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M you're listening to the Getting Salty
Experience podcast. No way you go.

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Welcome back Gonzo Contopotamus, who's muted
again and Lou I'm not muted. They're

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not muted. Gonzo is I don't
know why. He's got some kind of

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bootleg bullshit computer in Florida. He
can't mute himself. He's like this,

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He's just gonna it's better than he
muted. I don't know what is going

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on. He's still mute. Let's
see how long that list. Anyway,

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Welcome back to the show to get
Insulting Experienced podcast, so fire related stuff,

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all the best guys, the hardest
charges yourself. He was waiting.

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I don't know what the hell happened, and it was just take it for

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River to let me continue. It's
okay, Brout. It's a good welcome

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back guys, Welcome back, Love
Ahead Nation. It's the only one that

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brings stuff like that. Yeah,
it brings that. Yep, and this.

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We had a guy who was actually
at that fire on the show tonight.

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Brom you could talk about it a
little bit. He's a good fellow.

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Met him a long time ago,
uh, doing some work in his

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back yard from you that was him, right, He said, all right,

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we're gonna talk with the chief off
of me. And we made a

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drill out of it. I don't
remember what it was. We break up

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and a break up a rock or
something. I don't know how he did.

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I don't know. I don't know. But you know, we have

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to do a new segment of the
show guns. Right, it's my favorite.

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Yes, it's just saying his favorite. Do it? Oh no,

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here we go, standby and we
go unshy and unfiltered, ladies and gentlemen.

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This is Coops his rings. Yes, it's gonna be a new thing.

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Yeah, you like it. I
mean, shouldn't we talk about that

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first. I'm just gonna I'm just
gonna throw it out there. So anyway,

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I was talking again today to Bobby
Birth what a great guy, great

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guy, and he gave me a
good quote today. He said, verbatim,

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this is from Patty Brown when Bobby
asked him about all the medals he

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had around his neck. Um,
Patty Brown, Patty, this was what

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Patty said, quote of this,
saying, there are many guys with none

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of these medals around my neck that
are way better fine than me. Bro.

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So that leads into another thing that
me and Roofy get on all the

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time when we get emails. It's
something like this, Hey, I got

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a good guest that should be great
on the show. It would be me,

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So I think I should come on
your show. So let's go a

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little modesty. Is the world of
the day humility, right, because we

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find that the best guys that come
out on the show, of the guys

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that are the most that's funny,
humble guys. And I have one more

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thing, you know, I got
on what I do here. I got

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on my boy Jeremy from NFL last
week. I was a little harsh.

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So I just want to say this
to him. I just want to sack

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on the bottom of me. I'd
like to take this chance to apologize nobody.

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And that's all I gotta say.
Now. I like Jeremy, You're

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a good guy. I was.
I was only drinking. I was all

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like Kenning, I was on the
kidding. Oh right, that god she

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reborn charger bro. He changed his
name. So maybe he's coming out of

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the closet, tootums closet, whoa, whoa, Wait a minute, it

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doesn't have to be that closet.
Wow, come out and produce a closet.

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I mean there's a lot of that
closet going around nowadays, but I

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didn't mean that clout. He's falling
into his position here. He's smooth now,

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bro Like for the first day he
said, fuck the paddock mode.

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You know, well it doesn't work. Yeah, well she just came in

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here. Now you didn't hear us, I'll like get out of here.

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All right, let's stop. Let's
let's do up plugs gon, So we

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get our guests in here. Wait, somebody's plugging up something here. Hold

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on there, he goes. Sorry, the mic from the background there was

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hitting as well, little suth.
All right, let's get up plug in

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Just head on over to get in
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smooth too, bro, it's like
velp, He's like beautiful that mcbob,

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he's smooth. Gonzo still muted,
So we'll have to Okay, here we

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goes. You gotta wait to the
few. Ill send him a few dollars

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from new computer or something brought.
I don't know what we just can I

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just do like the mind things by
sitting the chair communicate that way, it

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might not be so bad if he's
moved. Yeah, what are you trying

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to say? I talk a lot. You can reach it for another one?

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What I get your one? All
right? How do you is that?

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It's all the plugs we got.
No, I just want to remind

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people about the super Chat. If
they want to support us, ahead and

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hit us up in the super Chat, especially tonight. Our guys were hitting

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us up in the chat already about
what a great guy we have on tonight.

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So if you guys want to support
us or ask a good question,

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we'll get get an answer. So
hit us up in the super Chat.

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Danny Williams. Danny Williams do they
talk to today? His brother? Is

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it the Williams from Rescue one?
Not the one from sixteen shruck? What

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the hell am I it is?
Uh? Yeah, uh no, No,

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Davy Davy Williams from Rescue one.
He wanted to give us three forty

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three dollars in the stupid check.
I told him absolutely not. He collected

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them from selling some coins and he
wanted to do it in the name of

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the of the guys who we lost
on I love but I said, listen,

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donated to you know, some widows
or something like that. But great

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guy. I love him. He's
gonna be on the show soon. Rescue

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one very talented man. All right, cons running off, fellow, I

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want to know what I want to
see? What the audience's first responses when

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we bring on our guests, and
I think that might be something similar to

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this. But all right, all
right, coming to the stage, you

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find a frond of Greg Bruno.
Very yeah, everything selves, but I

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don't know. Thank you very much, thanks for having me on. So

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let's let's see what the audience picks
up right here, powerful fox treatments.

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There you go, brot all of
the curtains. I don't you know.

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I should put you guys together so
they can I think I think my wife's

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a better talking about babies up there. Yeah, tassels hanging from those tasks.

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Wait a minute, on brow,
Yeah, we go to side.

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Come on, I don't know Greg. If I would have known, I

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would have had a dress him up
for you. No worries the same interior

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designer. Yeah, gin Zoe,
that's a gin Zoe problem. All right,

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Before we get it to mister Bruno's
career, here, we have to

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do a patriotic duty. I said
duty, Yes, you dude, that's

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a New York thing. Somebody gave
my wife a hard time the other days.

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Is what do you guys say,
duty? It's supposed to be a

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New York thing. Yeah, all
right, stam, here we go.

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Oh can you see by the dawnsly
light? What so bridly we held at

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the twine lights, lastlyming whose broad
stripes and bright stars through the paralless find

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or the rampart wee watched were so
gallans lee streaming, and the rocket racklad

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the bones busting gay froof through the
night that our flag way there, Oh

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save us that StarSpangled bend or the
land, oh the freend and no home,

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oh the brand and Gonzo. You
know what, We're gonna have to

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have a replacement for Gonzo while he's
muted. I think it's gonna be this

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guy. And here's Gonzo. All
right, mister Bruno, let's go back

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at the time here. I think
you're from our neighborhood. That's where I

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first met you. I don't know
if you were born and raised there,

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but no, I was born and
raised in Brooklyn, Niga and benson Hurst,

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and at the age of five,
at the age of five, we

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moved from Marine Park and then later
on before I got on the fire apart

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my head, moved to Howard Beach
and then from there we ended up in

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Masspeth, and that's where I met
you and all that time. Once I

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got on the job, it was
traveling from mass but to Snider Island.

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Snider Island, Snider Island followed the
smoke followed the nobody. That's good for

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you, that's right. What do
you have the you have an Iraq or

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what were you driving? Yeah,
no doubt, right, come on,

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yeah I had the lean. Now
I have a car that I don't have

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a lean, But yes you did. Did you have the h What is

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the thing hanging from the mirror?
The pepper? Pepper? Yeah? Actually,

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actually, actually the first time I
drove, I had a boss that

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didn't go for that kind of stuff. But I did come in with the

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fuzzy dice and and the and the
pepper and the first thing he said me

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get that shit out of the rig. So it had to go and that

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was it. Yeah, that was
my first experience. Yeah, I had

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hanging in the front and then he
said get that out of here. And

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as the run came in, I
said, you have the keys And I

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looked over him. I said he
had the keys and he looked at me

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like what. So we had a
little little fun with that. It was

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good. Um, what did you
do that? What did you do before

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you got on the fire department.
Before I got in the fire department,

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I was in the local union of
six I wait in the Copentes union and

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I could but cement, would you? No? No? No? I

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did drywall and uh. Then I
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the offices. But my ultimate goal
was a fire department, for sure.

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I got bit at a very young
age. You did no, yeah,

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No, you had any any family
on the job or yes, yes,

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I had. My father's brother.
My uncle was back. He retired in

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like nineteen sixty nine. He was
in one seventy two truck and he ended

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up working in one oh three as
a punishment one oh three two, And

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he figured at that point he could
do whatever he wants, because what the

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hell else are they going to send? Yeah, and then my father,

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my father got on in nineteen seventy
and unfortunately got laid off seventy five I

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believe it was, but I think
it was only laid off for like five

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six months. And then he got
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Benson Nurse, where he started.
He ended up going the ladd of three

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wonderful experience. He said, every
kind of building you can think of.

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Uh, you know, they had
rear tenements, high rise, they had

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everything. Worked in Alphabet City and
then he eventually transferred to Brooklyn to one

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fifty six where he finished his career. But he was part of the war

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years and five stars. Yes he
is. Yeah, he's been around long

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time and lots of fire So you
were always in the firehouse then. Oh

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boy, I thought I was born
in there, but uh yeah, it

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started at a young age low and
my father ended up working at one point

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where two eighty three was on Bristol
Street with Squad four and he would tell

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me, you know, ten thousand
runs a year and the work it was

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unbelievable. So you know, I
learned a lot from him and that was

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great, you know. But it
wanted to be a fireman probably started when

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I was about six or seven.
The first time I went to that's my

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dad right there. Wow. And
it's a little story that goes with that.

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That actually was the first time I
was detailed to drive. I ended

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up having to drive one fifty six
and uh oh man, yeah, he

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came by the firehouse and and of
course we got to run right after dinner

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and me always used to being in
the middle of the front seat. They

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didn't have a middle front seat anymore. I said, come on, oh,

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man, take a ride and we
have him to have a covering boss.

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And I looked a him and said, you don't mind you He's like,

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no, no, it's fine,
let's go. So he took a

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ride with us and unfortunately wasn't a
job, but worked out good. It

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was a wonderful thing for me to
remember. You know, how much time,

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How much time did he do?
He did just shy of twenty three

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years he got out one most.
Yeah, he worked his ass so if

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I'm sure, yeah, man,
but uh, you know, good times,

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like I said, and he loved
Manhattan, you know, nothing like

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it, he said, totally different
animals, and that he came to Brooklyn

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and uh, you know, to
me in the beginning, I didn't really

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know anything about anything any other borrow
but Brooklyn was the thing, you know,

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So we can get into that if
you want. How that started.

