It was common in those days for a unit, engine or truck to go in by themselves waiting help. Two incidents still stand out in my mind, memory. Working 9x6 in 50 engine. The truck, 19, had BI. For some of those days when the truck had BI we would swap rigs and the truck would do BI with the engine, officer, mpo and members. That day, think it was 1970, was the day they were opening up the tin house on Boston and 169 for E85/L59. All the brass was there and the companies were OOS for the ceremony. About 1000 we (19) get a 1st due box. We respond. On the box would be 50,85,19,59,B27. 85 and 59 are not sent, nor replaced. A distant Battalion is sent for the 27th. That day 19 was doing schools on BI. We respond pull up and we have a good fire 3rd floor tenement. There is a woman standing in front of the building screaming that her baby was in the fire apartment. I give an "urgent", no response back. Another "urgent" and still no response back. Get off the rig and go up the stairs. The fire is at the apartment door. We try and push it back with the can but is like pissing on a bonfire. I only get in about 10 feet and was able to do a quick search in a bathroom first room on the right. Had to be 10 minutes after the box when 19 finally has a line on the landing. We switch and take the line in with 19 now operating as a truck. Back room we find the baby's body. He looked like a small ash with bumps for arms and legs. Was told that he had turned 1 years old the day before. Had a lot of fires those days, will never forget this one or the little guy. Another 9x6 few years later working in 82 we come out of a building and the dispatcher asks if we are available. I say yes and he gives us an address and box. We go. 31 and the 27 are still in the building. Dispatcher tells the 17th Battalion that he has 1 and 1, 82 and 17 truck coming from below. Pull up and we have an H with a fire 3rd floor. People in front of the building tell me that a woman and 3 kids are in the apartment. I give an urgent, it is answered. Go up the stairs, fire is out into the hallway. I can hear a woman screaming on the floor above. I yell down to Patty O'Neill to go up and get the woman. Again I only get in a few feet, nothing. Fire now on the floor above. Patty rescues a woman and 3 kids, brings them down. We find out that this is the woman whose apartment was on fire. She ran up to her neighbors apartment instead of downstairs. Neighbor was gone but they were trapped. Fire went to a 2nd. I wrote Patty up and he got a Class 3 and a medal that year, well deserved.