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I grew up in that rig. My Father, Grandfather, and Uncle were members of Fire Patrol. If I recall correctly, the rear had lights similar to what is on the front of the rig, just above the directionals in the following pre-renovation picture from CrotonOnHudson-NY.gov

Date:8/12/2011
Time:0830
Location: King Court Apartment
Units Operating:City of Poughkeepsie, Mobile Life 2 units, Fairview, Arlington, Highland
Weather Conditions: Clear
Description Of Incident: Apartment fire
Reporters: effd3918
0837- Pok Car 1 to Arlington Ladder set up on number 1 side for a rescue
0838- Mobile Life 2nd unit responding
0839-Fairview 10-35 1 to their station.
0840: City of Poughkeepsie 2nd alarm
0841: Primary searches negative. Roosevelt 63-12 and 45 to Poughkeepsie Station 2. Highlands to City of Poughkeepsie HQ.
0845-Heavy fire on 4th floor West side at 15 minute PAR timer.
0848- Car 10 reports 2nd line in operation. Reported heavy fire in apartment 510. Fire knocked down of 4th floor. Heavy Fire now on 5th floor.
0849-Disabled person reported on number 5 floor. Arlington setting up for a rescue
0852- City of Poughkeepsie requesting 2 additional ALS units on top of the 2 they have now
0855- 30 minute PAR timer. Fire spread to number 5 floor. They have a victim coming down
0901- Car 10 to roof "get off the roof"
0902- Firefighters on 5th floor requesting windows open "they are getting their butts kicked" 10 advised windows are open.
0903- 911 alerts evacuation tones for the 4th and 5th floor. Manpower to rear building. All members backing out for Accountability.
0905- Fire appears to be in Cockloft. Advise Water Dept defensive ops are being put in place.
0907-40 minute PAR timer.<BR><BR
0909- Car 10 to Car 1 "We believe the roof just collapsed"
0915- Water Dept advises they are at full pressure
0916-Photo reports from scene show HEAVY fire fully involved 4th and 5rh floor. Mutual aid departments being dispatched for "smoke investigations" in the City
0919- Roosevelt command reporting smoke investigation is smoke from Apartment Fire.
0926- 60 minute PAR timer. Fire still not knocked down.
0930-Highland Roosevelt and Arlington AFA at Adrience Library.
0937-Mutual aid back in service from AFA. Due to workman and pressure drop from fire. System reset.
1 and 15 minute PAR timer. Fire in cockloft of top floor.
0946- 80 minute PAR timer. Fire still not under control.
0947- All residents from West side of building are accounted for. Fire side still has 1 occupant unnacounted for. Searches continuing.
0958-Fairview dispatched for outside smoke investigation IAO VFW on Violet Avenue.
1001- All occupants accounted for.
1012- 100 minute PAR timer. Main Street Fire Station Landline 911
1022- Dutchess County Car 15 reports still defensive operations. Fire still not knocked down. Fire appears to be contained to 4th floor and cockloft. Extended operations for approx 2 or 3 hours.
1030- Fire has advanced past crews operating at the roof.
1032- Car 1 requesting Mobile Life not be dispatched on 911 frequency until further notice.
The accredited Poughkeepsie Journal reports 4 have been taken to the hospital for minor injuries.

What a touching, amazing, and unbelievable story! May God bless and watch over her! Happy, Happy Birthday Faith!!!

