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Chief,  you bring back some great memories for me of the old days at Eng. 225. Yes, the local people on the block were great. The Vesuvious Restaurant on the south east corner of Liberty Ave. and Cleveland St. was the local hang out for the Mafia. The neighborhood watchman for Eng. 225 was a...

Great post Mack, brings back a lot of fond memories of great friends and firemen now long gone.  May they rest in well deserved peace. Needs one correction. That battalion was the 39 not the 29 and still in service. I rode the sideboards on that old Walter rig many times while on interchange...

looking at the tiller rig converted to a large capacity hose wagon for WW2 brought back memories of Engine 236 on Liberty Avenue in Brooklyn back in the early forties with their American Lafrance painted GRAY.  I have never been able to find a picture of that rig, sad to say. Their hose wagon...

a while back I recall some discussion regarding the Atlas Life Net. Back in 1949 March, (see WNYF JULY 1979, page six "Net Results") Engine 225 responded to a fire at Blake and Linwood in Brooklyn where they used their Quarter Fold net to save a mother and four children from a fire involving the...