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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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