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About the use of Angle grinder to cut trapped person out of window gate, it works but vibration of what is being cut can be a problem. In the past the Oxygen Acetylene Torch has been used to cut window gates. If wet rags or gauze are placed between the patient and the location of the torch cut...

Thank you, for correcting my misinformation on when the Cyanide treatment started in the FDNY EMS.

Hydroxy treatment is a real-life saver for severe Smoke Inhalation victims. Hydroxy is an Advanced Life Support drug procedure giving an Antidote for the Cyanide poisoning commonly found in smoke inhalation. Hydroxy is given in addition to Oxygen. It can & has saved many lives of fire/smoke...

Happy Birthday Brother. From Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

One sad factor in the loss of these 3 brave Firefighters was the use of oil-based artist paint to paint a mural up the stairway in the Watts St. building. Once the fire got out into the hallway it spread very rapidly up the stairs and hallways due to the flammability of the artist paint used...

Boy have things changed in my old home area. Note the bars on the windows these building are often attached or semi-attached so a fire in one becomes a fire in the other/s. The driveways are just big enough to navigate with modern cars, unless it is a small car. fire in-between houses in a car...

PLEASE bring back the Macks. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

I remember Engine 33/TL-9 had a fire in the kitchen in the mid1990's. Also, I think Engine 65 had a fire in the Housewatch, when they were out of quarters on a run in the mid. 1990's. Capt. Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 25 retired

Sorry brother you are right I checked TL-120 had only one section art any time. I know POSA, and it too was a great house. I based my comment on L-108 being "Super Truck "on an incident I had back in the Mid 1970's. I was working a Detail to Satellite 1, at that time located in what is now the...

I think that you got the story right but the unit wrong, in the "Super Truck" department. I think "Super Truck was the also very busy L-108. My friend Steve Ternland, AKA "White Fish" later an officer in E-248 and a Batt. Chief in Battalion 41, was appointed to L-108. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY...

Thanks for the good information. I when I was assigned, in Engine 26 the in the 7th Battalion, Div. 3 with D.C. Vincent Dunn as the Div, 3 Commander. Then E-26 was in Div., 2 for a short while, also Manhattan Central Fire Command. When I retired in 2000 E-26 was in Batt. 7, Division 1, where...

It amazing there was no fire, post impact. In one photo I see members defueling the aircraft. Note one of Stewardess was found ejected from the aircraft along with her jump seat and: "SERVIVED", no wonder with the pilot and the 2nd officer both killed there was no one to give directions. YES you...

I had the sad duty of responding, during my years in the FDNY to 3 major Air crashes. Lessons learned: Response takes time due to getting airport Police to escort FD apparatus to the scene if the incident is on the airport taxiways or runways. Stretching large amounts of Large Diameter Hose...

Thanks for the accurate information brothers. It has been alot of years and you forget things. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

Thank you for correcting the information, about Watkins St. I was in Vietnam with the U.S. Navy in 1966, so the date for E-232 is new to me. Do you or anyone else know when L-120 got a Tower Ladder? Also, I think the T.C.U. 732= Tactical Control Units were closed in either in the late 1960's or...

As a teen I Buffed in Engine 255/Ladder 157 so chances are JohnD248 & I went to alot of the same fires. Later when I was a little older, I buffed in Brownsville, mostly at E-231 & TL-120 (2 sections at one time) +L-732 & 44 Battalion, on Watkins St. At that time the basest in the FDNY. I worked...

This is my old Flatbush, Brooklyn area. I believe these are old stores in an old Taxpayer with all the problems of old Taxpayers. A few years ago, now, the 12th Division was closed. The 12th Division was quirted with Engine 250 on Foster Ave, near McDonald Ave., when Div. 12 was closed, I...

On a FDNY 10-66 Code 1 as in this fire, a second regular Deputy Chief is assigned. this can NOT be a Battalion Chief that is acting Deputy Chief. The concept is to provide and experienced Deputy Chief to aid in the Management of the Mayday! = 10-66. A 10-66 Code 1 means that the units on the...

As a Covering Lieutenant I filled in in both E-82 and TL-31 in the 1980's. Still very busy but not like the late 1970's. The Firehouse was called 'La Casa Grande" and was and is full of alot of really good firefighters then and now. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

I teach Tower Ladder operations here in greater New York. I would like to use some of these photographs in my presentations. I will gladly give credit to whoever took the photographs and the use is for non-commercial training use only. Keep Keeping Liverpool safe brother. Old Photograph of me...