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    Ontario, California 6 Alarm Warehouse Fire 4/7/26

    04/07/2026 Ontario, CA Kimberly Clark warehouse distribution center 4815 S Hellman Ave 0031 Ontario E139, E141, E136, L139, L141 E133, E132, E138, L138 E137, E131, E134, L131 E135, E137a, E131a, L137a Chino Valley E63 Rancho Cucamonga/Foothills E174, L174 Upland E163, L161 Montclair E151...
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    TURN OUT - Winter Spring 2026

    Go to ifba.org Scroll down on the main page. It's on the lower left. They are working on fixing the page.
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    TURN OUT - Winter Spring 2026

    ifba.org
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    3/27/26 Bronx 3rd Alarm 10-66 Box 3514

    E206 - 1907 E86 - 1930 (pilot house on fireboat) Marine 5 - 1965 E94 - 1968 E245 - 1968 (during renovation) E290 - 1973 E294 - 1974 Marine 5 - 1978 (again) R1 - 1985 (collapse of exposure building) E207 - 2006 (roof on NYPD side of building) E80 - 2008 E65 - 2013 E163 - 2024 These burned while...
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    3/25/26 Hartford CT

    The concern was that if the Rehab was always operated by the Engine where it was quartered, that Engine would wind up assigned to every fire citywide, all the time. So, the assignment was given to the 5th due Engine (after the 3 initial Engines and one for RIT). While the Rehab was quartered...
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    3/25/26 Hartford CT

    Rehab engine provides a driver for the Rehab Bus. Engine and Bus are assigned together, Engine crew may be used on fireground, once Bus is delivered.
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    3/19/26 Brooklyn 3rd Alarm Box 2492

    https://www.nycfire.net/forums/threads/second-sections.68664/
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    3/5/26 Bronx 4th Alarm Box 3607

    https://www.nycfire.net/forums/threads/11-28-22-queens-3rd-alarm-box-7186.74333/page-2#post-251480 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...
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    5th Alarm Miami Dade Fl. Mega Warehouse fully involved

    Being very close to the county line, did Broward County send units to this incident?
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    LI FD Volunteers rapidly diminishing.

    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.
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    3/4/26 Washington D.C., Structure Fire

    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.
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    3/4/26 Washington D.C., Structure Fire

    There is no Kansas Ave SE
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    VINTAGE FDNY RIG PHOTOS.

    155 Mercer St1865 157 E 67th St1877 1 Centre St1914 110 Church St1971 250 Livingston St, BK1982 9 Metro Tech, BK1997
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    Firehouses Then and Now

    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)
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    Rundown of units at 9-11

    E14 was assigned to Box 488 at 0841. They were on the 2nd 5th alarm assignment to Box 9998 for #2 WTC from there.
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    Boro Call / Largest Response

    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...
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    Boro Call / Largest Response

    Knickerbocker Ave & Bleeker St, Brooklyn July 1977 77-767-66-33-678
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    Boro Call / Largest Response

    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.
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    Boro Call / Largest Response

    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...
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