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Back to what I have said for other questions, the city looks at numbers. They don’t go to the fires. They don’t read the reports. They look at numbers. So now if we change the policy and don’t send them then the city says that’s a great place to cut. And with the present administration and how...

5 story (per CIDS) is correct. If you goggle map the front of the building and zoom in you will see inside the front door is a flight of stairs more than likely going to another door that lets you onto the first floor and where the mailboxes are. This building also, more than likely, does not...

Gasoline in well placed areas can do amazing things for rapid fire spread

Is it me or is dere an extra ordinary amount of large warehouse fires across da country lately

79 is 4th here due to being relocated to 62/32 qtrs correct?

Tanks

It appears to be a spare due to the flip numbers on da door but it looks like da Ladder 37 Truck sign on the side of da aerial. Do they now move that sign when in a spare?

Signal 73 it looks like you have 32 as Fast and first on the second

No A few I believe 94/48 had a fuel leak in the basement while a delivery truck was delivering and it blew 47 Truck lost their kitchen twice There4's been others

Back in da day of da typewriter da Aide had to type up a report opposed to handwriting a minor “one liner”

I remember one late night sitting in da kitchen being part of a discussion with a buncha senior guys and the officer says screw everything else. The only thing da city looks at is numbers. Da more jobs ya have, da more all hands, da more multiples is what matters. If you go by da old way, we got...

They were hard to maneuver especially tight streets, took a lot longer to set up compared to regular rear mounts, the 110' had different outriggers due to the bigger heavier ladder, the diamond plate in the crew compartment was always very hot, each rig had its own malfunctions like air line...

I thought da 27 parked behind da housewatch in da middle of da floor

Back in the 80's and 90's someone had their car at da 52's in Riverdale.

It's not done on a regular basis, and it is not a rarity but yes, da FDNY does loan rigs to other departments. It's also not the first time NRFD has gotten a loaner.