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    2/23/23 Bronx All Hands Box 2528

    http://maps.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/ 5 floors, per official City records. That area painted red is the "ground floor" accessible directly from the street. It is not considered a "story".official
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    2/23/23 Bronx All Hands Box 2528

    5 story walk up.
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    2/17/2023 Bronx All Hands Box 4785

    Right UR Atlas. The first alarm assignment years ago would have been E43 75 42 33 27 That was when L27 went 2nd due from the Harlem River to the west and east to the Bronx River, long before they had a second section.
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    2/12/23 Bronx All Hands Box 3387

    "5 floor multi-family walk-up building"
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    2/10/23 Bronx 10-75 Box 2958

    42 was out i guess...
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    2/9/23 Bronx 5th Alarm Box 2962

    Other relatively nearby units never made the initial run down for the 5 alarms, i.e., Es 81, 79, 48, 88. Out elsewhere or bumped by incoming relocators?
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    2/10/23 Bronx 10-75 Box 2958

    E42 would be 1st due along with L27.
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    2/5/23 Bronx 10-75 Box 2374

    The block on which General Colin Powell grew up. “Banana Kelly”as he called it in his autobiography.
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    FDNY LT BENJAMIN PARCELL L 121 LODD 1/28/1941

    There was no mandatory retirement age until about 1956. I recall a good friend of the family, LT John Gillen, E48, being forced to retire when the rule went into effect. I believe he was already past 70 years if age.
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    1/30/23 Bronx 10-75 Box 3769

    "Bar on the first floor...Paulines back in the day". Now that's how a proper size up should point out the important things...
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    1/29/23 Bronx All Hands Box 3355

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    1/29/23 Bronx All Hands Box 3355

    5 story walkup...up the entrance stairs to the first floor (story)...4 floors above that. The apartments accessed directly from the street level are not "storeys", they are the ground floor...per nycitymap.com.
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    FDNY Runs and Workers

    1978 was also the year the NYC welfare laws were revised. Recipients no longer went to the head of the line for public housing when they burn their apartments out. Runs across the entire FDNY droped markedly from '78 to '79. Ya think the genius pols could have figured out this cause and effect...
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    New FDNY Tillers

    This is a most interesting conversation. You guys are up on everything. I have nothing to add... but of course I will say something... In my day everything was a tiller, but they were a h*** of a lot lighter than those that are manufactured today. I can see where the Walker FHs in particular...
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    1/11/2023 Bronx All Hands Box 3505

    Now that is definitely catty corner...
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    FDNY FF LEO HACKBARTH L 32 LODD 1/11/1911

    At the time L32 was quartered with E50 in their former firehouse.
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    1/11/2023 Bronx All Hands Box 3505

    Now there's a good old phrase of description... wonder how many know what it means in today's world of encryption.
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    LA fire Captain makes $500000 in overtime

    As a retired officer of the US Army I never had one sniff of one hour of overtime pay. 24/7 baby, “for the flag” as we said. I guess I must congratulate you all, you guys have a lot better union then we soldiers have ever had.
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    12/31/2022 All Hands Bronx Box 3390

    Box 3390, Jerome Ave @ 196th St. 79 75 48 81 88 37 33 56 46 BN 27
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