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This is the definitve book on FDNY during its busiest period. The amount on information on the fires, the department trying to keep pace with the insane number of incidents, false alarms, as well as fires is outstanding. I am only up to 1973 but the amount of political bull shit by the city with...

Second RIT assignment E42/L4

Friday at approximately 4 PM Boston Fire Alarm received reports of heavy smoke inside the Ted Williams Tunnel which leads you directly to Logan Airport. Box 9141 was transmitted, arriving units found three cars involved in an accident with a heavy fire and smoke condition. A second alarm was...

The firehouse in Stacyville Maine suffered damage from a fire that was caused by charging lithium batteries fire officials have said. Damage was to equipment, the building, and apparatus.

There is also a book on Seagrave rear mounts showing 21 1970 Seagraves purchased as well as a book on ALL FDNY towers, including the ALF's and Sutphens.

The 2013 TDA's cost 1.086M each, the cost for 2014 Seagraves RM's were 1.038M, page 238/39 of the 2023 Ops Guide.

According to my latest Ops Ref Guide there are 69 rear mounts in service. If those had stayed tillers would that required paid driving positions for those units and would that have had a budgetry effect? In other words did FDNY switch to RM to save paying for a second driving position?

And ironically then, a city like Boston with all its congestion and narrow streets is all rear mounts. BFD brought a tiller from one of the nearby towns for a test to two houses, Ladder 1 @ E8 and Ladder 24 @ E4 and the apparatus would not fit.

There were 8 different Christmas yearly versions, 7 engines and a tower ladder.

Awhile back someone wanted to know when Chicago got rid of their tillers but I never saw the post. The last 5 were 1976 Seagrave 100' mated to 1976 International cabs as seen in the opening scenes of "Backdraft". T-14 3/86, T-32 11/88, T-41 6/90, T-53 5/87, and T-54 3/89.

8 counts DUI manslaughter for the driver of the pick-up.

If I remember correctly there was massive damage caused by an earthquake that destroyed the manufacturing complex, including dies.

See if this works for you. Massmetrofire.org. It is a PDF document that should answer some questions.

And their former house was full restored into the Kendall Hotel

Evidentally these are state mandated budget cuts due to six months of missed revenue marks. 33 towns, including Boston, Quincy and Worcester will be affected. Information from a January 11 2024 article on Firehouse.com.

Quincy is a fairly large city, the others are just like Braintree more or less.

Every 2 engine/1 ladder house lost an engine, including Engine 12 @ Fort Dudley, the cities busiest house. East Boston lost 2 engines, my still engine was cut. Engine 43/Ladder 20 was closed, Engine 25 and Ladder 8 as well, Engine 10 moved in In addition two of the busier ladder companies, L-13...

Braintree FD is facing the following cuts: 5 on duty members, the loss of an engine company and a ladder company with a reduction to 13 man minimum manning which does not meet the state requirement of having 4 FF's per apparatus. There will be 3 engines and 1 ladder available.