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Tex left the station rather abruptly. Wasn't it something he said?

The black denim dungaree turnout pants were terrible. Water weakened the sticthing and the crotch opened up after a month or two. The medical was also strange. I think we took it on the West side of lower Manhattan. I'll never forget the hearing test, I thought I heard someone whispering in my...

Chief JK, is that the area that used to be known as Cedar Lane?

It is hard to believe but we actually ran out of six foot hooks in ladder 112 by the end of the next day. We had to go around begging for them from surrounding units.

The man you were talking about was named Larry M. He grew up in the neighborhood and moved in our response area in Ridgewood, Queens. Either of the companies would pick him up after a 7AM run on a Saturday morning as he never drove a car.

Les will be remembered as a good firefighter. He served 20 years + on the back step of Eng. 277 as the surrounding area was burnt down while the city just let it happen.

I remember my father telling me that the two shift system did not return at one time and that certain battalions and divisions worked the two shift system while neighboring ones continued working three shifts.

Engine 1 had a cab forward American LaFrance rig in the mid forties followed by a group of them a year or so later.

Second sections were two separate units, each with a captain, three lieutenants, and about twenty five firemen. They counted as two separate units on a response. Units with two pieces of apparatus were a takeoff on the old pumper and hose wagon. The two pumpers responded with one officer and...

The following site offers many pictures of old buses. gallery.bustalk.info

It used to be that a Rescue was supposed to be assigned to a local box if they were closer than a truck company but as everyone knows, that wasn't always the case.

The Pirsch ladder apparatus were odd in that the owner of this relatively small company felt that spring locks were all that was required to stabilize the rig with the aerial up. He refused to place outriggers on his apparatus so the four city rigs all had a small set of outriggers on each rig...

I have a photo of a 1953 ALF with wooden top with 26 on it. It might have been the second section's rig. I'm not sure how to send it. I know how through an E mail.

Does E 220 & L 122 tie for that honor?

Re Engine 206's quarters on Metropolitan Avenue: I don't remember if I had ever mentioned this but they had a strange bunkroom in that each bunk was enclosed in a mosquito net and you had to open the zipper to get out of it. They were very close to Newton Creek which was quite polluted in those...

Ladder 10 used to go to Ladder 103 every early evening for about 5 to 6 hours and was called Ladder 193 if my memory serves me correctly. The powers to be tried many things to keep the almighty numbers down.

Joe was made lieutenant out of 112 Truck.

I seem to remember that the Ward LaFrance was a wide apparatus and would not fit in some of the older quarters with narrow doors.

It was interesting to see ladder 165 receive one of the very few 110 foot aerials several years ago, considering that most of their district is one family homes.

The Ahrens Foxes that were assigned on multiple alarms to Welfare Island had special back steps that folded up to shorten their length in order to get into the elevator.