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FF E 18 Lt. L 148, L 127 Capt. L 55 BC B 45

Quite a few past and present FDNY Sandhogs.

111 brings to mind a variable that didn't really exist before a year or two ago. Relocators are now being assigned to the original fire fairly often. So a relocator is getting a mark for a job halfway across the boro. Most often the relocator is a 6th due "flower girl", not even a...

Next door to the fully involved vacant PD from a year or two ago.

Peaks and valleys. 120 had a busy year in 2024. Slow 1st half. The law of averages applies to all. A large response area plus a "poor" demographic will win in the long run. Someone mathematically inclined should invent a "batting average". Work/responses???

https://www.the-reporter.net/stories/lester-t-bourke,73661

They are called GoJacks. FD will not provide to line units. Should be standard ladder company equipment.

Capt. of the "War Wagon" E 71 1976-79

https://queensledger.com/2025/01/29/queenslink-or-queensway/

Companies with rigs older than 10 years, 365 days do not relocate as a contractual issue. There are ever increasing numbers of these rigs. The burden falls on the newer rigs.

Ret. FF Matthew Zambrano L-59 Charter member of L 59 Appt. 1958 Ret. 1978 https://www.sorcefuneralhome.com/obituaries/Matthew-Zambrano?obId=41972504

Dan Ingram

Perhaps there was a more pressing concern than the dumpster fire itself.