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We were outside the firehouse and the Brooklyn Trustee stopped by. He said that it looked like it would be a long one and that the members assigned the 6x9 tour go home for rest and report at 6PM for strike duty. I was laying down and my wife came into the room to tell me that the strike was...

We had a slime green 1981 Mack through the 80's until the city painted it blue and white for Corrections.

An off duty member of Engine 277 shot a photo of a cat leaping off a fire escape of a building off Broadway in Brooklyn. This was around 1970. Engine 233 was advancing a line up the fire escape and the photo was featured on the back of the Saturday Evening Post.

It used to be that 264 went left first due and 328 right. The exception was the few boxes that come in on the real south end of Rosedale which require a right out of quarters and 264 responded fourth due to them.

Chief, that was a great answer.

Add Engine 267 to Ladder 121 and the 47 Batt.

I responded to a fifth alarm at Myrtle and Nostrand in the early seventies. It was a fully involved 4 or 5 story factory spreading into the rear exposures. We had several stangs and multiversals in operation, which was a waste of time. The supertender pulled up, and supplied by the superpumper...

Our house was 2nd due on the Verrazano Bridge box so many mornings in the Spring and Fall the box would come in early on the day tour and the section up front would be off to Staten Island. I went probably 20 or 30 times with the second section and never saw any real brush work but it was funny...

A 15/16" tip with the proper pressure will put out closer to 200 GPM than 120 GPM.

Engine 331 and Ladder 173 had the WLF and FWD rigs and if I can remember, they had them at the same time.

When I was in 217-2 we had no district and went to the companies that were most behind in their inspections in the division. In some cases it was basically like being out of service for a few hours.

Engine 277 used to be before 319. They may be going back to the eighties when 286, 291, and 319 ran 1st, 2nd, and 3rd due on all Wycoff Avenue boxes from Putman Ave down to Cooper Ave.

Gene Conley played Boston baseball and basketball in the fifties.

That  was the purpose of the "Buckeye" exhaust high pitched whistle. I had a lieutenant who would chastise the junior man if he didn't ring the bell in the rhythm that he wanted. It had to be steady on our return to quarters. They were getting out of the practice of washing the tires to remove...

While we are on ice cream, Do you remember Mello Rolls?

Andre Rieu plays a song called The Carnival of Venice Medley and the music to that song pops up in the middle.

Downtown and midtown Manhattan used to have a 4 engine response but not every unit had a hose wagon. The Fire Patrol also responded with a unit in those areas so there was almost as much apparatus responding to initial alarms.

The 51 Batt. administrative area goes down to the corner of Wycoff and Jefferson Avenues. There should be no excuse for that.

The late 40s Ward LaFrance pumpers only had two discharges although they were 750 GPM. The deck pipe discharge was used out of necessity.

The Mack R model in the airport was originally Engine 277's rig. It went elsewhere in 1972 when it was replaced by a CF model Mack.