Summer of 2002, both my sister in law and little brother, as well as my wife and I, were expecting our firstborns. All was going great and we were all very excited.
About 3 weeks before they were due, the doctors noticed "something of concern" with their baby in the sonogram..and they were sent for a more detailed eval down in Westchester. The news was devastating to say the least. The baby's internal organs including the heart were not properly formed, among other abnormalities..they were told she would not survive birth.
In August, they were scheduled for delivery at Wetchester Med...still shell shocked from the news. I remember driving down on August 14th....not knowing what to say, especially since our child appeared to be totally healthy and trying to not be overly excited in front of them.
The delivery was tough to say the least...not only did my brother have to fear losing his first born, but his wife nearly died during the process...the staff at WMC worked their hardest, stabilizing her, and delivering the baby, a little girl, aptly named Faith. She did in fact survive birth...barely...and the second she was born she was whisked away to NICU for so many tests and procedures...
My brother couldnt talk...his wife couldn't even so much as open her eyes..we didn't know what to do, what to say..
My brother was shown how to baptise Faith by our Preist...which he did, as well as her Last Rites..could you imagine that!? I still can't.
We were able to see Faith quickly..and I will be honest..knowing what I knew..I thought it would be best of she passed quickly...when I met her...her eyes were wide open..her little fingers moving...so much about her that day was amazing, but I still can picture her beautiful blue eyes..the eyes of a fighter! I knew right then that no matter what actions needed to be taken, no matter the cost..that little Faith deserved every chance in the world to survive.
And fight she did!
She was taken to Columbia Pres by Stat Flight ground crew..the very same people I had worked with so many times on Empress chopper jobs...My brother was told not to expect her to live through the trip. BUT she did! Faith and her mother spent months living at Colmbia Pres...so many surgeries..rebuilt her heart, as she was born with a single chamber..her kidneys...a feeding tube, chest tubes, so many other things they patched, fixed, or made..amazing work..GOD'S WORK.
MY little brother aged 30 years in that time..barely working so they could be together as a family..just in case..so many times they were prepared for the inevitable.
In November, our Son was born, 100 precent healthy. I would be lying if I said we didnt feel a tinge of guilt, but moreso releived.
Right before Christmas 2002, little Faith came home. Amazing.
She was in and out of the hospital alot...for a long time..more surgeries..got very sick easy..
This all took one helluva toll on my Brother and his Wife. They lived like zombies..no emotion at all..just numb.
We were on vacation in Myrtle Beach the next summer when the house phone rang in the middle of the night..my brother crying that Faith was being airlifted to WMC by Stat Flight and she wasn't going to make it. And we are 13 hours away..
Well...she did survive another battle!
As she grew, she lived a very normal life..but was still plagued by medical issues..a long term feeding tube..frail..
Faith and her mother just returned from her first vacation to Scotland, where her mom was born and raised before coming to th US..
Today we got together to celebrate Faith's NINTH birthday.. This little FIGHTER is as normal as any other 9 year old today..she is the TOUGHEST, BRAVEST, SWEETEST person I know. She could teach volumes on being a survivor...she has more fight in her than I ever will. A NINTH birthday for a wee little lass who wasn't supposed to survive birth. Guess she showed them!
So even though we read daily that the police, fire, EMS, hospital, and medevac staffs are overpaid, under appreciated, overworked, etc..know that there are peopl eout there who benefited from your actions, your training, and your skills..people who appreciate you and what you do - because as little, well, not so little anymore, Faith can prove...you are needed and appreciated..from the Doctors who reconstructed her heart, to the nurses who changed her, to the medics that responded to their house when she collapsed, to the firemen who stood by while the chopper took off with her, to the Trooper who didn't ticket my mother on the TSP...all of you made a difference.
Thank you.
And HAPPY BIRTHDAY FAITHY...I LOVE YOU!

I picked up these three random front devices at the Springfield show recently...I think they were selling for 3 for $10..
I liked the Arlington one best...too bad it wasnt white. Obviously NOT the Poughkeepsie Arlington.

my lid

Depends..
The Lieutenant front and the "36 Truck" I am currently wearing came from thefirestore.com.
The Boston style was made by Handtub Junction
I will most likely use F and T Products in the future as thier work is unmatched by most. They will even make custom finials..like Boston did.
http://www.leatherfronts.com/default.htm
The master of hand painted shields is no doubt Bob Stella; http://www.helmetshield.com/
Some of my old shelds were authentic Cairns, which I feel are a better quality then the ones from TFS. Here is a Cairns front worn for 4 years when I served as Lieutenant and my FF shield worn for many more years, both FDNY passport stylye;
Last pic is the Cairns Passport frmae with a thefirestore insert;

Another from the collection....unsure of the background on it as it appears to be a "put together". It is a N5a in SMALL which havnt been made since about the time the FDNY stopped issuing leathers, BUT it has a flat topped eagle finial which is from the MSA era lids, albeit bent slightly. LOL
This helmet is heavily covered in soot and has some wicked crazy bends in the brim.
I had a front device made up for it for display purposes and "someday"..LOL

Wow, that's pretty much an exact copy of Mt. Vernon's car.

Village of Mamaroneck Police Departments's new CVPIs.
Old:

New:

Sorry for the small cell phone shot,but didnt have my camera. I was shopping at 187th st,when i saw the old rescue 3 beign followed my the new one.

Today, on my approach to HPN, I saw a plume of smoke coming from northern westchester. I originally thought it was a brush fire but when I saw the IA for Pound Ridge, I knew that was it. This Photo was takken about 10 minutes after first dispatch. The actual fire was just on the other side of the rigde. At this point of my flight, I couldn't of gotten closer. Anyways, these are the photos I got...

Right place right time...

