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Later in, I believe in the late 1960 Ladder 172 was formed and quartered with E-310. In the early 1970s E-310 (Brooklyn) and E-71(South Bronx) were both assigned rigs with a 55" Squirt articulated booms on I think 1970 Mack 1,000 GPM pumpers. A great idea that Philadelphia FD still uses. But the...

As child I vividly remember FDNY vehicles like these. The photo above of the Quad behind the 1964 Ford reminds me of buffing on my bike at the Quarters of Brooklyn's Engine 310, where my friend father Fr. Fred Fitting Senior was a fireman. E-310 once had a Ward or American LaFrance open cab...

There is a real question of the effects of Salt Water due to Storm Surge during Tropical Storms, Hurricanes, or for that matter unusual high tides. on electric car battery systems. An event in Florida makes the point. A women driving a Tesla backing her vehicle down a ramp to launch her...

As a U.S. Navy Vietnam combat Veteran, I am deeply bother by anyone going over to Vietnam or doing business with the communist government that never acknowledged the loss of so many brave U.S. Servicemen and women. I will NEVER forget my brothers and sisters, lost in a war that we all knew we...

Does anyone know the know the information about the "box alarm photograph" of the fire on the Lower East Side, I was a fireman in Tower Ladder 18 at that time, and I think I am in the photograph helping to repack the hosebed. Box number? Date? etc. Also that Is a American LaFrance tractor and...

I have many of these books about the FDNY and have passed them on to my grandson who is a Philidelphia Firefighter. I also gave him 2 books Called "Busy as Hell" about the Boston Fire dept. during the Busy "War Years" Great books about a truly great fire department. In return he is lending me...

Brothers and sisters always remember just because you outside the fire building/area a collapse or other failure can still happen. A few years ago, another Chicago Firefighter was killed when a building collapsed hit a tree and the tree fell on the firefighter killing him. Last year in...

This is a fire for large caliber streams initially. I know that water supply problems are a real factor, but this fire is beyond the capabilities of handline even 2 1/2" hoseline, at first. If manpower is a factor that is even more reason for an aggressive Exterior Large Caliber Stream attack at...

Truthfully, I now remember that there is a Shipboard Firefighting Simulator is at the Rock. I worked in Manhattan for most of my career and never had Shipboard Firefighting Training in the FDNY, Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

Preconnected hand lines have their problems, if you stretch the whole thing you, may have too much hose to use it as a reconnect, effectively. If you use the preconnect as JUST a source for hose and only remove what is needed to reach the fire, that can work OK. Just make sure the...

The fact is that they are sending an Engine Company anytime a person says anything that seem to be a problem. FDNY Engines are responding to people passed out drunk on the street, people with minor medical problems such as a broken finger, or an under-control asthma attack. the problem is that...

The real answer is give EMS, EMTs and Paramedics More Money so they stay. Also, more money will attract more people to join FDNY EMS. What is needed is more ambulances both BLS and ALS. A fly car that can't transport patients is not the answer. The idea sending FDNY Ladder companies will not...

Now when FDNY responds to the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn the dispatcher transmits a warning about the "Gap in Between opposing lanes of many overpasses and bridges. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

I will say it again the New York Port Authority should be responsible for either having their own trained Shipboard Firefighters or to Provide Training to Newark, FDNY and all the other fire department that do or may respond to ship & port fires. The FDNY firefighters in the Marine...

Under the old Telegraph Alarm System each Borough had its own or shared it's "Borough Piliminary" Manhattan and the Bronx had 6-6, Brooklyn 7-7, Richmond (later Staten Island} had 8-8, and Queens 9-9. For example, if a Third Alarm was transmitted in Brooklyn the units in all of the other NYC...

Please pray for the brave FDNY, NYPD and all the divers involved in this incident. It is not easy to deal with dead children no matter how long you have been doing emergency work. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired & Senior Peer Counselor FDNY Counseling Service Unit/WTC Health Care...

And also Burning Bread for Passover in Rockland County, Orange County, and Sullivan Counties in N.Y. Major problems have in the past resulted in serious fire and even Line of Duty Death in the case of Rockland County. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

I was the Captain of Engine 26 from 1991 to 2000, and we almost never relocated to Staten Island, in all that time. I was told that due to the fact that the transit time from Midtown to Staten Island, was too great. Generally, Engine 26 never relocated due to the high value and high profile of...