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"One of the greats", Retired Lieutenant Danny Finnigan Engine 50 was laid to rest, with full honors, today, in Washingtonville N.Y. Danny was President of the FDNY Retired firefighters of the Hudson Valley/Orange County N.Y. and a highly decorated veteran of both the U.S. Marine Corps and the...

I was told that all members of the London Fire Brigade were lost in the Blitz, by an old English gentlemen, I met Infront of the quarters of E-34/TL-21 on Sept. 12, 2001, the day after World Trade Center attack. I had just returned from the pile and standing having a soda when this...

Johnny is right. But in my years of firefighting alot of it in the Busy "War Years" there have been times when, especially in the summertime, when kids opening hydrants to cool off, the hydrant pressure can drop to the point, that little or no hydrant pressure is available. When the gauge on...

My grandson is a firefighter in West Philly. So, I keep track of what happening in the P.F.D. They had 3 major fires in one night in Philly a least two of which were in the highly active areas of West. Philly. I joke with him, "stay out of smokey buildings" but he never listens. Captain Bob...

I am proud to say truly Paddy Brown was a friend of mine. When I was Lieutenant in Ladder 21. Paddy was a Lieutenant in Rescue 1. In talking we discovered that we both were Viet Nam Combat Veterans and fire buffs. I can truly say that Paddy was not only a great man, but you truly knew he was...

I have a photo of the firefighters in the Ukraine on the wall just above my head, searching a collapsed, bombed building. Firefighters in the tradition of the Firemen/Firefighters of England and the rest of the world during WW II. In the Blitz of London during WW II EVERY Member of the London...

Johnny and my other brothers make a good point. The problem with using 3 1/2" and other soft clad supply hose/s is that if the pressure in the intake of the pumper drops, because of low hydrant pressure, trying to pump out more water than is being supplied, problems with the pump,, then the...

The people you mentioned above the Deputy Mayor, the head of OEM, and the Fire Commissioner, does not include the people of the city of N.Y. and the City Counsel. Keep the statics down and then try to go and get more funding for things like, reopening fire units, more 5-man manning units, more...

When I was a covering Lieutenant and working teaching at Proby School in the mid 1980; s. I left the Rock = FDNY Fire Academy, on my way home and I Buffed an Explosion in a in a midrise Multiple Dwelling in Manhattan just off the Harlem River/FDR Drive and just north of the Manhattan exit off...

Once again if it Quacks like a Duck and Walks like a Duck then it most likely IS a Duck. The idea of adding so many units to an incident and not transmitting the next alarm or alarms is suspect. This is clearly a way of keeping the public and perhaps the city council, in the dark about the very...

I wonder where TL-18 was? I worked in TL-18 from 1977 till my promotion in 1984, so I know the area. I believe that L-18 would normally y be 2nd due on the box. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

Believe it or not when I was on Shore Leave from the U.S. Navy in Hong Kong in about 1967, (Once a Buff always a Buff) I went to a fire station and Hong Kong. A that time Hong Kong was still under British Rule, so speaking English was not a problem in the fire station. While I was there an alarm...

Thank you for all the good wishes above, on my 80th (Can't believe it) birthday. I am still learning and still love the brotherhood of firefighters. My oldest, grandson works is a firefighter in a busy Engine in the Philadelphia Fire Dept., and he also works for the Underwriters Laboratory at...

Protests were in place for most my FDNY promotional Exams. Lieutenant, Captain, but not for Battalion Chief. Captain Bob Raimey FDNY Engine 26 retired

The captain of Rescue 1, on 9/11/01 was Capt. Terry Hatten a good man. Terry wife worked for the then Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Terry was a real professional with years of service in FDNY Rescue Co. 2 in Brooklyn. May he continue to rest in Peace. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.

NY State Motor Vehicle Law says that parking on a Hydrant is a Summons and is given to a vehicle. If a driver is in the vehicle and refuses to move the car off the hydrant it becomes a Personal Service Summons. In fact, Two Personal summons can be given. One for "Refusing to the directions of a...

In this case TL-114 should have crushed the car on the hydrant with the Tl Tormentor. Again, it is unsafe to raise the boom and basket of any Tower Ladder without all tormentors and jacks FULLY extended and locked. It has happened and will happen again a Tower Ladder will tip over if the...

I don't care if it is Switzerland or Brooklyn NY USA, properly installed and supplied, tested sprinklers would and have saved many lives in Bars, Restaurants and other places of public assembly. This was an upscale Ski Resort Bar why was it not properly sprinkled? Fellow firefighters do we go...

While I see your point. My Point is once again if you're an Incident Commander and you Do Not have units standing by ready to go to work, you have not planned ahead or considered what might happen. We MUST be proactive and call for help, including additional alarms, special calls for specific...

These are great companies, great firefighters and great Chief's. I must state again that putting the FAST Truck to work for NONFAST fire duty is not a good idea. Chief's if you do not have units standing by ready to go to work and a FAST/Mayday! situation/s develops what do you do? I was often...