Life for arson boys and girls, remember that... and they've just arrested three for attempted murder of an LEO, I'm hearing.
Mike

Date: 9/10/10
Time: 00:30 hours
Location: E39 st x 3rd Ave
Frequency: FDNY Manhattan
Weather Conditions: cool and windy
Description Of Incident: fire through the roof on arrival
Reporters/Writer: ryang
Additional Info:
East Midtown, Manhattan, NY, 9/10/10
Address: 593 3rd Ave @ E39 st
Also affected: 200 E 39 st @ 3rd Ave
00:33 hours
Phone Box 753 - Report of fire from the roof of a restaurant
Engs 65, 8, 1
TL7, L24
Battalion 9

00:33 hours
E21, Battalion 8 re-directed in
10-75-753 - 00:34 hours
E21: 10-75, we have fire in a 1 story taxpayer, fire showing through the roof!
E16
L4 (FAST Truck)
Battalion 9 designated the "10-75 Chief"
Division 3
Rescue 1
Squad 18
7-5-753 - 00:37 hours
Battalion 8: We've got fire through the roof, can you send us another truck, k, All-Hands, send us a tower ladder, k.
TL21 S/C
RAC1
00:41 hours - Duration 9 minutes
Fire Building Height/Size-up:
Commercial 1 story 100x75 Taxpayer
Exposures are:
1 - street
2 - street
3 - 3 story MD
4 - 5 story MD
2-2-753 - 00:45 hours
Engs. 26, 14, 54
E207 w/ Satellite 6
L2
Battalion 6 re-directed in as the "Safety Officer"
Battalion 7 (Resource Unit Leader)
Rescue, Safety Battalion
Tactical Support 1
FieldCom 1

00:48 hours
Division 3: Command Post is set up on the corner of 3rd Ave and 39th st, have all units report in to the Command Post.
00:54 hours
TL12, L3, Battalion 10 S/C
00:55 hours - Duration 23 minutes
DC3: Box 753, the address 200 East 39 st, we have a taxpayer, 1 story, dimensions 100x75, fire's located on the 1st floor, possible extension through the roof and into the cockloft. We have 2 lines stretched in operation, 1st line to the 1st floor, 2nd to the roof. Primary searches are in progress. At this time the fire is Doubtful, k.
01:10 hours
The staging area is E41 st and 3rd Ave
3-3-753 - 01:12 hours
FC: As per the 3rd division, transmit the 3rd Alarm. We have a smoke condition in the basement, main body of fire has been knocked down, checking for extension, checking the integrity of the building. Also can we get an extra Battalion Chief on the 3rd.
Engs. 34, 3, 263 acting 5, 39
Battalions 35 acting 6, 1
Battalion 45 (Staging Manager)
Mask Service Unit
Car 1E (Commissioner's Liaison)
Car 13A (AC Richard Tobin, Assistant Chief of Fire Prevention)
01:21 hours
FC: I have a correction on the address: the address is 593 3rd, and that's a 100x25 on the dimensions. That's connected to 200 E39, and that's 50x100.
01:34 hours - Duration 1 hour 2 minutes
FC: Progress report on 3rd Alarm Box 753, AC Tobin, Car 13A, reports: he has heavy fire in the cockloft of 200 East 39. He's removed all members from the fire building. They are going to an exterior operation. Moving tower ladders around to put them into operation. Request 2 trucks to respond to the staging area.
TL9, L11 S/C
01:37 hours
FC: Also notify the utilities, gas and electric, to respond, to shut down supply to the building.
01:39 hours
Fuel Tender Unit is 10-84
01:42 hours - Duration 1 hour 10 minutes
FC: Progress report on 3rd Alarm Box 753, the address 200 East 39 st at 3rd Ave, AC Tobin, Car 13A, reports: All members have been removed from the building and the roof area. Tower Ladders are set up and in operation. Fire is still being caried as Doubtful. Roll call has been conducted and all members are accounted for.
01:52 hours
FC: At this time exposure 3 and exposure 4 have been evacuated.
01:53 hours
Battalion 39-Air Recon is airborne and has a 5 minute ETA.
01:55 hours
ConEd Gas reports on-scene
ConEd Electric reports an ETA of under 1 hour
02:22 hours
FC: Progress report for your 3rd Alarm Box 753, the address 200 East 39 st at 3rd Ave, 1 story 50x100. AC Tobin, Car 13A reports: 2 tower ladders in operation, 1 mult-versatile in operation, 1 hand line in operation. It's an.exterior operation All occupants have been accounted for. This is going to be a long term exterior operation. Still Doubtful.
02:24 hours
Receiving the address 235 E 39 st reporting smoke in apartment 3R
4-4-753 - 02:24 hours
Engs. 33, 28, 40, 22
E262 w/ IMT Unit
Battalion 4 (Planning Sections Chief)
02:28 hours
FC: Have 1 engine from the 4th Alarm respond to the southwest corner of 39 st and 2nd Ave to pick up a hydrant at that location
02:31 hours
Receiving the address 235 E 40 st reporting smoke in apartment 5B
02:33 hours
FC: Please special call 3 trucks to the 4th Alarm, have them respond to the staging area. Also you can turn around E262, the Planning Chief, and the Planning Vehicle.
T20, T5, L16 S/C
02:40 hours
Receiving the address 240 E39 st, apartment 8H, caller reports her apartment is "getting hot."
02:43 hours
FC: Units checked out 235 E40, 5B, it was odor of smoke from the 4th alarm.
02:45 hours
Car 12 (DAC Stephen Raynis, Chief of Safety and Inspectional Services) is responding

