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Rode the bakstep of 17-4-2 Saturday morning, November 16, 1991. It was about 7 am. It was the coolest feeling in the world. The wind whipping through what was left of my hair(I cut off the mullet a few days before). We went to a reported fire at what was then known as the Kent Nursing Home out on Ludingtonville Road. Turned out to be something in the ductwork of the dryers. Did my first EMS run that night for a girl in labor. Turned out to be someone I knew from High School. I remember Steve Weigand getting in the back of the ambulance and pulling out all the OB gear, saying how he had done just about everything in that ambulance except deliver a child. Unfortunately, he didn't get the chance, she delivered a little girl a few days or weeks later.

Very Well. Bout time the behind the scenes people got some good press.

I don't know about Westchester, but Carmel responds to Putnam Hospital with an engine. Jacobi gets Squad 61 and TL-41.

22.5 in Central Park as of 1300. At least 20 here in Queens.

A 1983 Plymouth Reliant Station wagon, affectionately known as the "War Wagon". The day I was supposed to get it for myself, my brother cracked it up at my mothers office building in Carmel. I drove that thing into the ground, literally. It lasted me till my last day of college in 1991 when I blew the engine on the Taconic up in East Fishkill.

The whole operation, with the exception of part of the ERS answering point, is out of one building in Brooklyn. The way the radios work is there are a set number of precincts on a particular frequency. SOD, which covers Aviation, ESU and Harbor have their own frequency. There are answering points for 911 calls known as pods in one large room and then the radios are in another room. Hope that helps. The back up 911 center and dispatch office is over at 1 Police Plaza in Manhattan. Interesting side note, 1 PP and the buildings surrounding it were built over the old quarters of Engine 6. Engine 32 was disbanded and Engine 6 moved into their quarters. Hope this helps.

Emergency! Of course. Season Two came out Tuesday on DVD. I recommend the book TV Firefighters, written by Richard Yokley. It was released about three years ago, and is a great read. BTW, yours truly gets credit for research in the book. Code Red was pretty good while it lasted.

The show stinks. It seems like every single person in that house, from the few episodes I saw, seemed like they were more messed up than the next guy. I met Leary about a year and a half ago at the studio, along with Daniel Sunjata. I thanked him for the toy he bought for us, The Mobile Command Center, and he was rather brusque. Daniel Sunjata was cool. Leary was a prick.

I gotta tell you, after 8 years the bitterness goes away. I joined a volunteer ambulance corps here in the city and saw the same garbage I saw upstate. Needless to say I never went back. I miss riding the rigs. I miss going to emergencies/fires. I don't necessarily miss the parades.

I don't know if doing 24's was as big a thing back then as it is now. However, it's always nice to have a mutual partner so you can handle business outside of the job. BTW, Jack Mc Gee was in 51 Truck, 50 Truck and I think 60 Engine.

I would think keeping them in the cab would suit many departments fine in the sense that you just grab it and go upon arrival. Having to grab them out of a compartment and then putting them on seem to me like a waste of time when seconds count, and it would be like taking a step backwards. As for seatbelt use, I concur with the gent above me.

Knuckleheads

When it comes to training, especially if one gets hurt, I will paraphrase a saying from Richard Marcinko, former Navy Seal and original CO of Seal Team Six. "The more you sweat in training, the less you get hurt for real" The other which may not neccesarily apply is, "If you sustain various bumps and bruises, then you're doing it right." I use the sweat one with people who work for me. The more your head hurts drilling, the less likely you are to screw it up for real.

He was a fireman from 1980-1984. He like Jack McGee(Otis from Backdraft, the BC from Rescue Me) went on to pursue acting. I think they both resigned as opposed to retired.

Join up and not be accepted by the ruling clique in the department. Those whose parents or grandparents were members and who haven't let stupid High School BS stay where it belonged, in High School.

The Super Pumper System(Pumper and Tender) was phased out in the early 1980's and replaced with the Maxi Water System. When a second alarm was transmitted, a Satellite would respond with its associated engine. On transmission of the third, Engine 207 would respond with the Maxi Water Unit(Another Satellite) and another Satellite with is associated Engine. The officer of 207 would be the water resource officer and announce a hook up site while responding. (Usually to a large diameter water main) This in turn evolved(Nov. 1, 1998) into the Satellite Water System we have today. There are six pumpers, each with a pumping capacity of 2,000 GPM. The Satellite carries various sizes of LDH, foam concentrate in barrels, a manifold, various fittings, and of course, the big a$$ deck gun. 5 of the 6 are in the process of being replaced with new rigs. They respond on all second alarms, Foam operations, All Hands Doubtful in SI, certain street boxes and bridge boxes, and when requested by the IC. If they are not 10-84 prior to the Probably Will Hold, they are returned to service as per Department regulations. In my experience, I have only seen that deck gun get put to work three times, tops. The Manifold gets the most work. Engine 9/Satellite 1-Manhattan Engine 72/Satellite 2-Bronx Engine 284/Satellite 3-Brooklyn Engine 324/Satellite 4-Queens Engine 159/Satellite 5-S.I. Engine 207/Satellite 6-Brooklyn Side note, this is where the Super Pumper and Super Tender were quartered from the early 70's until they were disbanded. The Super Pumper is owned now by a gentleman in Ohio, and the Super Tender is owned by a collector in California.

New Era NY Mets baseball cap. Usually in black or spring training royal blue with the black bill.

Either way, it's disgraceful. No engine or truck should turn out with one person on board.

There's a deli in my neck of the woods that makes pastrami seasoned turkey. Interesting flavors.

all hands = Signal 7-5. Using 3 Engines and 2 Trucks. This has been changed. It is also 2 engines, 2 trucks and a squad. Just came down yesterday. Class C?? Must have been someone slurring Class E. K is from the old morse code for end of transmission. Please feel free to PM me with quetions. If you hear AFID or AFRD-Apparatus Field Inspection/Re-Inspection Duty.

Some of you can always follow in the footsteps of some of your former colleagues and come work with us Dispatchers. Best of luck to all of you.

Tactical Support Units 1 and 2 evolved from the old Searchlight Units. That's about as close as we have here.

I dunno, the whole idea of trying to eat myself kind of loses its allure after nose goblins during childhood.

LA in the next few months for the LA County dispatchers test. Hawaii for my honeymoon. Baltimore for the expo. Maybe some other buffing trips, but not sure.

All I heard is that they may be closing down. Also remember at one time, there were 10 plus Patrols through out the city, now down to three.