Recent content by soda-acid

8 might have been used since S.I. has Div. 8.

This is just the beginning, the State and the City are broke. They both received money from the Feds this year but that isn't going to keep happening. It might get ugly real soon.

When the money gets tight sooner or later all cost saving plans will be on the table. Quints might be one of those, probably starting in the same companies that were CFC's in the '70s.

Sanitation?

The Grove ladders were gone by 1984.

Before going in service they were testing the two at the old rock (Welfare Island) and one of the elevators went into a free fall. Luckily no one was on it at the time. The elevators were promptly removed from both rigs.

And it's only going to get worse, the Summer has just started.

This should prove interesting.

No, there can be a problem with any make of rig today.

A year before Ladder 19 was moved out of the South Bronx Ladder 32 was moved from Engine 50 north to Engine 62 then to Engine 97 and finally back to Engine 62. I wonder what the back story was why Ladder 19 was moved back down to Engine 50 and not Ladder 32 that was there before.

I notice that the local news media no longer reports on how bad the violence is in Chicago, very interesting.

No one is really "busy" these days, it's not like the 60's, 70's & 80's. A better term might be "active".

During "The War Years" a few rigs looked like that.

As far as I know none of the candidates for mayor have mentioned the fire department at all. I don't know if that's good or bad for the future of the FDNY.

As a former paid member told me "they're rolling the dice, sooner or later it will come back to haunt them". But of course the mayor and other officials won't care.