Search results

I wonder with that much fire in such a large building why additional Tower Ladders and Squirts were not "special called" = FDNY Term". The Tower Ladder shown in the top photo would have had a better shot at covering two sides of the building, if it was possible to position on the corner/apex of...

I wonder what happened to Engine 26 normally they would have responded on the 10-77. Does anyone know where they were, perhaps at another box. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

The Alex Donchin "First Due!" is one of the greatest photo books about the FDNY in Brooklyn during the FDNY "war years" I was at a few of the fires shown so I bought the book and got Alex to autograph it for me. Buy it if you can. Alex is gone now but his great photographs lives on. Captain Bob...

The length of service for apparatus may be perhaps in the IAFF Contract agreements, but the need for replacement of fire apparatus is also stipulated in the "I.S.O. = Insurance Service Organization ratings that determines the Fire insurance rates. A few major fire departments have I.S.O...

The Squirt is and has been a great idea. Boston, L.A., San Francisco and NOFD all used them. Does anyone know if those Fire Depts still have any Squirts in regular use. Philadelphia F.D. still uses them. I buffed in Brooklyn when E-310 had a Squirt, and I saw it used a number of times. I once...

Love the color picture of the FDNY Water Tower. I was born in 1946 and one of my first, memories was a Lumber Yard fire across the street from our home. At that time my family lived on Brooklyn Ave. Brooklyn, right next to the Long Island RR "Bay Ridge Cut" I remember two things about the fire...

I made a slight error in describing the NY Harbor Ferrys. I should have said "N.Y. Waterways Passenger Ferries" that are manned by off duty FDNY Marine Company and NYPD Harbor Unit members working side jobs. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.

Maybe I missed it was signal 10-60 transmitted? I noticed that NY Harbor passenger Ferrys were on the scene. Often these NY Harbor Ferrys are maned by off duty FDNY Marine Company and NYPD Harbor Unit member working side jobs off duty and, in these cases, can augment the on duty FDNY & NYPD...

I am not sure, but I believe the collapse pods were assigned on a Signal 10-60 Code 2 or as was said when requested by the Incident Commander. A 10-60 Code 2 upgrades the major Emergency response for a Major Incident. A 10-60 can and has been used for air crashes, train collisions and...

I like the White & Orange something different and special. The great firefighters of Baltimore deserve something special. Both myself and my grandson, have many friends and the sons of friends in the Baltimore F.D. and they deserve all they can get in terms of being outstanding. Captain Bob...

FDNY at one time had "Kelsey Mounts" on Aerial and early Tower Ladders. The Kelsey Mount allowed semi-portable large Caliber stream devices to be temporally affixed to an aerial or tower ladder in front of the fire building. This made great sense, as the street in front of the fire building/s...

A believe that at one point the Chief of Dept. BCFD asked for a "Reserve Tower Ladder" to be sent to the 7th Alarm. Does anyone know if a lot of streets in Baltimore are very narrow. I have been there to "The Inner Harbor" "Fell's Point" and to Camden yards ballpark. Do the side streets in other...

FDNY Squad 5 was on East Broadway on Manhattan Lower East Side. When the new firehouse for Eng. 17. TL-18 and Batt. 4 was built on Pitt St "Fort Pitt" Squad 5 was to have been quartered in that Pitt. St. Firehouse, but Squad 5 never moved in. Squad 5 was closed before the firehouse was ready for...

My point in looking back the Loft fires in FDNY was to reinforce the idea of how dangerous and difficult fires in Heavy Timber buildings like the one involved in the 7th Alarm in Baltimore can be. The brothers and sisters in the very fine Baltimore FD are up among the most experienced around...

Yes, we had tenements in Hell's Hundred Acres, but they were not converted into lofts. The Heavy Timber Loft Building are buildings = Class 4. The tenement are & were Brick and Joist =Class 3 Buildings. Many of the lofts when I worked there in the 1970s & 1980s were repurposed to include large...

Good firefighters in Baltimore, these warehouse fires in Heavy Timber = Class 4 Construction are dangerous. At one time I worked in the Lower Manhattan's Loft building area. Over the years I had few fires in these Loft Class 4 heavy timber buildings and just about all them collapsed during the...