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My former unit Engine 26 was and is a High-Pressure Pumper. In my 8 years as Captain of Engine 26 we only used High Pressure Once at a high-rise fire in lower Manhattan. We drilled on H.P. pumping procedures a few times. The purpose of High-Pressure pumpers were for the supplying of the...

The brother above that states the "New" Super Pumper is designed for Foam use, is most likely correct. But it is capable of pumping a large amount of water if needed. Do we really need more rarely used foam capacity? San Francisco has the right, idea really large capacity pumpers for large...

The FDNY has had 2 1/2" for the last hundred years, mainly for fires that are "Incompatible with the use of 1 3/4"." Such as: An advanced fire upon arrival, fire in large uncompartmented area, exterior exposure protection, when operating off a Standpipe, and also whenever the I.C. directs the...

Why is this not a 6th or even 7th Alarm? Where is the "New" Super Pumper? Holding off actually a fire going above a 5th Alarm is bad because it causes the statistics to be wrong. Inaccurate statistics can cause FDNY unit to be disbanded. Once again if the "New" Super Pumper is not for fire...

The 9/11/01 attack on the World Trade Center response, by the FDNY & Mutual aid Units was equal was equal to 27 Alarms. and was the largest response in the History of the FDNY. I worked in Manhattan for most of my career in the FDNY and ended up at almost all of the Major Brough Calls mentioned...

The technical name for the "Deck Gun" is the "Stang Inteligiant Nozzle" as per the OLD FDNY All Units Circular about the Super Pumper System. The large Stang Inteligiant Nozzle on the cab of the Super Pumper Tender was rarely used. When it was used, often the S.P. Tender Cab was disconnected...

I was at the 10th Alarm "Actually 11th Alarm" in Bushwick around Myrtle Ave. in July 1977. I was a firefighter in Tower Ladder 18 on Manhattan's Lower East Side. I think we responded on the 6th Alarm, as a Special Called additional Tower Ladder. We ended up positioned above a McDonalds' or...

I was at the 1st fire the FDNY Super Pumper was used a, as a buff. The fire was at Manhattan Ave. & Commercial St. In Williamsburg Brooklyn, I think Brooklyn Box 98. Later when I was appointed to the Engine 27 in the FDNY I was detailed often to Satellite 1 when it was quartered at the old...

I knew Pete when I was Captain of Engine 26 and he was serving in Engine 3. Both units E-3 & E-26 are part of FDNY Battalion 7. Ironically, we had a Memorial Mass at Most Perishes Blood R.C. Church in Walden N.Y. yesterday 12/9/25, for all the departed members of all the units of Battalion 7...

I remember the old Squad "Bread Wagons", the problem was when they arrived alone at fires they could do little until an Engine Co. arrived. Squad members made some great rescues without the protection of hoselines and also some great rescue with hoselines in place. In the late 1960s the Squads...

The answer for blocked or encroached upon hydrants, is NYPD enforcement using the tow away program. Should the 10-75 include the response of NYPD tow away tow trucks? In true emergency situations, ie. people trapped or rapidly extending fire, push the car away from the hydrant with a rig. The...

The Original idea of returning to quarters using light and siren & yes, the Bell on the rig, goes back to the days, long ago. up to the 1960s, when FDNY rigs did not have radios. The exception early on was the Fireboats/Marine Units., they had radios very early. The unit had no way to know to...

Fire trucks are Red, Like the good Lord Intended. I have never been a fan of White over Red. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired

If you study the famous "Kings Crossing" Subway = Under Ground Fine in London U.K. in the 1980s, the follow up study speaks of the dangers of fires spreading up inclined stairs, escalators, and hill sides. There is also something called the "Trench Effect" when fires burn up an open space that...

When I was a Fire Science Student, I did a paper on "Conflagration's." In doing research for that paper, I came across and article about the spread of fires in narrow canyons, where the close proximity of narrow canyons was leading to fires jumping from one side of canyons to the other side, and...

I saw FDNY the Fire Commissioner on T.V. scene with the Mount Vernon Westchester County 5th Alarm burning building in the background. I know that the Commissioner is a huge fire buff so perhaps he was just doing his "Buffing Thing" He's a good man from all I have heard sorry to see him soon to...

A couple of units appear to have been missed. Squad 3 in Williamsburg Brooklyn. I think Sq. 3 was disbanded in July 1975, also that was the day of the Layoffs of 711 Firefighters. Also, perhaps missed Division 12 in Brooklyn quartered with E-240 or I think later E-250. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY...

I taught project S.A.V.E. = Swift Advanced Vehicle Extrication at the FDNY Fire Academy in the 1980's. It is an excellent program that involves classroom and hands on training, then placing extrication Dummy in a wreck vehicle then using a Backhoe to really pin the dummy/s in the vehicle. A...

Engine 259 seems to be having M.U.D. = Multy Unit Drill with a "Multiversal". Brothers remember such devices need to be tied down for safety. I have seen especially portable Multiversals lift off the ground once water is started, especially and low stream angles. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine...

LAFD, Metro Dade-Florida and Washington FD all have Heavy Rescues that are really very Heavy-Duty Tow Trucks. Sounds like this type of Heavy-Duty Tow Rescue would have been helpful in this situation. Just an idea. Perhaps it time for FDNY to think about one or better yet more than one of these...