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    New Members Brief

    Sorry guys, the secret is the water that goes into NYC pizza. You can not match is any where. Sorry Willie!!!! Next time you are in Yonkers please try the pizza at Carlos on Central Ave. near YFD station # 11.
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    Super Pumper 1

    This website has members that come from across the United States but also from around the world. Their departments use different terms. FDNY has stations, they are know as EMS Stations. As I travel I automatically call a one story building that houses fire apparatus a fire station but if the...
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    Oneonta, NY --- Explosion Takes Three Homes 9 Dec 2023

    At approximately 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, 09 Dec, the Oneonta Fire Department and multiple mutual aid departments responded to a reported explosion and structure fire at 18 Richards Ave in the Town of Oneonta. Upon arrival, they found multiple residences with severe damage and one active...
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    DELAYED - NICHOLS - NYS - 9 Nov - SUSPECT ARRESTED IN SUSPICIOUS FIRE THAT KILLED OVER TWO DOZEN HORSES

    Man facing 105-count indictment over Tioga Downs racetrack arson NICHOLS, NY (WBNG) -- The Tioga County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday, 09 Dec 2023, that Boyd H. Fenton of Athens, Pa. was arraigned on a 105-count indictment. Fenton was arrested and charged in connection to a...
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    MONTHLY ZOOM MEETING

    MONTHLY ZOOM MEETING THIS COMING TUESDAY NIGHT, 5 DECEMBER, 2023 @ 1930 Hours Topic will be ‘MANUFACTURING FIRE APPARATUS – TODAY’S PROBLEMS’
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    12/2/23 No More 5 Man Engines

    I have to ask one question about this reduction. What is the source of this information? As far as I can remember, this is all part of the UFA contract with the city.
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    Queens *SERIOUS MVA* Box 8384

    MCI = Mass Casualty Incident can be a fire, accident, medical facility evacuation, explosion, transit incident, collapse, power failure, and any other possible major incident that can generate five or more patients. Even a normal two vehicle accident is capable of having numerous amount of...
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    Question about the FDNY Response during the NYC Marathon

    The ordinal plan stated that fire companies were not permitted to cross the path of the race unless for a multiple alarm incident. So with that in mind, additional companies were spread out on both side of the race path in all boroughs except Staten Island. Predesignated companies would be...
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    11/26/23 Staten Island 10-75 Box 0678

    FDNY defines an "ALL HANDS" as either 3 engines & 2 ladders OR 2 Engines & 2 Ladders & a Squad at work. In this case with a box on the VZ bridge Rescue 5 would be on the road (10-8). So seeing that this was not the normal response of E-161 (0.2 miles), E-152 (1.3 miles), E160 (1.7 miles), E-159...
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    Cobleskill, NY - Multiple Alarm Fire

    Multiple Alarm Fire in Schoharie County in the village of Cobleskill. Structure fire reported adj to 102 Spring St. Mutual aid from adj towns.
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    5-5-5-5 EMT Frederick Whiteside 11/17/2023

    RIP brother.
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    Station Locations Question

    Do Are we talking about the old RED BOOK from the 50's? It also provided the traveling times of the trains between stations?
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    Station Locations Question

    So how did you find out the fire stations locations pre-computer?
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    Station Locations Question

    So pre-internet how did you obtain a list of fire house/station locations?
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    ANOTHER WAR YEARS VET PASSES.

    I had the pleasure of meeting John Giblin while he was a fireman in Engine 68 up in the Highbridge section of the Bronx overlooking Yankee Stadium. John had just received a plant as a ‘Thank You’ gesture from a woman who resided within the firehouse’s neighborhood. I had gotten a phone call...
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    DELAYED - NICHOLS - NYS - 9 Nov - SUSPECT ARRESTED IN SUSPICIOUS FIRE THAT KILLED OVER TWO DOZEN HORSES

    SUSPECT ARRESTED IN SUSPICIOUS FIRE THAT KILLED OVER TWO DOZEN HORSES A 32-year-old man is facing several felonies charged in New York State after a suspicious multiple alarm fire claimed the lives of over two dozen horses during the early hours Thursday, 9 Nov 2023. The incident was reported...
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    Where would you put 3 Additional Ladder companies.

    The response was 65 - 21 - 26 - 8 - 54.
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    If you could, what disbanded Compaines would you bring back?

    Things to thinks about - most of the older firehouses were built when horses were pulling fire apparatus. Next how did the city get away with not placing a station in Battery Park City where thousands of people reside? A few engine companies were closed or moved from that area. Two of the...
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    If you could, what disbanded Compaines would you bring back?

    How about Eng 36 on East 125 St in Harlem. However make them a Squad that would cover Norther Manhattan & the South Bronx. Squad 41 would switch with Engine 42 providing coverage for the West Bronx while Squad 61 will cover the East Bronx. Engine 49 on Roosevelt Island. With all the ongoing...
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    Where would you put 3 Additional Ladder companies.

    After reading the comments I started thinking about this. In Queens - activate Ladder 171 in the qtrs of Engine 329. Then relocate Ladder 137 to Engine 266. Eng 266 shared qtrs years back with Engine 267 (shutdown), Ladder 121, Batt 47. So there is room for the ladder co. This was Ladder 137...
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