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    04-10-13 Bronx 2nd Alarm Box 3612

    6-6-2-3612 White Plains Road at Magenta Street. Taxpayer. 62 38 79 63  (or 63 79)    32 51 37 (or 39)FAST.  BN 15 R3. S61 Guessing 97 90 66 48  39 41 BN 27  D7 2 ADDTL trucks.  L56, 38 E60/62, E67/79,  L?/39, L154/66, L50/41 Train traffic stopped on EL. Did not hear the initial...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies

    Ray, Interesting. You are correct about puttees being wrap around leggings. The Doughboys of World War I copied them from the British after their spats wore out in the trenches. Both types are called leggings. My father still had his in a closet drawer when I was a kid and he called them...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies

    Those are not puttees. They are spats, canvas wrap aroundsthat that laced up over their trousers. I have the picture of my dad there in in 1934, the height of the Great Depression. He felt he was the luckiest man alive to have a job, which lasted for 30 years
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    11-30-12 Bronx- 10-75 Box 2942

    At around 1720 hrs fire reported on 17th floor of a 20 story brick multiple dwelling at Crotona Park North btw Crotona Ave and Arthur Ave.  PWH at 1729 hrs. U/C at 1740. Box 2942 transmitted: 46 45 82 88    27 58  31FAST  BN 18 R3 SQ61 DV6 All Hands operating. Didn't get the 10-75...
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    BARB

    I was in a Bronx house kitchen the other day and they mentioned BARB had been implemented a few weeks ago. Also saw reference to it in discussion of Bronx incident on the Concourse and XBX EXPWY. Were hte suggested changes to BARB included? Is it Citywide? Maybe I missed a discussion of all...
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    FDNY Chief Officer Cars and Vehicles

    "C" Model it is, ray. My mistake. I believe I saw the Hempstead Ahrens at a muster at Kings Point about 20 years ago. My personal belief is that this model was the first of the truly modern pumpers. Its design concept and many of its features remain standard today.
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    FDNY Chief Officer Cars and Vehicles

    G-Man, as always, is correct. Some of the late 1930's Ahrens Fox distinctive pumpers hung around until replaced by the 58-59 CF Mack's. After 1956, however, they were no longer front line pieces,  mostly used as hose wagons or other second (reserve) pieces. A little known fact: The design for...
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    FDNY Chief Officer Cars and Vehicles

    Chief Hugh Halligan, 7th Division, had one of these ('52 Chevy) back when the 7th covered most of the borough.  Back in the mid fifties, a rig similar to this one was parked outside 48 Engine (original quarters) as  my father and I walked by. I had never seen this model of chiefs car. None of...
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    Fabulous Firehouses become Homes and Businesses

    The figures for 1948/49 indicate it was a dry year. Bronx E's 96, 64 and 89 are all in the top 25 in Workers, an anomaly. Means there  were lots of brush fires in what was then mostly park and farmland in the east Bronx. I would guess the same for E159 that year.
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies

    As a runner for Power Memorial Academy in the 1960's, we used to practice on the track at 72d St and the Hudson River. To get there we would jog up 10th (Amsterdam Ave) past E40/35. I remember the Autumn of 1961, when 40/35 occupied an old wood frame building adjacent to where their new...
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    A LOOK BACK.

    Thanks to all.
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    A LOOK BACK.

    68jk...great story on the B17...is there a picture or did I miss it somewhere?
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    Pelham Gardens tanker fire?

    I heard on the radio that Pelham Pkwy was shut down vicinity of Boston Rd this morn. Also another traffic report about a tanker fire in Pelham Manor. Were these the same incident?
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    08-05-11 Bronx- 2nd Alarm Box 3579

    2d alarm just transmitted for Box 3579, 3504 Rochmambeau Ave off Gun Hill Rd. 10-75 by E62, fire out the top floor windows of a 6 story MD. 62 79 81 63  37 46 39FAST    B15 L32 received ticket to The Rock about 15 minutes before. (G-man strikes again!) xtra e/t  E38 L51 Bn 27 came 10-8...
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    Bronx 4th alarm Box 2560

    4th going on east 167th St btw Franklin Ave and Boston Rd along with an All Hands brush at Orchard Beach. Bronx in Fallback Step 2 at aprox 1300hrs.
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    All Hands Box 3517

    All Hands transmitted for Box 3515, Valentine Ave at 199 ST. Fire in the top floor of 6 story MD at 246 E 199 ST, btw Valentine and Briggs Aves. 2l/s, 1i/o. UC in 26 mins. 79 48 75 (4th? 88,62,81?)  37 56 33FAST Bn 27 R3 S61 Building in located across the street and about 150 feet south of...
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    FDNY Foam Coordinators - Father Of

    Thanks for a great story about Bubbles, Chief.
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    Engine 63 Ladder 39

    63's old house, a single bay built around 1909,  still stands on White Plains Rd at 229th St and is used as an EMS station. It was vacant for years. The new quarters on 233d St was built to house both 63 and L39 but the citizens of Woodlawn blew a gasket that their truck company was being moved...
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    Rescue 3

    Box 3127, Third Avenue at 179 St, came in last night for a transformer fire at the Co-Ed station. BN 19 was advised that R3 is 1st due. Apparently no one has told STARFIRE that R3 doesn't live there anymore.
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    E58/L26

    Thanks for the backup G-Man. Some things to notice on this run card of 1955: The first alarm response was actually a 2 and 2, as E96 was then a Quad. It rolled in as both an engine and a truck. The battalion chief could special call E61 for an All Hands or just go to the 2d alarm and get a 4...
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