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    SUPER PUMPER 1

    Did original super n tender respond 1st alarm to navy Yard location?
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    FDNY Unit Location Google Map (customized unit icons)

    a link to this map pls?
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    Aerials Over 100 Feet ??

    Sorry but the mack magirus was 146 ft NOT 144ft as wrongly repeatedly stated on this forum over and over again...
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    FDNY Response 1945 Empire State Building

    https://www.fireengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/content/dam/fe/online-articles/documents/2015/FE194510EmpireStatePlane.pdf
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    FDNY Response 1945 Empire State Building

    Anybody have the list of companies that responded to the 1945 Empire State Building plane crash?
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    New Bids Issued

    KME contract that was canceled was for 3 years and various number of rigs so it doesn't male sense why there is a need for another bid...
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    Brand New Satellite 3

    They are as ugly as the 1977 rebuilds of the original 1960s Macks.
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    New Rescues in Production

    junk from ferrarra
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    Disbanded units

    certain how do u know?
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    Disbanded units

    Dont think so...
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    Jack Lerch Passing

    How bout somebody posting a link to an official obituary please? I knew Jack lerch and he is everything that people here are saying that he is, simply wonderful.
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    Ladder 5

    Worked in NYc 1972- when Ladder 5 had a 1969 Mack MB tractor retrofitted to the 1953 ALF trailer. QUESTION: how did ladder 5 fit two rigs in the Charles St firehouse up until 1939 when the second section was dropped so that manpower could be shifted to a new additional platoon which process...
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    SS Normandie fire 1942 --any record of response of fdny units specific co's?

    Wanting to know fdny units assigned over 5 alarms on this epic fire in 1942..know of response as follows; 1st alarm 4 engines 2 ladders, 2nd alarm same less one ladder; 3rd alarm 5 engines and 1 ladder; 4th alarm 5 engines 1 ladder; 5th alarm 6 engines 1 ladder plus special units as per various...
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    7/18/18 HUDSON YARDS FIREHOUSE

    An easy way out is: relocate an engine to Rescue 1 as an additional unit or if space does not allow as the ONLY unit and locate Rescue 1 elsewhere for the time being until a new Rescue 1 station can be realized . Just my hunch of what an easy way out might look like.
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    BRING BACK ENGINE 261

    Ladder 8 is vulnerable....they could close or relocate to Hudson Yards as an engine or as ladder 8 and the ladder 8 station/house occupied by engine 7...
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    BRING BACK ENGINE 261

    engine 12 closed in 1959 engine 19 in 1947
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    BRING BACK ENGINE 261

    The 1939 second sections and 1947 first sections were all eliminated to facilitate an additional platoon NOT because of a lack of need for their existence.
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    Photo Search: 1960 Ward LaFrance Reg#5928

    late 50s macks were cab forward
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    FDIC Pierce Ascendant Aerials

    Would like to see some of these field tested for FDNY in the busiest boroughs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLaJvI1jAXY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3xDjOD3TWM
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    TL21 swapped out their rearmount with whoever had the TL
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