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Um, you know, I remember
I think it was a Friday or a

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Saturday during the Easter break, and
of course me my brother hopped on our

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bikes go to the firehouse. Sure
enough, a run comes in. He

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got to go first because he was
older, and I'm standing there like,

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what what's going on? So go
for he comes back sure enough to get

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another run. I go for a
ride with him and that was it the

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first run. Did your brother get
on the job. No, No,

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he had no desires very well for
himself. And I would be like that

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was that was awesome? That was
unbelievable. He said, I don't see

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the big deal, like you know
this in your life. This is it.

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This is what I got to that
point on. It was. It

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started out as uh, playing hockey
in the street and Brooklyn and Timmy Stackpole

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lived on that block. Really,
that's awesome, dude. I know his

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brother, Mike. I grew up
with his sister and every opportunity had got

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stop him. Timmy any jobs last
night? What happened? What's going on?

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And forget the hockey game to try
to stick out, you know,

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uh, fire duty. Whatever he
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And then I got a little older
and it was going to the firehouse by

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myself, and then before long it
was getting a car and having a mobile

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scanner and drive into the neighborhood trying
to beat everybody in it was super Sorry

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to say it, but now cats
out of the bank. Now I'm retired,

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you know. But it started at
uh, you know, working and

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saving money to get a scanner at
home so I could listen and work bad

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cat was the lights going a little? Little did I? Little did I

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know? Save the money, go
to radio shack, running home and plug

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it in. Doesn't work. I
had no idea. Went back. I

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got to buy the crystals. Yeah, you know there was crystals. So

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here I have a thing with lights, but I can't get anything until I

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saved more money to go and get
the crystals. So of course it was

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Brooklyn first, then it was Manhattan, and little did I know how much

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work the Bronx had. I probably
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was going on in the Bronx.
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on the job and worked in Hallam
that it got detailed to the Bronx that

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it was awesome, you know,
so many good things. But that's how

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how I got bit by it.
And then before long I'm spending nights to

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the firehout. So my father wasn't
even there. So and the guys are

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very guys are very, very receptive
to me. I had guys that I

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looked up to that I saw them
working, Guys like Danny Prince, Garrett

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Lindgren, who I know you had
on the show. He had mentioned my

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dad, superb, superb individual and
h was it was nice. The guys

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always treated me well. And then
you know, later on it was time

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for me to get on the job, and the thought was a you know,

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do you want to go where I
used to work and not cutting my

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father any slacked, no kind of
work he did. I just wanted to

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make a name for myself, you
know, so carry the family name and

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keep it good. But I don't
want anybody giving me preferential treatment because from

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this guy's son. It this guy
is this guy and by the way,

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he's his son. Yeah, you
know, so that was good. But

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how did you. Let's tell us
how you got to one seventy four.

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Don't tell me about the preferential treatment. About what I should tell you a

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real quick story about getting on the
job. First Kevin, Um, Kevin

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not necessarily, not really, not
necessary. Yeah, but what happened was,

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Um, I went to take the
test and I was running out the

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time that I was going to be
twenty eight when I got on the job,

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and if I didn't make it,
I don't know what life was going

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to be for me. Uh So
I ended up doing well on a written

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test. I went to Pudgy Walsh's
class like everybody else, and I'm ready

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to go, and I go down
in Long Island City and there's this gigantic

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guy tell me this test his bullshit. I'm saying, okay, I'm thinking,

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look at him. I'm gonna have
to shoot this guy. I can't

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fight him. Look at the size
of him. Well halfway through, he's

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out, He's done, and I'm
running past. I'm thinking, holy crap,

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this guy is done. I'm going
to keep going. I get to

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the very last part of the exam, where you had to push up on

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the door and pull down five times
with that weight. Would be one repetition,

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one up, five down, two
all the way to twenty five will

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I get to the last set of
five and I push up and I pull

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down, and the cable snaps.
So I look at the guy like he

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says, oh no, I said
what I mean, Oh no? I

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got like a minute and a half
to go. I said, fix it.

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Let let's get this done. He
says, no, you got to

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take the test again. Yeah,
that's what I said again. So I

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said, well, he says,
you could take a rest for a couple

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of minutes and sort of thanks.
I said, what happens if halfway through

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I'm out of gas? He says, then it's over. I saw,

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I'll see you in three weeks.
I'm not coming. Yeah, I'll be

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back in three weeks when I'm well. And sure, sure enough, three

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weeks I went back. The guy
I was telling you about, the guy

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did that went crazy about the cable. So before I started, said make

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sure your cables are good because I'm
getting through this. And I got through

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it, and I was number nine
to fifty on the list and everything.

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From then I was happiest guy in
the world. So that was the first

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part. So you were asking how
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those guys that I worked there asked
me the same thing. When I

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showed up, They said, how
did you get here? And at the

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time I lived in Howard Beach,
I said, well, I took the

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conduit to Linda Bull Butard, no, how did you get here? So

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then, of course it was by
car and they said bullshit, you know.

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And sure enough they were like,
welcome to one seventy four and the

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first guy. You know, I
had so many guys that there that was

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still answer the question, how did
you get to one seventy four? Bro?

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I had it. It's like we
don't look anything over here. I

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mean I had someone very special to
me look out for me that was that.

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Yeah. But and he wanted to
make sure that I learned the right

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way. So go to a place
that has a tremendous reputation that you feel

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you're gonna learn and if you,
if anything, you're going to make that

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place better when you left. And
that was really really the goal that I

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did. Wherever I worked right,
well, what many people do I mean,

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that's Jimmy Graham was there. I
was lieutenant there. Jimmy Graham was

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one of my bosses. Blum Blum. We had Captain Bill I'll give you

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a list of the guys that were
my first bosses. I had Captain Roger

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Biela, Jimmy Graham, Tom Riley, and Brian Foley. All great guys,

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all kinds of guys that anybody in
the fire department would know their name.

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And uh, I had great senior
men there, guys to to mention

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um, not to get off the
subject of what you did. But I

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had super duper guys like Eddie Maynett
and Lenny Stromstead. Steve Hollman welcomed me

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with hello, asshole every time they
walked in the door, and I was

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happy to get I was happy to
be the guy that if they were doing

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that to me, they must have
liked. You were happy ken tomorrow,

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go back over again tomorrow, I
my honor. I would Greg, I

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say all the time, that would
be if I had a pick a place,

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after all the time and everything I've
seen, I would probably say one

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seventy four, just because they were
doing the work and they didn't have projects,

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and it was a tight house and
they were kind of out of the

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way. You know. Rescue takes
a long time to get there and squad

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a long time, so you really
don't have it's it's your show, you

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know, you know a little if
we got something down to Canarsi or up

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on Utica Avenue, if by time
they showed up and they were able to

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go to work, as you say, we weren't doing so good, you

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weren't doing so good, and then
it was time to work with them,

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but they had the utmost for us
could have been at the pin job.

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They were ready and waiting. But
as long as we had everything we needed,

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they would give you. They would
give you the respect to do the

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job first. And that's I thought. That was great. Um So as

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far as oh, John Doug Grosso, to this day, him and my

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daughter, him, his daughter and
me share the same birthday. He tries

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to beat me and call me John
the wonderful man. Um So, I'm

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trying to go through my notes here
and not get a little missed up.

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I was talking about Timmy Stagpole and
Danny Prince and my father of course,

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tremendous influence on me and uh,
Garrett Lindgren uh and then of course would

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get in the scanner the world of
Warren Fuchs another I tell you, for

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a guy who was not on the
job, he couldn't have loved the fire

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department more than anybody I met.
And like I would say, he probably

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made more funerals for nine to eleven
than some of the guys could. Between

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working on the pile and doing we
had to do. He was there all

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the time. So kudos to Warren. Great how long to take it?

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How long going to take you to
catch your first job? When you got

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there, you remember, yes,
I do, I absolutely do. First

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day, nine o'clock in the morning, I'm there at quarter after six,

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and of course I walk in.
The guys are coming down. What are

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you doing here, asshole? It's
only quarter after six. So it started

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off good. First running. The
day, I'm hyped up. I was

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hoping something and the guy says,
we're going to the rock. You gotta

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be kidding me. I just spent
thirteen weeks there and then you my whole

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first day tour is going to be. And back then we had the books,

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so you had to go and take
a test. I'm like, this

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is I can't understand this. So
we go and ull come back and have

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lunch, have a couple of runs. Everything was all good. Five o'clock

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in the afternoon, we go to
Rutland Houses basement fire. It was one

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of the down apartments. Unbelievable feeling
all the times I rode watching fires.

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Now you're you're right there and couldn't
have been an I add the can,

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I add the can and coming up
into the third floor because it was the

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first third, sixth and ninth floor
was the only way to get into those

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buildings would come out of the staircase
and he had just popped the door lights

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out and did our job. You
know, it was fine, very uncomfortable

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situation to be in, but you
learned, you know, you saw how

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guys operated. He went back,
You tried to ask some questions, far

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from knowing what you needed to do. But we'll take one day at a

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time, one step at a time, and it progressed. Everything got you

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know, as time goes on,
you get a little comfortable, and then

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the guys kind of put you in
check and they let you know what we

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have to do. But what I
do have to say about some of the

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other guys that I worked there with
was guys like Lieutenant Harris, Richie Savarese,

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Tommy Woods, Tommy Daley, Gary
Not, Tommy O'Day, Karen Tilduff

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was a battalion chief up in the
nineteenth battalion. All these guys were superstars,

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and who better could I learn from. I just watched the way they

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operated. I watched even when we
had a covering boss. You know,

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you would as time went on,
I would remember back and say, hey,

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a guy came from the bronx and
he's screaming at the people, you

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know, get out of the way
and do it. And they were senior

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guys there who actually took the reins
and say, hey, boss, we

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treat the people around here wonderfully.
We have a great rapport with them.

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There's no reason to yell at them. They're calling us, they need us.

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We're here and we're going to do
the job. And the reputation that

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they had meant a lot to me, you know. It meant that you

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were able to have the respect of
the guys before you live up to what

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hard work they put into making this
place the way it is, and for

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the new guys to come to see
to carry on that tradition. And I

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think it's like that throughout the fire
department, in all the places I worked

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in. And you know, one
of the things I try to instill in

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the younger guys is always to make
the place better. Try to take of

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a way to make it better,
to make that company reputation as good as

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it could be. Be professional when
you go outside, do the right thing

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by the people. Everybody loves fireman. We're not there to give them a

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hard time. We're there to help
them. So that was what I thought.

