As a former firefighter this pisses me off to no end: Officials with the Federal Wildland Fire Service Association, representing thousands of federal firefighters, complained this week to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee after learning that some committee staffers ran an office pool to guess how many acres are burned by wildfires each […]
There’s been a lot of talk about the South Fulton, Tennessee fire department standing around while Gene Cranick’s house burned to the ground all because Cranick didn’t pay a $75 subscription fee to the fire department, but I think there is one key point being missed here; what’s to come. First off, as a former […]
Back in 2006, former Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) made national news when he called firefighters “lazy bums’. Three months after that Burns was unemployed and Jon Tester became the new Senator from Montana. Now we have another story, very similar in nature. From TPM: Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT), fresh off his Republican primary win, filed […]
Back in the 80’s, the Reagan administration had this great idea of reassigning chunks of radio frequencies so more areas would be freed up and could be sold off. With this plan, public safety was moved to the 800mhz range. With this new radio range new technology had to come into play. Essentially public safety […]
John Ensign just said on Meet the Press that the states aren’t hurting and there won’t be any teacher or firefighter layoffs. That statement right there should qualify right up there with “the foundation of our economy is strong”. The Republicans are clueless to what is happening in the economy and instead want ways to […]
Because he is thought of the same there as he is in New York: Rudy Giuliani’s plan to ride in a Miami-Dade firetruck in Sunday’s Three Kings parade has outraged some firefighters who say the presidential candidate has ”lied” about his 9/11 record because he did too little to equip and protect emergency workers. The […]
I found it very interesting that so little time was dedicated to actual social issues. Global warming got very little attention, as did oil prices. Even when questions were asked on those issues, the candidates quickly ran to their old fear-mongering talking points of terror. For people that want to be President, they sure do […]
He went on his little rampage about over-paid, lazy firefighters a couple of weeks ago, but check out Burns in action in the U.S. Senate. So let me get this straight. A firefighter who makes an average of $30,000 – $40,000 a year goes out and risks life and limb fighting a fire in intense […]
Kos has a post up about Sen. Burns attacking firefighters: “See that guy over there? He hasn’t done a God-damned thing. They sit around. I saw it up on the Wedge fire and in northwestern Montana some years ago. It’s wasteful. You probably paid that guy $10,000 to sit around. It’s gotta change.” [SNIP] “Bullshit!” […]
First off here is the story– Two men were airlifted to University Hospital after they were burned in a restaurant fire. The blaze broke out at Steak Thyme Subs on the 8100 block of Princeton-Glendale Road shortly before 9 p.m. According to a report in the Hamilton Journal News, the restaurant has been vandalized three […]