Recent content by Ladder63

Ken, you are right, I meant to include that in my remarks above. During adaptive response hours pull boxes with a history of mfa's would get a 2&1 and BC response. 10-30 told the dispatchers the 2nd truck was needed. I recall jobs developing with the 1st arriving company transmitting a 10-30...

I was an FDNY "scanner buff" in the mid through late 1970's. My impression was Company Officers (LT's & CAPT's) would transmit a 10-30 upon arrival at a job and leave it to the responding BC to transmit a 10-75. I don't know if this was an unwritten rule or protocol, it just seemed to be the...

Some questions about the Combos: 1.  With only one officer, a Captain, on which apparatus did the Officer ride, the Engine or the Truck? 2.  Which apparatus rolled first out of Quarters the Engine or the Truck? 3.  If it was a "job" who did the Officer lead, the Forcible Entry team from the...

During the mid 1970's when I buffed the Job on my scanner I recall hearing of Second Sections to some Companies.  Engine 50 seems to be one such.  What was a second section?  Was it Quartered with it's namesake?  Also during those years I recall the Queens CO dispatching The Combo or a Combo...