Raymond 'Doc' Kiernan retiring as New Rochelle fire chief after 45 years

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NEW ROCHELLE — Aug. 1, 1966, arrived two months after Bob Dylan released "Blonde on Blonde" and less than a month before The Beatles gave their last public concert.

In New York City, builders were about to break ground on the World Trade Center and Mickey Mantle was in the midst of his last good season at the plate.

And in New Rochelle, Raymond "Doc" Kiernan reported for his first day of work as a firefighter.

After responding to a handful of false alarms, he suited up and ran out to his first real fire.

"It was a lady's unmentionables, burning in a dryer in a Laundromat," Kiernan recalled. "On Division Street. That was my first sighting of flames.

"It shaped my career ever since."

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