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I recall a couple in Yonkers that were huge and water was a problem -Oak Street where about 14 buildings went and of course the carpet shop fire off Lake Avenue with all it's exposure problems Now in New Rochelle NRHS fire in 68 had the advantage of Mutual Aid units drafting from the lakes out front. that was one of the largest fires in the USA that year. Also in New Ro the Crabtree explosion that killed folks, injured scores and destroyed several large commercial buildings. We often take water for granted,at the World Trade Center who would think water would ever be a problem, but it was when the towers fell and broke the water mains under the street and uncontrolled fires became a real problem, fireboats came in real handy both active and retired vessels. With Homeland Security funding Jersey bought three huge pumping units with very large diameter hose,way bigger than 5in., these units were called Neptune Systems and could produce huge amounts of water for long distances, wonder if they were called in.

Still bothers me to this day after many years, watching the ceremony on television brings a lot of it back, went down to Ground Zero 9/11 at night for the last eleven years , good time to go when all the hoopla was over and still many wonderful and appropriate things going on. Easy travel and parking, I recommend it

In New Ro the lights went out about 4 something in the afternoon. We had many stuck elevator calls immediately and did scores of service calls thru the night. All available rigs were manned and units drove around in their district with all warning lights on to reassure the citizens and be a beacon for those needing help and having no phone service, all cell phones were out and cordless home phones died after a short period. ALL WENT WELL UNTIL ABOUT 500 AM with the sun coming up we had a train crash and a good structure fire at the exact same time. The train was a diesel train crashed in to a stalled commuter train occupied by railroad workers, mucho injured. I think we did pretty good with no time to prepare. Certainly so close to 9/11/01 we were anoxious until we heard it was the whole east coast

Very early response to the World Trade Center, nothing will ever compare to that

The article cited in Fire Engineering was written by Billy Fitz of Yonkers and mistakenly credited to Doc Kiernan of New Rochelle by the magazine editors. Billy did a great job on that article .Which proves very informative