Emergency! Tribute to Johnny Gage

I had the honor of meeting Rich Mantooth who played Johnny Gauge in the show "Emergency". We (Engine 26) were operating a ceiler fire in Midtown on a very hot July day. We got some water and were sitting down on the curb across from the fire building, taking a "Blow"=
Break from a very hot fire on a very hot day. I looked behind us and Rich Mantooth was looking at us, from behind a tape barrier. As a buff for many years, I knew the show "Emergency" and here was one of my T.V. hero's. I got to my feet and walked over and shook his hand. I wish we had a camara.
I am very active on this site and have enjoyed "Johnny's" input and his knowledge. I feel we have truly lost one of our own. "TAKE UP 51"
Rest in Peace Brother. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.
 
captaindewey50267021@gm said:
I had the honor of meeting Rich Mantooth who played Johnny Gauge in the show "Emergency". We (Engine 26) were operating a ceiler fire in Midtown on a very hot July day. We got some water and were sitting down on the curb across from the fire building, taking a "Blow"=
Break from a very hot fire on a very hot day. I looked behind us and Rich Mantooth was looking at us, from behind a tape barrier. As a buff for many years, I knew the show "Emergency" and here was one of my T.V. hero's. I got to my feet and walked over and shook his hand. I wish we had a camara.
I am very active on this site and have enjoyed "Johnny's" input and his knowledge. I feel we have truly lost one of our own. "TAKE UP 51"
Rest in Peace Brother. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.
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Captain Dewey, the real Johnny Gage played by R Mantooth was not a member of this site.
The user-name "JohnnyGage" is a retired FDNY member named Dan Potter who is the author of the FDNY War Years book "They Saved New York".
 
I had always thought that Johnny Gauge was really the "Site name of Randy Mantooth". I know and have talked with Dan Potter and have read a copy of his very fine book "They Saved New York", that Dan had donated to the Middletown World Trade Center Health Care Program, where I work. As stated above I 'had the Honor of meet the actor Randy (Not Rich) Mantooth" at a fire in Midtown. Rich Mantooth was at least in part Native American, and I wish he could have a met Ff. Paul Hashagan, the legendary Rescue 1 firefighter, and who also is of Native American heritage. Again, rest in Peace Randy. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.
 
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