by Fred R. LaPoint, Fire Chief Paramedic | Mar 24, 2026 | Behind The Alarm
I may be slow, but I’m not stupid. I watched the videos from LaGuardia. I listened to the air traffic control audio. And what I saw was exactly what any firefighter, Coastie, or responder would recognize immediately: a crew responding to a legitimate emergency, moving...
by Fred R. LaPoint, Fire Chief Paramedic | Mar 8, 2026 | Behind The Alarm
In forty-plus years of fire and EMS, I’ve stood downwind of structure fires, chemical spills, tanker rollovers, and industrial accidents. I know what a petroleum fire plume smells like, what it does to the people breathing it, and what it leaves behind in the soil and...
