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Does anyone know of Richard Hamilton? Retired from Rescue 2 in 1972. Is he still alive? Did his son ever join the FDNY? Just curious, I've read his book a hundred times!
H & L 147 said:Dick Hamilton was some guy. He responded with R 2 the night my Father died of a heart attack almost 40 years ago. My Dad was a brother Lt with FDNY. When R 2 removed my Dad from the house to the amb Lt. Hamilton took me aside and told me that he was dead. They were taking him to the hospital on his descision, I think, he convinced the amb crew that they should take him to the hospital along with some members of R 2 to make it easier on the family I realized a few years latter (when I was a police officer with NYPD) what he was doing. I rode with him and the rest of Rescue to the hospital in the old walk thru Rescue rig. He was thinking of the family of a fellow member of FDNY. I would be remiss if I did not mention the efforts of Engine 321(one of his former companies) and Lt. Tom Touhy (a friend of my Dad's) that March morning in 1971 long before CFRD. A morning I will never forget.