Quick takes
Tasty Dogs well done: A WAGA-TV image of Tasty Dogs burning in Atlanta on Thursday. Someone lit a van on fire at the business a day after city officials shut down the restaurant for a variety of violations. Click here for story and video.
Triplet rescuers talk: Two of the firefighters who were burned during the saving of triplets at a Bethesda, MD house fire on Wednesday give the Post the scoop prior to a press conference scheduled for today. Read new details of the dramatic rescues.
FDNY closure details: Governor’s Island station closed and night time shut downs of four companies help FDNY save money. Read more.
Atlanta chief warns of more closings: Watch an interview with Chief Kelvin Cochran who is looking for a private bail out of some of the department’s woes. Read and watch the story.
Angry at wife who had stormed out, man is accused of setting fire to house with his four children inside: Read the story from Bogota, NJ.
Geezer hits the trifecta – nudity, fires and history: As we have said before, FireGeezer has never met a burning strip club story he didn’t like. Now he has one that combines his other passion, history.
Going back to the 1940s, The Body Shop allowed people to look under the hood and more. The Sunset Strip establishment has long been a home for struggling Hollywood actresses. Read and watch Bill’s coverage.
Before we leave this topic, let me share the close to reporter Harriet Ryan’s story on the fire in the Los Angeles Times –
Standing outside the club on ground strewn with charred business records and water-logged chairs, he fielded questions from insurance representatives and comforted employees who stopped by, including some of the club’s about 50 dancers.
One women shook her head and accepted a hug from a male colleague.
“I’ve never actually seen you in daylight,” she told him.
Dallas fire recreates itself in the image of the police department: Someday remind me to explain the Statter Centralization/Decentralization Consultant’s Doctrine. I plan to make my fortune from my book that explains this concept. But I digress. Read about the reorganization of Dallas Fire-Rescue.
Seattle 911, STATter 911 – Which came first?: It turns out we beat the Seattle Post-Intelligencer blog by more than a year. Casey McNerthney calls his online column a “police blog”, but he covers a fair amount of fire news (BTW the Dallas Fire-Rescue story above comes under the Dallas Morning News “Crime Blog”. Huh?). Three recent entries caught my eye, a house fire in Kent, an explanation of fire hydrant parking rules and a flashback to a fire 33-years-ago yesterday that sent 3700 gallons of flaming gasoline flowing along the Alaskan Way Viaduct (as Chico Marx used to say, “Why a duck, why-a no chicken?”). Click here for the original newspaper article about that fire.
