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The combination of the blackout and boro call completely wiped out our retail holiday inspections for that year and many after.

I don't remember walls at ladders 140 and 142. I don,t remember a wall separating the big house in Jamaica. Ladder 125 and Engine 270 had a wall.

I don't remember a batt. 34-2. Our company went from the 34 to the 57 when it was formed. I don't remember the 2nd section having a BI district. We used to do BI in the units that had fallen behind. It made for some long runs back to our response area.

My son is a fourth generation fireman and firefighter going back to 1906.

How about the House of Pain?

Ladder 125 used to be quartered with Engine 270 until the early fifties.

There were plans for Engines 233 and 252 and a new truck with the 17 Division. The drawing was at the academy for several years.

What happened to the sad news of the passing of Engine 235's late Captain?

Reginald was Capt. of L112 late sixties to 70 or 71. Vinny was Capt. of L112 in the mid to late seventies.

Engine 266's quarters used to have 266 & 267 side by side behind the 47 Batt. with 121 Truck in the other bay.

This was also before department radios so the companies would drill at quarters so that they could hear the bells in case of a response.

I had a few ridiculous runs on July Fourths. A special call for a single engine from Bushwick to 165 Ave. in Howard Beach for ten cents worth of brush. We once were taking up from a fire in Ridgewood and were sent down to Utica Ave. near Flatbush Ave., first and only engine for a lumber yard...

I went to engine school in the early 80's and there was a lack of pumpers so we drove some old wreck tower ladders around. I still remember filling the steering fluid tank with motor oil several times a day because it left the system as fast as we filled it. The satellites still had manual...

That trailer on 167s rig could be the first Seagrave metal aerial from the late 40s.

While on the subject of narrow apparatus floors, I'll bring up E 235 and the 57 Batt. The chiefs car must hug a wall to which a piece of hose was attached to prevent scraping against the brick. E 252 was in the same category when the 17th Div. shared quarters with them.

Chris also had a father OTJ in Engine 234 in the 40s.

RIP Chris. He started in Squad 3, followed by L123 on Ralph Ave. and then up to 56 Truck in the Bronx prior to Rescue 1.

The TCU's were treated as a truck company with the signal 7-box#-unit#. I don't remember if the bells were still being fully utilized when the TCU's came about. They were being used one morning a week at the end for familiarization. The TCU's didn't go into operation until mid afternoon. There...

The drawing for the current 233/176 quarters also included the then Engine 252 and the 17th Division. That drawing was at the rock for years after the school was opened there.

Ret. Capt. Eugene Drum, Lt. of Ladder 112 in the 70's and later Capt. of Engine 274 and Engine 251.