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NYC proposes user fee for FDNY response to auto accidents

You are going to see this debate more and more in the next few years, as cash strapped states and municipalities look for ways to plug the fiscal dykes that threaten to become floods of deficits. Last fall, as the Bloomberg administration grappled with a multibillion dollar budget deficit, the FDNY and the mayor decided [...]

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March 26, 2011 Read the full article →

Locksmiths see police service as competition

Locksmiths see police service as competition. …area locksmiths were taken aback last week when North Charleston police announced plans to start opening locked cars doors for the public free of charge with a new gadget known as The Big Easy. Police bought 18 of the devices… Well, I guess we’re not the only industry that [...]

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November 25, 2010 Read the full article →

Dive Boat Delivered to Boston Fire Dept.

From Marinelink.com: Ribcraft Delivered to Boston Fire Dept.. Designed and built specifically for the Boston Fire Department, the 30-ft professional grade Ribcraft 9.0 is capable of supporting ten divers plus crew….equipped with twin 225HP Evinrude E-TEC outboard engines capable of reaching speeds in excess of 50 mph. The Boston Fire Department has a dive team? [...]

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October 25, 2010 Read the full article →

Overboard woman found alive on shore

A 25-foot Response Boat-Small crew from Coast Guard Station Stillpond, Md., along with a Chesapeake City Fire Department boat crew, a Cecil County Fire Department boat crew, two Maryland Natural Resources Police boat crews, a Maryland State Police helicopter and a 65-foot Dolphin helicopter rescue crew from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, N.J., responded. [...]

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September 20, 2010 Read the full article →

New police boat to help Coast Guard

New Suffolk police boat to help Coast Guard Gosh, so many reactions to this news piece. I love this headline, “… to help Coast Guard.” Gee, when did the City of Suffolk, VA. Police last help the Coast Guard execute a MARB? No, I don’t mean respond to a MARB, I mean make the broadcast. [...]

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May 21, 2010 Read the full article →

Going out on a limb

I’m going to go out on a limb. I mean it. Don’t think I won’t, ’cause I will. I am going on a real bender; around the bend. I am going to jump off the cliff.  One giant step for the blogosphere, one small stumble for me. Oh my god Doug, get to the point [...]

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April 11, 2010 Read the full article →

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