From Bill Noonans Collection ...
Who knew BMW means Break My Windows.
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Do the rear mount ladders and the tiller ladders still carry ladder pipes and the hose for it? I have seldom seen or heard of them being used since the more wide spread use of tower ladders When towers were first being issued they still had and used the ladder pipes but haven't heard of them...
Fire in single story frame in Glenns Estates
Box Location Gildersleeve Ave & Soundview Ave
If available:
E96,64,94,82 L54, 47, L48fast
BC3
BC20 all hands chief
D6
SQ61, R3
Is the B.A.R.S. system still in service in all boro's or just a select few?
Also, how many telegraph boxes are still in service, and in which boro or boro's?
While looking through the pic's from the Bronx 4th I noticed in one of the pics an EMS member scotted up. Is this something new, or just something that has been and this is just the first time someone posted a pic of it...
Chicago Fire Department Ordered To Hire Blacks Who Alleged Discrimination
Categories: Legal
02:20 pm
May 13, 2011
by MARK MEMMOTT
The Chicago Fire Department was told by a federal appeals court today that it must hire 111 African-Americans who successfully argued that they were discriminated...
Jan - March of 2010 had 600 all hands, and 47 multiples
Jan - March of 2011 had 696 all hands, and 67 multiples
that's a 16% increase in all hands, and a 42.5% increase in multiple alarms
and this year they have lost the fifth man on some 60 engine companies and still talking about cutting 20...
Not sure if this should be in communications or history but here it goes....
Prior to and during at least midway into the later part of the War Years dispatchers could increment the number of alarms transmitted for an incident.
When was this discontinued and is this built into any of the...
The case of a widow of an FDNY firefighter who worked at Ground Zero could set a legal precedent.
Jackie Kaht Fernandez is fighting for her late husband's full pension and medical benefits. FDNY Lt. Cruz Fernandez died while swimming in Florida in 2003 from 'coal miner's lung.'
The nine-time...
I wonder if someone out there might be able to help identify the model of the Cairnes Leather New Yorker I purchased (used) when I joined the first volly department I belonged to back in 1968 in the Bronx. I had to go out to NJ to get it sized, there is no webbing inside the helmet. Sizing was...
During the late 70's and into the 80's the FDNY ran several Salvage Companies. What function did these companies serve, what was their staffing and what kind of rigs and tools did they use? I do know of other departments who run Salvage units who function the same way that the old Fire Patrol...