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Engine 151 acting Engine 81 to the Bronx, K...

Ah, Marble Hill. The part of Manhattan that's on the mainland. It had a 212 area code after we switched to 718. Also, at 1:46 in that video, ugh - I don't like that parapet. The beams were already burning.

Still demo-ing the site: https://www.riverdalepress.com/stories/demolition-of-five-ravaged-businesses-in-kingsbridge-begins,134870

Thanks, Captain R. https://abc7ny.com/little-italy-building-collapse-emergency-demolition-188-grand-street/14316359/ Reports are that wood floor joists were cut and removed illegally. I know this is an old-law tenement constructed of wood and masonry. In the case of the Bronx collapse on...

To quote a Bronx Dispatcher I sat next to in the trailer who had kids who watched the Wonder Pets: "The phone...the phone is ringing. This is serious!".

Nice stop. Looks like the living room in the A line.

Now reports are the workers were removing bricks from this "decorative" column? Also, building folks, chime in on the steel piers that usually form the base of these MDs from the 1920s. I know many have rotted and bent over the years, but this one doesn't seem to even be there at all.

A couple of things - 1) Isn't there supposed to be a vertical steel column in that corner? I thought there were steel columns at the corners and a steel beam that goes across the first floor. 2) I don't like these cracks.

Listening to it now. I spent my day at 106 N. Broadway across the street.

I was sans radio, but while leaving my folks place, saw 58 Truck hang a left into BJs from 238th. Acting 46?

Eh, sort of. Both are really semi-duplex, meaning both rely on repeaters and only one side (the dispatcher) can transmit and receive at the same time. Simplex means both sides can only transmit or receive at one time. The difference between NYPD and FDNY is PD's "mixer" is on all the time...

Those callsigns/license numbers changed since the switch to UHF. WQFH239 is the Bronx now (not be a radio nerd about it) .

I had chills when I heard those four words, said to me, from a FDNY boss - "You're out of line". Please close this thread.

That hallway windowframe was no match for ND from L-49.

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3rd. Freddy on the radio.