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The early 50s Ward LaFrances were quite loud. I don't think that they had mufflers on the exhaust system.

Those midwesterns were good for taking tire patches. My rubber coat was like a goodyear advertisement.

Was  E 287's quarters the one with a steel band around it to hold it together?

We used to interchange with 288 and there was no wall, just a lot of noise from the LIE.

Several of the 3 story brick buildings on the exposures of 252's quarters had firemen's heads wearing helmets built into their front cornices. All of those buildings came down in the 70's.

The Queens Boro Command is now in one of the old homes at Fort Totten.

I don't remember Ladders 136, 140, 142, AND 146 having walls in their quarters.

I don't know if I'm stretching it but the few '69 R model Macks also had a seat across behind the front seat.

I thought that I recall a water tower in with Engine 260 at one time.

L 140 had a 1969 mack/1953 pirsh ladder

My dad also. And he stayed right there in 16 truck.

May he rest in peace. He was a big man on the job in plenty of ways and his colorful communications with the Brooklyn dispatcher as a 44 Aide will probably never be equalled.

Happy to see my grandfather's name listed on the fire report. Thanks for posting!!

Please don't forget E 217-2 !!

I remember coming in a few hours early prior to a night tour for OT as the extra person on the truck. There was also partial night tour OT during adaptive response hours. Somewhere around 3:00 PM through 12:30 AM.

L 123's '68 ALF tiller probably owed the city nothing by the time it was reassigned. I can still remember flying down Ralph Avenue across East New York Ave and Eastern Parkway several times a tour and there couldn't have been many trucks that outran or outworked them during those years.

The units surrounding the two section units all kept their first due boxes every day while the two section units had no first due boxes every other day. The section in the front for the 0900 to 0900 period went out first and handled all first due work. That would result in lower work numbers for...

I remember working OT in E 206 in the mid seventies. The second piece was usually OOS. The old quarters was infested with mosquitoes and the bunks were covered with netting. You had to unzipper it in the event of a response.