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The Wire Brief: Six Dead in Sunset Park, a Record Year for Battery Fires, and a Collyer’s Mansion Job Uptown
This week on the Wire Brief: the Sunset Park rowhouse fire, 406 lithium-ion battery fires and counting, a…
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A 173-Year-Old Brooklyn Church Is Gone. FDNY Says Somebody Set It on Fire.
Photo By Lloyd Mitchell / QNS South Bushwick Reformed Church stood on Bushwick Avenue since 1853. It survived…
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There’s a Battery Plant Going Up in Your First-Due. Nobody Briefed You. Here’s the Reality.
Somewhere in your response area, there’s probably a piece of ground getting cleared for a Battery Energy Storage…
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Lithium-Ion Fires: What’s Really Going Up in Flames
LITHIUM ION BATTERIES: WHATS REALLY GOING UP IN FLAMES.
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The Fire Wire App Version 3 – A Complete Modernization for First Responders
Fire Wire App Version 3 has arrived, bringing a blazing-fast, fully modernized experience built to operatewith the speed…
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What’s New on FireWire?
To everyone that’s been using the app, I’m sure you’re aware of some of the new additions already.…
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