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ATTENTION PATCH COLLECTORS! The Porky Show, California’s longest running police and fire patch, badge and collectibles swap meet will take place on Saturday, January 16th in Claremont from 9 AM to 3 PM. The show is put on by the Claremont Police Department raises funds the Claremont Police Explorers program. If you are interested in police…
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating an incident in which a passenger aircraft was given wrong directions by traffic controllers and guided toward the San Gabriel Mountains, where it flew just hundreds of feet higher than the peak of Mt. Wilson before turning around, according to publicly available flight data. Bound for Taiwan, the EVA Air Boeing…
The following letter was posted on the GRE America Web Site: GRE Official Announcement 10/23/2012 October 23, 2012 To our valued Dealers and Customers, Due to circumstances beyond its control, General Research of Electronics of Japan (GRE) is temporarily not able to manufacture the GRECOM and Radio Shack branded radio scanners. The Chinese…
Energy released from solar plasma blasts will reach Earth throughout Friday and Saturday, potentially disrupting communications and electrical grids, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The explosion on the sun’s surface could affect precision satellite systems such as GPS and high-frequency radio waves, which airlines use for communication.
How many fire buffs are too many? It looks like the Detroit Police Department thought a few too many were buffing this fire. From David Psenechnuk at DMP Productions/FireBuffVideo.com
On Sunday, February 07, 2016 at approximately 2:00 p.m., members of the Special Enforcement Bureau – Tactical Dive Team with the assistance of the Los Angeles Port Police, the Long Beach Police Department and L.A. County Lifeguards, recovered wreckage of one plane and remains of two victims. The recovery was made approximately two miles outside…