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So just to ramble on and go
further. I mean, of course

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I had other bosses after those first
flour that I talked about. Jimmy Harris.

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I don't know what this say about
him. That guy would go to

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the fire in the middle of the
ocean. How how every time I worked

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with him, work every time?
And yeah, and then you get guys

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that like Tom frizz alone was on
the hockey team. Is the friends you

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know him for one o three and
even going to one forty talking to some

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guys that played with him on the
hockey team, we were both feeling the

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same way. That's one of the
toughest guys I've ever met. Not a

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very big guy. No, he
won't take shit from anybody. On the

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one time he's in the four one
in chief. Now his sons one yeah,

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his son's on the job, and
I was very happy to hear that

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his son's gonna follow in his footsteps, because why I have two great guys

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from the same family where his one
on three Yeah, and uh, great

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great guy had Danny Danny Monday went
on to be a chief. George Healey

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is a deputy in the thirteenth,
Joe Duggan's in the deputy, uh,

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Jimmy Canty, Bobby Adams, Rebel, all top notch guys, all guys

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that you could do whatever you need
to do because they know you're going to

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take care of them. And every
boss they came through there wanted to be

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there because they saw how they operated
and they saw that the work gets done.

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And you know, I'll talk a
little later about I was never a

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boss, obviously, but I think
it's so much easier to be a boss

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in a place that runs itself.
Oh yeah, I mean, you know,

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all your job is right exactly,
and you just carry the light and

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if there's any paperwork to be done, you take care of it and you

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make sure you pay us and that's
it. I always say if some of

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the questions that would come occasionally,
not often, but if if a question

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came to me, I'm like,
this is not something I should be dealing

408
00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:56.960
with, right. This is what
the guys should be all the girls,

409
00:30:56.039 --> 00:30:59.440
whatever, they should be dealing with
it. It should this should never come

410
00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:03.400
up to the offer. You know
what I was told. If it gets

411
00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:07.279
off to the first step going up
to the office, there's something wrong.

412
00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:11.279
It's got to be handled my d
floor, because once it goes upstairs,

413
00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:15.200
you can't ask that guy to do
any favors for you because he's got to

414
00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.640
do what he's got to do.
If it's taking care of downstairs, it's

415
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:22.680
done. I also say, like, you know, I'm sure wants of

416
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:26.960
any phone. When you got that, there was a ton of guys with

417
00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:30.200
fifteen twenty twenty five years, right, I think I was the first.

418
00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:33.880
Yeah, I think I was the
first probe there in about ten or twelve

419
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.480
years. Yeah. Yeah, So
that's my point is, but not every

420
00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:41.599
house, you know, I remember
going to house is looking at the at

421
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:45.480
the riding list, and that top
guy might have nine years on the job,

422
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:48.119
you know what I mean. So
that that's where you have a little

423
00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:51.960
bit of you know, problem with
the guys running the house, you know,

424
00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:56.799
because I remember respect so much.
Maybe Yeah, I remember nights or

425
00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.039
days working there where I was a
junior guy obviously, and the four guys

426
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:07.000
that were on the backstep and driving
had ninety years experience between the four or

427
00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:09.839
five of them, and the boss
had ten years and I had three days.

428
00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:15.200
You know. It was incredible,
But what a wonderful place to work.

429
00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:19.039
Uh, if anybody in it could
ever get to a place like that,

430
00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:22.400
it just makes your career so much
better because where you go, you

431
00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:28.200
get respected and hopefully you bring the
knowledge to the new guys to other places

432
00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:32.160
and it helps. It helps everybody
get their job done to go home to

433
00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:37.039
their family. So a lot of
guys don't know about the rotation that was

434
00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:40.240
in the city at that time because
I think I was. I was a

435
00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:45.000
year before you. So, um, guys had to do a year.

436
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:53.720
He's your bob. Ohly, shit, he's my bob. What Yeah?

437
00:32:54.599 --> 00:32:59.559
Um, but you had to go
to a different firehouse for the first three

438
00:32:59.640 --> 00:33:02.519
years you're in your and actually to
another one, and then you're the third

439
00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:07.640
one and you go back to Yeah, it was like an ABC thing at

440
00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:10.359
that time. At that time,
somehow one seventy four was considered to be

441
00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:15.519
trucks on You know, I hate
a Grand Slam because I got two hot

442
00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:17.119
hitting places and one that I had
to slow down a little bit at,

443
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:21.400
which was fine with me. So
where did you go on the first rotation?

444
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:25.400
First? I went to three thirty
one engine on course Bate Boulevard and

445
00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:34.000
the job, Yeah, and it
was fantastic. Yeah, yeah, we

446
00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:37.160
did. We actually held the light
and got some crabs, make crab sauce.

447
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.599
We did the Italian thing. But
things were good there because you know,

448
00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:45.920
Kevin, you you realize as a
young guy that there's a place,

449
00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:49.799
like you say, there's an answer
for every seat, seat, for every

450
00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:52.559
ass or whatever. Uh. You
saw guys that would talk about the real

451
00:33:53.079 --> 00:33:58.720
busy time and you really enjoy their
stories and you learn from them, right

452
00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:02.200
and you and you did what you
could by walking in and you ended up

453
00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:06.759
it. There's a detail tonight.
What's the detail? I'm thinking, you

454
00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:09.079
know, what can I do for
you? Two seventy five? I got

455
00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:13.679
it. I got it. I'bouted
two seventy five and it was a single

456
00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:16.400
engine at that time. And I'm
telling you I probably went there five night

457
00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:22.039
tours in the year that I was
there, and every single night there it

458
00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:30.480
was Paul box E rs no contact
opened the door years ago. You're like,

459
00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:35.480
what was smelling it? Guys are
getting dressed, you know, bang

460
00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:38.559
bingo. It was great, um, you know, but I rotated with

461
00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:42.639
some great guys too. I had
Ron Daily, who you know from Rescue.

462
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:47.480
He was in my Kobe class.
Oh he left for I'm telling you

463
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:52.960
the greatest show warner at this job. Really, I had uh. I

464
00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:59.320
had Patty Patty Sheridan who was now
deputy in the fifteen I had uh Um

465
00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:07.599
Dominic Bertuccio is a captain again.
Yeah, well you know what you're going

466
00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:10.320
to Howard should have to go a
few vowels in there. No, yeah,

467
00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:14.199
so it was good. Yeah,
so I enjoyed it. Did you

468
00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:16.679
do the cooking? Then? What
did you? I did some? I

469
00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:20.559
did, you know my share?
I did was always ready to help,

470
00:35:20.599 --> 00:35:22.840
but there were some All the guys
who came in before they got up in

471
00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:27.159
the morning know what they wanted and
wanted to get. It was fine,

472
00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:30.719
No, no, no meat loaf. Maybe the day you had to shoot.

473
00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:34.719
You know, I can tell you
a funny story about three thirty one,

474
00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:38.400
and not about them personally, but
back then we only had the one

475
00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:43.360
radio that the control guy had and
uh one of the bosses had to go

476
00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:46.960
to the division to get his TPRs
taken care of, and me and the

477
00:35:47.079 --> 00:35:50.800
young guys were looking around, Oh, look at this place of divisions.

478
00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:55.119
Here, this is pretty cool.
We go outside, What the hell's the

479
00:35:55.159 --> 00:36:00.920
engine? We had to run back
to get back to our area. And

480
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:04.320
all of a sudden they said they
got the wall bounce and they didn't hit

481
00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:07.360
the door open. They looked back
and they left us there. They had

482
00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:10.559
to come back to They had to
come back to two seventy in a hurry

483
00:36:10.599 --> 00:36:13.559
to get us, and they're trying
to get us on the radio, but

484
00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:16.360
the one radio is so far away, couldn't get us. So that was

485
00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:21.199
that was one funny thing over there. Um trying to think, oh,

486
00:36:21.639 --> 00:36:24.039
not to skip back, but um, not to leave out three ten to

487
00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:29.079
me, one of the greatest engine
on the job. Guys were fantastic.

488
00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:32.719
We had Patty Clifford was a captain
when I got there. We had Eddie

489
00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:37.440
Geiger in that picture right there,
great friends of mine, Lendy Strumpstead one

490
00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:42.480
of my mentors in the middle,
and a good friend Jeff Jeff Miller,

491
00:36:42.599 --> 00:36:46.239
captain of one hundred and today one
hundred and a captain. How about that,

492
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:49.800
you know? And and I talked
with him all the time, and

493
00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:52.519
we talk about he's in that picture
on the right, and every guy in

494
00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:59.679
that picture Jeff was a captain.
Everybody to my right lieutenants. So that's

495
00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:02.639
how it went for me. So
I just didn't have the time to study.

496
00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:07.639
But I think I would have enjoyed
that very much. Anybody to do

497
00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:13.760
with their hands, you know,
right, you know, not everybody could

498
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:15.280
be the boss. You're right.
But I had Guy's a getty guy Goo

499
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:20.519
who was there for twenty years as
a lieutenant getting back to the truck real

500
00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:24.599
quick. Two captains in thirty plus
years in that company. And if that

501
00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:29.360
doesn't say something about that company,
I don't know. What does you know?

502
00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:32.159
And when cap'n Bale left, he
said, uh, see why I

503
00:37:32.199 --> 00:37:36.519
can get for you, And he
ended up hitting a grand slam and Patty

504
00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:42.440
McAvoy coming and I was like,
it was Patty McAvoy. And then another

505
00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:45.840
one hundred and three guy, another
guy as tough as you want to you

506
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:49.400
want to make them to be.
And I've had discussions with him, and

507
00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:54.199
he was the most fair boss you
could ever work with in my in my

508
00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:58.760
eyes, he was. He was
good. He taught you, he expected

509
00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:04.119
you to do your job, and
everybody falling in his footsteps and made him

510
00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:07.360
made his job easier. Hopefully,
I think we haven't. We had a

511
00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:09.360
picture of him, don't, Yes, I sent you one of him.

512
00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:20.320
Captain. Yeah. He sent the
son to now he's in rescuer. I

513
00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:24.039
got right, Yeah, he just
got promoted. Yes. And we had

514
00:38:24.440 --> 00:38:29.559
Tommy Brunton, another another hard hitting
guy in the engine. Uh. We

515
00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:34.599
Captain Lieutenant Moody got promoted and we
lost him. He was in Hasma that

516
00:38:34.719 --> 00:38:37.679
day in nine to eleven. Uh. And you as you said, John

517
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:40.960
del Grasso, Kevin Uh. And
then we had Captain Vincent and Captain Walls.

