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That used to be a Ladder 112 box.

There were times when the apparatus remained in quarters but now a mechanic picks it up and and the rig undergoes inspection, oil change, and minor repairs. We used to do some training at the academy while the rig was being worked on.

They had covering relief officers. The four regular officers covered their unit 24 of the 25 days and night tours. A covering relief officer was assigned to the unit for 1 day and one night tour every 25 days. The job worked the groups out so that most of these relief officers worked in the same...

Just to take the lack of personnel for positions a step further, I remember a story from my father about being detailed to an engine in the mid forties. The was no true retirement age then and he was on the back step with one other fireman who he had to hold onto because the other man suffered...

Not the same subject but close. My uncle was in a truck during the mid fifties and knew that I had an interest in the FDNY. He told me more than once that I should have been in the firehouse the other night. The bell was under the ladder, rung by a member riding the side. That particular tour...

Just play the Star Spangled Banner instead of the siren blasting. They will take a knee and the problem is solved.

That was discretionary response box. The assigned Chief did not have to respond. It was up to his discretion. The Battalion was supposed to monitor the radio.

Congratulations to Wilbur. He always attended Engine 217's old timers nights until 2 years ago. He had transferred out of there in the early sixties.

Ira and I talked FDNY during gym on the roof of Brooklyn Tech. High School.

A Chief's worst nightmare. A truck doing B.I. on the engine and the first due truck arriving on the scene staffed by the engine.

Their EMS runs should drop substantially or possibly to zero if they have no first due boxes.

Mini truckless triangle?

Are you showing your age? Was the 57 even in existence and was the 38 still on Bergen St.?

One of the reasons for so many double companies 100 or more years ago was the fact that a unit was out of service from the time of the alarm until they returned to quarters. There were no radios to redirect units or to direct them to another alarm so they were out of service for longer periods...

The beer box, Knickerbocker and Schaefer.

Possibly with Sq. 270

The new fire houses may not look very nice but they all include a work of art, a tradition started to keep starving artists working. The new "house of pain" has sheetrock buckets around the floors to contain all of the building leaks. Only NYC would allow a new to building to leak in that manner.

Both sections of Engine 217 each raised scaling ladders to remove occupants of a corner building on Throop Avenue. It was a second floor fire but that was the only ladder on the apparatus at the time.

There was a certain Brooklyn house that appropriated the clocks of units that they relocated to. You could ask for “East New York time”,”Bed Stuy time” and down to “Bensonhurst or Coney Island time” They would give you the appropriate time from the appropriated clock from that neighborhood.

If I recall correctly, E 218 was in the 60 Batt. and paperwork was forwarded through the 60 Batt. for endorsement. E 218 did however, do their OT with the 28 Batt.