SEPT 2nd NYCFire.net monthly ZOOM meeting

[Atlas]

WHEN: TUES EVENING, 2 Sept 2025 at 1930 HRS, Eastern Time.

WHERE: ZOOM

SPEAKER: Glenn Usdin

SUBJECT: Fire Photo – 50 years of experience.


This coming Tuesday night, the 2ndt of Sept, we will be holding the monthly Zoom meeting at 7:30 p.m.

I am honored to announce that Glenn Usdin has accepted an invitation to be the guest speaker tomorrow night, the 2nd of Sept. Unlike his past appearances on NYCFire.net monthly Zoom meeting Glenn will be sharing this time 50 years’ worth of photo experience with the fire service.

His life experiences will cross being a volunteer on Long Island, crossing the East River into the Bronx armed with a camera. He went with friends where the red devil dared to show its face. Manhattan, Brooklyn. Queens were no strangers to him.

He even worked as one of the top managers of Fire Engineer. Glenn as a photographer captured the images that today we say ‘Look at that and I missed it’! But thanks to Glenn we can see what it was really like.

Afterwards, you are invited to join our fellow members at the virtual kitchen table.

If you have any additional questions please feel free to reach out to Atlas@NYCFire.net

 

[nfd2004]

Thank you, Glenn, for your excellent zoom presentation on Tuesday evening September 2, '25 featuring your 50 years of buffing and photographing the FDNY.

You were able to share with us photos of the FDNY during their busiest years called the FDNY WAR YEARS.

Your photos were featured in magazines like Fire Enginering (a front-page cover photo) and through the magazine and throughout WNYF Magazine.

You showed us photos taken while you were on the roofs with members working a job only a few feet away - certainly something that would never be allowed today.

You provided us with photos of members working, the apparatus, the chiefs, even Commissioner O'Hagan.

I'm glad I tuned in and I'm sure others that tuned in agree.

As a buff myself, we often hung out in the same neighborhoods together - just didn't know each other then.
Yes, I too was on the roofs of fire buildings watching the member's work.

Of course, as many of you know, Glenn provided the photos in the very popular book "They Saved New York" which was written by Dan Potter, aka "johnnygage", a retired FDNY member himself.

That book is no longer in print and trying to find a copy could be very difficult these days.

Thank you Glenn and Thank You to both "Atlas" and "jbendick" for making that zoom possible.