Looks like a CD rig next to it.
VINTAGE FDNY RIG PHOTOS.
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CD rig with a Mars light installed. They didn't come with those rigs.
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Former SQUIRT retrofitted with a short Aerial & used by ENG*70 during the period when LAD*53 was temporarily disbanded.
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I recall at the time one of the members OTJ telling me this squirt was reassigned to E70 in an attempt to fool the public that there was still a ladder company in quarters. I believe the ladder was lashed to the squirt boom, or maybe that was just to E70s rig prior to the assignment of the squirt. In any case, a couple of dispatchers lived on City Island and nobody was fooled.
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Note the Scaling Ladder mounted above the hose bed. Captain Bob Rainey FDFNY Engine 26 retired.
And note the bell mounted right behind the officer's seat.
My father's Engine 88 had one of these rigs until 1952. The first apparatus I was allowed to climb on when visiting the house. The siren, mounted on the front bumper, no longer worked so the bell and buckeye provided the warning when responding. Located in that position, the bell would literally leave anyone who sat up front tone deaf by the time they got to the box. Instead they ran a rope along the hose bed to the back step and rang it from there, leaving that front seat vacant.
Thanks for the memories, Chief jk.
Operationally, hose wagons like these were extremely useful. First equipped with "deck pipes" in the 1890s, so named because they were originally mounted on the decks of the fireboats of the day. The wagon would often execute a "flying stretch" from the steamer or later "gasoline powered pumping engines" to protect exposures or on heavy bodies of fire. Critical high volume hose streams in the days before tower ladders or even ladder pipes. (Water towers rarely ventured to the outer boroughs of the Bronx, Staten Island, or Queens.)
My father's Engine 88 had one of these rigs until 1952. The first apparatus I was allowed to climb on when visiting the house. The siren, mounted on the front bumper, no longer worked so the bell and buckeye provided the warning when responding. Located in that position, the bell would literally leave anyone who sat up front tone deaf by the time they got to the box. Instead they ran a rope along the hose bed to the back step and rang it from there, leaving that front seat vacant.
Thanks for the memories, Chief jk.
Operationally, hose wagons like these were extremely useful. First equipped with "deck pipes" in the 1890s, so named because they were originally mounted on the decks of the fireboats of the day. The wagon would often execute a "flying stretch" from the steamer or later "gasoline powered pumping engines" to protect exposures or on heavy bodies of fire. Critical high volume hose streams in the days before tower ladders or even ladder pipes. (Water towers rarely ventured to the outer boroughs of the Bronx, Staten Island, or Queens.)