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Driving home through Fairfield Connecticut early yesterday afternoon I suddenly was hit with an odor of gas in my car. At first I thought it was something wrong with the vehicle but the smell continued until I got home. At that point I heard sirens as just about all BFD companies were zipping...

Wouldn't it make more sense to send 81 to 68 and 48 to 42? I guess timing is everything.

82?

No matter your preference, THAT is a fire engine. Can't help but think of my old man as the tiller man in Harlem H&L14 back before world war II... No cover, straight up steering wheel, no windshield, and his butt bigger than the tiny seat. But he did say he enjoyed looking in the second floor...

Good info but could you please translate for us dummies?

G-Man Rule.

G-Man Rules again.

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Why Marine 6 for a pond?

How about rainbow?

Entro, you must have missed this... "Reinforcements were now needed at Box #2941, but nearly all the 1st and 2d Alarm companies normally assigned to this location were working elsewhere. As always, the members of the BXCO were on top of things. They transmitted instead a Dispatchers 3d Alarm...

I appreciate the encouraging thumbs up, likes, and comments that were sent as I posted each installment. My fear was of boring you all but I marched on, good soldier that I am. That I still recall so much of the specifics all these years later shows just how big an effect this event has had on...

To wrap this up…. As is usual for such tragic events, controversy swirled in the aftermath. Did the unpopular Fire Commissioner at the time, Edward F. Cavanaugh, interfere with fire ground operations? Did he order a hose stream directed at a glowing cantilever beam, causing it to snap and drop...

We all know what happened next. The marquee, weakened by the intense flames, crashed to the street, bringing with it most of the front wall. Six firefighters perished, most of them in an instant. I will list their names again. Lt. John F. Molloy E48 Fireman Edward J. Carroll E48 Fireman...

The BXCO’s first order was to special call Engine 82 and H&L 31 to Box #2953, the abandoned building fire (a circumstance those companies would become quite familiar with in the coming years). This incident kept All Hands working for several hours. The size up at Box #2941 was reported by L27...

As the clock ticked past 7:00pm on that Wednesday, April 4th, 1956 the Bronx Communications Office (BXCO) of the FDNY tapped out Box # 2773 on the bells. The location was Macombs Rd. at Inwood Ave, to the west of Jerome Ave. The following companies responded: Engines 42 92 68 and H&Ls 44 49...

Just before 9:00pm on the evening of April 4th, 1956, I sat in my living room in our apartment on Decatur Avenue watching TV (Channel 5, the Dumont Network, as I recall) with my Mom. Suddenly a news flash appeared on the screen…”6 firemen killed at a fire at 175th Street and 3rd Avenue in the...

I have a timeshare down there in Lehigh acres. Great bunch of firefighters.

This photo is NOT of the Third Avenue collapse on 04/04/1956. This photo is NOT of the Third Avenue collapse on 4/4/1956. Different fire a decade later.

Companies whizzing all around the city today...sounded like the South Bronx.