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Before the days of bunker gear and enclosed cabs:
- going from warm bunk to apparatus floor and getting the first splash of cold air
- shivering most of the way to the box on really cold nights
- accessing the roof under heavy snow and icy conditions
- making the stretch through snow drifts or across icy sidewalks, courtyards and walkups
- coming back out to the street wet on really cold nights
- shoveling the front of the firehouse as the snow came down faster than you could clear it
- discovering the hydrant was frozen
- how cold hooks, cans, nozzles and ground ladders got if you didn’t put your gloves on
- the cold drafty backrooms and kitchens in many houses back then
Memories - stories ????
- going from warm bunk to apparatus floor and getting the first splash of cold air
- shivering most of the way to the box on really cold nights
- accessing the roof under heavy snow and icy conditions
- making the stretch through snow drifts or across icy sidewalks, courtyards and walkups
- coming back out to the street wet on really cold nights
- shoveling the front of the firehouse as the snow came down faster than you could clear it
- discovering the hydrant was frozen
- how cold hooks, cans, nozzles and ground ladders got if you didn’t put your gloves on
- the cold drafty backrooms and kitchens in many houses back then
Memories - stories ????
