My Favorite FDNY Rig of All Time.

[raybrag]

1947 Mack L/Approved rescue built in Rockville Centre, NY. Ran as Rescue 1 1947- 1959, then as Rescue 2 1960 -1966.


The purchase price of this unit, which was designated model LF, was $26,600.00. The body and compartmentation was designed by the members of Rescue Company 1 and was tailored to the specific equipment and needs of that unit. The vehicle had a walkthrough body with many interior compartments, as well as six exterior compartments on each side and another two at the rear of the body. It was equipped with a 2400 watt Homelite generator, three 500 watt and one 250 watt floodlights. There were also two windows high on each side of the body. This rig was 26 feet long, 9 feet, 3 inches high, 7 feet, 11 inches wide and had a 176-inch wheelbase. It was powered by a Mack six-cylinder Thermodyne engine with a Mack five-speed transmission and was delivered with a Mars light and an externally mounted Sireno siren. Paragraph courtesy Jack Calderone through Frank Raffa's nyfd.com.

I saw it many times as Rescue 1 while I was in High school in Manhattan, and again many times as Rescue 2 while I was in college, mostly around downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights.

Here it is as Rescue 2:

 

[1261Truckie]

I saw it many times during the 60's heading South on Washington Ave, turning East on Eastern Parkway heading out to Brownsville or East New York.

 

[nfd2004]

My favorite rig
It was my first introduction to the FDNY way back almost 60 years ago.

Thank you Ray,

 

[QUEENS1985]

My favorite rig has always been the tactical support units. As a kid it was squad 270 when they became one in 1998, they added compartments on top and on the side, as well as a Q- like siren. When you heard it coming I knew it was them.

 

[JohnnyGage]

Of course my fave is the 68 ALF tiller, but the runner up is a tie. You got to love all the types of Mack produced from the L series, C series, and CF, all genuinely classic beauties...but I get stuck on the fugly Pagoda Ward LaFrance Firebrand for some reason.

 

[TRAC@1854]

I have two. The phone booth RM's and the covered wagon engines.

 

[lucky]

The very quick '65 Mack pumpers, whistling down the street.

 

[1261Truckie]

Tie........1959/1960 Mack 85ft Tillers and/or early 1970's Seagrave Rearmounts.

 

[TRAC@1854]

Whether it be an engine or ladder, open cabs are cool. Especially is inclement whether

 

[QUEENS1985]

Tie........1959/1960 Mack 85ft Tillers and/or early 1970's Seagrave Rearmounts.

I loved the 89 Mack/Ward engines. My fist due 293 had one.

 

[patrickfd]

I always loved the Mack CF's and I was fortunate enough to work in a department that ran them also. A fire truck's fire truck

 

[downtownmedic]

Favorite FDNY rigs were the 1984/85 Macks white over red with the "candy cane" lightbars...MC Rescues, R Field Comm., CF Engines and Towers...the rigs of my childhood.

 

[memorymaster]

1960 Ward LaFrance as mentioned above and 1954 Mack "L" pumpers.