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75’s chauffeur looks impressive! Lol

We set ourselves up for overregulation via NFPA decades ago, and ISO, etc. many paid departments use these software platforms as well. Venture capitalists/ private equity are viewing the fire service as a gold mine...

Another shot of the Tender at a Drill

The bread vans.....before the days of Paramedics. A driver and a Corpsman. Notice the front bumper. It was a rubber bladder filled with water. If they hit something the plugs on the top would pop out.....supposedly dampened low impact hits. Some of the Taxi Cabs had those bumpers back...

Members of Ladders 33, 37 and 46 along with NYC EMS Corpsman remove a 10-45 Code 1 from a fatal fire at 80 West Strong Street sometime around 1973. Does anyone know the name of the EMS Corpsman seen here. The word on the street was that this guy was among the best and if you got hurt you would...

May he continue to rest easy.

Did not know any of that. Thanks Chief !

This photo was taken by then dispatcher Ken Fisher (BxCO) in the 70's. Fireman Carmine Croce of Rescue 3 performing mouth to mouth on a teenager in either TL31 or TL44's bucket as it is being lowered to the street during a grab. Ken received an award from the UFA for this.