Favorite Dispatcher Past or Present?

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Bigandy said:
LOL jeez r1smokeeater how'd you get this? My dad has tapes of all this stuff. This is great thanks. I'm gonna see if I can put some of his stuff up, got a great tape of a few jobs from 77 bronx, that I haven't heard you put out yet. Thanks !
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Collected them some 25 or more years ago- there's a bunch I posted on my page, and some not yet posted yet.
 
vbcapt said:
I'll have to go with the first Dispatcher I met, Herb Eysser
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In addition to having been an excellent dispatcher, he is extremely knowledgeable of the history of the F.D.N.Y. and is a real gentleman ...
 
I must also go with "the beef" if not just for his longevity in the boro,but he is a great dispatcher and over the years he's had some really great competition,
working with guys like Sol and Doc and many many more during the busiest times
in the history of the job.

I was a member of the FDNY Explorer program in the 60's along with the Beef
when we were kids in the bronx..............He even beat me up once back then,

but that's ok I deserved it LOL. ;D
 
I also was in the Explorer program with Beef at Post 588. Beef saw the War years riding with E60. Myself, Doc and Beef spent many a night out buffing together.
 
I can't say enough good things about Herb, always a gentleman learned a lot in the brief time I worked with him before he retired. I have to say I have been blessed to have been trained by (Fuchs, Moskowitz, Harry Doyle) worked with, or for many of the people mentioned in this thread. You always knew how the tour was going to go when you heard some of these folks on the radio.

I've spent a lot of time out in California over the past ten years, and I buff LA County anytime I go out there. The one thing they lack out there is personality. Everything is spoken in a monotone voice, no personality at all. Not to menton they couldn't get away with half the stuff we say on the radio,

 
EXACTLY!!!! FDNY150,
  Now that I have lived here in Nashville for 3 years, there is no tradition. You walk into any fire house here in Tenessee/Kentucky area they have no pics on the walls, no war stories or even stories about the old timers. Nope, its a bitch fest, who did this wrong, etc...  They do not even take pride in washing the trucks. Coming from LI at first, were as a Junior member then a probie, that was YOUR JOB, wash the truck off every run, even in the rain.
Names might sound familiar to some of you. Huntington FD has a tremendous amount of NY guys. Bernie Riggs, Billy Harris, John Canino, Scott Casese, Rob Conroy, Kevin Hallighan,mostly from the Bronx. I miss the North East fire tradition and personalities.
Its a way of life.
 
I used to consider myself like a "spoiled kid" after being introduced to the FDNY. "Nothing Else Compares". They get every type of fire, whether a brush fire, a High Rise Fire, a tenement or frame private dwelling, and everything else in between. From the roadways to the subways, the FDNY has done it. They have the worlds Greatest Dispatchers. It's Class at it's very Best.

  There's some Great Depts out there. Alot in the NYC Metro area that I have the utmost respect for too. They also offer the class of FDNY but on a much smaller scale. I've been to many depts throughout the US. Some great depts. Problem is once you've been exposed to the FDNY, it's really not fair to judge these other depts by the FDNY. But for anybody who really wants to see the Best Firefighters and Dispatchers in the World, you need to spend a couple weeks here. I made a promise to myself, "I'll NEVER be more than 120 miles from NYC. The distance I live now.

  And I don't want to forget what is now the FDNY/EMS. A group of life saving, dedicated workers in the Busiset EMS System in the World. If you haven't been here you need to witness it for yourself. Bring your scanner and camera. It's the Best in the World.

  Sorry I got a little off track here.
 
RIP Doc and Mark. 346 has lost the dead muskrat under his chin, last I've seen, and is now a boro chief dispatcher in M.
I recorded this off of the local cable access channel around 1995 - it was a training show called "FDTV". I have a few more tapes of it to process and put up.
 
rat pack said:
Too many to list but 104 in the BX was good, and I have to mention Tim Sullivan Disp. 393 who was there in the mid to late 1990's.
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You mean "Rico"???
 
No, no, no!  Scratcher it was, scratcher it is, scratcher it will always be!    :D

Seriously, when you are tasked to answering a phone with 20+ lines coming in, and they are *all* ringing constantly, dropping that extra syllable saves a lot of time and energy.
 
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