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And add AC Rich Sacamanno to the list of notables. RIP Chief. And of course our own Johnny Gage.

If you say...same source.

Their employers? Would that be, uh...the taxpayers?

I posted this back in December 2022 in a thread about House watch areas: The separation of companies within a firehouse derives from the military Principle of War, "Unity of Command". Most of the original units of the Metropolitan FD and the FDNY inherited the quarters of the former volunteer...

The circuits were all rerouted to the BXCO office when it was built in the 1920s on Bronx Park South.To my understanding from Herb E., anything remaining up on the 3d floor was ripped out years ago.

The building still stands. The communications office was gutted years and years ago, per Herb Eysser. Has had many lives since the original E46 moved out almost 50 years ago i.e., L58 quarters, BX Borough command office, R3 quarters, BX communications equipment storage...

Happy BD Dan! I look forward to seeing you again.

I stand corrected. Box 3421, listed as Waring Avenue at Ollinville Ave, had 90 62 88 97 48 41 32 38 56 88/38 were 2d due at Box 4801, Barker Ave at Thwaites Place. BARB took a lot of boxes away from 88/38 due to congestion and limited access out along Pelham Pkwy.

http://maps.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/

Used to be 90 88 62 97 41 38 32 Other boxes out at the time?

The Bronx site has the map function also. Black dots indicate that a photo is available for a specific location. And as you said, sometimes it is incorrect.

Are there plans afoot to sabotage all of Castle Hill Avenue one box at a time, in sequence?

Yes I have used that site extensively, bf232. All my guys from the neighborhood love to go back and peek at our humble beginnings. I also used it to find the building that acted as interim quarters for E40/L35 on Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan. It was during the construction of what is now...

A long tradition of keeping the house in mint condition. Goes back over a century to its organization. AKA "a West Point house". L38 once cited as the best run unit in the FDNY. E88 in 1974, a peak of the War Years, led the entire FDNY in runs. Both companies ranked among the top 10 in runs and...

The original box number, 3510, Webster Avenue at Oliver Pl., was correct as the fire building is north of 198th St. The assignment there is now 79 48 88. 37 56 38. On the afternoon of Friday, November 22, 1963 I returned home from my high school, Power Memorial Academy, in shock at the news...

I only see a "maybe" vs the "normal"... actual?

So who actually responded?

Joe Higgins was also President of the Fire Bell Club of New York for almost 20 years. He buffed 75/33 all the way back to the War Years. It was said he influenced where the Animal House responded to jack up their R/Ws numbers, a charge he refuted to me over lunch one day. I believed him. He...

On a straight assignment card L38 would have been 2nd due on the 2nd alarm but they don't show up anywhere on these rundowns. Ladder companies moving all over the city's chess board but L38 sat in quarters a little over a mile away from the incident? Just curious. Great discussions on alarm...

Your question is valid and it is why I raised this issue to begin with. It makes a difference when an officer is making a size up. If the officer says “fire on the first floor”, that would indicate hoseline stretch up an interior stairwell of the building. Ground floor apartments are...