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It's also mentioned in the Sept. 1972 Fire Bell Club Newsletter.

Note how today's "busy" units were not so busy that they would interchange with the "busier"  units of 1972. For example Bronx Engines 38, 43, 62, 68, 75, 79 & 90; Ladders 37, 39, 46 and 49; also Brooklyn E255 which is almost at the top today was interchanging with E283.

Looking through my Collyer's Mansion (lol) I found an old chart with an interchange of companies schedule dated Sept. of 1972. The "BUSY" company is on the left and the reliever on the right. Note: there was a stipulation that: "When an interchange takes place and the unit in Column II (right)...

  N.Y. Mets shortstop Jose Reyes and team triner Ray Ramirez were rear-ended Monday afternoon by a firetruck on the RFK Triboro bridge. Does anybody know if it was FDNY and what unit?  ???  http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090623&content_id=5485138&vkey=news_nym&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym

Box  470 address:    328  East  14th  St between:    1st  Ave  &  2nd  Ave. 470  @  06:01 Engs.  5,  33,  14 Lad.  3,  TLad.  9 Batt.  6 10 ? 75 ? 470  @  06:05 Ladder  11    is  designated  as  the  ?FAST?  Truck Eng.  28 Rescue Co. #1 Squad  Co.  #18 Batt.  4...

    Yes, and the ladder company apparatus on Staten Island were older and in some cases only City Service ladder trucks. For instance in 1946 Ladders 76, 81, 82 & 84 ran with 1926 Pierce Arrow 50 ft. city service trucks (no aerial). L77 had a 1914 ALF 65 ft. aerial pulled by a 1930 FWD tractor...

   This card for Staten Island Box 31 is the oldest card I have in my collection. In 1934 the only way into Staten Island was via Staten Island Ferry, Holland Tunnel (1927) and the Bayonne Bridge (1929). There were a few double engine companies [5, 7, 13, 18, 26, 30, 31, & 33] in Manhattan that...

  Here are a couple of Harlem alarm box cards for the same box numbers from different years. In the older cards L26 had a 2nd section from 1957 to late 1959 then in the new cards E41, E50, E88, E91, L17, L26 & L27 all had 2nd sections. 

  Give thanks to my basement office/studio/Collyer's Mansion ;)

  Searching through my old papers I found a handwritten rundown for Brooklyn box 1231.

  I don't have any Staten Island assignment cards for the New Dorp or Dongan Hills areas but I just read a report that states that box 2047 at Lincoln Avenue & Baden Pl. was struck for this job. That would've put E165 & L85 (which were just organized on 6/18/1960), followed by E159, E161 & L81...

  The box for the Constellation fire was #308 at Kent Ave. & Clymer with a 1st alarm response of E211, 221, 209, L119 & L104. After the 5th a 2nd Alarm Boro Call was sounded for Manhattan box 277 (Clinton & Delancey Sts.) to respond to Bklyn box 308 followed later on with a 5th Alarm Boro Call...

  I looked up the incident in the Winter 1961 (1st) issue of WNYF magazine. It states that the box number was 1231 at Flatbush & 8th Ave. with a 1st alarm assignment of E269, 280, 219, L105 & 132 and BC48. Today's assignment is Sq1 [only assigned because they're 1st due], E219 [new firehouse...

Box  1318 2080  1st  Ave.  &  E. 108th  St. 1318  @  21:56 Engs.  91,  53,  58 Lad.  43,  Lad.  26 Batt.  12 10 ? 77 ? 1318  @  22:00 T. Lad.  14,    T. Lad.  13 TowerLadder  22  is  designated  as  the  ?FAST?  Truck Eng.  35 Eng.  59  C.F.R.D. Eng.  50  High  Rise ...

Box  4672 address:  1954  Unionport  Rd.  x  Sagamore  St. 4672  @  10:54 Eng.  90,  Sqd. Co. #61,  Eng.  45 T. Lad.  41,  T. Lad.  58 Batt.  18 10 ? 75 ? 4672  @  10:58 Ladder  38  is  designated  as  the  ?FAST?  Truck Engs.  88,  97 Rescue Co. #3 Squad Co. #41  assigned...

Box  1426 address:  2375  1st  Ave @ E. 120th  St. 1426  @  23:51 Engs.  91,  53,  58 T. Lad.  14,  Lad.  43 Batt.  12 10 ? 77 ? 1426  @  23:55 Eng.  59 Lad.  26,  Lad.  30 Lad.  40  designated  ?FAST? Truck Eng.  35  C.F.R.D. Eng.  93  ?High Rise Nozzle Co ? Eng.  39 ...

That firehouse is now a museum known as "El Museo del Barrio" ;)

Box  5037 address:  105 ? 17  177th  St. @ 105th  Ave. 5037  @  10:18 Engs.  275,  298,  317 Lad.  133,  T. Lad.  127 Batt.  50 10 ? 75 ? 5037  @  10:22 Ladder  150  is  designated  as  the  ?FAST?  Truck Eng.  303 Rescue Co. #4 Squad  Co.  #270 Batt.  54 Division  13...

Box  1695 address: 635 W. 165th St. &  Broadway             Columbia  Presbyterian  Hospital 1695  @  08:30 Engs.  67,  84,  93 Lad.  34,  TL 45 Batt.  13 10 ? 75 ? 1695  @  08:55 Ladder  28  is  designated  as  the  ?FAST?  Truck Eng.  69 Rescue Co. #3 Squad  Co.  #41...

Box  6314 address:  45 ? 05  Francis  Lewis  Blvd. between:  45th  Rd. to  45th  Ave. 5 ? 6314 ? 320  @  12:14 Eng.  320  on  an  investigation Box  Transmitted  @  12:16  on  phone calls Engs.  306,  299 Lad.  167,  T. Lad.  160 Batt.  53 ?Eng.  320  to  Queens, ...