There Will Be a 3rd Day for Few; Exposure Discussion; Par for the Course; Lamar on Powell Doctrine; Stripped Down Version of CPR

Demopolis Times website breaking the news Tuesday evening.

Click on picture to see video of and comments about the exposure problem.

Comments shift from Lorton & Fairfax FRD to Greenbelt & PGFD.

Most of our comments Tuesday centered on our running of the raw video from Sunday morning’s fire on Copernicus Drive. The discussion is over tactics and whether the exposures should have been protected before the detached home on side D caught fire. But we still are hearing a lot about the Lorton report.

August bad month for Capitol Hill bar.

Two years ago this month the Capitol Lounge was heavily damaged by a fire. Now the bar was damaged again this morning during a two-alarm fire in the 200 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, SE.

Colin Powell for chief.

STATter 911 guest columnist Eric Lamar makes the case for those in charge of firegrounds to take a close look at the Powell Doctrine.

Designated firefighters.

An update on that drinking issue in Garfield, N.J. City manager has to approve drinking. Events where drinking it to occur requires putting the fire company out of service for 12 hours. But chief can designate crew of non-drinkers.

It’s not wizardry, but Harry Potter makes a fire truck appear in Africa.

JK Rowling pays for a tender to be shipped to town in Zambia.

Retired FF/P opens mouth escorted from links.

The story of Steve Banky who asked a question at the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio on Sunday.

Numbers game.

FireNews.net looks at station numbering in North Carolina and even drags the Washington, D.C. area into the discussion.

New rules in Palo Alto after funeral controversy.

Chief in Palo Alto is coming up with new rules that would allow firetrucks to go to funerals and flags to be lowered after anger over the decision not to go to the funeral for the Contra Costa County firefighters.

Not 1, but 2 FDNY calenders.

The controversial calender that has caused a stir in New York is not the only one on FDNY’s radar screen.

Heart-stopping show.

I know I am late on posting this one, but this story from Port St. Lucie, Florida is hard to top. Midway through her “exotic dance” in the home of a repeat customer, the stripper sees that the 46-year-old man is out cold. She saves the day with her CPR skills. Beats an AED any day.