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Quick Takes: May 2, 2011.

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 Pizza shop & video store burn: This looks like fairly early video of a fire Sunday in Prince George, BC that took out Boston Pizza and Blockbuster video on Central Street. Read more.

TOP STORY – Osama Bin Laden dead: Almost a decade after the attacks of September 11th that left almost three-thousand people dead, including 343 New York firefighters, al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed by U.S. forces in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. President Barack Obama made the official announcement from The White House just after 11:30 PM Sunday night. Retired FDNY lieutenant, Kenneth Specht told CNN a short time later, "I hope he rots in hell". You will find plenty of coverage on TV and across the Internet.

Roof operations at East Palo Alto apartment fire : From California, helmet-cam video taken by a Menlo Park truck crew a the two-alarm fire. Click here.

It's rodeo time: Glenn Usdin's FireTruckBlog.com is featuring video from the fire truck rodeo that was part of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival and has links to the firefighter's parade video. Click here.

Rescued teen now is in the business of saving others: From Gowanda, New York, the story of a teenager who owes his rescue after falling off a cliff while hunting to volunteer firefighters. Now Andrew Carriero is a member of the Gowanda Fire Department. Read his story.

Warehouse fire with explosions: Watch the video from the UK.

A really nice story: Firegeezer has Steve Roth's photos from a farewell tour by the long-time fire commissioner in Hanover, Pennsylvania. And the commish got to ride on the back step one last time. Check it out.

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  1. Steve in NJ says

    Get some Avodart for that Tower bucket!  Still baffles me. Truck companies with fog nozzles. 

    on May 2, 2011 @ 8:39 pm. Reply
  2. Anacostia County says

    That was some kick ass Canadian Techno music.
     

    on May 2, 2011 @ 9:38 pm. Reply
  3. Fire21 says

    I don't understand why the guys in the tower were wetting down everything except the fire!  And I still don't understand why an aerial ladder can operate the nozzle with one man onboard, but towers always seem to have 2 people.  What's that 2nd man doing?  
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    on May 2, 2011 @ 10:40 pm. Reply
  4. Anonymous says

    one guy plays with the water thing-a-majig and the other one drives   up, down. left. right       what do ya think               

    on May 7, 2011 @ 5:22 pm. Reply
  5. Anonymous says

    when the big stick goes up….the building goes down….go inside, put the wet stuff on the red stuff

    on September 9, 2011 @ 1:27 pm. Reply

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