Recent content by ta176

May need more trucks for window bars and search several floors above the fire. Especially in projects that may have 22 floors.

I guess I picked the wrong Brother. Thanks for the reply. RIP Brother!

Jack was Mike involved in the UFOA? I think he might have been related to Lt. Frank Lenihan in 232.

You foreigners not from Bklyn., the correct spelling is Truxton St.. The quarters of 233 was around the corner from that fire.

Did you get that 111 story first hand? Because our busy night interchange was 169 and there was a similar story with us, but the bar was in Sheepshead Bay. The other problem with the interchange was a 2nd alarm on Coney Island Ave. and it was us, 111 and 123 at the job. Needless to say...

Back in the mid 70's, 168 was our third night interchange company. I caught some good work there, not a lot, but a few 2nd alarms. On one particular night we got a run about 5 AM to the South Shore Apt. complex right off the Belt Pkwy.. I was assigned OVM that night and ascended the fire escape...

Good thing 75 didn't block the bike lane. Cops might have written them up.

Back then FDNY was a step child that never got the money they needed to do the job. Hurst tools were only given to co.s near hiways. You needed anything for the Firehouse we all chipped in. So although we were the best and busiest Fire Dept., it was the brothers work efforts that made us what we...

Years ago it was luck of the draw. Usually not, living in Queens and assigned to Staten Island. I lived in Queens and sent to Brownsville, my car pool buddy from proby school living in Queens went to Astoria Queens. Living upstate maybe the Bronx or Manhattan. My 24 years in Brownsville, I...

Bob was until recently a regular at Columbian Meetings, CSU and Brooklyn breakfast. He missed last 2 or 3 and heard his health was going down hill. We had a few nice conversations about old times at the Rock. He will be missed. RIP Bob and condolences to the Family.

I lived at 107Ave. and 107 St.. I attended the school dedication to Capt. Fowler on Tuesday, because my kids went there and I worked with Vinnies brother John. The school put on a nice show and FDNY presence was very good. I'm out of there 46 years which gave me a 20 year commute. I see a lot...

I got on the job in 68. The rigs back then were plain and simple. Today the rigs are a work of art, they look beautiful. Now cars back in the 60's and early 70's were works of art and now they all look the same and are plain ugly.

So who brings them to Manhattan. FDNY should have a hot line to have a unit, either PD or Traffic to tow vehicles such as this.

Those guys look well equipped for that parking problem. Seems they have had that situation before. Did the city provide them with the wheel jacks or did it come out of the company commissary, like most of the things we have, commissary, used to buy.

I would think 176 3rd due before 123. Unless 176 was out.