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There is a Batt Chief assigned to the safety command working daily around the clock. 24/7. However years ago there was always extra Batt chiefs in Safety working on investigations or special projects. I do not know if this is true today. Remember, at times FDNY will activate a second Safety Batt...

Normally the staff chiefs can respond at their pleasure. If they feel that their presents can help the situation, they can respond. Remember that a staff chief assigned to a Boro Cmd can go to any call they feel their services can be use full. A Boro Commander is responsible for making sure that...

The 4th Alarm Chiefs rotate the duty and respond either from their office or home. They are one of the senior staff chiefs, such as the Chief of Training, the Assistant Chief of Operations, & Chief of Fire Prevention. At once time they were called Bureau Chiefs. The 5th Alarm chief is either...

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.

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...

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...

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...

MONTHLY ZOOM MEETING THIS COMING TUESDAY NIGHT, 5 DECEMBER, 2023 @ 1930 Hours Topic will be ‘MANUFACTURING FIRE APPARATUS – TODAY’S PROBLEMS’

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.

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...

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...

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...

Multiple Alarm Fire in Schoharie County in the village of Cobleskill. Structure fire reported adj to 102 Spring St. Mutual aid from adj towns.

RIP brother.

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

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

So pre-internet how did you obtain a list of fire house/station locations?

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...

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...

The response was 65 - 21 - 26 - 8 - 54.