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This might be helpful to the member who started the thread asking about a 10-77 and a squad assignment. This is a recent rundown from a Manhattan fire on 6/14/22, Note Squad 18 was assigned. Similar 10-77 boxes and 10-75 boxes can be found in the Incident Sections to see squad assignments...

Sorry this thread got off track - it is about FDNY squads and hi-rise response signals. I believe the original question requests an explanation of hi-rise building fire assignments.

The high-pressure systems lasted well into the 1970s. CI's hi pressure system would be turned on at the Brooklyn Dispatcher discretion or by request of units if not already turned on. I think it was late 1970s when the hi pressure systems were shut down for good...

From late 1960-early 1970s FDNY squads were the busiest companies in the department. They were assigned as manpower units to all boxes in a geographical area within their division.

1940s WWII era manpower squad - signal: 9-box-sq unit number

Note 1950s assignment card for Manhattan box. Squad 1 was assigned on 1st alarm when box was transmitted. Rescue 3 was assigned on 2nd alarm. Squads were initially manpower units when originally organized. They were not SOC units and responded at first, in modified hose wagons, then small...

Telegraph alarm signals (bells and alarm boxes) - I believe this was pre-squad days (see water tower, airport crash, bridge chemical units, etc).