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[Originally posted at Popular Logistics] Anyone interested in the issues discussed at is likely to find Cryptome.org an – and its affiliated sites – invaluable resources. One of – The Eyeball Series – treats “Eyeball” as a verb rather than as a noun – and provides visual information – some declassified, some acquired as open-sour [...]
Good news from one of our local fire companies, Ladder 102: From A.M N.Y./Newsday: Nearly three years after two New York City firefighters jumped from a burning building and plunged to their deaths, a 24-year FDNY veteran Monday became the first to use a widely hailed safety device to escape from a Brooklyn house fire [...]
Kareem Fahim and Nate Schweber report in today’s Times: A 56-year-old man who neighbors said had been a heavy smoker died in a fire at his apartment in Brooklyn that might have been started by a lighted cigarette, the authorities said.
Kris Alexander at Danger Room has a short report and incisive analysis of these attacks, which PEMEX (Mexico’s oil exporting entity) claims will require hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs. PEMEX also claims – in my view, not plausibly – that it won’t cause disruptions in exports (and to United States imports). Photo by [...]
According to a Sally Goldenberg exclusive in the Staten Island Advance, the FDNY fire captain disciplined for failing to inspect the Deutsche Bank building was in fact following a policy not to inspect during the demolition process. Link to Goldenberg piece here. An excerpt: One of the three firefighters stripped of his command for his [...]