02:52 hours
Car 36B (Department Chaplain) is responding

02:56 hours
FC: Units checked 235 East 39, 3R, that was an odor from the 4th alarm. They also checked out 240 East 39, 8H, that was also an odor of smoke.
03:27 hours - Duration 2 hours 55 minutes
FC: At your 4th Alarm Box 753, the address 200 East 39 st, 2nd to 3rd Aves, Car 13A, AC Tobin reports: This is going to be an extended exterior operation. He's got 3 multi-versatiles in operation, 2 tower ladders in operation, 2 handlines in operation. Still trying to put out pockets of fire within the cockloft area, still Doubtful Will Hold.
5-5-753 - 04:18 hours
FC: At 4th Alarm Box 753, Car 13A, AC Tobin, would like to transmit a 5th Alarm for relief purposes, have them respond to the staging area. Also places this fire Probably Will Hold, this will be an extensive exterior operation. On the 5th Alarm can you give us the two trucks please.
Engs. 23, 44, 40?, 258
TL13, TL35?

04:51 hours
FC: Special call 1 Battalion Chief to the scene, he's going to replace the Safety Battalion. Also special call another RAC unit to the scene to replace the one we have.
Battalion 32 (Safety Officer), RAC3 S/C
04:59 hours
L30 (FAST Truck) S/C
05:18 hours
FC: we're going to need PD for security at the addresses 589 and 591 3rd Ave
05:56 hours
FC: Progress report for 5th Alarm Box 753, address 200 East 39 st, at 3rd Ave, AC Tobin, Car 13A reports: They are swapping out tower ladders. Still extinguishing pockets of fire. They're operating outside the collapse area. Conditions remain unchanged, this will be a prolonged operation. It will be Probably Will Hold still, and we will need 3 engines, 2 trucks, and 3 Battalion Chiefs for relief purposes.
Engs. 35, 4 15 S/C
TL1, TL22 S/C
Battalions 16, 3, 17 S/C
06:13 hours
FC: If you have one of those engines, have it come down 3rd Ave from above 40th st, and they will take the hydrant on 39th st and supply the Tower Ladder.
06:25 hours
FC: If you could raise the chiefs coming in on the 5th Alarm, just have them come into the Command Post.
06:59 hours
Tactical Support 2 is responding to relieve Tactical Support 1
07:05 hours - Duration 6 hours 35 minutes
FC: 5th Alarm Box 753, the address 200 East 39 st, AC Tobin, Car 13A, reports: still operating with 2 tower ladders, 2 handlines, and 2 multi-versatiles. There's a complete collapse of the roof area. Still trying to get to pockets of fire with some difficulty due to the complete roof collapse. Still an exterior operation, conditions remain unchanged, still Probably Will Hold.
07:20 hours
E23 reports a verbal for a manhole pushing black smoke at E 41 st and 3rd Ave
07:50 hours - Duration 7 hours 18 minutes
FC: Progress report for your 5th Alarm Box 753, the address 200 East 39 st off of 3rd Ave, at this time AC Tobin, Car 13A places this fire Under Control. Also reports this is an extensive hydraulic overhaul, he's going to need the use of an All-Hands assignment. We will look for that assignment for relief at 0900 hours.
Relocations:
Engines: 239/3, 292/14, 91/16, 47/21, 291/23, 237/26, 224/28, 73/44, 221/65
Ladders: 8/4, 110/5, 101/3, 31/13, 28/20, 26/24
Battalions: 57/1, 35/6, 46/7, 12/8