518
00:38:42.840 --> 00:38:45.360
Uh. Captain Walls is now a
deputy in the eleventh. All guys

519
00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:50.960
that future stars, you know,
they were superstars and then they went on

520
00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:53.360
to be you know, you know
metal when it's like, you know,

521
00:38:54.480 --> 00:39:00.199
you couldn't ask some better people,
you really couldn't. So that was my

522
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:05.079
first little bit of my first job
and the guys I worked with, and

523
00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:07.360
what a blessing it was to be
there for the time I was there.

524
00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:12.119
As far as the rotation, I
kind of think that, I mean,

525
00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:15.280
to me, things happen for a
reason. No rotation, some other guys

526
00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:20.440
would have been alive, and some
of the guys worten us. It's a

527
00:39:20.519 --> 00:39:22.519
weird thing the way it happens.
You know, we always say that,

528
00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:25.679
but you know, I thought a
year in the year was a little bit

529
00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:30.039
much. I did six months and
six months. But you know, you're

530
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:32.960
working, you end up working in
three different burrows, you end up meeting

531
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:37.559
at least one hundred more guys because
you're working in two other double houses.

532
00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:40.519
And like we always say, you
know, you don't have to see a

533
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:43.960
guy for a long time and then
all of a sudden running too him,

534
00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:46.719
like yesterday. Yeah, you know
it's funny. My brother in law,

535
00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:51.400
Jimmy Carroll, great, great guy. He goes to Costa Rica every year

536
00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:53.360
and lo and behold. Every time
he goes there, we'll put on an

537
00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:59.519
FDNY shirt and he runs into somebody
who's a famous guy, or hey,

538
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:01.440
do you know this guy? And
he's so proud of the fire department,

539
00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:07.239
And you know he would have been
My brother wasn't a fireman. He was

540
00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:14.239
just your shirt. Yeah, yeah, no, he would wear and a

541
00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:17.159
shirt. And when he goes shurf
in Costa Rica and you're here right out

542
00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:21.599
of the country and you're running into
two or three guys at the fireman,

543
00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:24.920
it's just it's just unbelievable. Um. And as far as you know,

544
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:30.320
like I said, I talked about
guys that were influencing me. Um,

545
00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:32.800
and then you talked about the chiefs
and the battalions you running in. We

546
00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:36.360
ran in with the three eight,
the four four to four one in the

547
00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:40.519
five eight was my battalion. We
had superstar chiefs like Chief Leoc, Chief

548
00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:45.800
Fire Vola, and Ike Johnson.
Uh, Chief Richardson was in the three

549
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:51.519
eight, Chief Kill Duff. These
are guys that went on to be to

550
00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:54.079
be the you know the guys that
the big of course man, they're in

551
00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:59.760
the whalehouse, you know, they're
they're steering the ship. And the funny

552
00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:01.639
thing is, you know, I'm
a I'm a guy like I It's hard

553
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:06.280
to remember guy's name for so long, and you get a guy like Chief

554
00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:08.719
Killed Duff. It's like ten years
later, Hey Greg, how are you

555
00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:13.320
doing? I'm like, hell,
does guy remember my name? He's incredible,

556
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:16.039
that man. But I'm just saying
that they're dealing with dude just stole

557
00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:20.000
my thoughts because Louie knows him his
head. But you know, I called

558
00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:24.519
Chief Buff, I've always called Chief
Field Duff. But like I said,

559
00:41:24.559 --> 00:41:29.199
I had I had superstar guys even
in three thirty one. Kenny Loregan was

560
00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:34.920
in two ninety. He recently passed
away. Guys like George Barr. The

561
00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:37.079
guys just took you under your wing
and they wanted to make you feel as

562
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:43.400
comfortable as you could being in being
in an uncomfortable situation. You know,

563
00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:47.119
they open your arm. That's the
fire Department's all about you. I remember

564
00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:52.039
when guys were coming through. I
went to one seventeen and ninety three and

565
00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:54.239
I remember guys coming through the rotation
and you know, guys would be on

566
00:41:54.320 --> 00:41:58.280
that third stint, right, so
they'd have three years on the job,

567
00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:01.800
but it almost felt like they were
were a prob kind of corn un was

568
00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:06.199
a new thing. So it's kind
of an awkward situation because they're not prob's,

569
00:42:06.719 --> 00:42:09.360
no, just you know, they
were trying to learn. And you

570
00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:13.000
know, Louis uh, it brings
you bring me to a good point when

571
00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:17.000
I my third stop was sixty nine
Engine in Hollom and my first nozz A

572
00:42:17.119 --> 00:42:22.000
job. Of course, you'll always
remember your first job or your first nos

573
00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:24.320
a job, or what position you
had in the truck. My first nos

574
00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:29.800
A job Patty Brown, my captain. Wow. Really doesn't get any better

575
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:32.719
than that, brother, No way, no how. And then I worked

576
00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:36.840
with superstars there too. I had
Timmy Klett who you had on the show.

577
00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:39.559
UKT. Morris was in the truck. I had guys like Jimmy Corney,

578
00:42:40.360 --> 00:42:46.000
Eddie ends Alone, Robert Dirk,
who brought Robert Derker to me.

579
00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:52.960
Was this guy had a work ethic
like I've never seen before. He would

580
00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:58.800
he would come and you get up
from a bad night and and coming down

581
00:42:58.880 --> 00:43:01.639
the stairs and he's got every tool
out and he's working every tool and he's

582
00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:05.760
cleaning every tool. I'm like,
this guy's not a probe. This guy

583
00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:09.000
and the junior guy, this guy
wants to know that that tool is going

584
00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:13.880
to represent his company when he goes
out the door, and that job is

585
00:43:14.039 --> 00:43:16.239
that tool is going to get the
job done. The guy he just to

586
00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:21.599
work ahol. I admired him so
much. I really did. Guys like

587
00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:28.519
Kevin Hayes Myk's John Tobin went to
rescue one of lieutenant and m and being

588
00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:30.800
up when I was up in sixty
nine. We could talk about that.

589
00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:37.400
I learned. I was introduced to
Father Judge, and Father Judge really a

590
00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:43.920
fantastic person. Really, you know, we had the Memorial Day breakfast every

591
00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:49.119
year and I met him and we
were talking and you know, I said

592
00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:52.159
to him, we had my wife's
daughter had passed away. If you see

593
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:58.800
a picture, I had him come
by. He called up one night.

594
00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:01.480
We're talking on the phone. To
the phone, I was asking him a

595
00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:07.880
little bit of some spiritual things about
what I was going through with home life.

596
00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:10.599
You know, you lose a child, it's very hard, you know.

597
00:44:12.119 --> 00:44:15.639
Probably a half hour later he showed
up at the fire hours he left

598
00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:19.280
there the first street. Yeah,
and I only met him on the phone

599
00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:22.519
and didn't meet him in person until
he showed up. And he probably sat

600
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:29.400
in the kitchen for three and a
half hours, four hours just talking,

601
00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:31.519
you know, telling me what his
thoughts were. And from then on,

602
00:44:31.719 --> 00:44:35.360
you know, and then finding out
on nine to eleven what happened to him.

603
00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:39.440
First I was like, oh my
god, but one another wonderful person,

604
00:44:39.559 --> 00:44:43.159
you know, and would go to
the end of the earth to do

605
00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:47.920
whatever he could to support you because
of what you were doing, because what

606
00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:52.440
you were doing was helping the public
and doing doing the right thing. So

607
00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:55.559
that was at sixty nine, you
know, sixty nine, twenty eight,

608
00:44:55.599 --> 00:45:00.400
all those companies around there. I
couldn't say enough about it. You know,

609
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:04.920
you have a different mentality from Brooklyn, like you know, let's go,

610
00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:07.440
you know, green, green,
green, everybody's got to go at

611
00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:13.159
the start of a NASCAR race.
But up there you wait on the corner

612
00:45:13.239 --> 00:45:15.880
because fifty nine is coming down the
block. You see them, I'm like,

613
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:21.639
what are they doing? Hold on, brother, what we do there?

614
00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:24.199
Put out the red carpet, Let
them go, and you just help

615
00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:30.920
them, and you learned a lot, and you you focus yourself into everybody's

616
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:35.440
got to work together. It's a
team effort. That's really just the way

617
00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:37.280
it is. What what was your
job that you had had the first nauzer

618
00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:43.960
job? What was the job that
you had? Three street, right hand

619
00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:46.159
side of the street, the second
floor, and when you went in,

620
00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:52.280
Cap Morris was in there, and
they had like these glass pane doors,

621
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:55.199
and you had to get enough line
to get around the door. And all

622
00:45:55.239 --> 00:46:00.360
I remember is him pushing some guy
out and him coming out behind them,

623
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:05.480
and when he was done, all
your saw was the bracket of his coat.

624
00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:08.719
His coat was all yellow, and
then when he took his mask off,

625
00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:15.239
your sort of black. So he
wasn't leaving without his men and another

626
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:19.719
fantastic officer and the fire went out. But I do remember three forty five

627
00:46:19.960 --> 00:46:24.320
was one forty fifth Street, second
floor, right side that day, way

628
00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:34.960
to work underwear before white, afterwards
making it's right a little brown after that.

629
00:46:36.039 --> 00:46:37.000
But it was fun You had you
had a lot of work there,

630
00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:40.679
Louis had a lot of vacants.
Uh, you had a lot of different

631
00:46:42.400 --> 00:46:46.559
uphill downhill. Uh, some things
I wanted used to Yeah, but it

632
00:46:46.559 --> 00:46:49.519
would be funny. You know,
you gotta run up the hill and there

633
00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:52.639
eighty and twenty three and sixty nine, You're like, we gotta get out

634
00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:54.159
and push this thing. Ain't gonna
make it up the hill. It just

635
00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:59.639
but we got there and and things
were fine, and guys are guys were

636
00:46:59.679 --> 00:47:01.760
great. Guys. You tell me, Nicolle, don't worry. I got

637
00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:05.880
this. You know. The funny
thing is I worked in fifteen nine at

638
00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:08.519
thirty a couple of times, and
I'm sure I ran into him. I

639
00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:13.920
know him by face. He obviously
doesn't know me, but I always saw

640
00:47:13.960 --> 00:47:17.119
the intensity at that place, and
years later watching him on the show,

641
00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:21.840
I said, that's the guy.
Yeah, that's him. God's put up

642
00:47:21.880 --> 00:47:25.119
that thing from QCPS. It's actually
pretty funny. Let me go to it.

