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This is one of those local stories that doesn’t get a ton of traction in the national headlines, but highlights quite possibly one of the most alarming trends in modern America: the failure to get the basics right. And by basics, in this case, I mean the ability for a town or city to put out fires. Fire departments around the Denver, Colorado, metro area have been struggling to afford new fire engines, which have ballooned in costs over the years, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic/economic catastrophe of 2020 and Wall Street’s private equity companies. They also have to navigate...

1921 LaFrance Fire Engine INVINCIBLE HOSE CO. NO 1The story of the resurrection of one of the first non horse drawn  NYC Fire Engines By Bob Cerullo   Lieut. Aux Fire Corps (Ret) (reprinted from WNYF magazine, second issue 1977) Currently on loan to the NYCFD MuseumThe howling winter wind hurled giant snow flakes against the bedroom window panes as I glanced over the antique car ads in the Sunday New York Times on December morning in 1969. During many of numerous pleasant evening I spent as a regular Friday night visitor to the old Hook and Ladder Co. 4...

Fire Engine to Serve as WTC Tribute Fire Engine Crushed in World Trade Center Collapse to Serve As Tribute to Victims WARWICK, N.Y. Aug. 9 — Billy Green solemnly unfurled a length of hose during a ceremony Friday and handed it to other firefighters to be placed aboard Engine 6, crushed when the World Trade Center towers collapsed. It was the first time since Sept. 11 that he'd seen the truck, which will go on display at a museum next month. Of the five firefighters on his crew who ran into the north tower, Green was the only one to...