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You must remember that the members were working 23 hour days with 1 hour off for a meal and 1 day off per week. If your unit was closed or renumbered, you had to move your family to within a few blocks of your new company. My grandfather was in 8 Truck, lived on the lower West Side and when...

All second sections throughout the city switched from front to back or vice versa at 9AM each day. Engines 217 & 217-2 worked as follows: All old first due boxes became first and second due with the front piece first due. All old second due boxes became second and third due with the front piece...

This is the cause of the Brooklyn's truckless triangle, when they took Ladder 108 from the middle of the triangle and placed them in an area filled with double houses.

It fits easily inside the hard suction, so out of sight, out of mind.

The oil was for the rig. The company did their own oil changes. The number 42 rings a bell. I think that was how many quarts were needed.

The thing that I remember was that beside raising the hose, we used the tower to lower the 55 gallon clean oil drums into the basement and worse than that was lifting the same drums filled with the waste oil back up to the apparatus floor.

A firehouse normally received possibly a quarter of the boro's boxes. This included a surrounding boro's border boxes if units from the area were assigned to respond to the other boro. Houses in Bushwick, Wwilliamsburg and Bedford Styvesant would receive Queens boxes in Ridgewood and Glendale...

One of the old journals from Engine 277 has an entry by an officer who was hooking up one of the firemen who said the word "DAMN". An entry by the same officer later in the day noted that he was dropping the charges because the firemen said he was sorry. A lot of the entries were for chauffeurs...

There was no acknowledgement if you received the alarm twice, either by the bells primary and secondary circuits or by the phone, followed by the bells. If the company received the alarm only once, they acknowledged with their unit number, preceded by their designation, unless it was an engine...

I used to deliver the morning papers in the late fifties and this area was part of my route. Collection day at the end of the week was the greatest for a growing boy. The stewardesses slept crazy hours and would sometimes answer the bell in various states of dress. The Salty Dog might have had...

What is the likelihood of Eng. 26 getting in first due to over half of their first due district on a weekday 9x6 tour?

Ladders 126 & 127 spent time with Sq. 270. Eng. 277 spent nights on Himrod St. in the 70s, 1/2 in with Eng. 271 and 1/2 with Lad 124. Both Eng. 277 & Lad 112 spent a few years with Eng. 222 and the 37 Batt.

There are accidents sometimes with the car's tail light lens getting in the way of the hydrant connection. It might cost a hundred or two to replace.

Eng. 230 should be in the mix.

Engines in the 53 Batt. do explosive escort duty. They might have been doing that.

Most pictures of old apparatus show a spare tire on the side running board. The members would change the tire. I don't remember that but I remember the job of the MPO included tightening the lug nuts weekly. (On Sundays, if I remember correctly)

I remember calling the dispatcher to place the Division on a box. I thought that a Deputy didn’t have to respond until a an all hands fire was doubtful will hold.

Dr. Maloney had the office in the medical office with the longest line outside. His brother John and I were probys together and he went to L 112 out of school. RIP

Many or most of the 2nd sections were back and front. The only time it slowed things down was the first run after 9 AM every morning when the rear section was now responding alone or due before the front section on the box.

Engine 277 had Ladder 732 prior to Ladder 112.