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I too am fascinated. But I feel that Ambinder's interest misses the most important aspect of fire-fighting. He gets excited about "the fire engine, the hoses and the nozzles and the rapidly flashing lights and the scream of the siren." What makes me stop and watch, what makes...
One such cheer, developed by co-captain Emily Stauffer and Kristen Bowes '98, begins with a player repeating the sound of a fire engine siren three times. The rest of the bench then chimes in with, "Fire, fire, fire!"
For fire-buffs, living around Boston is heaven. We know about the legendary fire captain who could extinguish a five-story blaze with solely the deck gun on his engine.
We regale in details about the BFD's stick work, their heroic rescues of man and animal. Walking down Newbury Street on a cold Friday night, we follow the screams of Ladder 15 and Engine 33 as they investigate smoke from a building on Comm. Ave.
Most ambitious is building a successor ship to Cousteau's beloved Calypso, which sank in Singapore in 1996. Calypso II will be 217 ft. long, powered by an innovative turbosail-diesel engine combination. If it is ever built, that is: the $2 million raised from donations so far is a...