Finally a New Posting on Hoopie World!

I know, I know, don’t all faint at once.  The heat wave is hot enough, we have enough fainting going on around us.  If you come to Hoopie World with any frequency, you’ve noticed that not much have changed over the last couple months.  I’ve been thinking a lot of what direction to take the site.  Fire buffing is about dead around western PA, or at least its not what it used to be.  Some of that is due to most departments having their own websites and just posting pictures/incidents there.  Some of it is just because it was a cyclical fad and people don’t have the time/money/energy to do it any longer.  So with no pictures coming into the inbox,  its tough to report on fire stories.

For a while I posted teaser pictures and links to fire incidents from other sites, but even the pictures and incident reports are becoming scarce and not very frequent at those sources as well.  As an example, as I write this two local departments near me both let their domain names expired and are currently OOS.

So my new plan is to post more articles related to firefighting in general, specifically to western Pennsylvania and topics impacting the area.  In the future you are going to see more editorial articles that hopefully gets some discussion going related to the issues that we, as western Pa firefighters, are dealing with.

I will still continue to post fire incident reports from time to time, especially if the pictures and stories are sent to me as well as update the site with event notices, apparatus pictures, radio frequencies, and the other firefighting information that has kept Hoopie World rolling for 7 plus years now.  However, the old timers to the site may notice a significant change to the postings.  Plain and simple, get ready for a lot of babbling from me and hopefully some good input and comments from the readers.

So, to the long time visitors, I hope I haven’t scared you off.  If you are a newer visitor or this is your first time at the site, please bookmark us and join us on Twitter and Facebook.  Everyone in between, I hope you like whats to come, and as always I look forward to your comments and feedback.

Jeff (FF184)
support@hoopieworld.com