If your Dad was a Detroit Firefighter that served a long or short leave day punishment… You might be a “Mealer”.
Category: traditions
On Monday I attended the east side retirees’ breakfast and met a warm and inviting man named Wayne Isken. Wayne
In the Detroit Fire Department, when an emergency call comes in the firefighter on watch rings a bell. It sounds
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland Wonder if any of the
Time for the memo we get every year. All XL’s for October 29th –31st are canceled. Time for the repair
Less than a month ago hundreds of Detroit Firefighters pulled their dress uniforms out of the dark recesses of their
It has happened twice a day, every day, in every Detroit Firehouse. That familiar yell of “CHOW!” It’s a not
Detroit – 175 years ago (1837) The first cast iron fire hydrant was installed at the corner of Jefferson and
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