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    Super Bowl - CFD vs LACFD Bets - Your Super Bowl Game Predictions

    Hope the Bengals get it done for Joe Burrow. Best halftime for me was the Stones.
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    Boston MA OMD Basement Dorchester 2/8/22

    Love the stache chief!
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    New Seagrave Contracts

    My dept. before I retired used both from Sutphen mainly. I always preferred the Cummins. I just looked up Pierce new deliveries and some are speced with Detroit diesel engines.
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    New Seagrave Contracts

    Just curious, what motor does FDNY spec? Cummins or Detroit?
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    Rockerfeller christmas tree fire

    The news said and the location matches, E-65.
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    Boston,MA Fast Food Restaurant Fire 10/1/2021

    A Mcfire! :LOL:
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    VINTAGE FDNY WAR YEAR LIDS

    I bet if Lt. Howard's helmet fronts could talk.....................they would cough first! :LOL:
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    4/23/21. NEW SEAGRAVE TOWER LADDERS

    From what I have read, not sure if it's true, rearmounts cost much less to purchase.
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    Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation

    I give every pay to This wonderful organization and my employer matches 100%.
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    Sefu Fat and Soap Company 6 LODD's DC Jonas's Division 7 Newsletter May 2021

    These are among my favorite reads on this site. Very informative and interesting. Look forward to them every month.
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    3/31/21 Staten Island 2nd Alarm Box 2033

    Thanks. So far it looks like things aren't going to be slowing down in April. All boroughs getting work.
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    3/31/21 Staten Island 2nd Alarm Box 2033

    So, I'm just curious, what engine company ended up first in? 16. 161. or 214? The assignment run down shows E-16. Also, I can't imagine that TL-9 gets very many ''house fires''! Pretty cool to see companies from different boroughs working together at a good fire. Looks like they all did a great...
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    Reserves vs Spares

    Thanks for the great info! I am always impressed seeing the trucks occupying the front almost every time at fires in NY.
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    Reserves vs Spares

    Interesting info. If a RM and engine were first due on a narrow residential street like in Queens or SI, does the ladder lead the way, typically? Or does the engine drive way past the house? What if the first due engine is coming from the opposite way, do they stop way short of the house? As the...
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    Reserves vs Spares

    I would think that using a RM when you are used to a midship would be challenging for spotting the turntable to a window. No tillermen to tell you to stop or pull up a little, especially with trees or wires in the way.
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    New Tillers

    Some interesting tillers that my Dept. had back in the 80's, besides Seagrave, were open cab Mack tractors with 100 ft. Thibault aerial ladders. I am sure that they were steel ladders and that they were a Canadian company. We had several of these. They had the familiar ''gullwing'' outriggers...
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    Do most companies get along with each other

    I think that pride in the Dept./job should trump pride in your company/firehouse. Larger Dept's that get a lot of fire duty and are not connected to EMS runs makes a difference too. Just my opinion.
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    Do most companies get along with each other

    My Dept. had a lot of good natured ribbing on occasion, but when the alarms sounded, everyone put that aside. The one thing that did cause animosity, however was when the Dept. made new hires become paramedics as a condition of employment. The guys before that, like me, had to ''ride the squad''...
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    New Tillers

    True about Columbus, Ohio. Cut my teeth on a Simon-Duplex /LTI, 110 ft tiller there. Ladder-1, AKA ''TOP GUN''.
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    12/5/20 Manhattan 6th Alarm Box 437

    Just curious, I know that E-13 was with L-20 at one time. What engines, if any, were with Ladders 3, 8, and 25?
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