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Old Yonkers Fire Dept Photos

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Yonkers purchased a used 85ft American LaFrance tiller from the Great Neck L.I.'s Alert Hook and Ladder and Hose Co 1 on Feb. 28, 1979.

Richard Smith and Joe Kelly drove the truck back to Yonkers from Long Island with Sam Locatelli on the tiller. The truck went to Station 12.

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Cool pics. Did yonkers have any tillers before that one from Long Island?

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Truck 1 had a 1934 or 35 American LaFrance 75ft wood aerial, Truck 3 had a straight frame American LaFrance wood aerial, not sure of the year, Truck 4 had a 1938 American LaFrance 85ft wood aerial and Truck 5 had a 1929 American LaFrance wood aerial, not sure if it 75 or 85ft. Truck 2 did not have an aerial, just a 1936 or 37 American LaFrance city service rig. The photo of Truck 5 is from the YFD Web page. The photo of Truck 2 is mine from 1960.

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Outstanding Photos Ron - Please keep those classic photos coming

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YFD Ladder 69 operating at 3 alarm fire 35-41 Hawthorne Ave on Oct 5, 1983. The red American LaFrance truck was purchased used from the Great Neck Fire Dept in 1979 and later converted to a Compac and painted lime green.

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That rig that E. 8 has looks like a 1960 Ward LaFrance "Fire Brand" 1000 gpm pumper. NYC had similar except they had closed cabs.

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Great pics. OMG, a parade? How unprofessional.

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Sorry, couldn't resist. Seriously, great pics!

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Great pics. OMG, a parade? How unprofessional.

And Im sure nobody indulged in Libations afterwards right? Yeah right!

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Great pics. OMG, a parade? How unprofessional.

I imagine they did but it was 1946. Different lifestyle.

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April 1975

Two alarm high rise fire at 1841 Central Park Ave

Yonkers firefighters go over the 19th floor roof to attack the top floor fire.

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Yonkers Ladder 75 operating at a multiple alarm fire at Riverdale and Herriot St in Sept 1982.

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Great stuff Ron. I think with all your spare time down south it might be time for a book.

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April 1975

Two alarm high rise fire at 1841 Central Park Ave

Yonkers firefighters go over the 19th floor roof to attack the top floor fire.

Could somebody please explain the reasoning for this? This is sort of like the story an "old timer" told me of rappelling down the side of a building for a lockout from an upper floor apartment.

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April 1975 Two Alarm high rise fire at 1841 Central Park Ave.

When residents abandoned their attempt at fighting the fire with the standpipe line, they left the apartment door open allowing the fire to take over the public hallway. Yonkers firefighters went over the 19th floor roof to attack the fire from the balcony.


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In 1975 wasn't that one of the tallest buildings in the county?

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Ron can you name these firefighters going over the roof at 1841CPA? Great pictures hope you have more to post.

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Could somebody please explain the reasoning for this? This is sort of like the story an "old timer" told me of rappelling down the side of a building for a lockout from an upper floor apartment.

Then, the repelled with a line, today we have the hi-rise nozzle......aka coward stick. Kidding aside, there are plenty of instances every year where the hallway of a hi rise is completely untenable.

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This was almost 40 years ago so many of the names escape me….I spent most of my time on the west side of town and at Eng 8 so I knew the guys in Bat 1.

I think the nozzle man on the balcony of 1841 CPA might be Lt Karsinski but not sure.

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Those are some great shots! Really like the pics of 1841 CPA.

I know it's not really "old Yonkers photos" (from '95), but does anyone have photos or info from the Carpet Shop Fire on Nepperhan Ave.?

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I took a closer look at the original negs from 1841 CPA and now I'm pretty sure the firefighter with the 4 on his helmet is in fact George Drosdowich. I wasn't sure, but when I enlarged the image, it gave a better view. Also the award documents include him.

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