643
00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:31.400
Come one. Oh we're getting there. That's like I'm still muted.

644
00:47:31.480 --> 00:47:35.840
Here there we go. Sorry,
I'm trying to get it all in because

645
00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:37.519
I don't want to forget. You
got plenty time and if I don't forget

646
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:42.800
somebody my apology. No, you're
right. Sorry, So he was okay.

647
00:47:43.159 --> 00:47:46.039
This book responds like their mom is
on fire. Hallam responds like their

648
00:47:46.079 --> 00:47:52.840
mother in law is on fire.
He's got jokes. You got that joke?

649
00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:58.239
What's his real name? Again?
If you get Lands the real name,

650
00:47:58.280 --> 00:48:00.400
would you that's wise? QC.
Beast? You don't want to be

651
00:48:00.519 --> 00:48:07.880
landis right? Well? Yeah,
all right? So anything else about sixty

652
00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:10.880
nine? Any other jobs you want
to talk about that standout there? Hey,

653
00:48:12.039 --> 00:48:15.400
Jabs, I say one thing you
learned a lot like we used to

654
00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:19.440
go up to the polo grounds.
We were first do in some areas and

655
00:48:20.199 --> 00:48:22.920
a lot of times, you know, you'd have there'd be a reador in

656
00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:28.639
the back and it would drive into
the complex and their sp was like if

657
00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:31.199
you had a job like on the
fourth floor below would be a stretch up

658
00:48:31.239 --> 00:48:35.480
the stairs, which they found to
be interesting and something that I took with

659
00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:37.800
me when you came back to Brooklyn. We used to go to like the

660
00:48:38.519 --> 00:48:43.480
Rutland Houses were a little different.
But the Glenwood houses there would be a

661
00:48:43.519 --> 00:48:45.559
way. You know, it's only
six stories, so they were stretching anyway.

662
00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:52.280
But um, everybody operated differently and
he just had to adjust yourself to

663
00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:54.840
what was going on. But like
I said, I mean from there,

664
00:48:54.920 --> 00:48:59.760
I would work in uh, you
know, across the river in fifty five

665
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.840
truck places like that on a detail
and you got to you got to see

666
00:49:04.840 --> 00:49:07.840
a lot of different things like I
didn't in the beginning. I was like,

667
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:09.000
oh, I don't know if I
want to go to Manhattan and driving,

668
00:49:09.119 --> 00:49:15.039
but the volume of people and the
size of the buildings would you would?

669
00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:19.159
It would change everything. And it
made me have such a such a

670
00:49:19.840 --> 00:49:22.440
respect for chiefs because when you think
about you say, here's a guy who's

671
00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:29.119
like bread and butter as Brooklyn private
dwelling or multiple dwelling, three store two

672
00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:30.519
in the front three and area.
What is he thinking? Was the guy

673
00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:34.639
in the roof telling him? And
now all of a sudden, you like,

674
00:49:34.760 --> 00:49:37.639
the hell am I gonna do here? You know? And the guys

675
00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:40.679
know what to do. And like
I said, that's what makes this job

676
00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:45.480
so unique, where somebody has seen
your guys tell these guys what to do

677
00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:47.880
and the ship runs smooth and it
makes the balls look good, and you

678
00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:52.119
know what you should make the balls
look good. So but I'll get a

679
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:55.159
chance to work with Morris in the
truck at all. I did a couple

680
00:49:55.199 --> 00:50:00.679
of times on details, you know, very intense person. Uh. What

681
00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:05.519
I found great was that there was
never a time of day. It didn't

682
00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:08.199
matter what time of day it was
for a drill. And what I mean

683
00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:12.800
by that we could something out of
the ordinary, could happen at eleven thirty

684
00:50:12.840 --> 00:50:16.280
at night, and we come back
and we'll start schooling lock us together in

685
00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:22.000
the kitchen because you had to do
something to figure out that if that happened

686
00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:23.920
again, we were going to be
ready for it. And sometimes Droe would

687
00:50:23.960 --> 00:50:28.920
least so three in the morning.
It wouldn't matter because the focus was you

688
00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:32.800
have to protect you men. You
have to if you he was as knowledgeable

689
00:50:32.840 --> 00:50:36.480
as he was, I'm sure he'd
be the first one to say that you

690
00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:38.679
can learn something every day. And
if I'm going to learn it now,

691
00:50:38.760 --> 00:50:42.880
I got to worry about telling them
to my other guys to make it happen.

692
00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:49.440
So that was really good. Um, other guys ahead, I have

693
00:50:49.519 --> 00:50:51.519
a feeling not I didn't want to
cut you off. Did you ever have

694
00:50:51.599 --> 00:50:55.880
a feeling that you wanted to stay
there? Like, did you ever feel

695
00:50:55.920 --> 00:51:00.280
like you wanted to transfer the sixty
nine or you definitely knew I wanted to

696
00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:02.440
go back to one seventy four.
You know, I like the truck work

697
00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:06.960
and I like being I was always
a Brooklyn guy, you know, Like

698
00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:12.280
like days guys were grooming me to
try to be as good as I could

699
00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:16.440
be, and why not do my
career that that's what That's what I wanted

700
00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:21.199
to do, you know, So, I mean can't be in two plays

701
00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:24.480
at once. I appreciate all that
they taught me. And when it was

702
00:51:24.519 --> 00:51:29.920
time to go back, I was
looking forward to going back. You know.

703
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:34.679
We respected place everywhere, everywhere that
I went. You know, I

704
00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:38.800
can't be disappointed. How did you
feel when you walked back into one seventy

705
00:51:39.159 --> 00:51:43.840
four for the first time? Ah? Was it weird? Things changed a

706
00:51:43.880 --> 00:51:45.719
little? I mean I always visited, you know, But the thing was

707
00:51:46.760 --> 00:51:51.239
when I went to sixty nine.
Patty Brown, first thing he said to

708
00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:54.679
me, they wanted you to put
these stickers beneath your proby patch of where

709
00:51:54.719 --> 00:52:00.519
you're rotating through. He to listen, you're part of sixty nine. He

710
00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:02.679
made me put the patch on and
it was a great feeling that I was

711
00:52:02.719 --> 00:52:07.559
accepted. And when I went back
to one seventy four, I only had

712
00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:09.280
three years on the job. But
something's change. Some guys left, some

713
00:52:09.400 --> 00:52:14.920
bosses left, and it was still
wanting to do what you wanted to do

714
00:52:15.159 --> 00:52:19.880
to contribute. You always wanted to
contribute to the firehouse. So I should

715
00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:22.400
probably bring you to something. You're
probably going to ask me about a buffing

716
00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:28.320
machine. I don't know if you
have that story, but I could probably

717
00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:32.719
tell you a quick, quick,
funny story, okay. And the firehouse

718
00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:37.039
is an old Walker firehouse, you
know, like if you've seen the Walker

719
00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:39.519
fires and bathrooms on the left near
the pole hole and then you go in

720
00:52:39.599 --> 00:52:45.000
the kitchen. Well, I was
always trying to keep the place clean the

721
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:47.760
best you could, would get the
buffer machine from the battalion and scrubbing the

722
00:52:47.840 --> 00:52:51.480
tile floor, and I'm like,
the stile floor is just never getting any

723
00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:55.280
getting cleaner. So I decided to
rip the tile up. I order rolled

724
00:52:55.280 --> 00:53:02.800
this VCT tile three. It's kind
of VCT green and white, checking right

725
00:53:04.079 --> 00:53:07.719
one green one white one green one
went and uh, the guy said,

726
00:53:07.719 --> 00:53:08.599
you're crazy. I said, I
gotta. I can't live like this.

727
00:53:08.719 --> 00:53:15.320
We gotta make this presentable. So
we, uh strip all all the old

728
00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:19.280
tier. They're coming off no matter
what. Anyway, and uh it's hot

729
00:53:19.320 --> 00:53:22.719
out that night. It's real humored. I got this glue and was doing

730
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:25.039
what I have to do, and
I'm working my way out and I'm saying

731
00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:29.920
myself, the glue is supposed to
turn like a clear for you to stop

732
00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:32.559
putting the tie that. So of
course three o'clock in the morning we get

733
00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:35.480
a run. We come back and
the guy's like, what are you doing.

734
00:53:35.559 --> 00:53:37.639
I said, I'm not finishing this. I'm not quitting. I'm finishing

735
00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:40.320
this. Guy said, you gotta
put a fan on here, make it

736
00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:45.440
dry. I'm thinking maybe a fan. He comes with the smoke ejector and

737
00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:50.719
they plug it in, and all
of a sudden, I'm on the decide

738
00:53:50.760 --> 00:53:54.000
with you walking the fire into the
kitchen, and of course on the back

739
00:53:54.119 --> 00:54:00.760
wall it's all tacky and there's got
six five twos and this and this,

740
00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:07.079
and it comes all I'm looking shut
the fan, shut the fan off,

741
00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:13.000
and you're just watching it come down
stick stick stick all over my floor.

742
00:54:13.880 --> 00:54:15.320
So I had to do what I
had to do, and I had to

743
00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:20.800
just tile over the paper. So
with the buffet machine, there was no

744
00:54:20.920 --> 00:54:24.079
reason to try to get the old
so clean. So the buffer machine would

745
00:54:24.079 --> 00:54:27.840
be in the back of the firehouse
and maybe having a little bit of corpentry

746
00:54:27.880 --> 00:54:32.159
background, we made these nice two
by two cubicles on the wall back side

747
00:54:32.199 --> 00:54:35.960
so everybody could fit this stuff.
We'd have a little more room behind the

748
00:54:36.039 --> 00:54:37.920
rigs to do some drilling or whatever. So the guys said to me,

749
00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:42.320
Greg, you put the effort in. All the junior guys are at the

750
00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:45.480
top. You pick your spot.
So, okay, put the right in

751
00:54:45.519 --> 00:54:49.920
the middle, chest high. Every
time I come into work, boom,

752
00:54:49.960 --> 00:54:52.840
I take my stuff. Well,
I was the commissar and they wanted to

753
00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:58.519
fire me as the commissar. Okay, thankless job. I bring in.

754
00:54:58.639 --> 00:55:00.079
I bring in the box, you
know, cups of dollar a cup,

755
00:55:00.199 --> 00:55:04.559
you know. And I hear them
laughing, and I walk in and the

756
00:55:04.760 --> 00:55:07.679
Survivor show or whatever it was where
they put the thing over the candle and

757
00:55:07.719 --> 00:55:09.599
they throw you out and I don't
remember what the name of that show,

758
00:55:13.079 --> 00:55:16.119
Survivor maybe yeh, Bruno, you'll
finish. You're fired like, screw it.

