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And a partridge in a pear tree. Sorry, couldn't resist.

I just completed a new page with the top 10 companies in each category from 1975 to 2008: www.FDNewYork.com/top10.asp If you spot any inconsistencies or errors let me know.

>>I appreciate that tradition is everything in FDNY but their dispatch philosophy has always seemed a little strange to me.<< If we sent 2+2 or 3+2 to every structural alarm that came in, we'd run out of companies. At some point you have to set a limit to preserve fire protection.

I don't know what's up there now but I was told, many years ago, that one of the floors was used as the fire alarm telegraph office; what we now call the C.O.