^^^^^ I would think the "Maxi Water" logo was dropped as it originally was part of a system no longer in place & they are just individual Satellites now.... also the money spent on the hot potato pumper that is laying around would have been better spent if the money went toward providing...
It certainly would have been simpler to make the new FH Units on Lincoln Ave 332 / 175 & leave the 225/107 Identity as they were in their existing FHs back in 1970....I do not know any specific reason for the ID switch but around 1960 when the new FH on Lincoln & Linden was planned with 225/107...
In the above picture the LT on the right is Jim Leddy FF & LT R*1 & later he was one of my CPTs that I drove in 108....he later transferred to 306 then became part of the UFOA Executive Board until his Retirement ....he had related the impalement story to us .....R*1s part in the operating room...
Ed Tuite was killed while working in R*1 when he fell thru a roof being cut at a job as he stepped on a shaft covering https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193879421/edward-j_-tuite ....it happened on 10-17-70....it was during the Annual FDNY Memorial Service .....( after the six LODDs on 23...
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^^^^^^^ The Loftus Suction Collectorwas designed by Chief Peter Loftus who was a former COD in the FDNY ( a Relative of Joe & Mike Loftus)....it was primarily a WW2/post WW2 appliance which could be used if there was an attack on US soil that crippled the water mains....as in the...
Civil Defense Pumper being used as a Spare on a Harlem Sunday morning.... note Wooden Scaling Ladder on top & the Loftus Suction Collector mounted on the running board....all CD Pumpers carried the Collector.... (photo by Paul Thayer provided by RET FF Mike Higham) ...
RET EMS DC RICHARD J. CHATTERTON DV*7 ... WTC RELATED..... On 3-1-22 at 59 yrs of age.....REST IN PEACE BROTHER....PRAYERS FOR THE COMFORT OF THE FAMILIES...
http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/insider/resources/do/2022/024_2022_eoe.pdf
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