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Assigning companies pre-determined by distance to respond on multiple alarms and having relocators assigned separately from beyond the 5th alarm was a clever solution to a simple problem. Prior to...
Prior to volunteers, every household in the settlement had to have a bucket and every able-bodied person had to participate in the bucket line, enforceable by fine.
Kansas Ave is almost entirely in NW and it does not have a 300 block.
Wondering how the CAD system could pick an assignment for a non-existant location?
While some addresses repeat in as many as all four quadrants, the avenues, running diagonally, cannot.
Commercial factory building conversion to firehouse 'temporarily' during WWII pending new firehouse (didn't happen). Previously rumored to be a brewery, then a commercial laundry. Became firehouse in 1944. (Per Mike Boucher article in Fire Service Digest in 1989)
The boro call system ended in 1981, while the last telegraph response was in 1983. (Brooklyn 5-7-438)
Running cards, multiple alarm levels, and relocations could be initiated simultaneously for many companies by transmission of a single bell sequence.
If a boro call is defined as the...
Circa 1983 when the telegraph bells were discontinued. Last actual boro call was in 1977.
Concept was used on 9-11 for staging at entry points to Manhattan.
On 1/11/68 - multiple multiples
At 1238 44-2503
At 1304 33-3137 for which a Dispatchers 44 was sent, Queens sent 7 engines and 1 ladder for coverage
At 1503 33-2848 for which a Dispatchers 44, then a Dispatchers 55, then boro call 66-22-937 were sent
On 2/25/1968
At 1741 2456
At 1750 22-2456...
January 11, 1968 from Manhattan to Bronx 66-55-2848-66-22-937
February 25, 1968 from Queens to Bronx 66-55-2456-99-33-4356
June 6, 1968 from Manhattan to Bronx 66-55-2381-66-22-1622
Originally known as Hydrant Service Units
One per Division numbered 1 to 15. No #6 and no #9 as those Divisions did not exist at the time
In service 1934/1936 to 1957
In 1957 replaced by Thawing Apparatus 61 to 65.
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