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*  Roanoke Firefighters has a 2-part commentary on the City’s reluctance to properly staff its fire stations HERE.

*  Firefighter Hourly says that Charleston’s City Hall would fit right in at Disneyland HERE.

*  FireRescue1′s editor Jamie Thompson has a good article about the strategery of attacking fires in vacant buildings.  He points out that in Flint, Michigan, for example, Sixty-two percent of the department’s fireground injuries occurred at vacant structure fires.  Read the full STORY.

*  STATter911 has pulled out another old video.  This time a film of FDNY pre-1920 responding….two horse-drawn steamers and a water tower.  Go HERE and scroll down.

*  In Fire Engineering’s blog, Skip Coleman tells why his department requires SCBA even though the fire’s been out for an hour HERE.

*  Firefighter Spot has some new dramatic pics of FDNY working in the streets HERE.