9/29/24 Brooklyn All Hands Box 1854

[UnitWithTheUrgent]

Address: 56 Pine St. at Ridgewood Ave.

Fire on the first floor laundromat in a 3 story 20x60 mixed occupancy

Phone Alarm - Reporting a fire on the 3rd floor at 56 Pine St. - 11:55

BD to B-39: Also receiving the laundromat at 409 Ridgewood - 11:56

E-236: We're passing that box, looks like the laundromat, we'll get back to you - 11:59

E-236: Transmit the 10-75 - 11:59

TL-135 FAST

B-39: All Hands (E-286 & L-176) - Fire on the first floor - 2 L/S, 1 L/O - 12:07

B-39: Extra E&T (E-214 act. 332 & L-103) - 12:09

D-15: 2 L/S, 1 precautionary line stretched to the roof, DWH - 12:29

D-15: 3 L/S/O, DWH - 12:38

D-15: Under Control - 13:16

Duration: 1 Hour & 22 Min.

Maybe:
E-236, 332, 293, 225, 286, 214 (act. 332) s/c
L-175, 107, 135F, 176, 103 s/c
B-39, 44
R-2
SQ-252
D-15
RAC-4

Relocations:
E-214 to E-332
E-218 to E-236
L-153 to L-107
L-113 to L-103

 

[Signal73]

 

[AuxWarYearsCapt]

Address: 56 Pine St. at Ridgewood Ave.

Fire on the first floor laundromat in a 3 story 20x60 mixed occupancy

Phone Alarm - Reporting a fire on the 3rd floor at 56 Pine St. - 11:55

BD to B-39: Also receiving the laundromat at 409 Ridgewood - 11:56

E-236: We're passing that box, looks like the laundromat, well get back to you - 11:59

E-236: Transmit the 10-75 - 11:59

TL-135 FAST

B-39: All Hands (E-286 & L-176) - Fire on the first floor - 2 L/S, 1 L/O - 12:07

B-39: Extra E&T (E-214 act. 332 & L-103) - 12:09

Maybe:
E-236, 332, 293, 225, 286, 214 (act. 332) s/c
L-175, 107, 135F, 176, 103 s/c
B-39, 44
R-2
SQ-252
D-15
RAC-4

E.N.Y. BROOKLYN. 332 2nd due. 175 1st due

 

[flushingboy]

A few photos of the scene at: https://www.firstonscenephotos.com/FDNY/Brooklyn/092924-Cypress-Hills-All-Hands

 

[Lebby]

A few photos of the scene at: https://www.firstonscenephotos.com/FDNY/Brooklyn/092924-Cypress-Hills-All-Hands

Great shots

 

[ta176]

What is with all the front pieces bent up? Do they come from the Quartermaster that way or is there a technique to make it that way. Some guys used to throw the helmet in the oven to get a seasoned look. The best way during the war years to piss somebody off was to scrub their helmet clean. I know my Capts. didn't like us doing it, especially to his.

 

[Zombie0507]

What is with all the front pieces bent up? Do they come from the Quartermaster that way or is there a technique to make it that way. Some guys used to throw the helmet in the oven to get a seasoned look. The best way during the war years to piss somebody off was to scrub their helmet clean. I know my Capts. didn't like us doing it, especially to his.

Bent up? I'm a little bit younger so I probably just never heard it in that way

 

[twoteamtease]

What is with all the front pieces bent up? Do they come from the Quartermaster that way or is there a technique to make it that way. Some guys used to throw the helmet in the oven to get a seasoned look. The best way during the war years to piss somebody off was to scrub their helmet clean. I know my Capts. didn't like us doing it, especially to his.

Do you mean the paper ones with marker? Those are covering officers.

 

[bf231]

Covering officers write the company numbers with magic marker on white paper, medical tape or sometimes the white insert for that particular company is around especially if they’ll be UFO for a bit.

Medical tape works well because it stays sticking to front piece even if it gets wet. And it can also be peeled off and left on the apparatus door for the next guy to use.
The paper usually disappears when it gets wet

 

[GeoC]

Covering officers write the company numbers with magic marker on white paper, medical tape or sometimes the white insert for that particular company is around especially if they’ll be UFO for a bit.

Medical tape works well because it stays sticking to front piece even if it gets wet. And it can also be peeled off and left on the apparatus door for the next guy to use.
The paper usually disappears when it gets wet

Ha I remember when the Job sent an Officer front piece to every company for Covering Officers use. The problem was the Officer would either forget to leave it or just took it home as a souvenir, 😀.

 

[ta176]

Look at Lebby's 2nd set of photos, pic # 11, 26, 33, 37, 39 & 43 and you'll see what I mean. Of course I don't mean the paper officers co. #.

 

[manlt]

Front pieces aren't the same quality as years ago. More pleather than leather!

 

[68jk09]

When I was an assigned LT & CPT I used to make up several for Covering Officers in my Unit to use....I would take a white plastic Quart Motor Oil container & trace an Insert size panel ...cut it out wipe it & degrease it.....put the Company Number on it with Magic Marker....a half dozen of them in the glove compartment lasted quite awhile & cost nothing so if lost no big deal.....the worst way for a Covering Officer to make a bad impression is to report in to the Command Post / IC without a Helmet ID showing where he is working the tour.

 

[bf231]

Ta176 if you mean the guy from 176 front piece it looks like he might be missing screws which fasten the bottom of front piece to the helmet. The rubber strap is holding the bottom. The top of the front piece goes under the cutout on the front piece holder and that gets a screw through the top of the front piece into a metal fitting. When they first made everyone get the giant morning pride helmet almost everyone’s front piece didn’t reach into the cut out of the holder. So the top of the front piece was floating in mid air. Got caught on everything and lot of guys front pieces were ripped off helmet if something hit it just right or you happened to grab the helmet by the front piece. Then quartermaster retrofitted the front piece holder with one that could get a screw into it from the front of the front piece holder.
The newer front piece holder is larger to reach the cutout of the holder.

So maybe the top of the in the pictures got kind of bent up from dropping the helmet or something falling on it?

Like someone wrote above the front piece holder and front pieces themselves seem to be very cheaply made. Not durable.

Recently they started beefing up the thickness and quality of the eye shields on the helmets. They were so thin that it seemed everyone had one or both of the eye shields broken. And if they didn’t crack the springs were terrible and they’d “droop” down. Real garbage.

 

[RCL]

Looked like a lot of trucks were in spares. 107,175 and 176 were all spares.