Dalmatians can be very serious dogs in my experience. And strong. There's a reason that firemen like them. I'll have to look that up.

Some people really got themselves in over their heads after that 101 Dalmatians movie by Disney. "Oh, we'll get a puppy for each kid", right? In a year that was one hundred and twenty pounds of sinew and muscle, wanting to go outside.

[e:] Here's a passage from Wikipedia, 'for what it's worth':

Today the Dalmatian serves as a firehouse mascot but, back in the days of horse-drawn fire carts, they provided a valuable service. Dalmatians and horses are very compatible, so the dogs were easily trained to run in front of the carriages to help clear a path and quickly guide the horses and firefighters to the fires. The dogs were sometimes also used as rescue dogs to locate victims in burning structures. Dalmatians are often considered to make good watchdogs and it is believed that Dalmatians may have been useful to fire brigades as guard dogs to protect a firehouse and its equipment. Fire engines used to be drawn by fast and powerful horses, a tempting target for thieves. So, Dalmatians were kept in the firehouse as deterrence to theft. The horses have long since gone, but the Dalmatians, by tradition, have stayed.

That article in Fire Engineering is dated January 2002. Did you think to look for any more recent writings from this author on the subject? Of course not. How about more recent articles in the magazine on the subject? Nope you didn't do that either. Too much work for someone as intellectually lazy as you appear to be.

http://www.fireengineering.com/articles/article_display.html?id=151045

A more recent article from the same author applauding the commissioning of the NIST investigation. The most extensive cover up the author is worried about is politicians covering their asses over dangerously unsafe building codes (read the following also from Mr.Manning).

http://www.fireengineering.com/articles/article_display.html?id=213202

That is one conspiracy theory that may well be true.

Fire Engineering has also run several articles on it's support of Fire/Structural damage causing the collapse of WTC 1 & 2.

http://downloads.pennnet.com/fe/wtc.pdf

80 pages and not one mention of demolition, explosives or conspiracies.

This is another interesting article by the editor of a fire-fighter's magazine, Fire Engineering:

"Fire Engineering has good reason to believe that the "official investigation" blessed by FEMA and run by the American Society of Civil Engineers is a half-baked farce that may already have been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure. Except for the marginal benefit obtained from a three-day, visual walk-through of evidence sites conducted by ASCE investigation committee members- described by one close source as a "tourist trip" - no one's checking the evidence for anything."

This is round the corner from my flat (Manchester), I've seen a car and a fire engine drive into those same poles within the last year. Rather than stem the traffic flow they've created an idiot's accident-hotspot.

Woohoo!
This is round the corner from my flat, I've seen a Subaru and a fire engine driving into them in the past year.