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Just a historical side note, that front wall of R-1's quarters now adorns the back wall of the firehouse kitchen. (Also former qtrs, E-2) By any chance do you have a shot of the old Mack R from R-4 circa mid/late 70's??? That's my earliest memory of ever seeing an FDNY rig.

Now I remember the Rapid Water Macks, the 1979 CF's like 217 and 225, the Lime Green and the 84 and younger Macks with the white tops. Brings back some memories of buffing at E-308 in Queens when I was a kid. PS, the Foam rig at 260 is a 1978, but I think that grill siren is a shops addition.

I would say down near the south end of the lake as well, just before you hit the Carmel sign on 6.

Palm Beach Gardens Florida. Now I know it's kinda lime, but this one is really different.. In the same vein, Miami Dade. And that's all I got...

Rombout, of course... Mount Kisco..

It is with regret that announcement is made of the passing of: Supervising Fire Alarm Dispatcher Dennis (DOC) O'Connell FDNY Bronx Communications Which occured Sunday October 19th, 2008 Dennis was a 36 year veteran of the FDNY Bureau of Communications. The past 21 years as a Supervisor. Personal note: I was honored to work both for and with Dennis for a number of years up here in the Bronx. I learned more just from listening than anybody could show me in a class room. He was a walking encyclopedia and he will be sorely missed.

That is affirmative. All the Foam Carriers are 1987-1989 Mack CF's All of the Collapse Units except RC-3. All of the Satellites. The Foam Tender The High Rise Units Not sure if the Mack Spare Field Comm is still in the inventory. Same goes for Haz Mat 1's old rig. 2001/02?? Mack Gotta admit, the chalk Roman Numerals are an extra added touch that they'd put on spares.

Wake: Schuyler Hill Funeral Home E Tremont Avenue and Barkley Ave. Tuesday 1900-2100 Wednesday 1400-1700 1900-2100

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will be making the switch over to Verizon in the next few months. Sprint/Nextel has some of the most horrible coverage I have ever seen. During my roadtrip this past summer, I had no service in a nearly 30 mile radius of where I was staying in Missouri, and then spotty service the rest of the way. I had no service more than I had service.

Awesome pictures. I was going to take a stab at it and say it was late's 70's just by looking at the rigs.

I think the furthest away I have gotten a call from was in Rockland on the thruway by Route 59. Hats off to the the crew in Wales. Nice work.

Just an opinion here, I'm sure a bunch of the airlines will put it to use in one way or another.(Hello Captain Obivous!!!) And of course, Seth will have somewhere to land when he jaunts back here, and I will have somewhere to take off from on my next So Cal out and about!!!

In the 70's the FDNY had Squrts. One of the articulating squrt booms was removed and replaced with the 50 foot telesqurt. This rig acted as Engine 70 for a number of years until removed from service. Dadbo can refresh my memory here, but it was purchased and refurbed by Lake Carmel in 1987, just before I joined the explorers and was designated 17-5-1. Which reminds me if any of you LCFD guys can get that picture out of the display case, scan it and e-mail it to me, I'd be appreciative. My fondest memories of 17-5-1 were of I think Cris Dellaripa sitting on the end of the extended boom over the lake behind the old firehouse holding a pike pole with a large hook on a piece of line, and operating at the Seavey Plaza fire on Route 52 in 1991, pretty much pi$$ing on what was left of that building. As far as the Combination Fire Companies that Dadbo mentioned was a two piece company(Engine and TL) CFC 121, 131, and 151. They were formerly E-70/TL-53, E-151/TL-76, and E-311/TL-158. Mind you that's all I know about them since they were organized I think before I was born and disbanded while I was still in diapers. It was one officer and full staffing. I'll have to go look at my Calderone book for more info. It was in the same vein as the LA CITY and LA County Light Force concept. 2 rigs, 1 boss, and 5 or 6 guys. Now out there, the light forces are considered a truck company, with the engine being the "Pump" or "Tender" for the truck. LA County, with the exception of Light Force 82, uses an Engine and a tillered Quint. LA CITY has an engine and a tillered aerial. In LA County, if the quint goes OOS, they may get an aerial spare and still respond as a light force, and if the engine goes out, they respond with the Quint and are designated as "Quint XXX" (Seth or Duane, please jump in to add or correct me as you're the resident SoCal experts) Now, with St. Louis, I explained this in my last out and about thread. The rigs are quints, but are designated as Engines. They have the X amount of rigs with the larger, heavy duty aerials, but they are designated as Ladders. As it was explained to me by the guys in St. Louis, the second due Engine on any reported structural fire assignment is going in for truck work. The third due engine is actually going to act as the second due engine. As someone said before, talk about an identity crisis. St. Louis is also going to start phasing out the quints with the exception of one per battalion, going back to strictly Engines and Trucks.

I think he meant non-heavy rescue/haz mat, support type rigs, just the bread and butter stuff. The closest things you'll probably come to all quints is St. Louis and Richmond. However, from my last out and about, St. Louis is looking to go back to strictly engines and trucks, with one Quint per Battalion. Seems like you're a bit down on the idea. I'm not too keen on it either. But, what works in some places doesn't always work out here. Or, it's been tried out here and didn't do too well.

I do have pictures of the Crown E-269.

Saw it too, 14 prior convictions. Someone dropped the ball if it turns out to be true.

The Crowns have been removed from service. The old E-269 is now in the hands of the Museum, along with a few others. Duane might be able to correct me here, but I think 269 got a Pierce, or old Van Pelt.

Now there's a familiar face I haven't seen in a long time...

Up until last year, we still used dictaphone reel to reel. Had to change the tapes at 2400. Good times, fun stuff. We had something set up where we could do a playback a few minutes after the actual call came in. True, I give most probies about 6-8 months before they get jaded. Took me about a year. Was just surprised to see a 60 Control/FDNY simultaneous dispatch. Thought we only did courtesy calls.

Jersey City has a couple as well. I will admit I am intrigued by that USAR Tiller. Looks like I'm gonna have to line up a few mutuals for next year and make a few phone calls. I have a medium sized list of rigs I want to shoot out there. Long Beach and a few LAFD come to mind.

Spoke to 653 tonight. Very pleasant experience.

Just another PS to this, I am not a fan of these computer controlled radio consoles. They are incredibly touchy and I prefer the simpler press one button for this, another button for that, and boom done.

You're not kidding. Counting this screen I am using to type on, I have 11 other computer screens at my desk alone. I use 6 of them during the course of the day. The rest is just window dressing as far as I'm concerned. Hey, 420, what's wrong with a few clippings here and there?? I think it adds to the warmth of the place. Keeps it from looking so sterile.