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Just a request... It is helpful to see a line through relocators who have subsequently been assigned to the incident. Makes for an easier read. But the effort and thoroughness of the rundown is appreciated.

Long run from Lincoln Center to Webster Avenue for L35. And isn't 35 a TL... Isn't that an unusual relocation? More likely 35 to 58?

Guess that will require the creation of a new signal...10-RCF maybe?... Any other suggestions?

Hmmmm, let's see...."All Hands"? 8 engines (counting Q41)... 8 ladders... R3... 2 battalion chiefs... 1 deputy chief... And, of course, the RAC. I had an uncle back during the War Years who was Chief of Battalion 14. His nickname was "All Hands Kelly". 3 and 2, and Himself. He didn't like the...

I was told by members of the Bridgeport Fire Department some years ago that their frequency (153.77) was the same as FDNY Queens Dispatch. Upon occasion, and depending upon the weather and wind directions, Bridgeport firefighters might be jolted from their beds to respond to an incident on...

That is certainly true. In my former town of Trumbull Connecticut there is a place called Katz' Pond which housed a famous witch hazel factory on its shoreline. Operated into the 1940s I think, maybe even later. My first run as a volunteer firefighter for the Long Hill Fire company was to Katz...

And Connecticut does not grow any nutmegat all. As far as I know it all comes from Indonesia. It's known as the Nutmeg State because years ago merchants in New Haven used to sell phony stuff and call it nutmeg. Big scandal at the time.

Connecticut grown tobacco leaf was world famous as wrappers around tobacco products imported from as far away as Cuba in the 19th century. Around the time (1874) that Southern Westchester county (which later became the borough of the Bronx) was incorporated as a part of New York City, one of the...

Certainly the naval sub base FD was involved here. And by the way, which FD covers the Coast guard Academy? And another by the way, the New London sub base is actually across the Thames River in Groton.

Living in Connecticut now would love to see a rundown on this. I don't remember a fourth alarm ever in New London. If Guilford is covering must have been a lot of out of town departments involved here.

Was this one of the original tobacco curing barns?

I find listing the units horizontally as assigned by alarm much easier to read. That is the traditional method used on this forum and it mirrors the old run card format and what appears on today's tickets. My eyes actually skip over these vertical unit postings. Too difficult to figure out who...

Mr Gage, I take your critique in the spirit I assume offered. No BS allowed on this site. And I stand by what I wrote. During the summer of 1969, while on extended leave from the Army, I tended bar at a noted Irish pub on Webster Avenue. It was owned by a member of Harlem's E91-2 and so became...

Same result for 108, Chief? One power saw had them running all over? Hard to believe that it took the FDNY that many years after WW II to get power saws. But then, they were still running wooden ariel ladders in open cabs.

Perhaps another consideration in where Tower ladders are located... Back in the late '60s L38 was one of the first truck companies in the Bronx to be equipped with a power saw. That one piece of equipment became very popular resulting in L38 being special called all over the borough. As more...