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Is this new rescue model outfitted with a pump also? I don't know about Staten Island but in the Bronx the only quad in service in the 1950s was at Engine Company 96. It had previously operated as a combination engine company with a pumper, hose wagon, and a city service ladder truck. These...

If there is no ladder to raise why do they call it an "aerial" rescue? Does it fly too?

Notice no Chrome around the grill and front bumper, as compared to the 1940 model. Chrome had gone to war.

Is this an aerial ladder also or just a rescue truck?

I own homes in both Fairfield and Middlesex counties... But you'd think I'd be smart enough to see that NFD2004 is different than NFD248...duh. No longer confused!

I remain confused...

At the risk of showing my age, how many of us actually remember the companies responding and returning to quarters banging the bell?

Yep, there it is, 38 in gold on the 2012 and some others in the past. And we can agree that the aerial is in gold on just about all those pictures. Great research. 38 is also distinctive for the bell mounted on the front cab. Also handed down from rig to rig. Any other companies on the job...

Just 88. 38 distinctive by White Stars across the bumper. Goes back decades.

I believe Engine 88 in the Bronx has maintained the tradition of gold leaf numbers.

Now I am totally confused...lol

C1, C3, C7? I used to work in Norwalk and didn't realize they had that many Chiefs? And 248, you had me fooled all these years... I thought nfd was for Norwich FD. I hope all the brothers are now home safely with their families.

The Plymouth!

I believe 1974 was the first year that L33 topped the department Runs list. And I believe the previous year they were not even in the top 25. Part of the reason for the dramatic change was the destruction of the 3rd Avenue EL. There was a migration of people to the West Bronx seeking access to...

I believe that's a late '20s early 30s Four-Wheel Drive (that was the name of the manufacturer) tractor. L14 had one like it when my dad was appointed there in 1934. Note the store behind it; looks like it's named Bedford Television. That dates the photo to probably the early 1950s as...

The Mount vs Hayes football at Randall's Island. Classic every year.

I graduated from Power Memorial in 1965. I was there.

All Hallows Institute was the last of the Irish Christian Brothers schools in New York City. At one time there were four. Monsignor Farrell on Staten Island was the last to be opened in the 1960s but it has long since given up any affiliation with the Christian Brothers. All Hallows was the...

L55 act. 27... G-man rule rules.

Any way you go it's a long haul.