New Rochelle Fire Main St. @ North Ave 12-30-91

[R1SmokeEater 359]

Just a few shots of a multiple alarm job on Main St. @ North Ave. 12-30-91.

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Mt. Vernon Snorkel-1 ..............

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And last I have, NRFD TL-11 .................

[LTNRFD 266]

That was a long cold night. The fire started on the Main St side in a pile of cardboard boxes in the doorway of a liquor store.

[Remember585 815]

Awesome shots! Thanks for sharing them.

[rfdu39 89]

Nice shots.

[R1SmokeEater 359]

That was a long cold night. The fire started on the Main St side in a pile of cardboard boxes in the doorway of a liquor store.

Cold, yes ! Do you have any more particulars or rundown of Companies etc. to go with the pix ?

[61MACKBR1 222]

You've got to love the old FDMV Snorkel 1 ! Yes, the truck, to what I have been told, was difficult to drive thru the narrow streets in Mount Vernon, but that Snorkel could sure shoot a blast of water from that tower. They don't make rigs like that anymore.

[jack10562 414]

My apologies to R1 SmokeEater, (this is an unintentional hijack)

MV Snorkel 1? I thought Bedford Hills had the first Snorkel in the county, back in the seventies?

[61MACKBR1 222]

Not sure who had the 1st Snorkel Unit in Westchester County. It might have been Bedford Hills. I know that Scarsdale had one at one time, and of course, the Classic Mount Vernon FD Snorkel (Photos above). Does anyone know what FIre Districts in Westchester County had Snorkel Units and who still has them?

[jack10562 414]

Google AND EMTBravo, work together...

I found this old thread, which has the answers!

http://www.emtbravo.net/lofiversion/index.php?t8489.html

Currently there are no snorkels in service in Westchester under the "Snorkel" badge.

[SteveOFD 176]

All the Snorkels in Westchester have retired.

Snorkel 1 - Bedford Hills

Snorkel 2 - Verplanck

Snorkel 3 - Mount Vernon

Snorkel 4 - Scarsdale

Then there were the Snorkel TeleSquirts:

TS 1 - Fairview

TS 2 - Millwood(E245)

TS 3 - Mohegan

Only Millwood is still in service, soon to be replaced with a Sutphen 70'.

jack you googled while I was typing in.lol

Edited February 24, 2008 by SteveOFD

[jloftus 28]

I went to this job, we sent snorkel, rescue and deputy, we got there early on and that thing spread across very fast.

Tough night for Newro, but like always they did a great job.

[R1SmokeEater 359]

While moving some boxes to paint in my house, I found this:

[efdcapt115 1,511]

Great video R1Smokeeater! Thanks for the memories. I lived on Centre Ave. when this fire occurred, yeah I was a buff boy that night.....

[RFR 12]

Great video R1Smokeeater! Thanks for the memories. I lived on Centre Ave. when this fire occurred, yeah I was a buff boy that night.....

I was there to. Just got off probation. Those rubber boots didn't help at all with the cold. We were sitting on deck guns on Main St. for hours getting pound by the over spray of the master streams on North Ave.

We looked like ice sickles.

[sfrd18 360]

Awesome photos and videos R1SmokeEater, especially the ones w/the old Tower Ladder 11 and the Vern's old Snorkel in action. Also, a fantastic job by New Roc's Bravest! It looked pretty darn cold out there.

[61MACKBR1 222]

Like I have said in the past, that Old Mount Vernon FD Snorkel was a real workhorse piece of apparatus in its day. (Hard to drive around the narrow streets in Mount Vernon, but what a great unit to have during big fires. FDMV Snorkel 1 had seen allot of action during its lifetime in Mount Vernon I think it even was at the Historic Fanny Farmer Fire, but I can't be too sure)

Awesome photos and videos R1SmokeEater, especially the ones w/the old Tower Ladder 11 and the Vern's old Snorkel in action. Also, a fantastic job by New Roc's Bravest! It looked pretty darn cold out there.

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Love the gear back in "the day"......if you were a fireman...you wore black boots...black coats with yellow Reflexite..and a New Yorker....there was no mistaking a fireman back then...not like us in our multi colored, multi striped "prima donna" gear we have now!