Mystery water truck helps SFFD extinguish box van fire

says the operator of the water truck is her husband, Julio Parra, owner of JP's Water Truck Services. She says he sprays construction sites for dust control, and this is the third fire he's helped to extinguish.

 

Mystery water truck helps SFFD extinguish box van fire

Why don't they build fire engines like that?

 

Why don't they build fire engines like that?

They do.

It's like a sending in a tank, you also need Infantry to be combat effective.

 

They do.

Well, where was it?

 

Well, where was it?

Likely someplace where it was actually needed. The Firemen and the truck they rolled up with could have handled a simple van fire easily. Fighting fires is their day/night job.

 

$1.3B Oregon Powerball winner talks 8-year cancer battle | kgw.com

Oregon Powerball winner to use $1.3B jackpot to help pay for cancer treatment, new home
After immigrating from Laos to the U.S. as a young man, 46-year-old Cheng "Charlie" Saephan has been battling cancer for the last 8 years.

 

https://www.montclair.edu/newscente...hey-graduate-from-montclair-state-university/
N.J. Quintuplets Make History as They Graduate from Montclair State University

 

https://www.montclair.edu/newscente...hey-graduate-from-montclair-state-university/
N.J. Quintuplets Make History as They Graduate from Montclair State University

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Wow! ... that bit of news put me in a good mood ... thanks for posting!

 

https://www.koin.com/news/portland/over-40k-books-sold-during-powells-massive-warehouse-sale/
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Powell’s first major warehouse sale in 20 years was a massive success with book lovers forming a mile-long line and the bookstore selling over 40,000 books.

The sale, bringing books down to as low as $1, was an effort to clear shelves of old stock so that the bookstore could bring in more new books.

 

Any and all posts with reference to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be deleted.

 

Any and all posts with reference to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be deleted.

Sounds fair.

 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/usc-student-charged-fatal-stabbing-homeless-person/story?id=111291532
USC student will not be charged in fatal stabbing of homeless person

A University of Southern California student will not face charges for the fatal stabbing of a homeless man he said was done in self-defense.

Ivan Gallegos, 19, was arrested on suspicion of murder Monday night in the death of 27-year-old Xavier Cerf.

Police said Gallegos saw Cerf breaking into his car in the parking lot behind his fraternity house on Monday night. According to police, Cerf told him he had a gun, at which point the student stabbed him.
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Gallegos, who is from Los Angeles, had previously been booked into jail and held on $2 million bail.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...y-saves-texas-woman-sexual-assault-rcna157958
Family of taekwondo instructors saves Texas woman from sexual assault

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1002821651199702&set=a.480198050128734

 

Great parents and a child with books and toys.

 

 

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-recruit-weight-training/
Marine recruit loses more than 100 pounds to graduate from boot camp


Getting in shape for boot camp marked a turning point for Paz-Sosa, who had been overweight for most of his life, he said. It took him roughly a year of diet and exercise before he was able to stand in the yellow footprints at the receiving phase of recruit training.

 

https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/30/san-francisco-aggressive-homeless-camp-sweeps-begin/

Cunningham said the Healthy Streets Operation Center, a multi-agency team that conducts encampment clearings, finished its scheduled morning operation early — so the team of officials decided to begin moving down 13th Street to continue clearing encampments.

“We’re trying to utilize the time that we had … instead of twiddling our thumbs for the next three hours,” Cunningham said. “We’re doing the general area.”

 

 

Many times it's the Tylers setting the fires so they can be heroes putting them out.

Not saying this is such a case, but it is interesting that his video made the news. I wonder how they got word of it?

 

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/of...yback-ride-safety/JFUSZBRG3VHRZHYZYJZRYPVMZ4/
Off-duty JBLM airman gives injured hiker a 2-mile piggyback ride to safety

Airman 1st Class Troy May from the 62nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron heavy aircraft integrated avionics specialist was hiking with a friend when he heard her cries for help and stopped.

May gave her a piggyback ride for nearly two miles down the mountain.