Search results

Way back in the forties, at Engine 225 we had a fireman named John Gunning who showed me pictures of him sitting on the hose reel that went with the steam pumper. He also took me down in the basement and showed me the pot belly stove that kept the water hot in the boiler of the horse drawn steam...

I did my part at my local rod & gun club, Morehouse, NY  on 9/11 at 9 A.M.before we began shooting trap by saying a prayer for those lost and then all present firing a 12 gauge salute. May all rest in peace 

Not to date myself but I was on scene in Brooklyn back then as an Aux fireman. Still have vivid memories of the tail section of the jet, the Pillar of Fire Church and the total destruction of the area. . Where does time go.

as an Auxilary Fireman I was at the Brooklyn site and I will never forget it. One heck of a job done by FDNY..

guitarman314 Thanks for all that info. Do you, or anybody else know what the ladder compliment on those quads were ? 

raybrag + Thanks a million for getting that Noonan picture up. As I said, I thought I remembered it having ladders up above the hose bed. shows you what age can do to ones memory system. I am still sure though that they rode with extra man power back then. C'VILLE 7111 again thanks for your...

close, that is the rig and I think that is was called a cities service rig. The one at 310, as I remember it, over 60 years ago, did not have that big booster reel and had ladder supports above the hose bed with with a bunch of ladders on them. Thank for the post.

Mack,  great post on 310/174. Prior to the forming of Ladder 174 Engine 310 ran with a Ward QUAD rig for a good number of years. I know it was there in the fifties. A real long rig with a bunch of ladders plus regular engine company equipment. Also, although I might be wrong, I do believe that...

soda acid  Take a good look, that sign on the light pole says " ONE WAY"  which is what Vermont Street always has been, a  one way street. Every other north south running street alternates direction, one north the next south, all the way east from Pennsylvania ave to Crescent St.

Hi Chief, thanks for the info. Plummer does sound familiar to me. Can't place the other fellow though. I see somebody posted that the street sign says Wyona St, which was one block east of Vermont St. I looked the pictures over and I cant find it. Still sure that Pitkin and Vermont was it. Yes...

68jk09 Chief. Yes you hit it right on the head. That picture brings back memories. There is a good chance that you might have seen me at that job or others in that area. E225 was most likely first due there with E290 and E233 from Hull St filling it out and L103 second due truck. On scene I wore...

See I made a typo error in the last, Delete that letter I.  between that and was. the way it reads sounds like I was there and I definitely was not on the Smith.

yes, you might be right, turning 84 this June.  That picture of the fire boat that I was in the old time fire movies had to be the Smith, Marine 8 and 69mets father was captain on board.

Thanks for the correction on date of change Chief. I, frankly, wasn't too sure if I had it right. As I said, I am an old timer.  Ha Ha 

reference to my last post, those red steel helmets were being worn by an auxiliary fireman. Those helmets (world war 1 U S Army issue) were also issued in yellow color to air raid wardens 1940-44. We still had them in the early fifties before being issued the New Yorker style yellow plastic...

not to date my self, but in the first clip that had to be Luna Park Coney island fire, also the short clip with the fire boat, that was the Oil depot fire in Jamaica Bay area, great shot of it, and in the 1943 clip take note of the fellow helping to pack the hose wearing the old CD red iron...

ref to those stretched squad rigs. The idea of a stretched vehicle came about in WW2 over in England where they were used to ferry bomber crews from the airport to barracks. We have one of these stretch limos up here in Cold Brook, NY that is used for wedding parties, etc.

check a post on here titled " HIGH LADDERS' that has a lot of details on them. They were Mack Magirus rigs, two of them, rear mounts and 144 foot ladders. with the top section that folded out if I remember correctly. Way back L119 in Brooklyn had one that was used almost fully extended at the...

Yes indeed Mack, one of the quads was at E308 in Queens as the Idlewild Airport hose wagon. Idlewild also known as New York International Airport was renamed for J. F. Kennedy after his assassination. Not sure about who was first due engine at Laguardia Airport but they also had one.

and let us not forget E310 in Brooklyn who not only ran a quad but also wound up with a telesquirt before finally pairing up with a newly formed ladder company. Yes indeed, those quads were interesting pieces of apparatus.