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Frickin' Richman Plaza - again. Awful building. 4723 always gets my hackles up.

I know this isn't exactly a thread for current Bronx stuff, so I appreciate the mods keeping it alive. Great pics, Harry and 68JK. I'm dating myself a bit younger than some of you, but I got on the scene around 1979. I grew up "down the hill" on West 238th, by Stella D'oro. My first memories of...

This was from August of last year.

Another cockloft fire! Ruff (200) and then Keck (381) on the radio. Good job by all.

31 Truck acting 46 was busy tonight.

I was SB on the Deegan by E233rd, and saw the plume. E62 was operating behind Mobil.

Lousy building, some good people live there, though. When I was a kid in the mid 80's, my ma used to bring me down from 238th to the playground on the NW corner of 234 and Bailey. Many a skinned knee back then...

81/46 and 79/37 were there a lot when I was a kid - also, agreed on the 1st dues for time of day.

Also, with the digital radios, there's no longer the analog MDC1200 "chirp" at the end of the unit transmissions, which uniquely identifies each radio with an encoded 4 character code (for those of us who could unencode them). It used to show up on the radio dispatcher's screen. The digital...

Thanks, Henry. 251 on the X radio.

Nice stop by 92/44, and WOW what a "stop" by 27 truck. Chauffeur dumped the parking brake perfectly. Fire blowing out the kitchen window?

97 Engine, and both 39 and 41 Trucks all spares in that video.

Engine 151 acting Engine 81 to the Bronx, K...

Ah, Marble Hill. The part of Manhattan that's on the mainland. It had a 212 area code after we switched to 718. Also, at 1:46 in that video, ugh - I don't like that parapet. The beams were already burning.