I have been compiling statistics for a year-end look at what caught your attention on STATter911.com in 2009. On New Years Day I plan to list the top 20 most popular postings for the year.
The grand prize sure isn't anything to look at.
As I am putting this together, I would like to hear your guesses on the top 5 most popular stories on the blog. The stories that you think likely grabbed the most pageviews. This is based on a single posting (not including our news digest, Quick Takes). While some stories may have been covered in a couple of different entries, I am only counting a story once for the top 20 (and top 5) listings.
Be specific. Don’t just list a jurisdiction, tell me the story from that jurisdiction.
The winner would need to get the top 5 in the right order. If no one is able to do that we will go to the top 5 in any order. If we have to, in order to find a winner, we will then move to the top 4 in order, followed by having the top 4 in any order. If you are all really bad guessers we will move on to the top 3 (and so on). If there is a tie, we will put the names in an old tin fire helmet and have Sam Statter draw the winner.
Now the prize. The winner gets lunch with the editor of STATter911.com on Statter’s dime. It might be better to go for second place, where you don’t have to have lunch with me (actually, there is only one winner and no second place).
If you win, and live in the Washington area, we can pick a mutually agreeable time and location. If you don’t, I will be glad to send you a $20 gift certificate to the restaurant of your choice in your home town. If you are too fat (like me) and don’t want lunch, I will be more than happy to donate the money for both our meals to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (which I will also do if the winner does not provide a valid email).
The ONLY way to enter is by sending an email to dave@STATter911.com. The deadline for entries is noon on Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Please, only one entry per email address (if there are multiple entries, only the first one will count).
That said, you are, of course, free to discuss this topic, put up a list, kick around what you think are the most important stories of the year (possibly different than the most popular) or even tell Dave how full of himself he is in the comments section below. But remember, anything in the comments section will NOT be considered an entry into the contest.
I will give you one hint. The top story was well ahead of any other story this year. It beat number 2 by 43%. If I allowed multiple entries for a story it would also take up slots 2, 3 and 4.
Also on STATter911 …
- What all the controversy is about: Read Special Order #44 from DC Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe. – January 3, 2012
- A STATter911.com exclusive investigation: The truth about The Fire Critic. – August 28, 2011
- Special New Year’s Day feature: Hidden camera shows plot to shut down STATter911.com. – January 1, 2011
- A STATter911.com Exclusive: The shocking conclusion to our investigation of The Fire Critic. You won’t believe what we have discovered. – August 29, 2011
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Anything involving DCFD and Chief Rubin was pretty popular when the Hookman was around.
I would say the story about the Fire truck sales.
Kentland
Watching the interview with that stupid Jerry Engle…lying through his teeth with that stupid looking car of his!! What an EGO that guy has! Hands Down
All of the stories reagarding LODD’s. If these stories are presented in such a way that we all can learn and be educated by them then they are BY FAR the most interesting and informative stories that can be told.
Engle may not have been the most popular story, but it was the most commented on.
Satter gets a chin lift?
Mark,
If you are going to make fun of me at least spell the name right.
Statter
Dave,
I think it was the staffing, company closing and mismanagement debacles of the PGFD. Having 2 shifty arsonists as vollies didn’t help. While this isn’t a personal shot at any particular individual , that department as a whole is in the tank. And its a damn shame too cause I am certain there are a few good people both career and volunteer left. The shame is, I think you’ll have a healthy abundance of similar stories in 2010 too, whata mess!.
Dennis Rub In’s depositon
Dave
My guess is the Plane crash in the Hudson River.
If I win, I’ll match the price of lunch as a donation as well.
John
The Oklahoma Trooper vs Paramedic Case, Riverdale, PG Staffing, DCFD Chief Rubin
Right On (and others) make sure you enter at dave@statter911.com
Ill email this later to enter, but I think it was the box truck fire on Dec 6th in Taftville, Connecticut. They made an incredible stop, holding the fire to the engine compartment to stop the spread of fire into the box of the truck.
When do we find out, now that the deadline is over?. I didn’t enter, just curious.