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Engine 1 had a cab forward American LaFrance rig in the mid forties followed by a group of them a year or so later.

Second sections were two separate units, each with a captain, three lieutenants, and about twenty five firemen. They counted as two separate units on a response. Units with two pieces of apparatus were a takeoff on the old pumper and hose wagon. The two pumpers responded with one officer and...

The following site offers many pictures of old buses. gallery.bustalk.info

It used to be that a Rescue was supposed to be assigned to a local box if they were closer than a truck company but as everyone knows, that wasn't always the case.

The Pirsch ladder apparatus were odd in that the owner of this relatively small company felt that spring locks were all that was required to stabilize the rig with the aerial up. He refused to place outriggers on his apparatus so the four city rigs all had a small set of outriggers on each rig...

I have a photo of a 1953 ALF with wooden top with 26 on it. It might have been the second section's rig. I'm not sure how to send it. I know how through an E mail.

Does E 220 & L 122 tie for that honor?

Re Engine 206's quarters on Metropolitan Avenue: I don't remember if I had ever mentioned this but they had a strange bunkroom in that each bunk was enclosed in a mosquito net and you had to open the zipper to get out of it. They were very close to Newton Creek which was quite polluted in those...

Ladder 10 used to go to Ladder 103 every early evening for about 5 to 6 hours and was called Ladder 193 if my memory serves me correctly. The powers to be tried many things to keep the almighty numbers down.

Joe was made lieutenant out of 112 Truck.

I seem to remember that the Ward LaFrance was a wide apparatus and would not fit in some of the older quarters with narrow doors.

It was interesting to see ladder 165 receive one of the very few 110 foot aerials several years ago, considering that most of their district is one family homes.

The Ahrens Foxes that were assigned on multiple alarms to Welfare Island had special back steps that folded up to shorten their length in order to get into the elevator.

The combination of the blackout and boro call completely wiped out our retail holiday inspections for that year and many after.

I don't remember walls at ladders 140 and 142. I don,t remember a wall separating the big house in Jamaica. Ladder 125 and Engine 270 had a wall.

I don't remember a batt. 34-2. Our company went from the 34 to the 57 when it was formed. I don't remember the 2nd section having a BI district. We used to do BI in the units that had fallen behind. It made for some long runs back to our response area.

My son is a fourth generation fireman and firefighter going back to 1906.

How about the House of Pain?

Ladder 125 used to be quartered with Engine 270 until the early fifties.

There were plans for Engines 233 and 252 and a new truck with the 17 Division. The drawing was at the academy for several years.