759
00:55:16.239 --> 00:55:22.079
I don't care. They're trying to
throw the dollar cups and break them.

760
00:55:23.320 --> 00:55:28.000
Well, I go outside and for
like fiftieth time. The fiftieth time,

761
00:55:28.119 --> 00:55:34.280
my stuff is out of my box
and this gigantic heavy buffet machine is

762
00:55:34.360 --> 00:55:39.039
in my tilb lowie. I blew
a gasket, you know, I was

763
00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:44.480
like sometimes you just I had it. I took the buffet machine and they

764
00:55:44.599 --> 00:55:47.800
heard a row, and I threw
it and it ended up with all my

765
00:55:47.960 --> 00:55:52.119
might. I mean, it didn't
really heavy, and it hit between the

766
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:57.039
pole hole and the bathroom and the
guys in the kitchen the door was open,

767
00:55:57.440 --> 00:56:00.880
throw and trying to break the cups. They see this fly by and

768
00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:05.800
explode when it hit the wall.
I didn't hear any more cups trying to

769
00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:08.719
be broken. And from that day
on the guys would say, remember the

770
00:56:08.760 --> 00:56:13.480
buffer machine. So that was kind
of, you know, something that was

771
00:56:13.519 --> 00:56:17.079
funny and guys could relate to that. But what about the pork chop?

772
00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:24.800
Pork chops another story. Pork chop
is something I can bring, Cat McAvoy

773
00:56:24.880 --> 00:56:29.280
to back me up on this.
They brought pork chops. Most of the

774
00:56:29.360 --> 00:56:32.480
firehouse was from Rockaway and breezy,
so every function you had, you had

775
00:56:32.599 --> 00:56:38.119
either wore sandals or you had sand
in your shoe from a Christmas party or

776
00:56:38.199 --> 00:56:42.679
something. Walking to the church,
you're full of sand. So they used

777
00:56:42.679 --> 00:56:45.840
to rave about these pork chops on
one hundred and twenty nine Street Belle Harbor

778
00:56:46.519 --> 00:56:51.280
and they would cook them and we
get a run. Looked at Paddy mcafoy,

779
00:56:51.360 --> 00:56:53.320
looked at me, the worst pork
chops ever had in my life.

780
00:56:54.039 --> 00:56:59.719
They were dry, they were stuffed
with stuff. And you were his chauffeur.

781
00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:02.000
I was the show. And uh, They're like, that's the worst

782
00:57:02.039 --> 00:57:07.400
pork chop man, so dry.
So every time, of course Greg gets

783
00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:10.679
pork chops, the pork chops,
the chop they called it from Rockaway and

784
00:57:10.760 --> 00:57:13.800
I'd be like, you gotta be
kidding me. And the fact that I

785
00:57:13.880 --> 00:57:19.119
was driving it wasn't taking details,
so I didn't notice. But right on

786
00:57:19.239 --> 00:57:22.719
the top of the oranges on the
rig, they took a pork chop and

787
00:57:22.840 --> 00:57:27.599
they tied it and they laid it
up there and lo and behold, we

788
00:57:27.679 --> 00:57:31.280
get a run. Onto Like I
think it was Nostring somewhere around Winthrop or

789
00:57:31.360 --> 00:57:36.719
somewhere, and a couple of calls. It's like seven o'clock at night and

790
00:57:36.880 --> 00:57:40.599
we're tearing ass down Winthrop and we
get to Nostring and I turned onto nostr

791
00:57:40.639 --> 00:57:45.079
in the wrong way and the fire
is out like three windows on the top,

792
00:57:45.599 --> 00:57:47.760
and all of a sudden they see
this pork shop flying. What the

793
00:57:47.880 --> 00:57:55.360
hell? Yeah, it made it
all the way from Snyder in Utica or

794
00:57:55.400 --> 00:57:59.840
fifty first in Utica, all the
way to Winthrop and no stream before it

795
00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:05.880
was it was. It was dry. It was cooked and very dry when

796
00:58:05.920 --> 00:58:08.719
it was done, because we beat
one thirteen in and there was plenty of

797
00:58:08.800 --> 00:58:13.719
fire out the window. You mean
you even let them in first? I

798
00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:19.239
would have, but I didn't.
I would have. Those guys are good

799
00:58:19.280 --> 00:58:22.000
guys, all squared away, but
you don't see him. When you don't

800
00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:28.039
see him, they're not there's right. But you know, Kevin, honestly,

801
00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:30.719
you ran in with other companies one
fifty seven. You know, if

802
00:58:31.239 --> 00:58:35.800
I'm turning in the corner and they're
turning the corner, if they're first on

803
00:58:35.920 --> 00:58:37.559
the ticket, I'm putting a stick
up and we're going to the floor,

804
00:58:37.639 --> 00:58:42.039
bulls. That's just the way it
is. Like, we didn't we didn't

805
00:58:42.039 --> 00:58:44.960
have any problems with with those kinds
and even the engine companies. You know,

806
00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:47.519
everybody talks about this engine and that
engine. I have to be honest

807
00:58:47.559 --> 00:58:50.960
with you, I really have never
seen them guys, even if it was

808
00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:53.679
one hundred degrees out not be ready
to go to work. They had they

809
00:58:53.719 --> 00:58:57.400
had their hoods on when it was
hot as could be, they had their

810
00:58:57.440 --> 00:59:00.719
gloves, they were buckled up,
they pulled up, they up two lines,

811
00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:05.480
smart move weight for the next engine. Everybody worked together, so you

812
00:59:05.559 --> 00:59:07.920
know, they could all say what
they want to say about those companies.

813
00:59:07.239 --> 00:59:13.800
And I'm not one hundred percent saying
that. Sometimes you can get out of

814
00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:16.400
out of your way and maybe think
they did they want something to jap you

815
00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:22.239
out. But they were all squared
away. They're fantastic. You know,

816
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:30.000
I had no problem with them.
Maybe maybe there's no that's these are the

817
00:59:30.079 --> 00:59:35.239
older guys. But the next generation
after that was the pork. But you

818
00:59:35.280 --> 00:59:39.880
could see my floor. My floor
came back, and underneath that there's a

819
00:59:39.960 --> 00:59:45.159
bunch of six five twos, both
kinds of things about picnics and parties and

820
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:50.719
who needs off. It's under the
floor up. Yeah, they're gonna see

821
00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:54.400
they're gonna see it. Like in
that picture. In that picture, in

822
00:59:54.559 --> 01:00:00.599
that picture you had guns. On
the left was Bill with all Billy after

823
01:00:00.719 --> 01:00:05.199
nine to eleven and Bill Duffy about
a week or two after that. Great,

824
01:00:05.280 --> 01:00:09.000
great people, great people. Jerry
Cavanaugh senior guy in the front there,

825
01:00:09.400 --> 01:00:15.239
John Old Sullivan next to me,
my buddy Lenny and uh now Deputy

826
01:00:15.320 --> 01:00:19.400
Chief Linquist, another guy who made
it to the top. Another guy,

827
01:00:19.880 --> 01:00:23.519
another guy that I don't think anybody
ever said a bad word I was looking

828
01:00:23.559 --> 01:00:30.400
for. Nobody has ever said a
bad word about that, gentleman, Mardy

829
01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:32.920
Linquist. I was in my proby
class. May Yeah, fantastic man.

830
01:00:34.440 --> 01:00:39.440
Deputy Chief. Yeah, I'm on
a stupid podcast. Ye, me too.

831
01:00:42.199 --> 01:00:44.880
Gods, wasn't that. I remember
seeing a couple of five pictures.

832
01:00:44.920 --> 01:00:47.960
We got a fire picture in there. We have, um, yes,

833
01:00:49.039 --> 01:00:52.800
we do one. Well, you're
gonna work. I'm making these pictures bigger

834
01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:59.119
somehow. I think I seen you
one from Ridgewood. I think I did

835
01:00:59.199 --> 01:01:01.559
send you one that was from one
forty. Yeah that was a little later

836
01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:10.320
Metropolitan m hm. You know,
yeah, yeah, that was a good

837
01:01:10.360 --> 01:01:16.960
one. You know. That was
when those those schooters just came out.

838
01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:22.679
Whether people were buying those bathroom.
Yeah that was one twenty four. We

839
01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:25.800
were second due to them. Uh
yeah, that was a really good job

840
01:01:28.719 --> 01:01:32.320
that you decided to go to one
forty at one point, right, yeah

841
01:01:32.920 --> 01:01:37.320
I did. But um, just
if you don't mind me backing up for

842
01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:40.360
just a second. Um, we
had, you know, going through like

843
01:01:40.440 --> 01:01:44.199
one seventy four. Like I was
talking to you about the bosses, I

844
01:01:44.320 --> 01:01:46.880
do have to mention the guy who
really landed on his feet and the one

845
01:01:47.000 --> 01:01:52.920
or three is Captain Denny Florenko.
Another guy that would do anything for you

846
01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:57.360
and so sorry that he didn't get
the spot when he was passing through us.

847
01:01:57.559 --> 01:02:02.079
He was a gentleman from the time
I met him to today what I

848
01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:07.239
think he was a triple don't he
he was at that time he was in

849
01:02:07.360 --> 01:02:08.880
one twelve, Yes, he was
in one twelve when he didn't get the

850
01:02:08.920 --> 01:02:15.519
spot in three ten and uh,
super duper guy to this day. I

851
01:02:15.639 --> 01:02:20.239
keep in touch with him, would
would do anything for him. Really fantastic,

852
01:02:20.360 --> 01:02:25.000
another fantastic human being. Um,
so moving along, Um, you

853
01:02:25.079 --> 01:02:29.440
know he was a lot of good
guys that did that. And then you

854
01:02:29.519 --> 01:02:34.599
were asking me about before I leave
this segment of one seventy four in that

855
01:02:34.760 --> 01:02:37.880
area. You know, you had
other guys on there, a guy like

856
01:02:37.079 --> 01:02:42.880
Captain Calamari one twenty. He'd run
in with him. He hated when we

857
01:02:43.000 --> 01:02:45.880
were at two eighty three. He
couldn't wait for us to leave two eighty

858
01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:50.280
three. And I'll tell you one
I'll give you. I'll give you one

859
01:02:50.320 --> 01:02:54.280
fire story quick. About two eighty
three. I'm in the TV room a

860
01:02:54.320 --> 01:02:58.800
little left to twelve, and there
was a church right next door. When

861
01:02:58.840 --> 01:03:02.599
you come out of quarters to the
left, and two eighty three goes out

862
01:03:02.679 --> 01:03:07.159
on an MS run. So I
got to back up. M'm gonna walk

863
01:03:07.199 --> 01:03:09.320
out there, and I'm saying come
back soon, like we had. We

864
01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:13.639
were running out our ass off that
night, and all of a sudden I

865
01:03:13.800 --> 01:03:15.440
decided to go to the house watch. And as I'm getting close, I

866
01:03:15.559 --> 01:03:21.800
hear on the front door. I
might opening the door one two in the

867
01:03:21.880 --> 01:03:23.760
morning, Brownsville. I'm looking out
the window. You know, I don't

868
01:03:23.760 --> 01:03:28.719
know what's going on, and I
don't see anybody. Again. Now I

869
01:03:28.880 --> 01:03:31.679
hear banging really hard. I opened
the door, and the police officer and

870
01:03:31.880 --> 01:03:37.480
he's out of breath. He's like, so I look outside and billow and

871
01:03:37.559 --> 01:03:42.440
black smoke from next door. I
said, no problem right there. I

872
01:03:42.599 --> 01:03:45.199
go to grab the mic to tell
the guys who got a job next door?

