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Tuesday morning, all 7 children of a refugee family perished in a house fire in Nova Scotia. Absolutely devastating. I can't possibly imagine how the parents must feel. It must also be very difficult for those who fought the fire to have that outcome weighing on them as well. Brief NYT article here, soft paywall (i.e. open incognito and it should work.)

But that aside, if there is any positive to come from this incident, it may be a chance for us to learn. Has anyone seen more details that would be relevant as a sort of 'case study' on this incident? Details such as where the children were eventually found?

Has anyone here read the Extremis Malis storyline (Dark Horse comics)? I think there are now 2 issues out serving as a lead-in to The Division 2. I'm wondering what you thought, if you've read them.

I'm slowly going through New York Collapse - I love the lore in this game. I'm hoping these are good too.

Title. Have a piece of jewelry I need repaired (broken necklace chain, very fine links). Local to Albany preferable. A reason why you recommend them appreciated.

My brother is trying to download Forsaken via Xbox One store and it says it's currently unavailable... anybody know why?

Does anyone have this yet? I'm wondering how it drops. Seems like it's got to have a story or quest element to it. It's such a cool gun and cool concept. All I've seen is "exotic engrams can decode" but that's lame.

Avoid spoilers if possible pls.

Title. I didn't see anything in the sidebar.

I'm on the part of the Sleeper quest where I have to kill Cabal with precision shots. Do these kills need to be made with the IKELOS hand cannon? Or can I equip it as my energy weapon, and get the kills with my primary/power? Just curious... I know the other places in this questline where "Equip IKELOS and... (fill in the blank)" means it can be in the slot, not in-hand to complete. Thanks!

Lore items included in the new API update and found here (Thanks to Ishtar Collective!) include a story about Ana Bray and Rasputin. The entries on Ishtar's site are listed alphabetically, but story-wise the order appears to go:

• 0. The Unsolvable Problem
• 1. The Machine Child
• 2. The First Idea
• 3. The Black Box
• 4. The Ghost Synapse

It's awesome and haunting and I love it.

Lots of local volunteer fire departments are holding recruitment events/open houses this weekend, 4/28 and 4/29. Many areas surrounding/contiguous with Albany are staffed by partly- or completely-volunteer based fire services. The trend in membership levels has overall been a poor one in recent years... if you're looking for a way to give back to your community, I encourage you to check this out. I joined mine last year and it's been great.

NYS has a nice retirement system for volunteers which doesn't get a lot of publicity - someone I know 'cashed in' on theirs at retirement age and took home ~30k in retirement from 25 years of volunteering.

There are lots of ways to help out, not everyo

We've had a Facebook page for a few years with 60ish members and no activity. That is about to change. I'm spearheading (get it?) an effort to grow our local group and get more consistent events going. We have a beginner's ruck coming up this weekend 4.28 as well as a TACO RUCK to some local authentic Mexican establishments on 5.6 too. I thought I'd share here in case anyone is in our area and wants to join.

Our page is 518TOUGH and the group, events, etc. are all linked through that page.

Went on call for "(young, 20s)Male pt, unconscious, breathing" early this morning and arrived to find pt supine, unresponsive, and snoring inconsistently. PD had just finished pushing Narcan when we arrived and our SPO2 meter was reading mid-40s (oh shit moment) on arrival. I'm new so I did my first NPA on a human and pt O2 sat came right up to 98 within a minute after insert/NRB @ 15 L/min. Would have bagged but pt had good breaths in and out as soon as the NPA was in.

It was like magic. Pt woke up and said "I fell asleep." Yea bud, we were shining lights in your eyes and sternum rubbing you, you were more than asleep.