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E89 Normally 2nd Due, OOS (Education Day). The G-man rule...only applies to first due units.

This residence is on a row of homes that date from the 1890s. Just above Fordham road, they survived the War Years. Recent owners have been protective of these properties and hopefully they remain so.

E91 to E79... Another East Harlem to Bedford Park. A pattern development here...

So who was the fast truck....L38 or L27? E88 assigned ahead of E 46. Something amiss. Street miles says 88/38 closer.

A TL to Woodlawn? Another first?

E88 on the All Hands (5th due)?...musta been a bunch of companies out elsewhere... L43 to L37... East Harlem to Bedford Park... Love that one...gotta be a first. And a TL(23) to Woodlawn?

First frontline rig (other than Rescues) that came from the factory with an air horn. Black in color. See it mounted to the right of the Mars light on top of the windshield.

Ok, I see you mean L49 and L45. My bad.

49?

I have long had this thought... What genius in the 1930s woke up one morning and said, "I have a good idea. Let's have the city build all our residential housing."

First photo is a Seagrave 1929-30 hose wagon. How to tell?...no hose line outlet on passenger side of the rig, only a siamese to feed the deck pipe; also, the bell located directly behind the passenger seat, often connected by a rope to the back step. Firefighters in the jump seat went near deaf...

A family friend. He was the second youngest man to ever be promoted to battalion chief in the FDNY. Only Hugh Halligan was younger. His father, Thomas, retired as a battalion chief in the Lower East Side and the former captain of E28 during the war years. His sister was a West Point graduate...

Uncle

0k, DMA, i respect that you are so sure. But before I launch into any boring discussion, may I ask if you ever lived in any of these buildings on the streets of New York?

Nope. It's a five story fall and then you hit the ground. All depends on how you look at it... Including CIDS.