I'm back after a long absence, just had no real time as I was helping others and I even had an absence from the other group I blog on. Just retired from being a NY State Fire Instuctor. Have been doing some traveling and now going to start doing some Military hops. But hey you need to keep busy when you retire otherwise you will go crazy just sitting around. Hope all of you have been safe and doing some training and driving to and from safe.

I preach driving safe a lot. We just had a…

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I want to wish all my friends and others a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and stay safe and train , train and then train again but "PLEASE" stay "SAFE"

Bob Allard

I know this has nothing to do with firefighting, but a bit of history on everything from TV shows to military history, many of us may know or not know and this is showing my age but though it would be nice for a change, let me know what you think.











As it was at the beginning





1960 Philco Predicta UG-4744





1966 1961 1967





The Beverly Hillbillies 1962 Howdy and Buffalo Bob 1955





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I was at my Ham Radio Club meeting on wednesday night and we had a speaker who gave us a half hour talk on this very important subject. I found to be very informative, as I did know about this service but did not know they were free and in this area Buffalo,NY. They are not related to Mercy Flight or Star Flight. Below I will tell you more about them and what they do.



Angel Flight NE is a non-profit organization that provides free flights in private aircraft by volunteer pilots, for… Continue