Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results. – Pat Summitt

LODD’s:

Today is a rough day for LODD’s! As Sgt. Esterhaus said on “Hill Street Blues”…”Let’s be careful out there!”.

Jan 09, 2012

Fire fighter suffers fatal heart attack while performing driver/operator duties at a motor vehicle crash – South Carolina.

Jan 09, 2008

Fire apparatus driver operator experiences chest pain while exercising at fire station and dies three days later due to a pulmonary embolus – Maryland.

Jan 09, 2009

A career lieutenant dies and three fire fighters are injured in ladder truck crash – Massachusetts.

Jan 09, 2005

Volunteer fire fighter suffers cardiac death the morning after emergency medical technician training – North Carolina.

Jan 09, 2004

Residential basement fire claims the life of career lieutenant – Pennsylvania.

Jan 09, 2001

A volunteer fire fighter died after being struck by a motor vehicle while directing traffic – New York.

Jan 09, 1999

Single-family dwelling fire claims the life of a volunteer fire fighter – Indiana.

History by Historyplace.com:

January 9, 1960 – With the first blast of dynamite, construction work began on the Aswan High Dam across the Nile River in southern Egypt. One third of the project’s billion-dollar cost was underwritten by Soviet Russia. The dam created Lake Nasser, one of the world’s largest reservoirs, at nearly 2,000 square miles and irrigated over 100,000 acres of surrounding desert. The dam was opened in January of 1971 by President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and President Nikolai Podgorny of the Soviet Union.