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The 5 story building at the corner of Highland and Miller, when on the roof, gave you a chance to pretty much see all of eastern Queens and alot of Brooklyn. That Building being on a hill had 7 stories in the rear and 5 on Highland Blvd.. The ride down Miller was a good check of how well the...

That is actually called Highland Park there. In my 24 years in that neighborhood I think we responded there twice and not for any sizeable fire. Back then it was a little more upscale area.

A lot of Monday morning quarterbacking here. Maybe 2nd alarm on arrival due to the amount of fire and reported people trapped. As more Companies are called they are further away from the job which gives fire more time to spread. Also using large caliber streams on the exterior has a tendency to...

Due to the nature of the collapse of the building, there were many heroic operations to get to the injured FF's out. Many of the Brothers operating at the scene went above and beyond to rescue the trapped members. Unfortunately the Chief fell victim to the collapse. He was truly missed in the 44...

Well since they burnt all of Brooklyn they moved on to Queens and they're having a field day. Although most of the Companies catching work now were busy back then. It's just that new people are catching the work.

Another Watkin St. member passes on, Bill Rossiter age 85, a 44 aide, AKA as Ratso.

At one time during the war years, Brooklyn was the Boro of fire, looks like Queens deserves the name now.

You forget this Administration put her in that position. People are put in positions, with no experience and thinks it's okay. It seems like change is all they think about. Perfect example is present VP.

I can only guess!

A tale of 2 helmets, the left 1 is the war years and the right the glory years. Left was used for 6 years and was knocked at Co. annual inspection. New one back then was only $42 with tax.

Working side by side during the war years with the legends of 120, I knew all their first names. But Olsen as I recall was not known by his first name to me but only as Ollie. RIP Brother.

A lot easier taking the saw to the roof with a Tower Ladder.

She and Biden are on the same page with reelection nearing.

This will probably have a big impact on Broadway Shows. I have resigned myself not to enter Manhattan, because of the irresponsible bike riders. I now go to Engeman Theater in Northport for any show I want to see. The commute is about 5 minutes.

When I was in 233-2 we were responding to a Bushwick box and a right turn off Bushwick Ave. had one of our guys fall off the backstep. Fortunately he wasn't injured seriously, but was transported to Wyckoff Hospital. There was no communication with the backstep and the cab and the rig went a...

The problem was the rigs didn't have seating positions inside. Then the bombardment of bricks and bottles aimed at the Firefighters riding the back step had the shops busy making back step covers to protect the men. Some will remember L174 refused to respond to Brownsville because the Tiller man...

If anybody thinks this will solve the MTA and the Cities budget problems their mistaken. This is their foot in the door and pricing will be going up every year just like the bridge and tunnel tolls and transit fares and also my cable bill.

That sign was there in the early stages after the house was built. I don't remember the exact year we relocated there but I would say mid to late 80's. I left the fire house in 92.