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The Porter Heights tornado, an EF3, reportedly destroyed 30 buildings and damaged 300. One of eight tornados, it began in southern Waller County and had a 10-11 mile path. The others began in Alvin (Home of Nolan Ryan) and went across Galveston Bay into Liberty County. The NWS gave everyone 24...

It's probably appropriate to remember that less than 24 hours prior to the Stockyard disaster, the Philadelphia Fire Department lost 13 members (plus one PPD officer) at Box 294 3rd Street and Girard Avenue at 9:00 pm on December 21, 1910. This was for a fire in the basement of the Friedlander...

If they didn't transmit the four fives, how would they know they had to turn the radio on? That said, I'm looking at a copy of a housewatch journal for Sunday May 17, 1970 2248 RTA 5-5-5-5 It is with regret that the announcement of the death of Lieut. James Connally Sq4 of injuries...

Bravo! All that drama could have been avoided if the 79th still had their F-4 Phantom II's from the Wild Weasel days in Vietnam. The Phantom II (designed and built my friend J.S. McDonnell) had six times the bomb payload of an F-16! Regardless, for the last 80 odd years, once the USAF gets...

Telegraph signal 6-6-6-6-6 : Establishment of the continuous duty system until the receipt of signal 4-4-4-4 or 6-6-6-6 Engine companies with a pumper and hose wagon shall be divided into two (sections) companies (with sufficient hose) and respond to alarms individually, but will relocate...

You should know there was also the title of relief matron. Just someone else bouncing in the Sixth Division; looking for an open spot.

Thanks 3511 If your analysis is correct, that would mean that Commissioner Walsh was planning how New Yorkers would behave when the war ended one year (in retrospect) in advance. And, he expected them to act just like folks in Red Hook on Election Night. Further, when that happy day arrived...

The Rescue 3 1944-45 490 page journal is notable for one other subject. Among the pages of mundane, routine listings each day, there is no reference to the fact that a world war was going on......except for one episode. And its kind of bizarre and after the fact. The obscure predicate: Tuesday...

Was that the first appearance of "BIG BLUE" by the great Pete Ortel?

My wife's grandmother lived at 1818 Kimball Street. I believe the family was the first owner moving there from Manhattan right after WWII- a nice neighborhood. We were visiting in the late 80's and had to go to LaGuardia. Granny offered to arrange transportation from Kimball St. The next thing I...

If you need your PT boat repowered, save your money and get a Hall-Scott engine. Having owned one; powering a 1950 Mack 1250 GPM pumper; I can tell you they are reliable and sound great with or without a muffler. If you need spare parts, I'll bet you can find some hidden at the LAFD shops.

Don't forget that the IJN planes were flying with aviation gas refined in the USA.

The senior Anton Vodvarka (Appt 3/16/36) lived on Unionport Rd. The other Rescue 3 legacies retired as lieutenants; Scarbeck in E50, Schneible in L55. The elder Schneible retired as a Deputy Chief and also responded to the ocean liner Normandie fire on 2/9/42 before he got to E60.

COD/FC Patrick Walsh was IC at the Red Hook paper stock warehouse where BC Jireck collapsed and died. There was another multiple alarm fire in a five story factory in Williamsburg at the same time. On March 12, 1936, BC Jireck and then AC Walsh were trapped on the roof of a shipyard warehouse...

The 1944-45 winter was tough in the Northern Hemisphere. Ask those fighting the war in Europe. I knew a Dutch couple (a Shell Oil engineer) who spent that winter not only freezing, but starving- rats saved the day. New York City suffered too. The first 35 days of 1945 had an average temperature...

Exactly what is the lowest floor of fire? And what happened to the doorman?

I had the opportunity to review a company journal of Rescue 3 recorded in 1944-45. I believe at the time they were quartered with Ladder 17 on 143rd St. It looks like the Rescue responded to boxes in the 14th and 12th Battalions, 2-2 signals in Upper Manhattan and southern Bronx, 3-3 signals in...

Years ago, while in Paris, my wife convinced me to take a tour of Notre Dame. Since the nave is open to the public, this involved climbing a narrow, medieval winding staircase to the cockloft. From there, one had a great view of, the town, the gargoyles, and what was basically a roofed lumbar...

No Polish jokes please! Gabreski's finest moment occurred on August 17, 1943 in the skies over Belgium. On that day, the heavily shot up Schweinfurt portion of the Regensburg- Schweinfurt raid was desperately trying to get back to England, Eupen, Belgium was known by EVERBODY as the spot where...

She was also a long time volunteer member of Tri-County Fire Department Station 41 at Magnolia and Macedonia Rds. in Waller County.