Denver smells like cheap fireworks

Just stepped outside and caught a nostril-full of the smell of burning refrigerators, auto parts and plastic, which combined smells exactly like someone lit several thousand black snake fireworks at once. The smoke is drenching all of Capitol Hill, all the way from Broadway to Colorado (which I found out by looking for a pharmacy [...]

DIA truck hopes to intimidate fire into putting itself out

The ever-changing Flickr feed I’ve got set up on my home page turned up this little nugget this afternoon. I’m not saying that fire-fighting equipment needs to or should be environmentally friendly, but something about this seems unnecessary. Also, the Flickr user that posted it, “ral11us,” has been posting photos of law-enforcing/fire-fighting vehicles from around [...]