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I have not been able to monitor too much off late, but enough to come up with the best best top three engines for seeing fire, either that be by first  secomd or third due response.. But here tney are for march: E332 E42 E45 All busy engines to see the red devil. Maybe not the busiest for...

I have a question ref fdny engines and trucks responding to MVAs and calls onto bridges, in particular the Manhattan bridges, such as queensborough , brooklyn man etc bridges. Lets Man box 8780 is transmitted for an MVA lower lever, queens bound on the queensborough bridge, a first due box for...

Any ideas or input or,thoughts on who might be batting at the top for runs etc for last year.. Its getting close to the time that fdnewyork.com puts the annual run stats up.. JT

After an engine company has had a working fire and stretched hose, is the hose taken of the rig once back at the house and cleaned or is this no longer a requirement due to modern hose material? JT

Does anyone else experience sporadic breaking up of transmissions to the point of not been able to understand or hear whats been said on the Bronx feed?? Its rather sporadic in nature, does not happen all the time, but when it does it makes it almost impossible to decipher whats been...

Just read this thread, god bless them all, and may they all be welcomed to the kitchen table at saint stephens gate, for an eternity of banter, stories, debates, coffee, doughnuts, and house duties.. 'Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, at the setting of the sun, and in the...

A friend of mine is a modeller, who specialises in dioramas, he has modelled many UK fire dioramas to an amazing level of accuracy.. He is a little eccentric and very wealthy but uses his free time and money and amazing model building skill to produce one of a kind builds. He wants to build an...

Just heard on the freq that fallback step 3 has been implemented, why has that been done?? What kind of effect does it have on normal day to day business at firehouse level?? Cheers JT

Regarding  the modified response, my understanding is that rigs respond with no lights or sirens to calls and boxes or responses that fall into this category... Including occupied stuck elevators... There is a video on the web, from Late 2013 of a truck responding from the house to, as is...

Well, as i have not been on for a while, I have however still been collating 10-75s and upwards for working fires per engine company area, collating info together form this forum, the gothamist, emt bravo, news websites etc.. Since october... Dabronx... E45, E43, E62 E42 have all seen a good...

Just heard 65 on the air responding with a 'Q' siren.. Have they got their new rig?? Or put a Q on thier current rig? JT

Heard on Manhattan freq just now.. Man  from E65. We are now returning to quarters as per the 10-2 prior to this run. 10-4 E65 this is for the Terminator... Love it!! Made me smile at least... JT

Im currently reading a book, 'Hornets Over Kuwait' by Jay A Stout. The author tells the story of USMC VMFA 451 on thier tour of duty in the first Gulf War of 1990. The author flew the FA 18C during the conflict. So far a great book. JT

As previously talked about over many topics, the demographics of NYC changes year by year, the fires follow the change, albeit a little slower than the demographics change. Over the years, and when i spent a year plotting working fires in Da Bronx, it was clear that the fires had moved to the...

Anyone else not able to listen into manhattan? Feed has been down for around 24 hours now.

I was in NYC for 24 hours recently, transiting through back to the UK. Spent an evening in Manhattan. I saw in Times Square E54 and 4 Truck with Batt 9 travelling through the square under response conditions. Short time later, E65 turned into the square and headed of down the same street as...

In my thoughts. JT

For those interested, and i cant see if this has already been listed on here, I came across this on FSP books and videos. Not sure where on the website it is as it came up on a google search I was doing to see how busy E290/L103 has been over the years since the 70s. (From what i have read and...

Is there a google file that displays box locations, or a reference that describes 1st 2nd 3rd due response to boxes that is available at all anywhere?. Regards JT

Looking back to the good old days of the FDNY Macks, some companies spent a lot of time and took pride in decorating and making their rigs truly theres... Tis trend followed on with some engines in the Bronx and Brooklyn personalising their Seagraves in the 90s... Are there any engine...