This coming weekend will see the annual National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Memorial service and commemoration. For the third year, the weekend’s events will be live-stream broadcast over the internet by a collaboration with WUSA-TV Ch. 9 Washington and Firehouse.com. Channel 9′s ace reporter Dave Statter, publisher of the popular website STATter911, and his wife Hillary Howard from WTOP News, will be hosting the broadcasts and conducting interviews between program events.
There will be two webcasts. The first will be on Saturday evening beginning at 6:15 pm Eastern time and will cover the Candlelight Memorial Service in the chapel. On Sunday beginning at 9:30 am and running until later in the afternoon, they will be presenting the dedication ceremonies where 103 firefighters who died in 2008, along with 19 others who died in previous years will be honored.
You can view the live webcasts at either STATter911.com or at Firehouse.com. I’ll be tossing a couple of reminders your way later this week.
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I promised to share my recent email from my new friend at the World Bank in London. It’s exciting news, you can bet. Let me start by quoting the entire email verbatem:
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC), hereby receives your payment with reference number #MVA/UNO/WOB/ML-06-798 amounting to US$10.625,000.00 (Ten Million Six Hundred And Twenty Five Thousand United States Dollars). your said payment is being arranged in a Security-proof box weighing 75kg padded with synthetic nylon.we also confirmed that you have met all statutory requirements in respect of your pending payment.
We are informing you that your payment is ready to be moved by Swift Bank Transfer (Five working days) to your account or via diplomatic means of cash delivery (Two days) to your door step.Please note that your delivery arrangement will be made to you within 48hours as soon as you respond to this confidential letter by sending the following details:
And then it goes on to list five basic bits of harmless information that they require from me. Of course, I’m puzzled about why they don’t know my phone number and mailing address if they have my email address already. But still, this is exciting, yes? All those hundreds of kind donations that I’ve been offered before have come from lowly assistants-to-the-manager from failed African banks. But this one is coming directly from the United Nations Security Council! There just might be something to it this time.
I was also impressed that my cash is well-padded with synthetic nylon. Up until now, I never realized that there was any other kind of nylon besides the synthetic type. But I’m no chemist. When it comes to safely packing your heavy boxes of money, you just can’t beat nylon when it comes to padding. No, sireee.
I just want to reassure you that I’m not going to let all this money go to my head. I will continue to maintain the Firegeezer website and keep you informed of what’s going on in the fire/rescue world. So with that promise made, let’s get this equipment checked out. I’ve got to get some more coffee started.
