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https://www.northcharleston.org/wp-content/uploads/Firefighter-EMT-1.pdf

70’s and 80’s there were frequent gunshots and victims brought to the firehouse at 75/33 (Jerome and 183)

That prompts a great question. Does starfire or the dispatchers in the CO’s have a list of houses that a tiller cannot be relocated to because it won’t fit?

Buildings under construction can be very difficult to fight fire in, poor water supply, incompleted standpipes, poor and often dangerous access to the fire floor/area, open air exposure (wind and unlimited supply of air, hazardous materials ( ex. Welding tanks, lumber yards holding up last...

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/polkcounty/polk-county-fire-rescue-paramedic-dies/67-09d60bdd-39c1-47ca-b87a-3e993f7ee95b

Working fire at 800 Chestnut Ridge Rd. Fire in a 1 sty commercial. Nanuet, Pearl River, South Spring Valley, Monsey, Spring Valley and Tallman departments on scene

As of 0630 hours today Baltimore city Fire is still working to control a 3rd alarm job on S Hanover street by Patapasco Ave. 5 buildings on fire 4 of which are vacants. Partial collapses. No members hurt.

Yes you are correct. I always said each new chief has to piss on the hydrant (change something like a patch, logo, or apparatus design) to mark their territory lol

Hmmmm

Nice post and tribute Mack. May God continue to watch over his family I remember the the 5-5-5-5 going out on that one. Tragic. It was a horrible year for 17 Truck. 4 Months later would lose Fr Williams and Fr Linnenball who died together when the ground ladder they were manipulating came...

Yes Willy, good stuff. For the saw slings we used to acquire them from the moving companies, the lifting and moving straps they used. Then we would take it to the shoe repair guy who would stitch it into a look on his heavy duty sewing machine. It was a time of innovation and make due - I...

At least they are appearing to want to be proactive for once. Most corporations to date have put their heads in the sand and don’t want to spend the money to harden their data systems. So we see daily attacks and systems like local governments and hospitals held with ransom ware

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With the exception of some of the larger urban departments such as FDNY, Boston( nobody seems to throw ladders like BFD), Chicago, Baltimore, and Los Angeles City, throwing ladders on a building seems to be a lost art and a second thought. There may be several reasons for this: 1) reduction of...

The cocobola nightstick !

Yes most of us used the Garrity light as well. And the old inner tube holder. We used to pick up a few tubes from the local tire shops and keep them in the firehouse for whoever needed them. Over the years more and more tires became tubeless. Then commercial fire equipment companies began...

Great photo Thanks for sharing great memories. Stay safe brother

Thanks for a nice post. I did not know that the 68 CFs had only 250 gallons on rank water. Learn something everyday. Stay safe brother

Great post - Everready 6 volt lantern and Fireball Gloves (from one of my previous posts). Stay safe brother