Date: 8/8/11
Time: 03:50 hours
Location: 101-44 132 st and 101-40 132 st x Liberty Ave
Frequency: FDNY Queens
Weather Conditions: warm
Description Of Incident: fire extended from the attic throughout a 2 1/2 story private dwelling and into exposure 4.
Reporters/Writer: ryang
Additional Info:
South Richmond Hill, Queens, NY, 8/8/11
Address: 101-40 132 st between 101 and Liberty Aves
03:50 hours
Phone Box 6095 - Report of fire in a private dwelling @ 101-40 132 st
Engs 303, 308, Squad 270
L126, TL127
Battalion 51
10-75-6095 - 03:52 hours
E303: 10-75 the Box, fire on the top floor of 2 1/2 story peaked roof private dwelling
E298
TL142 (FAST Truck)
Battalion 50
Division 13
Rescue 4
Squad 288
2-2-6095 - 03:57 hours
Battalion 51: 6095, transmit the 2nd Alarm, we have fire in the exposure.
Engs. 285, 302, 294, 275
E324 w/ Satellite 4
TL155, T143
Battalion 54 (Safety Officer)
Battalion 39 (Resource Unit Leader)
Safety, Rescue Battalions
Tactical Support 2
FieldCom 1
RAC4
03:59 hours - Duration 10 minutes
BC51: We have a fire in 101-40 132 st, 2 1/2 story frame. Exposure 1 is street, 2 is similar detached, 3 is unknown, 4 is a similar detached. We have 1 line stretched and in operation, a 2nd line stretched to exposure 2 attic in operation, k. We'll go with 20x40, k.
04:02 hours
The staging area is 103 Ave and 130 st
04:04 hours - Duration 15 minutes
Division 13: 2nd alarm Box 6095, we've got 2 lines stretched, we have a 3rd line being stretched, we have fire in the attic, 1st, and 2nd floors, fire's Doubtful.
04:09 hours - Duration 20 minutes
DC13: Box 6095, all visible fire has been knocked down, also in exposure 4. Primaries are being done right now, we'll get back to you. Still Doubtful, the extension was into exposure 4.
04:11 hours
DC13: Box 6095, you can return the Satellite please.
04:14 hours - Duration 25 minutes
DC13: The primaries in the fire building are being delayed, the primaries and secondaries are complete and negative in exposure 4, return the 4th chief, Rescue, and Squad.
04:14 hours
DC13: The primaries in the fire building are negative.
04:17 hours - Duration 28 minutes
DC13: Box 6095, primaries are complete throughout the fire building and exposure 4, we're going to go Probably Will Hold.
04:20 hours
DC13: Return all special units.
04:26 hours
DC13: Box 6095, 10-41 code 1 (suspicious fire, occupied structure), mixer-off please.
04:28 hours
FieldCom: Box 6095, change the address to 101-44 132 st, the original building. 101-40 is exposure 4.
04:24 hours
DC13: Box 6095, we're going to go Under Control.
Relocations:
Engines: 332/294, 297/298, 286/302, 299/303, 307/308
Ladders: 165/126, 140/143
Battalions: 49/50

The paper is white.

I wonder how they're gonna say that this test is racist?

Yes, the older syle New Yorker finial is far better than the flat topped version...and the current factory bends suck. i was actually talking to the cuurent designer/engineer from MSA trying to get them to change it to look more tradional and not so swoopy..
Here is one I had breifly with the flat top. This one I bought on ebay for $300 and it sold for over $500!
I stripped the yellow off, held it over a pot of boiling water to let the steam soften the leather, then took the silly bends from the brim, I like them flat! After being repainted a flat black, I did the flag on the underside and added a new finial with maltese design (not the eagle). The new owner loves it.
By the way - this one was a N6a - the Sam Houston...and I MUCH PREFER the N5a over it!

One more, and these are not part of my collection, but I sure wish they were!
This past sprng we were cleaning out the garage where our 1927 Seagrave parks and I found these 3 piled up in a corner! I about pooped myself! LOL
These are now on display in the firehouse, behind glass. I am eventually going to either order or make front devices for them.
From left - Unknown make High Eagle leather, Cairns 5a, and Cairns Senator (metal)

2 more...both from the City of Poughkeepsie.
One I purchased locally, it is an old PFD VOLUNTEER helmet..Cairns 5a.
The back side of the front device was painted blue, as shown. Probationary firemen wore the device blue side out. When they completed probation, it was reversed to show the company ID.
The other was given to me by a retired Captain, and was his Lieutenant helmet from the 80's. If this helmet could talk, it would cough.

Here is what I started wearing after getting out as a Chief officer in January.

Oh....I have a Milwaukee too..