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Being very close to the county line, did Broward County send units to this incident?

Prior to volunteers, every household in the settlement had to have a bucket and every able-bodied person had to participate in the bucket line, enforceable by fine.

Kansas Ave is almost entirely in NW and it does not have a 300 block. Wondering how the CAD system could pick an assignment for a non-existant location? While some addresses repeat in as many as all four quadrants, the avenues, running diagonally, cannot.

There is no Kansas Ave SE

155 Mercer St1865 157 E 67th St1877 1 Centre St1914 110 Church St1971 250 Livingston St, BK1982 9 Metro Tech, BK1997

Commercial factory building conversion to firehouse 'temporarily' during WWII pending new firehouse (didn't happen). Previously rumored to be a brewery, then a commercial laundry. Became firehouse in 1944. (Per Mike Boucher article in Fire Service Digest article in 1989)

E14 was assigned to Box 488 at 0841. They were on the 2nd 5th alarm assignment to Box 9998 for #2 WTC from there.

The boro call system ended in 1981, while the last telegraph response was in 1983. (Brooklyn 5-7-438) Running cards, multiple alarm levels, and relocations could be initiated simultaneously for many companies by transmission of a single bell sequence. If a boro call is defined as the...

Knickerbocker Ave & Bleeker St, Brooklyn July 1977 77-767-66-33-678

Circa 1983 when the telegraph bells were discontinued. Last actual boro call was in 1977. Concept was used on 9-11 for staging at entry points to Manhattan.

On 1/11/68 - multiple multiples At 1238 44-2503 At 1304 33-3137 for which a Dispatchers 44 was sent, Queens sent 7 engines and 1 ladder for coverage At 1503 33-2848 for which a Dispatchers 44, then a Dispatchers 55, then boro call 66-22-937 were sent On 2/25/1968 At 1741 2456 At 1750 22-2456...

January 11, 1968 from Manhattan to Bronx 66-55-2848-66-22-937 February 25, 1968 from Queens to Bronx 66-55-2456-99-33-4356 June 6, 1968 from Manhattan to Bronx 66-55-2381-66-22-1622

January 5, 1962 41 Ave & Frame Pl Simultaneous (not Boro) Call 99-9404-66-937 3 engines only

at E250 1930, 1951 at E240 1948 at E242 1975 at E330 1991

~2005