873
01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:49.679
And the tones go off with this. We get the pulling out the

874
01:03:49.760 --> 01:03:52.280
quarters. Give the ten seventy five
and putting the stick up one twenty.

875
01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:55.639
Hears it their second due. Now
they would have been first due. And

876
01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:00.679
my boss goes in the back and
he says, hold up on taking the

877
01:04:00.719 --> 01:04:04.119
windows. Two any three is coming
around the corner. The guy has got

878
01:04:04.199 --> 01:04:09.400
up and walked away on the MS
run and in they go. I put

879
01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:12.360
the stick to the roof, put
the roof man up, and I said,

880
01:04:12.400 --> 01:04:15.159
bosh, you want the windows.
He's like, hold on a second.

881
01:04:15.800 --> 01:04:17.159
Now. I said, the water
is coming. I hear he heard

882
01:04:17.199 --> 01:04:20.079
the water coming. He says,
okay, I take the windows with the

883
01:04:20.199 --> 01:04:24.840
aerial he told the roof guy was
moving it. I go up, go

884
01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:28.280
in. The guy that used to
roller skate in the front of the firehouse

885
01:04:28.320 --> 01:04:31.000
all the time, sure enough,
is laying on the bed. Give it

886
01:04:31.039 --> 01:04:35.639
ten forty five. With this,
Captain Calamari's two guys come up and I'm

887
01:04:35.719 --> 01:04:41.719
thinking three, three on one.
I gotta get this. I'm thinking,

888
01:04:42.960 --> 01:04:45.519
what's the best thing to do.
I gotta you could talkst thing. Yeah,

889
01:04:45.559 --> 01:04:48.599
the best thing is for me to
let these guys help me and clear

890
01:04:48.719 --> 01:04:53.280
away, because I know any second
that staircase is gonna be full. So

891
01:04:53.519 --> 01:04:56.320
I said, cap, I'm going
to clear the stairs. They bring him

892
01:04:56.320 --> 01:05:00.599
down the stairs two fifty seven to
the fantastic job, gets his pulse back.

893
01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:04.559
Unfortunately, thirty nine hours later the
guy passed away. I don't think

894
01:05:04.599 --> 01:05:10.559
anything of it. Next we go
to medal day. That was That was

895
01:05:10.599 --> 01:05:17.159
a job I was at me.
That was my I think I would forget

896
01:05:17.199 --> 01:05:20.199
the medal. I wanted the guy
to live, but I'm like, nothing

897
01:05:20.639 --> 01:05:26.960
nothing in there about me. So
I was like, you know what,

898
01:05:28.639 --> 01:05:33.440
you know, nothing nothing in there
about me. Let's no, I don't

899
01:05:33.480 --> 01:05:36.840
care. I was the guy I
always thank and Louie mentioned the company.

900
01:05:36.880 --> 01:05:41.159
You don't have to mention. Mention. But it was fun. But we

901
01:05:41.519 --> 01:05:44.519
called an awful lot of work wound. It was a lot of fun.

902
01:05:45.480 --> 01:05:48.880
We had times. By the way, Greg myself, yeah it happens.

903
01:05:48.960 --> 01:05:54.199
But you know the fact of the
matter is I want to work together help

904
01:05:54.280 --> 01:05:58.039
the public. That's our job.
You know. I wanted to give this

905
01:05:58.119 --> 01:06:02.480
guy the best chance of living,
and unfortunately he didn't. But you know,

906
01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:06.400
twenty three you talked about a guy
like Bob Sano. I saw him

907
01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:11.400
on the show. I remember working
there and being with him for that year.

908
01:06:12.360 --> 01:06:14.519
That's like one of those guys you
don't want to you don't want to

909
01:06:14.559 --> 01:06:17.239
disappoint him, even if you're not
working in the company. He's on duty

910
01:06:17.360 --> 01:06:21.559
that day and you have so much
respect for this guy that it was like

911
01:06:23.119 --> 01:06:26.199
the way it was years ago,
Like if you did something wrong and the

912
01:06:26.320 --> 01:06:31.079
senior guy did one of these,
you were like, hold, why I

913
01:06:31.159 --> 01:06:34.119
disappoint him? I don't want to
disappoint him. So but he was one

914
01:06:34.119 --> 01:06:39.280
of those guys that was would stop, help you, give you knowledge,

915
01:06:39.400 --> 01:06:42.280
give you everything that you needed.
And he was a lot of fun to

916
01:06:42.320 --> 01:06:45.039
work with. I had Rob Brown
who was in my my Probe classes as

917
01:06:45.079 --> 01:06:49.920
well, Doctor Brown. He was
around twenty and then when I went over

918
01:06:50.000 --> 01:06:54.519
to the Battalion for a couple of
months before going to one forty, I

919
01:06:54.679 --> 01:06:58.719
got to work with Danny Wetzel and
guys like that, and uh, they

920
01:06:58.760 --> 01:07:00.920
were they were super. Yeah,
this is the crew back then, like

921
01:07:01.159 --> 01:07:05.440
Steve Holman on the left, one
of my mentors, Billy Gormley right next

922
01:07:05.480 --> 01:07:11.360
to me on my right who we
lost, just a bunch of really fantastic

923
01:07:11.440 --> 01:07:15.880
guys. I couldn't say enough about
him, I really couldn't. Would be

924
01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:19.559
there anytime you needed something, just
as as what happened in Privy School.

925
01:07:19.599 --> 01:07:24.519
You know, I had like three
weeks left in Privy School when my wife's

926
01:07:24.599 --> 01:07:28.280
daughter passed away. And you know, you don't want to let them know,

927
01:07:28.400 --> 01:07:30.679
you know about the fight. Apartment
like to tell you it's better off

928
01:07:30.719 --> 01:07:34.519
you're not saying nothing. When something
happened like that, it was like,

929
01:07:35.480 --> 01:07:40.559
what do you need? And I
remember Billy Burke, who we lost on

930
01:07:40.679 --> 01:07:44.360
nine eleven. He was a lieutenant
in charge of the school, and he

931
01:07:44.519 --> 01:07:46.519
took the two guys that I would
travel with. He says, you guys

932
01:07:46.519 --> 01:07:49.960
should take him. You go here. You're here for the family. And

933
01:07:50.079 --> 01:07:55.679
I knew it was my turn where
whatever I needed, these guys were going

934
01:07:55.719 --> 01:08:00.199
to be there for me. That's
which I knew from my father and the

935
01:08:00.360 --> 01:08:04.199
job that they had because my father. My father was off the day at

936
01:08:04.199 --> 01:08:09.920
the telephone fire, okay, when
he was in three truck first due there

937
01:08:10.320 --> 01:08:14.719
he went to one fifty six.
He got off the day or the war

938
01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:18.359
bombs fire and I remember him having
used to go to the Poconos in the

939
01:08:18.960 --> 01:08:24.279
summers, and I remember that morning
him turning around and the TV's saying six

940
01:08:24.680 --> 01:08:29.520
Brooklyn fire fires died on ocean Amnue
and he was up and gone for like

941
01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:31.079
a week and a half, you
know, all the funerals. So I

942
01:08:31.199 --> 01:08:35.479
knew how that worked with the fire
department, and it was unfortunately my turn

943
01:08:35.560 --> 01:08:41.920
too for them to be there for
me. So that was, you know,

944
01:08:42.239 --> 01:08:46.319
not an introduction that you want,
but so much was done to help

945
01:08:46.399 --> 01:08:49.880
me. And the guy like Billy
Burke was like I was more concerned,

946
01:08:49.960 --> 01:08:53.159
like, oh, I got three
weeks to go, is this going to

947
01:08:53.239 --> 01:08:55.840
be like the physical where I got
to do it over again? He's like,

948
01:08:56.000 --> 01:08:59.399
no, no, we're good.
I said, okay. So everything

949
01:08:59.479 --> 01:09:02.439
worked out and then I had the
privilege of working guys that you know,

950
01:09:02.640 --> 01:09:08.199
like Danny Murphy. He passed through
and I remember driving him a few times

951
01:09:08.239 --> 01:09:11.880
from one seventy four. What a
gentleman to me. It's like Roy Hobbs

952
01:09:12.399 --> 01:09:15.880
the Nashville you know, everything he
did. I would see him. I

953
01:09:15.920 --> 01:09:20.479
would really I would see him like
at a job and pick up a show

954
01:09:20.600 --> 01:09:24.359
for a guy. He's a lieutenant
but you see him picking up a show

955
01:09:24.439 --> 01:09:27.760
and walking it over and giving it
to the guy. I'm like, that's

956
01:09:27.920 --> 01:09:31.239
Roy Hobbs. That's that's the way
it goes. So it was to me.

957
01:09:31.680 --> 01:09:35.199
I had such a pleasure of working
with them guys. And then when

958
01:09:35.239 --> 01:09:40.920
I went to on Details, I
worked and Rescue one one night and God

959
01:09:40.960 --> 01:09:44.680
rested soul. Joe Joey Angelini in
the morning was there. We had a

960
01:09:44.760 --> 01:09:48.159
job that night and I'm holding on
the back for dear life, I don't

961
01:09:48.199 --> 01:09:51.640
know what the hell's going on,
and he comes in the morning and he's

962
01:09:51.680 --> 01:09:56.840
smoking. What do you got?
I looked at the other guy, thought

963
01:09:56.880 --> 01:09:59.039
he was kidding. I mean,
I do it as an old guy that

964
01:09:59.119 --> 01:10:02.840
came in on Saturday. Honest to
god, I had no idea. And

965
01:10:02.840 --> 01:10:05.279
they're like, they're like, no, no, he's the real deal.

