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I'd say Herbie is reading this list upside down. Looks like we need to reopen the 5th or maybe the 9th Division (who, as I recall, had no administrative duties). Put them in Robert Moses' old office underneath the Tri-Borough Bridge.

Seems to me that if rank by promotion means anything, Then the ABC needs to grab his mask and get up to the point of attack where he works every day. Would Battalion Chief George Patton let Acting Battalion Chief Beetle Bailey run the show?

Thanks! My older sister has the same birth date. My mother must have been the human Stonehenge of the Epiphany.

Wed December 31, 1947 9:40 am responded to 10-2998-3 Inhalator at E 43 civilian 11:13 am Signal 65-2 Dep Chiefs in all Divisions shall cause all available personnel of units in their Divisions to start immediately the opening of curb lane from company quarters to sewer catch basins & to...

I'd like to say I've never made that mistake. I can't. I'd like to say I used Luhn's algorithm to notice the error. I can't. As part of how the trivia world works, the Luhn algorithm is what your credit card company uses to verify your card number. They only need the last number on your card...

Nice pre-arrival photos Can that possibly be the correct Box number? I can think of three Baltimore County stations (11, 1, 14) who could beat those companies into 31's district.

Saturday Dec 27, 1947 8:15 am Members left quarters to clear streets and hydrants of snow. 8:30 am Lieut Phelan left quarters to supervise 12:00 pm Members return 1:16 pm Signal 65-2 Comm Quayle requests former members of the FD volunteer their services for the removal of snow from in front of...

The Christmas Blizzard of 1947....You guys are getting off way too easily! On December 26, 1947 NYC received 26 inches of snow (more than the Blizzard of 1888). Then, on New Year's Day it got a 40 hour ice storm which caused 4,000 fire alarm boxes to fail while coated with ice. Signal 6-6-6-6...

If you make a left turn out 6's quarters and go about 100 yards down on to 39th Street you will be at the site of the old Allegheny Arsenal. On September 17, 1862 it exploded killing 78 people, mostly young women. This happened on the same day as the Battle of Antietam- the bloodiest single day...

Engine and Truck 6 are at 3958 Penn Avenue and 6's old house (1873) is up the street and around the corner at 44th and Calvin- now a parking garage. The assignment was Box 562- Penn Avenue and Main Street.

There's good and there's bad. Tuesday February 10, 1948 1:30 pm Capt. Eberle completed inspection of all members' Books of Rules & Regulations. Found all in good condition, up-to-date. 1:34 pm Rec'd alarm by telegraph Signal 22-2738 Company responded. 2:44 pm Company ret'd from Signal...

Thank you. It is always good to hear the view of an expert.

Looks like a gas fed fire. The electrical power is off. Do they have sectional gas cut-off valves in the building in addition to a main valve going into the building at ground level? Can FDNY shut off any of those valves?

With three shift changes per day, the company journal is basically filled with recorded roll calls. Like bed check in prison, it documents the whereabouts of twenty-seven inmates around the clock for a year. There are, however, some amusing episodes: Saturday July 12, 1947 At 2:18 pm Rescue...

Astronaut Alan Shephard noted that the scariest part of space flight was that everything was made by the lowest bidder. He forgot to mention that just as scary was the involvement of politicians who considered politics more important than getting things done safely.

Compared with what was to come, I would describe fire duty in the Bronx in 1947-48 as quiet. During that time, work groups were in three platoons. Shift changes were at 8:00 am, 4:00 pm, and Midnight (I saw one midnight roll call supervised by the 14th Battalion- what prompted that?). The...

It was probably not LBJ, but rather George Abbey (known to some as Dracula- they couldn't get rid of him) who was politically well connected and felt to favor Navy guys for crew assignment. My father worked at NASA Houston from 1964 to 1983 in the Crew Systems Office. The Apollo 1 fire in 1967...

In May of 1947, the war had been over almost two years, the Bronx was beginning a transition from Europeans to Blacks and Puerto Ricans in the South Bronx , and Rescue 3 had been in business for 16 years. https://seeoldnyc.com/bronx-1940s/ Over a year prior, Rescue demonstrated their expertise...

Buzz Aldrin...New Jersey native...USMA Class of 1951....Korean War Veteran... and along with Neil Armstrong became the first two humans to set foot on the surface of the moon on July 21, 1969 turned 96 today. As such, he remains a national treasure: in my eyes even more so after he punched out...

Just one more job in "The Neck"! https://hiddencityphila.org/2013/01/in-the-neck-a-history-of-stiff-resistance-to-change/