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I think the real blame has to go to an incompetent Mayor who has no idea what he is doing. Lets put a Lady in as Fire Commissioner because the FDNY has never had one. Does she even know the difference between an Engine and a Truck?

That's Lefferts Boulevard, not Avenue.

I remember a Lt. Volpe covering in the Tin House a real long time ago maybe 45 years ago. If a relation maybe his son's son.

About a year ago I passed the 44 EMS station which was our old firehouse. They had rigs parked in the middle of Rockaway Ave and a vacant lot up the block with rigs parked in it. They probably could get at least 4 of them in Qtrs.. Probably at least 2-3 I saw on the Ave. and in the lot 6-7. Try...

My 20 years in 176 we always had a 100 Ft. aerial. When Capt. Vigiano was assigned the Co. he asked the chauffeurs if the 125 Ft. aerial would be a good choice to replace the 100 footer. We all agreed it would not be in our best interest to have the longer aerial. Our defense was most of the...

Boy did I open a can of worms which was all about a typo. I knew a few guys at 307-154. My fellow car pool buddy from Proby School at welfare Island was assigned 307. I thought he was lucky that he got a Queens Co., never knew how busy they were, I was assigned 233-2 in Brooklyn and thought I...

Firehouse is 25 Rockaway Ave.

I just read on D.O. #39 that a retired member, FF Thomas George passed away from L 145. I don't remember that Co., but he retired in 73 so maybe that Co. was disbanded when 2nd sections got the axe.

I can just see the theft of batteries on the rise. Common sense is the big problem here. Leaving batteries at a Firehouse, and Co. catches a job for several hours and now battery and firehouse gone. Who comes up with these insane ideas? Put a timer on the charger so it doesn't cook the battery...

In the blackout in July of 1977 a 10th Alarm was transmitted for Knickerbocker & Bleeker. Although route cards only went to a 5th, Guess the computer was able to dig deep and get a 10th alarm out there.

My son-in-law has a Fryer and the Turkey comes out moist and makes me almost like Turkey.

When I was working Turkey fryers weren't invented yet.

Usually the oven would contain the fire, unless some genus opens the door to the oven and runs out of the kitchen. Thanksgiving turkeys are usually the result of oven fires.

Now that sounds like a good old food on the stove extending to the cabinets above. I guess the bacon was over done.

Another oven fire. In my 24 years responding as a FF we only had food on the stove. Now its food in the oven.

10-26 is food on the stove not in it.

Did they leave the rig outside and he parked that in Qtrs.? Not too many parking spots that big in the City.

I guess it's not food on the stove, but food in the stove. No signal for that yet.

We responded to that box when we had the American LaFrance rig and taking up we got another box in Brownsville. So we start heading down Miller Ave., which is almost 90* down hill, and the aerial came out about 3 feet when it was bedded. The later rigs, Seagraves, had a ladder lock to prevent...

My Dad had a place up there, 90 acres or so, and the town was about 2 blocks long. That was back in the mid 60's to mid 70's. A lot of farm land and neighbors were pretty far apart. The problem back then was travelling up there was the traffic. From Queens to there was about 150 miles and...