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Been dead, just people refuse to let it go......

Yes...same here...

Very proud of you Billy! Welcome to the Internetz!

Nice pics Loo!

YEARS ago, we (JH Ketcham) had a team as well as several individuals compete and do well... I was injured at the time so I assisted the staff on the tower resetting the rope/hose haul all day, but my wife competed. Much fun.

Thanks 'Loo! And CONGRATS! Ya got you a keeperfo sho!

I love you Billy!

LOL...sorry -t oo much caffeine....

HOLE EE CRAP! What on God's green Earth was that WHITE HAT thinking!?!?!?!? I am one of the LAST people to pick apart a photo - or call the NFPA Police...but OH MY LORD W....T...F!?!?!?!? Can ANYONE give a GOOD reason to do this?

Thanks Brothers! Beena great day so far, will get better when my little buddy gets off of the bus! Hard to beleive that 21 years ago today I joined the FD...and oddly enough..17 years ago today, on my 20th, I began a long and awesome career with Empress EMS..I miss those of you who I became friends with!

Bill - you are always welcome on the other side of that bridge - regardless of time.

Beautiful

EXACTLY! The suburbs and rural areas around NYC are a terrorist staging area!

I am looking for anyone who may have known or worked with Fireman Timothy McSweeney, from Ladder 3. I was contacted by a fireman from Kansas City who is doing the 9/11 stairclimb in his honor and he was looking for more info on him. If anyone knew hiom, I will get you in touch with the guy in KC. Thanks in advance, and God Bless. We will never forge!

Powerful pic!

I sure miss them in Poughkeepsie....we would be good for a street box to trip in...then a phone call in frantic spanish..."Fill out the box...10-75!"

Them guys in the Vern are spoiled...plain and simple! LOL

LOL...a thread about these knuckleheads is ripping on elightbars.org...and there are guys defending them!

Beleive the other fella in that picture got a promotion as well, No?

OOps!

Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Must be nice...I am slightly jealous..LOL. Love seeing multiple towers up when conditions dictate...

Alot of tower ladders.

Tough topic...especially to our little ones who were born post 9/11.... I remember a few years back, my son and I were building Lincoln Log towers...not WTC's, but just stacking them to see who could make one the highest...I got up to get something and came back to see him knocking them down with a toy airplane...I basically flipped on him...but caught myself whan I realized he had NO IDEA about that day...he was just "making stuff and breaking stuff", as little boys do... He knows a bit of history about that day...and will learn more once the 9/11 display comes to DCC...I also saved the documentary filmed by the French brothers...the one that starts with the manhole/gas leak out own JBE dispacthed..I want him to watch that someday..but not yet....I want to maintain what little innocence he still has a bit longer.. On the plus side - his love of planes and flying is growing daily - and he wants to go to flight school someday...I told him he can get it for free...in the Air Force! LOL (I am hoping he becomes a Marine!)

It's a shame you are retired and moved away...you have so much knowledge to offer us younger guys...thanks for at least sharing it here Sir.