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It was a tag team. I would drop him off on Jefferson Ave and Larry on 68 Ave.

Engine 215 was also disbanded, basically on their way to their new quarters.

gym wrote: Back in the early 50's my dad was with L140. Occasionally when he picked up his paycheck at the firehouse, he would take my twin brother and me to purchase sneakers on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg. Every time we passed E206, the firehouse doors were closed and it had to be...

Eng. 206 was one of the last engine companies to have 2 pieces of apparatus. A Deputy in the 11th Div. saw to that. I think that they were a 7 man company at that time because out OT went up quite a bit when they were moved to the 28 Batt. from the 35.

Does anyone have access to an old video of E 305 responding along Queens Blvd. with their 1938 Ahrens Fox pumper, followed by L 151 with their 1938 FWD?

If the rig is over the shutoff and the hydrant has a split ring at the ground level, you may hit the hydrant with a heavy maul and it will fall off its base with no discharge of water. Disconnect, call for the water company and take up.

I was on watch one afternoon and I turned the truck out to a 1300 number on Jefferson St. near Knickerbocker Ave. The Engine would be fourth or fifth due. I realized that the numbers on Jefferson St. are not that high so I looked to the right up towards Jefferson Ave. and see a column of smoke...

They are either still in the 37 Batt or in the 39 Batt. E 291 and L 140 are in the 35 Batt.

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Frank was a fireman in Eng. 209 and possibly Ladder 102, a lieutenant in Engine 222 and a captain down Ralph Ave in Engine 227. A good boss to work under.

B.C. Harry Coughlin was acting B.C. many times while Captain of Engine 277. He was known as 2 and 2 Harry because he didn't want a Deputy Chief on the scene. One, two, or three floors of fire were all treated the same, 2 Engines and 2 Trucks at work. Excellent boss to work for.

The staff Chiefs rotate the citywide tour commander post with the exception of the Chief of Safety. I'm not sure if it is still that way but he used to be assigned to a deputy fire commissioner. I was told that the reason was that the Safety Chief critiques incidents and would know that no...

You must remember that the members were working 23 hour days with 1 hour off for a meal and 1 day off per week. If your unit was closed or renumbered, you had to move your family to within a few blocks of your new company. My grandfather was in 8 Truck, lived on the lower West Side and when...

All second sections throughout the city switched from front to back or vice versa at 9AM each day. Engines 217 & 217-2 worked as follows: All old first due boxes became first and second due with the front piece first due. All old second due boxes became second and third due with the front piece...

This is the cause of the Brooklyn's truckless triangle, when they took Ladder 108 from the middle of the triangle and placed them in an area filled with double houses.

It fits easily inside the hard suction, so out of sight, out of mind.

The oil was for the rig. The company did their own oil changes. The number 42 rings a bell. I think that was how many quarts were needed.

The thing that I remember was that beside raising the hose, we used the tower to lower the 55 gallon clean oil drums into the basement and worse than that was lifting the same drums filled with the waste oil back up to the apparatus floor.

A firehouse normally received possibly a quarter of the boro's boxes. This included a surrounding boro's border boxes if units from the area were assigned to respond to the other boro. Houses in Bushwick, Wwilliamsburg and Bedford Styvesant would receive Queens boxes in Ridgewood and Glendale...

One of the old journals from Engine 277 has an entry by an officer who was hooking up one of the firemen who said the word "DAMN". An entry by the same officer later in the day noted that he was dropping the charges because the firemen said he was sorry. A lot of the entries were for chauffeurs...