Three of our blogging colleagues have joined together in a new venture based on a service that their individual blogs has started. Each of the three regional fire/ems news sites, VAFireNews.com, covering Virginia, FireNews.net, reporting from North Carolina, and SCFireWire.com, following South Carolina’s news, had been placing online ads for people who had fire apparatus for sale.
Now they have combined their resources and set up a one-stop shopping center at USA Firetrucks – http://www.usafiretrucks.com/ . They are not selling the trucks themselves, nor are they acting as brokers. They just run the ad and if you are interested, you deal directly with the seller. No middle-man. Even if you’re not in the market for any equipment right now, it’s fun to visit the site and look through the interesting variety of offerings.
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It’s been a while since we’ve heard from our persistent ambulance-chasers down in Melbourne, Florida. But they’re back. This time with still another underemployed lawyer acting as their national coordinator:
Good afternoon! My name is Ben Xxxxx and I’m the Head National Awareness Coordinator for the Mesothelioma Center… While I was browsing through a number of fire department and firefighter health and safety sites I came across your website and was very impressed by the information you have listed.
Currently we are campaigning to educate the general public on how to avoid asbestos exposure within their homes. We understand that local fire departments are tasked with keeping the community safe. Thus, as a public service, we are teaming up with fire departments across the country to help educate the nation about the dangers of asbestos and how to avoid it. This can include how to spot asbestos (pictures), common locations, how to test the air, and even asbestos information specific to your community.
So there you have it folks, we are now “tasked with keeping the community safe.” No wonder I’m tired at night. It’s too bad that Ben didn’t look a little deeper because he might not have been as “impressed by the information (Firegeezer) has listed,” if he had read our opinion on his law firm’s shameless fishing for “victims” HERE, HERE and HERE. And keeping with their past policies, their email and their 3,500-page website keep their identity as a room full of lawyers hidden.
Listen, Ben…..see if you can get impressed with this: You and your ilk are really getting tiresome. We’re not biting on your claptrap and we have no intention on trying to dupe our readers into clicking on to your ambulance-chasing websites. Maybe you should try out for that tv series America’s Dirtiest Jobs.
Now let’s get ready for our jobs and get this equipment checked out. I need to start some more coffee. See you back in the day room.
