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    PILOT PROGRAM FOR FDNY EMS AS FIRST IN FOR EDPs.

    Just play the Star Spangled Banner instead of the siren blasting. They will take a knee and the problem is solved.
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    A LOOK BACK.

    That was discretionary response box. The assigned Chief did not have to respond. It was up to his discretion. The Battalion was supposed to monitor the radio.
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    100 YR BIRTHDAY DRIVE BY FOR RET FDNY LT / ARMY VETERAN.

    Congratulations to Wilbur. He always attended Engine 217's old timers nights until 2 years ago. He had transferred out of there in the early sixties.
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    Runs/workers 1964-1976

    Ira and I talked FDNY during gym on the roof of Brooklyn Tech. High School.
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    5/11/2021 Brooklyn All Hands 10-77 Box 1611

    A Chief's worst nightmare. A truck doing B.I. on the engine and the first due truck arriving on the scene staffed by the engine.
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    Temporary Relocations

    Their EMS runs should drop substantially or possibly to zero if they have no first due boxes.
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    2/27/21 Queens 10-75 Box 7034

    Mini truckless triangle?
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    2/22/21 Brooklyn 10-75 Box 1078

    Are you showing your age? Was the 57 even in existence and was the 38 still on Bergen St.?
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    Why were Engine's 264 and 328 combined?

    One of the reasons for so many double companies 100 or more years ago was the fact that a unit was out of service from the time of the alarm until they returned to quarters. There were no radios to redirect units or to direct them to another alarm so they were out of service for longer periods...
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    2/16/21 Brooklyn 10-75 Box 0813

    The beer box, Knickerbocker and Schaefer.
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    2/14/21 Queens 5th Alarm Box 9623

    Possibly with Sq. 270
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    Favorite Fire House

    The new fire houses may not look very nice but they all include a work of art, a tradition started to keep starving artists working. The new "house of pain" has sheetrock buckets around the floors to contain all of the building leaks. Only NYC would allow a new to building to leak in that manner.
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    Both sections of Engine 217 each raised scaling ladders to remove occupants of a corner building on Throop Avenue. It was a second floor fire but that was the only ladder on the apparatus at the time.
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    Do most companies get along with each other

    There was a certain Brooklyn house that appropriated the clocks of units that they relocated to. You could ask for “East New York time”,”Bed Stuy time” and down to “Bensonhurst or Coney Island time” They would give you the appropriate time from the appropriated clock from that neighborhood.
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    If I recall correctly, E 218 was in the 60 Batt. and paperwork was forwarded through the 60 Batt. for endorsement. E 218 did however, do their OT with the 28 Batt.
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    12/20/2020 Brooklyn All Hands Box 1992

    A name from the past. Harry Coughlin, my Captain in E. 277. Two n two Harry as an acting Batt. Chief and I'm probably right that he was the same as a Chief in the 44. He didn't want to see the Deputy. It didn't matter whether one or two or more floors of fire, using two and two.
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    12/5/20 Manhattan 6th Alarm Box 437

    Ladder 8's quarters was twice the size with two apparatus doors. Half the house was demolished when Varick St. was widened.
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    12/5/20 Brooklyn 10-75 Box 547

    E 203 would have been right behind E204.
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    12/3/20 Queens 10-75 Box 4037

    Squad 252 has first due engine boxes at the end of Irving and Wycoff Aves.
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    11/7/20 Manhattan 10-75 Box 461

    I was never a student but I always thought that if less than half the height of the floor was under the ground line it was called a basement but if greater than one half the height of the story was under the ground level, it is called a cellar. We have quite a few students on the site so I'm...
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