Photo courtesy of Elsie Stevens.

Scores of Holme Circle residents participated in two protests on Oct. 17 at 9 a.m. and Oct. 27 at 4:30 p.m. at the Engine 18 firehouse at Pennypack Circle to voice their concern of the Fire Department’s new “brown out” policy. continue reading »

Photo submitted by Elsie Stevens.

I’m seeing red these days as I learn more about the Fire Department’s brown outs.  Did you know that three firehouses in northeast Philadelphia are among those on the citywide list:  Engine 18 Pennypack Circle, Engine 71 Cottman and Loretto, and Engine 64 Rising Sun and Magee?

With past cuts in fire personnel and equipment and now rotating closures of neighborhood firehouses, how can the Mayor and Fire Department’s administrative personnel justify that they have our public safety in their best interest?  Is it not the core responsibility of our city government to provide adequate fire protection to its citizens?   continue reading »

Police are investigating a murder-suicide, which they discovered in a van parked in Oxford Circle this morning.

Authorities believe Segundo Duque, 61, shot his 16-year-old autistic son while the two were driving on the 4500-block of H Street in Juniata. continue reading »

By Shannon McDonald

Outside media don’t care about the Northeast. We have all seen them misuse, misspell and mistake our neighborhoods and our streets, so we at NEast mag wanted to do something about it. When they get it wrong, we set it right in a segment we like to call Right NEast/Wrong NEast.

In an article about the death of two local firefighters, Inquirer staff writer Robert Moran listed Loretto Avenue as Loretto Street when mentioning Ladder Company 28 in his report. If only major newspapers had access to the Internet. And if only they took the time to care about the NEast. I don’t see the Inqy confusing Girard Avenue with Girard Street.

By Shannon McDonald

As the Inquirer reports, two off-duty firefighters have died, from what Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers believes were heart attacks.

Our thoughts are with the families of Robert Underwood, 47, of Ladder Company 28 at Cottman and Loretto, who died at Nazareth Hospital and Mitch McClain, 40, of Ladder Company 25, died at the McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey.