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You are a great teacher, Mike. Now that you're starting a long, and hopefully completely healthy retirement, keep teaching. Now you have more time to enjoy life and those you love. Best of Luck Brother Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.

I never said wait for a NYPD Tow Truck to move the car on a hydrant, to allow an engine to hook up to a hydrant. The idea behind the NYPD Tow truck responding is to remove the car for Impounding AFTER the fire. If this was done people would get the message not to park on a Hydrant. I have over...

It may have not been done for a lot of Older Bridges. But the concept is much older than you think. I myself saw old Bridges in the United Kingdom protected from ships, boats and even debris in Spring Floods = "Freshnets". Railroad Bridges sometimes had/have strong posts near the entrance to the...

If an exterior hoseline is used, generally it should be used at a steep angle so not to set up an opposing hose stream problem. At times the best thing to do is hit the fire from the outside for a short period of time to reduce the fire. Chicago Fire Dept. calls this "resetting the fire." Once...

The only valid criteria should be your ability to do the job, and the best qualified should be hired ahead of someone who "Lives in NYC" People trapped in a fires only care that the firefighter can do the job and not where he or she lives. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

I have talked to an Engineers who told me the problem was that NO Protection was placed to protect the bridge uprights. Good Safety Engineering including place large amounts of very large Rocks or Concrete in water near the bridge uprights to ground or divert a large ship before it hits the...

Years ago, Brooklyn FDNY radio had the same frequency as the Philadelphia Fire Dept. major incident frequency, and you could, at night especially hear Philly FD operations at major fires. I do not know if that is still true. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

Yes, the Mask Service Unit is assigned to respond on every 3rd or great alarm. I think they are also assigned on every 2nd alarm in High Rise Buildings. The M.S.U. can be Special Called whenever the Incident Commander deems it necessary, for things like major subways or other underground fires...

Thank you, you are right I had the wrong incident for the secondary explosion. It was the Alva Cape-Texaco Massachusetts that had the Naphtha secondary explosion. The Seawitch burned for many days after the collision near the Verrazzano Bridge but as you correctly said no explosion took place...

I think a second explosion happened when the Firefighter 1 was alongside the Esso Brussels about a week after the original collision. It is over 50 years ago so I may be mistaken. I had another incident when I was a fireman in Tower Ladder 18, on Manhattan's Lower east Side, when spark...

It is amazing I responded to this incident as a new fireman in Manhattan's Engine Company 27. E-27 WAS located on Franklyn St. in Lower Manhattans Lower West Side. E-27 was relocated to Brooklyn on the transmission of the 3rd Alarm for the Brooklyn side of this incident. As we exited the...

LUCAS device is still better than having to do manual CPR on a moving patient by having a rescuer stand on the bottom rail of the gurney while it is being moved. I pray this firefighter is alright. If you do not know how to quickly remove turnout gear for Firefighter CPR learn how. I fully...

Brothers you are right the best way is to make blocking a fire hydrant (Or Firehouse) a more serious breach of the law is indeed making it a moving violation. But that does not help you when you need a hydrant, and it is FULLY blocked near a serious fire. In fact, peoples commonly ignore even...

Every NYC Borough has a lot of tall buildings and sometimes a 75-foot Tower ladder will not reach to the roof. Some FDNY Tower Ladders are 95 feet but not all. So, in tall buildings a 100-foot aerial ladder are often, needed for access to the roof. In advanced fires on lower floors, or shorter...

I do not know what a 10-72 is in New Rochelle? Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

I too believe that a Hydrant Hook Up could have been made in front of, or over the illegally parked. BUT if you park on a hydrant you deserve to pay the price. It is very important to get protective hoselines in place at advanced fire like this. The 6th Engine on the run card, can indeed be...

That is what formally happen in FDNY in the 1970s when I came on the job. Often, I would work at Satellite 1 that was quartered in the old firehouse of Engine 30 on Spring St. now the location of the FDNY Museum. Also, in E-30s old quarters, was the old Medical Office and the large apparatus...