How bout somebody posting a link to an official obituary please? I knew Jack lerch and he is everything that people here are saying that he is, simply wonderful.
Worked in NYc 1972- when Ladder 5 had a 1969 Mack MB tractor retrofitted to the 1953 ALF trailer. QUESTION: how did ladder 5 fit two rigs in the Charles St firehouse up until 1939 when the second section was dropped so that manpower could be shifted to a new additional platoon which process...
Wanting to know fdny units assigned over 5 alarms on this epic fire in 1942..know of response as follows; 1st alarm 4 engines 2 ladders, 2nd alarm same less one ladder; 3rd alarm 5 engines and 1 ladder; 4th alarm 5 engines 1 ladder; 5th alarm 6 engines 1 ladder plus special units as per various...
An easy way out is: relocate an engine to Rescue 1 as an additional unit or if space does not allow as the ONLY unit and locate Rescue 1 elsewhere for the time being until a new Rescue 1 station can be realized . Just my hunch of what an easy way out might look like.
Ladder 8 is vulnerable....they could close or relocate to Hudson Yards as an engine or as ladder 8 and the ladder 8 station/house occupied by engine 7...
The 1939 second sections and 1947 first sections were all eliminated to facilitate an additional platoon NOT because of a lack of need for their existence.
Would like to see some of these field tested for FDNY in the busiest boroughs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLaJvI1jAXY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3xDjOD3TWM
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