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A fire three days earlier in the Brooklyn Navy yard a fire aboard the USS Constellation a aircraft carrier under construction killed 50 shipyard workers and injuried 300. It took the FDNY 17 hours to bring the fire under control with a call for Scott Paks from any and all Departments in the Metro area. What made this a difficult streak for the FD is that the same firefighters caught both jobs as they were in the same general area.

It might also be Jackie Gleason"s charater Reggie Van Gleason

That is Smokey Joe Martin a FDNY Legend

Had a fire in stored charcoal in the cellar of a Super Market one summer afternoon, it just ignited. Some folks believe that is what happened in the cellar of the Bengal Tiger in White Plains, as you know Indian resturants keep ample supplies of charcoal around for the tandori ovens,so this can happen again in most any supermarket or this type resturant

Manufacturers representatives sit on most committees of the NFPA, their bosses do not want to become the idle "Maytag Repairman" Thus the crazy regulations and questionable shelf life on items, keep manufactureres in business

It's funny the New York State Government voted the worst governmental body in the Nation by it's peers,now wants to tell municipalities how to govern. The City of New Rochelle had a tax cap for years imposed by an NYS Assemeblyman in order to get a 1% Sales tax. It killed agencies like the FD, positions were lost and Citywide the infrastructure suffered. Now did New Ro survive , fees started to appear, a garbage collection fee and others even more significant, so what money did the taxpayer save, services went down, things started to crumble and money was coming out of their pocket in a different form, by the way not a in a form that is tax deductable. Right now communities have tax rebates awarded to property owners well in excess of the proposed property tax, so how does that work, you open the fiscal year at a loss. In today's paper the Siena Poll claims 71 % of New Yorkers are in favor of a 2% tax cap. In order to make this a non disaster, a strong core of tax cap excemptions will have to included, state mandate pension raises,mandated health costs increases and mandates in general.