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Tenements are Class 3 Wood and Joist construction normal with Brick exterior walls under the NYC Building Code. Row frames are all wood including the exterior walls this is class 5 Construction. The danger is that all the structural elements of the building are wood and therefore burn. So, the...

Brothers and sisters, these FDNY Tips form Training & Safety are widely published with the intent of saving firefighter lives and ensuring that current thinking firefighters learn from what has happened and from experts that know what can happen. My friend, now retired Deputy Chief Jay Jonas...

Special Call was what was done for the old Mack Rear Mount 144 ft. High Ladders during the 1970s. The 144 ft ladders were eventually removed, and new 100 ft. ladders were retrofitted on these rigs. Some were used for Tactical Control Unit =T.C.U. Ladder Companies. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine...

I may be a matter of finding the right new apparatus for the FDNY but if London Fire Brigade Can make it work than FDNY can. Even with the problems with Snorkel, elbows in NYCs at time narrow streets, that may be one answer. Most NYC truly High-Rise Buildings are located on wide streets. There...

I may not still be the "War Years" but FDNY is still doing allot of fire duty.

This fire is right near the area where 2 NYPD Sergeants were shot earlier today. News Coverage of the Police shooting had the clear sound of fire apparatus, responding in the background. I worked in this area as a Firefighter in Ladder 11 and Tower Ladder 18 and now as than fires in this area...

Hate to add to the problem but when is FDNY going to consider the idea of getting a Large High Ladder Tower or Ladder for use at High Rise fires? London bought TWO 64 meters = Over 200 ft., ladders with buckets after examining the need to reach the upper floors at major fires in High rise...

I fully believe that the "Address belongs to the Truck". There is little reason to block the truck, be it Aerial of Tower Ladder from the front of the fire building. If the hydrant is in front of or close to the front of the building the Engine can if needed do "Inline Pumping" or request a...

Great reminder about trucks, but just remember that Pick Up & Light Vans, especially those used for construction or land scaping often carry gasoline, Diesel Fuel or even L.P.G. =Liquefied Petroleum Gas. Full protective fire gear with SCBA and the use of adequate hoselines is required. The day...

The section you quoted is correct, thank you. But what I was talking about is the law prohibits vehicle from entering the BLOCK where fire operations are in progress. I used this law a few times when I was a Lieutenant and later Captain in Midtown Manhattan. The law was designed to make illegal...

There also is a NY State Law that prohibits entering a BLOCK where fire operations are going on. I no longer remember the Section number of this law. Perhaps one of our Police brothers knows the Section and exact wording of this law? We had great problems with traffic entering the fire block...

Normally In the FDNY a Building is considered an Exposure if it is LESS than < 25 ft from the fire building. An alleyway is not truly and exposure in the FDNY, the building separated by a 12 ft Alley = Less than 25 ft. IS an exposure. Exposure 4=A would be the building on the Right side of the...

Both Middletown N.Y. and Newburgh N.Y. in Orange County N.Y. have paid Fire Departments, of great and long standing. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

My good friend Art Carroll from Georga Vt. Fire Dept. died of cancer a few years ago, and in honor of Art I did a program to raise money for a Scholarship for the Georga F.D. I love Vermont and have spent many happy times there. May Charlie Rest in God's Loving Hands. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY...

Not really a Line of Duty Death but we need to remember our Brother Firefighter/Chief, Cory Competore of the Buffalo Springs Volunteer Fire Department who was killed by the same gunman that shot at President Donald Trump. Cory threw himself on to his family to protect them from the bullets shot...