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LT John J Kelly (7) was later Chief of Battalion 14 throughout the War Years. Appointed in 1935. An old school officer with a deep booming voice, nicknamed "All Hands Kelly". Retired in 1970 on full pay (a quirk in the law) after 35 years OTJ. Helped organize Rescue 5 on Staten Island, Captain...

I attended high school on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 61st Street in the 1960s and could watch out the classroom window as this rig would plow South, on a center fire lane on the Avenue, against traffic, to boxes to the south in their district. L35s air horn blasted it's way through...

42 or 95 would have been next up after 43, no?

I will do you one better Cap.... According to the 1993 FDNY Fire Alarm Assignment book, the response to Box 3382, Jerome Avenue at East Kingsbridge Road, was 75 48 79 33 56 37(F) 81 88 43 46 38 59 75/33 moving just a couple of blocks south made a big difference.

This address sounded familiar to me. Just a few doors up the street is a handsome old building that once housed the Fitch Sanitarium, the hospital where I was born. (My brothers used to tease me that I was born in a "sanitarium", confusing it with "asylum" I guess.) It was built in the early...

Doesn't the Bronx borough Commander roll from engine 72s quarters?

Right around the corner from 46/27s former quarters. It can be seen in some of the videos. Their former home box. If all available, assignment on the All Hands would be 46 42 88 45 75 27 38 58F 33 Bn 18, 19 48 92 50 56 44 19 Bn 17

You may be reading that incorrectly. Companies listed on the first line of the 2-2 are those companies that responded on the 2nd; those on the the following line are companies that relocated to units operating at the fire. In those days relocators never responded to the same incident as the...

G -man rule again.

E88? Should be second due on the second alarm.

2931 maybe?

G-Man rule applies. Company out of service for administrative reasons and the house gets a first due job.

E48/L56 roam far and wide... Bronx River to the Harlem River, Tremont to Norwood. Lotsa folks (and chances to screw up) in those areas.

Have the 2024 numbers been posted on this site?

Engine 46 listed twice on first due responses...E48? Good info... Thanks for compiling.