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Andre Rieu plays a song called The Carnival of Venice Medley and the music to that song pops up in the middle.

Downtown and midtown Manhattan used to have a 4 engine response but not every unit had a hose wagon. The Fire Patrol also responded with a unit in those areas so there was almost as much apparatus responding to initial alarms.

The 51 Batt. administrative area goes down to the corner of Wycoff and Jefferson Avenues. There should be no excuse for that.

The late 40s Ward LaFrance pumpers only had two discharges although they were 750 GPM. The deck pipe discharge was used out of necessity.

The Mack R model in the airport was originally Engine 277's rig. It went elsewhere in 1972 when it was replaced by a CF model Mack.

Tex left the station rather abruptly. Wasn't it something he said?

The black denim dungaree turnout pants were terrible. Water weakened the sticthing and the crotch opened up after a month or two. The medical was also strange. I think we took it on the West side of lower Manhattan. I'll never forget the hearing test, I thought I heard someone whispering in my...

Chief JK, is that the area that used to be known as Cedar Lane?

It is hard to believe but we actually ran out of six foot hooks in ladder 112 by the end of the next day. We had to go around begging for them from surrounding units.

The man you were talking about was named Larry M. He grew up in the neighborhood and moved in our response area in Ridgewood, Queens. Either of the companies would pick him up after a 7AM run on a Saturday morning as he never drove a car.

Les will be remembered as a good firefighter. He served 20 years + on the back step of Eng. 277 as the surrounding area was burnt down while the city just let it happen.

I remember my father telling me that the two shift system did not return at one time and that certain battalions and divisions worked the two shift system while neighboring ones continued working three shifts.

Engine 1 had a cab forward American LaFrance rig in the mid forties followed by a group of them a year or so later.

Second sections were two separate units, each with a captain, three lieutenants, and about twenty five firemen. They counted as two separate units on a response. Units with two pieces of apparatus were a takeoff on the old pumper and hose wagon. The two pumpers responded with one officer and...

The following site offers many pictures of old buses. gallery.bustalk.info

It used to be that a Rescue was supposed to be assigned to a local box if they were closer than a truck company but as everyone knows, that wasn't always the case.

The Pirsch ladder apparatus were odd in that the owner of this relatively small company felt that spring locks were all that was required to stabilize the rig with the aerial up. He refused to place outriggers on his apparatus so the four city rigs all had a small set of outriggers on each rig...

I have a photo of a 1953 ALF with wooden top with 26 on it. It might have been the second section's rig. I'm not sure how to send it. I know how through an E mail.

Does E 220 & L 122 tie for that honor?

Re Engine 206's quarters on Metropolitan Avenue: I don't remember if I had ever mentioned this but they had a strange bunkroom in that each bunk was enclosed in a mosquito net and you had to open the zipper to get out of it. They were very close to Newton Creek which was quite polluted in those...