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This is a fun discussion and I'm not doubting anybody here. In the famous words of Pope John Paul II, "WTF?" BARB and DCAS and all the other computer systems were supposed to make life easier and more accurate. BUT!... How about the old methods of the Alarm Assignment Division. It had street...

Memorial Day seems to be difficult for Americans to address. It is at once the sad rememberance of such great sacrifice. (I count perhaps 50 soldiers lost in RVN in my memory.) On the other hand Memorial Day is that first touch of summer that lifts the always optimistic American spirit. And...

According to the run card posted L27 is first due and E46 second due ahead of E75. Is it possible that sometimes the computer assigns units according to where the address plots rather than the street intersection of the box number?

Buffalo?... Let me get this straight...Buffalo?...and you are criticising Bridgeport?

1938...And you live where?

Driving home through Fairfield Connecticut early yesterday afternoon I suddenly was hit with an odor of gas in my car. At first I thought it was something wrong with the vehicle but the smell continued until I got home. At that point I heard sirens as just about all BFD companies were zipping...

Wouldn't it make more sense to send 81 to 68 and 48 to 42? I guess timing is everything.

82?

No matter your preference, THAT is a fire engine. Can't help but think of my old man as the tiller man in Harlem H&L14 back before world war II... No cover, straight up steering wheel, no windshield, and his butt bigger than the tiny seat. But he did say he enjoyed looking in the second floor...

Good info but could you please translate for us dummies?

G-Man Rule.

G-Man Rules again.

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Why Marine 6 for a pond?

How about rainbow?

Entro, you must have missed this... "Reinforcements were now needed at Box #2941, but nearly all the 1st and 2d Alarm companies normally assigned to this location were working elsewhere. As always, the members of the BXCO were on top of things. They transmitted instead a Dispatchers 3d Alarm...

I appreciate the encouraging thumbs up, likes, and comments that were sent as I posted each installment. My fear was of boring you all but I marched on, good soldier that I am. That I still recall so much of the specifics all these years later shows just how big an effect this event has had on...

To wrap this up…. As is usual for such tragic events, controversy swirled in the aftermath. Did the unpopular Fire Commissioner at the time, Edward F. Cavanaugh, interfere with fire ground operations? Did he order a hose stream directed at a glowing cantilever beam, causing it to snap and drop...

We all know what happened next. The marquee, weakened by the intense flames, crashed to the street, bringing with it most of the front wall. Six firefighters perished, most of them in an instant. I will list their names again. Lt. John F. Molloy E48 Fireman Edward J. Carroll E48 Fireman...

The BXCO’s first order was to special call Engine 82 and H&L 31 to Box #2953, the abandoned building fire (a circumstance those companies would become quite familiar with in the coming years). This incident kept All Hands working for several hours. The size up at Box #2941 was reported by L27...