Emergency Fleet News Today

Texas' prolonged drought has revealed a long-lost relic of the early 20th century on the Neches River. Local resident Bill Milner spotted the wrec...

One of the first findings in NYU's blizzard report shares that Buffalo's emergency vehicle fleet was "not sufficient" to address the storm event.

Bristol Boroughs Harriman Historical District was an emergency ship-building port in 1917.

Chapter 4 of "Wobblies on the waterfront-interracial unionism in progressive-era Philadelphia" by Peter Cole, an excellent text about the American IWW in the early 20th century, and interestingly about some Wobblies' support of World War I.

The detailed official history of the strike, in which the city was taken over by the workers, by the History Committee of the General Strike Committee, March 1919 with a preface from Root and Branch in 1972.

What became of the World War I fleet was almost as intriguing and bizarre as the concept of concrete ships itself.

A Ship Made of Concrete? They Actually Existed During World War II The fate of the remaining World War II concrete fleet was not as unique or entertaining as their predecessors of World War I. Heres What You Need To Remember: The use of concrete was sparked by wartime shortages of steel; as they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention." It is a fact that war has sparked some amazing innovations. It has at the same time spawned incredible desperation. The attempt by the U.S. Navy in both wor...

>> 50 to 70 people. >> 50 to 70, 5-0 to 7-0 people? >> yes. its of considerable size. with enough capacity to serve a large area and the idea is to have them spread in a sway that everybody has a chance to access one within a reasonable amount of time, basically responding to tsunamis in places maybe the warning doesnt reach or there isnt any warning, remote places. >> have you -- have you been able to try something like this out? theres a patent for it. its not manufactured yet, correct? >> tha...