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Brothers and Sisters, "The Bronx is still Burning" Taxpayers are some of the most difficult fires to fight. No two taxpayers truly the same. Often the safest thing to do is to "surround and drown" the fire. After :20 minutes of NOT making real progress on the fire, you Must remember the "Rs"...

I have taught FAST team operation over the years. I hear what you say that the Deputy never transmitted the 10-66. FAST Operations are sometimes more complicated then appears at first. Therefore, I am great believer in calling all the help you may need BEFORE you need it. I know I'm playing...

In the FDNY when a 1066 is transmitted, the NEXT ALARM MUST BE TRANSMITTED. If the fire is a 2nd Alarm and a 10-66 is Transmitted a 3rd Alarm must be ALSO TRANSMITTED. A 10-66 is a Mayday! that CANNOT be handled by the units already on the scene. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

I, as I said worked this fire and there was NO mark on my FDNY Medical Folder ever. I was lucky and never had health problems related to this fire but "NO FOLLOW UP WAS EVER DONE TO MYSELF OR ALOT OF THE OTHER MEMBERS THAT FOUGHT THIS FIRE." Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired,

I proudly wear the "Ma Bell Fire Ribbon" on my FDNY dress uniform and yes, the uniform still fits. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

I responded to the Telphone Company with my unit at that time Engine 27. We responded I think on the 2nd Alarm and spent many hours at the scene. It was the Smokiest and hottest fire I every fought in my 30 years with the FDNY. It was like walking into a toaster because of al the hot metal in...

Brother and Sisters, the Underwriter's Labatory "U.L." just finished tests on Lithium Batteries, at their Reseach Facility locate near the Philadelphia Airport. The research report by U.L. has not yet been published as far as I know. I was doing research online on this problem online and...

That is a fact. I think it is still so, that FDNY Book of regulations Requires units arriving on 2nd or greater alarm, MUST us a 4 1/2" (Now Normally 5") ridged Hard Suction. I still think that the FDNY Book of Regulations states that the 1sd due Engine on the 1srt Alarm can use inline pumping...

That generally is true, about using a 35 ft. 5" feedline/supply line to the pumps, can give good water. The reason for the hard Suction is for Drafting or other situations where a negative pressure, such as low hydrant pressure at a major fire. or when the Engine Company tries to pump to too...

I truly believe this "7" is a "Typo" Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 25 retired

In air crashes the most important thing regular structural firefighters and all firefighters, is to place large handlines or us large caliber stream to protect the exit pathways and give the aircraft occupant more time to escape. Look anywhere the occupants are escaping from and keep fire out...

Using the front suction while often necessary does reduces the amount of water available to the pumps due to all the piping from the front of the rig to the pump itself. The piping has to go through the wheel wells or under the cab and this reduces the flow available due to some friction loss...

Philadelphia F.D. had a Church fire the last few days, in a church similar in size to the one in Brooklyn. This fire was designated an Exterior operation due to structural stability. Stability is ALWAYS a problem in almost ALL ADVANCED CHURCH FIRES. The fire in St. Teresa's Church is an...

There is an old saying "no one saves a church with an advanced fire upon arrival" Sadly this is true in this case once again. Tower Ladders and Outside High Caliber Streams all too often are our only hope of control. Aiming a Tower Ladder stream into the round "Rose Window" often saves the...