Photo by Paul KnightIt's been a rough two weeks for the Houston Fire Department.Two firefighters died Easter morning inside a burning house, trying to rescue a married couple that wasn't there, and on March 30, two fire trucks collided in Montrose while responding to fire that didn't exist, injuring nine firefighters and a 29-year-old pedestrian who died on Saturday."We'll always look to get better," Rick Flanagan, a spokesman for the department, told Hair Balls. "We respond to provide service a
The Houston Police Department began a full-scale hate-crime investigation this morning after a pair of women firefighters discovered racist and sexist graffiti scribbled all over the locker doors in the women's dressing quarters at Station 54 at Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Houston Fire Department Executive Assistant Chief Rick Flanagan described the comments on the lockers as "so distasteful, so painful, so despicable." Chief Phil Boriskie said that this behavior is "not indicative of t
