Frankton's volunteer fire department is on the financial ropes and Chief Amick has taken out a $50,000 personal loan to keep the department afloat while he works to convice the…
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A Commercial Fire in the Country
EVEN WHEN HE'S AWAY FROM HOME, LARRY "SMOKE SHOWING" SHAPIRO manages to roll in with the first-due companies. While traveling north on I-65 in Boone County, Indiana, Friday evening Larry got tapped out for this fire in a commercial storage building sou…
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Wildfire Ignited by Burning Bus
AN AMTRAK BUS CARRYING PASSENGERS FROM TORRENCE, CALIFORNIA, to Bakersfield caught on fire Friday afternoon in the farther reaches of Los Angeles County near Castaic. The blazing bus started a brush fire that spread to 10 acres before it was contained.…
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