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Based on the above description, that would explain how Manhattan and the Bronx ended up with the same Borough Preliminary Signal- 6-6. And they ended up with non-overlapping box numbers. On another thread, I noted that in 1945 Rescue 3 appeared to respond to boxes in the 12th Battalion. R3...

In 1900, after the City consolidation in 1898, the Manhattan Fire Alarm Office in Fire Department Headquarters on East 67th St. was responsible for dispatching in the Bronx until it's alarm office was established on the top floor of Engine Company 46 at 715-717 East 176th St. Box numbers in the...

HFD Station 68 was busy from Day 1 and over the years things have only gotten crazier. If yer a go-getter, and , don't live up in east Texas, that's where you work. Their second due boxes end a few blocks west of me. That's where I can also hear the automatic weapon's gunfire at night.

When fire departments merge, it is common to need companies renumbered. So the saga of FDNY company IDs being changed to avoid redundancy is understandable. And I always laugh when the original Ladder 103 being on Staten Island is mentioned. In general, I think that renumbering existing...

I'm guessing it was in the 1990's. It must have been during a budget crunch, and, after the War Years they had way too many field divisions in Suppression. Somewhere along the way Divisions 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, 16, and 17 disappeared. Then, someone (with too much toilet training at a young age)...

Of course, no one could see them. During the game (and Presidential TFR interval) and for at least an hour afterwards, a KC-135 tanker attached to the 171st Air Refueling Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard based at Pittsburgh International Airport was flying a clockwise race track...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/02/09/houston-firefighters-heroism-and-recovery-captain-escamillas-return-home/

As of January 1, manufacturers can no longer build heating, ventilation, and air conditioning units that employ the working refrigerant R-410A. This is by order of the Environmental Protection Agency to save the planet. The phaseout of R-410A will be complete by 2036. Instead, manufacturers...

You can try FDNY FireZone in Rockefeller Center or the New York City Fire Museum on Spring Street. Doesn't your old company have an "outside" phone? Here in Houston that would be known as the "Love" phone.

As a little kid in the early 1950's, my family lived in a crummy government housing project on Atoll Road near that airport in North Philly. We lived under the landing approach to the airport and I was just certain an airplane was going to crash into our place. It took seventy years, but damn...

Regards Mike Mullane's IAFF lecture: Critical 1 in risk analysis is defined as any system or subsystem that, if compromised, will result in the loss of the Space Shuttle and crew. Mullane didn't mention that the Space Shuttle had 861 critical 1 items, of which the O rings were only one The...

Almost exactly 24 hours prior to the DCA mid-air collision, Republic Airlines flight Brickyard 4514 was forced to abort an approach into DCA Runway 19 flying the Potomac visual near Georgetown. This was due to a TCAS alert for a northbound Blackhawk (PAT 11) on Route 1 at a prohibited 300-600...

In addition to the swiss cheese model of accident analysis, one other concept needs to be considered here: Normalization of deviance Noted here above was the fact that helicopters flying the Route 4 corridor near DCA were required to keep to the east bank of the Potomac River, were responsible...

Having been a passenger in a helo flying at about 500 feet over Houston at night, I can testify that city light "pollution" is beautiful, but distracting if you are looking for something. This is particularly true while looking for something near the horizon or close by unless they are above...

A reminder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model

The TCAS is always on and will issue a "Traffic! Traffic!" alert at any altitude. It does not issue resolution advisories (Climb! Climb!) below 1000 ft AGL. It is unknown if the Blackhawk had TCAS. It was a Gold Top unit for VIP transport. At the time of impact it was flying helicopter Route 4...

You have to wonder what the functional status of the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) was' It automatically gives each conflicted pilot specific urgent voice avoidance instructions.

American Airlines 5342 from Wichita. Sad... Helicopters are US Park Police

Under the category of "It's good to know somebody who knows somebody", in early June, 1977 I got a tour of the nearly brand new Philly Fire Communications Center in the basement of the new PFD Headquarters at 3rd and Spring Garden Streets by then Deputy Chief Bill Richmond. We could not have...