7/23/2011 All Hands Queens Box 5892

mikeindabronx · Jul 24, 2011

137-25 Caney Ln., BN-54, fire in the basement of a 2 sty 20X40 PD
E-311 (gave 10-75)
L-133 (FAST)

About..22:15

efd274 · Jul 24, 2011

mikeindabronx said:
137-25 Caney Ln., BN-54, fire in the basement of a 2 sty 20X40 PD
E-311 (gave 10-75)
L-133 (FAST)

About..22:15

22:15
Phone alarm fire in basement - subsequent report of smoke from the chimney

First Alarm
Engines 314, 311, 317
Trucks: TL158, L165,
BC54

22:17
E311: 10-75
E314 was on the box - do not know why E311 transmitted the 10-75

10-75 Assignment
E275
L133 FAST
Squad 270
Rescue 4
BC50
DC13

22:25
BC54: using All Hands for a fire in the basement - 2L/S one in operation - fire has been K/D - primaries negative on first floor
Duration 13 minutes

22:26
Disp transmits All Hands
RAC
BC54: primary is negative on the second floor also

68jk09 · Jul 24, 2011

As a kid around 1950 i had an Aunt who lived on Caney Lane ..we lived in Manhattan....i remember my Father taking me to her house one summer for a few days of "VACATION" way out in Rosedale.

efd274 · Jul 25, 2011

68jko9 - were Green Acres Mall and the drive-in theater up and running at that time?

raybrag · Jul 25, 2011

I can't answer for the Chief, but as I remember it, the Drive-in was there before Green Acres was built, and that was in the mid-50's. I used to ride with my Dad, who worked at Queens Boro Hall, past there to the Van Wyck every morning on my way to high school (at St Ann's then Molloy) in 56-59, and I remember Macy's going up behind the drive-in.

efd274 · Jul 25, 2011

Thanks Raybrag

raybrag · Jul 25, 2011

efd: my answer to your question got me thinking. I felt really uncomfortable telling you that I watched Macy's go up . . . not because I didn't watch it, but I didn't remember it as being Macy's. So I did a little research, and it wasn't. GIMBEL"S opened in the store that is now Macy's in 1956. I do remember that when it opened, it was not an enclosed mall but rather a group of stores clustered around and near one another, with open walkways between them. All the stores were there, but in winter you froze walking from one to another, and in summer you sweat bullets, and whenever it rained you got soaked. And, of course, it ain't in the city . . . it's in Valley Stream.

68jk09 · Jul 25, 2011

efd...we did not have a car so i do not know if the drive in was there in 1950.....biggest attraction i saw then was Brookville Pond & ENG*314s qtrs.

efd274 · Jul 25, 2011

Thanks Chief and raybrag - I was thinking about the drive in as well and remember some one telling me it was the first one in New York State. I just googled it and the Valley Stream Redstone Drive-in was the first in NY - constructed in 1938 and closed in 1978

Some interesting information at the following website

http://www.newyorkdriveins.com/longislandregion/sunrisevalleystream/sunrisevalleystream.php