Another caution on brick walls whether real or veneer is.... NEVER allow your Aerial to "slam down" on a roof edge when laddering a roof...this can & has caused the wall to pull away showering the street below.......another caution also although not real brick related but decorative is being...
"IRON FIREMAN" emblem on ebay
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The Iron Fireman was the name of a unit that could be retrofitted to a home coal furnace.....It eliminated constantly having to shovel coal.....the Unit was about the size of a large...
NYC has money to throw around when they want...... the FDNY should not have to deal with refurbished equipment IF they were to be assigned a full time Vac Truck it should be a new one....actually the present system may be sufficient having the Utility provide it ?
In the FDNY Rig Radios came about in the 1950s & Units could be In Service via radio after Taking Up from a Box however part of the Responding back to Qtrs eliminated time wasted sitting in traffic & allowed for more time at Qtrs for food...drill...etc. ....of course even though lights & sirens...
Years ago Units returning to Qtrs would Respond back lights & sirens.... this was still done when I got OTJ in 1968 & for several years after continued with most Old School Officers & Chauffers.....the wording in The
Regs was "returning to an unmanned FH"....later after The Job more or less...
When I went to Chauf. School March 1972 we trained with two Tillers .... both 1947 WLF Tractors with 1938 Seagrave Aerials.....these were the Rigs we drove around on primarily practicing Downshifting & Double Clutching...when other later model Aerials came to The Rock (Welfare Island) for day...
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