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Those days are before my time but I am quite familiar with the history of the borough. Brush season was a busy time, units staged at e164, poor hydrant system and looooonnnnggggg waits for units to get to the island because that very expensive bridge was not built. The island is in desperate...

Having seen a few of the buses dropping off at the hospital I work at, the FDNY rigs are worked and worn. The 2017s are starting to look somewhat worn. I’m actually shocked how some of the 911 participating hospitals can run such old units on the system. Northwell (SIUH) had some 10+ year old...

Family member texted me 328 but with everything going on it could have been a typo. Tenant of the unit was arrested and taken to a local hospital for psychological evaluation. He had been arrested prior for criminal mischief for intentionally damaging security cameras there. Suspected this was...

E165 with their second piece for the HMTU.

https://www.silive.com/crime-safety/2022/07/nypd-identifies-3-teens-killed-in-staten-island-fatal-crash-mustang-traveling-at-unsafe-speed-cops-say.html 16 year old driver going at a high rate of speed in a mustang on a learner's permit, other driver was driving on a suspended. Very tough one...

Have family who live just up the block from this. Can confirm S288, R4 for the SOC units. 295, 326, 328, L58 (arrived well after most others), L129, L160. another hydrant blocker at this box. 326 sadly didn’t put the hose through the car lol Fire was going pretty good. Nice contain and knock...

Another example of why SI needs more companies on the west shore and mid island.

Long run for a lot of companies. 154 err I mean S8 is there for a bit alone. Would think 168 jumps the west shore and has an easier time getting in over 163 to this box. 163 has a harder drive fighting the traffic on victory and all the traffic lights.

Interesting to note that 163s former rig given the names still listed in yellow on the driver's door (Thomas Gambino, John Downing) is currently at Ladder 85. E159 has been in a spare for a few weeks now as well and they are running a 2008

Fort totten has a Ford Super Duty dump truck with a snow plow mount and V-box spreader in it. They also have a front end loader that is ex-DSNY over there that I'm sure sees snow duty. Would assume NYC parks does the roads around the fort and FDNY just has to plow their lots

On a side note; nice to see R5 is back running the new frontline rig. It was OOS for an extended period of time while awaiting parts/repairs from a small incident. The 2005's are around 17 years old already... should be due for replacement. Wouldn't be surprised if the department did all 5 at...

Somehow L122 was on SI as well. Think they were acting 83. Busy day for SI. B22 also had a decent pin job in addition to this and the 10-75.

S270 to R5 is an interesting relocation. That’s a pretty far trek. I thought that structure houses the chief medical examiner’s office for SI. Guess I was wrong…

I’ve been around that facility a lot in the past. There’s a lot of indoor garage space where the the new trucks are worked on so it’s always possible there is more there than what can be seen from the roads around it. The beige buildings behind those scrapped trucks is all part of the complex...

I remember a few years ago seeing a freightliner dump truck. Is this an expansion to their fleet or did this replace the FL80 they had? Snowflake 1 seems interesting but think it’s a bit too light on the rear wheels. Tire chains are definitely going to be needed

Was the Neptune system activated for this?

Staging trucks for funeral at E168. Cassion and L148 frontline rig

It was Sq8, E168, T86. ESU squad 5 responded on the extrication. Basically was right next to the sanitation depot. West Service Road/Muldoon

The 1999-2002 Seagrave Rearmounts were a good batch of trucks from what I heard. They were reliable and didn't have much down time. The earliest Ferrara's were terrible.

Honestly surprised this went to SIUH Ocean Breeze and not to RUMC... thought RUMC is closest level 1 to M9 quarters