Recent content by nfd2004

Maybe it's a taxi that you play checkers in while riding Then again, how many people know what the game of checkers is. :unsure: Thank you "Capttomo" for that photo from long ago of 75/33 operating.

Thank you Chief, that's a great Christmas video from Joey and Doreen Arminio. As you mentioned, Doreen is the daughter of Retired FDNY War Years Firefighter Tom Brusca. I hope the family is doing well.

Hey Guys - maybe all she wants for Christmas is "you" ;)

THANK YOU "Capttomo" for that EXCELLENT ZOOM PRESENTATION you gave us. Everything covered, the history, the apparatus, the area covered, training required, etc., etc.. THANK YOU, Tom. Also, a THANK YOU to this website owner "jbendick" and administrator "Atlas" for making it all possible. All...

I went to Catholic Grammer School too, and the same thing here. If the fire trucks went by, we would stop and pray. Even if we were in the playground at the time, we had to stop and pray. Sometimes my father was working, and he would go by. After our praying I would tell the other kids "hey...

Me too - in Bridgeport, Ct where I was living at the time.

WOW - I can't believe I messed posting that. Must have been a few of my lady friends calling me then - ha. Thank you "QNS7883" - added in Activity Report

Remember it well. Very sad day in history Many changes took place as to fire protection in our schools after this incident.

Corrected Thank you

November 2025 Fire Activity: Staten Island: 11/18 - 2nd Alarm - Box 0794 Queens: 11/5 - 2nd Alarm - Box 1381 11/25 - 2nd Alarm - Box 2157 11/30 - 2nd Alarm - Box 5103 Manhattan: 11/8 - 5th Alarm - Box 1688 11/19 - 4th Alarm - Box 1426 11/26 - 3rd Alarm - Box 0568 Brooklyn: 11/1 - 2nd Alarm -...

"nfd248" - NorWALK, Ct - population 95,000 - about 50 miles from NYC - 145 members of the department "nfd2004" - NorWICH, Ct - population 40,000 - about 135 miles from NYC - 56 members of the department I hope that the Norwalk firefighter that was transported to the Bridgeport Hospitals Burn...

Here is Terry Fator with his Elvis impersonator. Do you remember this Christmas song from "The King of Rock and Roll" - Elvis Presley

"3511" and "Capttomo", I remember it just as you described in your reply. One year I sat on 183rd St just across from 75/33. In a 5–6-hour span, they never turned a wheel. The next year, the fire activity for them exploded and continued on As many of us here know - our Nycfire.net owner...

In "My Younger Buff Years" I remember seeing 75/33 in the streets. A Mack pumper and a Mack Tower Ladder - some of the BEST Fire Apparatus ever made. click below for some of the stories https://www.nycfire.net/forums/threads/my-younger-buff-years.3017/

Let's bring in the Christmas 2025 season with our United States Army members.