Just for fun, if you do google maps traffic right now, DIV 8 is the farthest at 17 miles but the fastest right now at 29 minutes (using the Belt Pkwy of all highways lol)
The 13 is 35 minutes at 15 miles
The 15 is 33 minutes at 11 miles
25-30 years ago growing up in Queens I remember a chronic false alarm caller for the theater at 81-05 Lefferts Blvd at the corner of Austin Street. Was a porn theater back then.
Also was a chronic caller for 70-20 108 Street box 9143 around the same time frame.
Eventually BFI tracked down the...
Was following Engine 16 down the SIE. Got off at South Avenue. I assume they were going to 158. This was around 815.
And my old neighborhood first-due Ladder 125 zipping up Victory by Silver Lake Park just after 8. That was quite unusual and a nice ride (and some OT as well)
Look up and download the NYCICN system, however it's pretty worthless for anything FDNY since they have pretty much encrypted it all including the DARS system
i'm on the south shore also and have the same opinion...... miss the 154.xxx VHF. Born and raised in Flushing, Queens it was always great hearing everything like Newark, Jersey City, Nassau, Westchester and occasionally beyond.
Even before I moved out here, I was amazed at this gap. I mentioned on some post years ago - even before the squad was established - to put at least an engine and a BC with EMS Station 22 right smack in the middle of the island with an eventual permanent location on the CSI campus on the Forest...
The barges he may have been in between were probably tied up at the private paper recycling facility on the north side of Victory (Pratt Industries - ya know the one that goes on fire once in awhile). Sanitation only uses barges now to transport all of Manhattan's recycled paper/cardboard from...
99% a renovation of quarters... especially the apparatus floor.... some locations they can store the rig in a pen outdoors but i don't think this location would lend itself to that convenience
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