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The "G-Man Rule" applies to situations where 1st due companies are unavailable due to some administrative assignment (i.e., medical, visit to the Rock for training), NOT for being assigned at another box. If E96 was already out at Box 2801 this would not be an example of the "G-Man Rule".

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Anyone truly interested just google "Harlem River Ship Canal". Great story. No way this could get done today.

At last contact, Tom was having some serious health issues. I have tried to keep alive a bantor with him on this forum, just to let him know we are all still here for him, and we are. As he observed many years ago, whenever a unit was out of service for some administrative event, it seems it...

Traditional assignment was 90 88 48 62 97 41 38 56F 32 Used to be the last box "out behind the park" for E48. I believe BARB messed it all up. No 88 at all today?

From my source, the 1996 New York City Fire Alarm Assignment and Reference Guide, Box 3358 is for Grand Avenue at W 190th St. This specific address is between 190th and 192d Sts on Grand Ave. As I recorded for a job at this box some years ago, the box assignment was 75 48 81 79 43 88 33 56...

G-man Rule. Hate to see these classic old homes burn down. Bronx legacy being lost, one by one. But 17 rooms? Bring in more illegals...

Years ago, this was a two and two box... 81 75. 46 33 BN 19 No 3d due companies if the travel distance was > 1.5 miles. That was pretty much all of the Bronx north/ west of Mosholu Pkwy/ Bailey Ave or n/e of Pelham Pkwy/Bronx Park East.

Ditto to Charley... And what a lineup of rigs in this photo! Any story behind it ?

Surely you mean to say "E88 not available".

Not here.

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It sounds like you are assigned to 1 of those companies.

Bronx Box 3396, Webster Ave at East 197th St. The physical red alarm box stood right on the NW corner of 197th, right outside the entrance to O’Briens Tavern. Jack O’Brien, the owner, was from the “old country” and the nicest man you could meet, exceeded only by his wife Mary, also “off the...

Excellent research Mr.Rock. Thank you. Anybody know anything more about this, i.e., what units carry it, how long has it been in service, how often used, how effective do the members consider it to be, ect.,?

Is the blocker a device or an operational technique? And how exactly is it "deployed"?

Methinks Da' Bronx needs another tiller to cover for L39. Too far for L34.

A little history... Back during the War Years of the 1960s, the 1st alarm All Hands response to 3320 was 75 48 42. 33 38 Bn19 3&2, no L56 (in either location) back then. The only box L38 assigned on the Concourse. Just to the north, L37. Just to the south, L27. Things do change.

Engine 4 is still in service, co-located with Engine 3 on Wood Ave., West Side firehouse.

G-man Rule. For those of you not familiar with what the G-man Rule is... Tom Eve, the "G-man", long time member of and contributor to this site (and accomplished jazz musician) years ago noted the following: When a unit is OOS for some administrative reason there often occurs a good job in...