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The thing that I remember was that beside raising the hose, we used the tower to lower the 55 gallon clean oil drums into the basement and worse than that was lifting the same drums filled with the waste oil back up to the apparatus floor.

A firehouse normally received possibly a quarter of the boro's boxes. This included a surrounding boro's border boxes if units from the area were assigned to respond to the other boro. Houses in Bushwick, Wwilliamsburg and Bedford Styvesant would receive Queens boxes in Ridgewood and Glendale...

One of the old journals from Engine 277 has an entry by an officer who was hooking up one of the firemen who said the word "DAMN". An entry by the same officer later in the day noted that he was dropping the charges because the firemen said he was sorry. A lot of the entries were for chauffeurs...

There was no acknowledgement if you received the alarm twice, either by the bells primary and secondary circuits or by the phone, followed by the bells. If the company received the alarm only once, they acknowledged with their unit number, preceded by their designation, unless it was an engine...

I used to deliver the morning papers in the late fifties and this area was part of my route. Collection day at the end of the week was the greatest for a growing boy. The stewardesses slept crazy hours and would sometimes answer the bell in various states of dress. The Salty Dog might have had...

What is the likelihood of Eng. 26 getting in first due to over half of their first due district on a weekday 9x6 tour?

Ladders 126 & 127 spent time with Sq. 270. Eng. 277 spent nights on Himrod St. in the 70s, 1/2 in with Eng. 271 and 1/2 with Lad 124. Both Eng. 277 & Lad 112 spent a few years with Eng. 222 and the 37 Batt.

There are accidents sometimes with the car's tail light lens getting in the way of the hydrant connection. It might cost a hundred or two to replace.

Eng. 230 should be in the mix.

Engines in the 53 Batt. do explosive escort duty. They might have been doing that.

Most pictures of old apparatus show a spare tire on the side running board. The members would change the tire. I don't remember that but I remember the job of the MPO included tightening the lug nuts weekly. (On Sundays, if I remember correctly)

I remember calling the dispatcher to place the Division on a box. I thought that a Deputy didn’t have to respond until a an all hands fire was doubtful will hold.

Dr. Maloney had the office in the medical office with the longest line outside. His brother John and I were probys together and he went to L 112 out of school. RIP

Many or most of the 2nd sections were back and front. The only time it slowed things down was the first run after 9 AM every morning when the rear section was now responding alone or due before the front section on the box.

Engine 277 had Ladder 732 prior to Ladder 112.

That used to be a Ladder 112 box.

There were times when the apparatus remained in quarters but now a mechanic picks it up and and the rig undergoes inspection, oil change, and minor repairs. We used to do some training at the academy while the rig was being worked on.

They had covering relief officers. The four regular officers covered their unit 24 of the 25 days and night tours. A covering relief officer was assigned to the unit for 1 day and one night tour every 25 days. The job worked the groups out so that most of these relief officers worked in the same...

Just to take the lack of personnel for positions a step further, I remember a story from my father about being detailed to an engine in the mid forties. The was no true retirement age then and he was on the back step with one other fireman who he had to hold onto because the other man suffered...

Not the same subject but close. My uncle was in a truck during the mid fifties and knew that I had an interest in the FDNY. He told me more than once that I should have been in the firehouse the other night. The bell was under the ladder, rung by a member riding the side. That particular tour...