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We occasionally caught a run with 175 on Jamaica Ave. in Cypress hills. As I neared an intersection with 175 coming to, I started to...

The 60 & 70's Helmets were made by Cairns Brothers in Clifton New Jersey. The leather ones.

Nothing is sacred to these Bastards.

In the mid 70's we used to interchange with 168 every third night. I caught some good jobs in that neighbor hood. One that I will...

I get them from the unofficial fire dept. website.

His famous saying was "you got the 44".

On that date I was a Fire Marshal and the CFM had changed our hours and our starting time was 0500 hours. Working in Queens base at Fort...

The wake for BC Quartuccio will be on 12/19, 2-4 & 7-9 and 12/20/ 2-4 & 7-9 PM at the Bruggemann F.H. located at 522 Larkfield Road...

When I was a Fire Marshal I ran into Ronnie working in the 54 Battalion at a 2nd Alarm in Jamaica but I'm not sure if he was assigned...

Ronnie was the Captain of 232 and was working the night of Jan. 31, 1988, when they relocated them to 210 and all the big wigs told him...

My Dad was a FF in 211 and back in the day Howie would go to Firehouses and take pictures of the men and make a Collage of that Company...

Jack did you ever see that model in the Fire house that Charlie Hoffman built in the mid 70's? Guys have added to it over the years and...

Since 227 gave the 10-75, there only 2 blocks from Pacific St. and fire is between Ralph and Buffalo.

When the voice alarm was iniated in Brooklyn, they had a Dispatcher that couldn't speak English very well and the Brothers must have...

Back in the day Firefighters were treated like second class citizens. Every contract we had the City just dragged their feet. We were at...