966
01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:10.439
Say I got the roof brother ride
safe and off I went. And that

967
01:10:10.600 --> 01:10:13.760
was the only encounter I had with
him. But hearing the stories about it,

968
01:10:13.840 --> 01:10:15.319
and I can remember back and say, wow, that guy was.

969
01:10:16.239 --> 01:10:19.600
That guy was awesome. You know
other guys that When I went to Rescue

970
01:10:19.640 --> 01:10:24.960
four, I worked with Mike Milner
and then yeah, we go, we

971
01:10:25.199 --> 01:10:29.479
go, We go to Mama MutS
for lunch. Never I lived in Queens.

972
01:10:29.600 --> 01:10:31.920
I lived in Queen Masspeth when I
met you, Kevin, and I

973
01:10:32.079 --> 01:10:35.680
didn't even know that that place existed. And it was funny. I said.

974
01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:39.920
John Gaye was working and a couple
other good guys, and I said,

975
01:10:40.359 --> 01:10:42.520
hey, you guys ever going to
Manhattan? You know? Like it

976
01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:45.600
said, oh, yeah, sometimes, but not not that often. Well,

977
01:10:45.680 --> 01:10:49.079
five minutes later, we get a
run for scaffold, something falling off

978
01:10:49.119 --> 01:10:51.840
of scaffold, and here I am
in the back, they're all in the

979
01:10:51.920 --> 01:10:55.960
front. I'm holding off for day
life. John's driving. I think that

980
01:10:56.159 --> 01:10:59.880
the pain's coming off the side of
the rig. And we we go down

981
01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:03.039
through this tunnel of Queens Boulevard and
we get into Manhattan. And that was

982
01:11:03.119 --> 01:11:08.960
before they had Vanderbilt Avenue closed off
Park Avenue. And I'm coming up to

983
01:11:09.039 --> 01:11:13.119
forty second Street and some car decides
to not give him the right away,

984
01:11:13.560 --> 01:11:15.359
and I see him go to stop, and we feel a little bump and

985
01:11:15.520 --> 01:11:19.760
I'm looking and there's a car spinning
them at the end of it. And

986
01:11:19.960 --> 01:11:23.680
ended up only being like a piece
of wood that fell off the scaffold,

987
01:11:24.039 --> 01:11:27.560
but it was a windy day like
in February, and I just like I

988
01:11:27.640 --> 01:11:30.960
said about all of those guys in
in those sock companies, like I respect

989
01:11:31.039 --> 01:11:35.520
them, it's not something i'd rather
be the guy busy place, pull up

990
01:11:35.720 --> 01:11:41.119
out the window. You're getting the
numerous calls and you're getting all lamped up.

991
01:11:41.560 --> 01:11:44.479
It is different. I mean,
you're going a lot more work,

992
01:11:44.840 --> 01:11:48.960
but i'd like to be I don't
wish to fire in anybody. I don't

993
01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:51.399
want to wish to fire in anybody, but it's gonna happen. I want

994
01:11:51.399 --> 01:11:57.319
to be, hopefully part of the
solution. And certain things that they did

995
01:11:57.399 --> 01:12:00.600
didn't appeal to me. I don't
even like going to the beach mind schoolba

996
01:12:00.680 --> 01:12:02.960
diving, you know, so I'm
not doing that. I don't want to

997
01:12:03.000 --> 01:12:06.560
do that. I want to do
something different. So that was, you

998
01:12:06.680 --> 01:12:10.319
know, part of the things.
But there are guys how's your how's your

999
01:12:10.399 --> 01:12:15.439
power? Gregor my power of a
good? Well? Good? Uh?

1000
01:12:15.880 --> 01:12:21.399
They met me talking? Sorry,
Okay. Then I had like Ryan Warnock,

1001
01:12:21.439 --> 01:12:26.960
who unfortunately got hurt rescue. One
before Ryan went to rescue, I

1002
01:12:27.079 --> 01:12:30.560
remember having a job where he pulled
another fireman from one seventy out of the

1003
01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:33.600
cock loft. The guy fell right
into the cock loft and we were inside

1004
01:12:33.640 --> 01:12:38.079
trying to pull the seals to give
the engine some room to get in there.

1005
01:12:38.479 --> 01:12:44.000
And Ryan wasn't the biggest, heaviest
guys. Kind of thin How he

1006
01:12:44.079 --> 01:12:46.000
got this guy out of there,
I don't know, but kudos to him.

1007
01:12:46.000 --> 01:12:49.399
And that was just one of those
things where he was not leaving and

1008
01:12:49.560 --> 01:12:54.000
not helping that brother out. It's
just the way it goes. So I

1009
01:12:54.119 --> 01:12:58.520
got to work with some really really
awesome guys, um and that probably takes

1010
01:12:58.560 --> 01:13:00.079
me up to go into the five
Talian? Is that right, Kevan?

1011
01:13:00.520 --> 01:13:06.840
Yeah, okay, I had some
issues. My wife unfortunately got sick for

1012
01:13:06.920 --> 01:13:11.640
a while, and uh, you
know, it's hard to all it went

1013
01:13:11.680 --> 01:13:14.720
through. It was hard to It
was always good, and you always was

1014
01:13:14.800 --> 01:13:16.199
taught to leave all your problems at
the front door of the fire ass,

1015
01:13:16.319 --> 01:13:18.439
you know, because when you go
to work, you gotta have your head

1016
01:13:18.479 --> 01:13:21.359
on straight. You got to try
to do the right thing, and uh

1017
01:13:24.039 --> 01:13:27.000
uh, you know, things happen
and you get lost a little bit,

1018
01:13:28.159 --> 01:13:31.239
right right, And I understand when
I went to the battalion and then I

1019
01:13:31.399 --> 01:13:36.000
decided to go closer to home.
I hope I didn't want to hurt anybody's

1020
01:13:36.000 --> 01:13:40.079
feelings and want seventy four or three
ten. I mean, who would not

1021
01:13:40.159 --> 01:13:42.399
want to stay there for their whole
life. I want to go back and

1022
01:13:42.439 --> 01:13:45.600
do it again, you know.
But I remember, I think it was

1023
01:13:45.720 --> 01:13:49.800
John Viggiano was driving him one night
one seventy six, and the kitchen and

1024
01:13:49.920 --> 01:13:56.880
were talking about something and he said, listen, family, company, fire

1025
01:13:56.960 --> 01:14:01.439
department in that order. So it
always resonated with me that your family always

1026
01:14:01.479 --> 01:14:05.239
comes first. So I was being
a little selfish of being far away,

1027
01:14:05.800 --> 01:14:09.439
not that many miles away, but
if something happened to take you an hour

1028
01:14:09.520 --> 01:14:13.279
to get home, so it was
time to go closer to home. And

1029
01:14:13.760 --> 01:14:15.960
I went to the five eight for
a while. I tried that out,

1030
01:14:15.760 --> 01:14:19.479
and I didn't like going to fire
as with a clipboard and watching these guys

1031
01:14:19.560 --> 01:14:23.800
do what I want to do.
So thank you, but no thank you

1032
01:14:24.039 --> 01:14:28.600
guys in two fifty seven one seventy
hats off to them. Fantastic group of

1033
01:14:28.680 --> 01:14:32.520
guys. Unfortunately went through some really
hard times. But they know they're real

1034
01:14:32.600 --> 01:14:35.000
type. You know, they're real
type. Place, they go on vacations

1035
01:14:35.039 --> 01:14:39.159
together, they do everything as you
would, better than some people that I

1036
01:14:39.359 --> 01:14:42.880
know they're actually brothers and sister you
know, like a really really good,

1037
01:14:43.000 --> 01:14:46.560
good bunch of guys, you know, and even respect. Like I said,

1038
01:14:47.000 --> 01:14:51.359
guys that I missed that moved on
guys. Every twenty four partner I

1039
01:14:51.439 --> 01:14:55.840
had Louis went out to be at
least a captain or more. I don't

1040
01:14:55.840 --> 01:15:00.039
know how that happened, but it
did. And guys, like, like

1041
01:15:00.079 --> 01:15:02.800
I said Jeff Miller night, I
could be more more proud of that guy

1042
01:15:03.479 --> 01:15:09.079
as my twenty four part and as
my friend. Seeing him loved this job.

1043
01:15:09.239 --> 01:15:11.239
It was like it was like me
looking at myself, you know,

1044
01:15:11.359 --> 01:15:15.479
like this guy will do anything for
his men, and I'm sure those guys

1045
01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:19.640
will do anything for him. But
he knows this place as good as it

1046
01:15:19.840 --> 01:15:24.159
is, it's going to get better
with me here, and and that's a

1047
01:15:24.239 --> 01:15:27.479
great, great thing. Um.
So that's what we talked about when I

1048
01:15:27.560 --> 01:15:30.119
when I met you in the bar
and all the other stuff on nine eleven.

1049
01:15:30.920 --> 01:15:35.560
But then I went to one forty
and the guys have won forty open

1050
01:15:35.680 --> 01:15:40.680
their arms to me. I need. I needed to go somewhere close,

1051
01:15:41.600 --> 01:15:45.079
didn't. Yeah, I didn't want
to bring my any baggage with me,

1052
01:15:45.159 --> 01:15:45.720
and I just said, look,
you know, I'm an old guy.

1053
01:15:45.800 --> 01:15:49.199
I'm riding out the rest of my
years and I want to be close to

1054
01:15:49.279 --> 01:15:55.760
home. And it was like a
last minute transfer, so understand the way

1055
01:15:55.800 --> 01:15:58.800
they came from with Prie Horde.
Hell is this guy? You know,

1056
01:15:58.920 --> 01:16:01.159
he didn't even come here and say
hello, And I didn't. I didn't.

1057
01:16:01.159 --> 01:16:04.760
I got a phone call, hey, Greg Tuesday one forty I said,

1058
01:16:04.840 --> 01:16:08.199
Chief, it's Friday. It's Monday
night. He says, yeah,

1059
01:16:08.279 --> 01:16:12.640
tomorrow morning, you're going book six. So I had to show up with

1060
01:16:12.760 --> 01:16:15.319
a nice, you know, breakfast
in bagels, and I'm the new old

1061
01:16:15.359 --> 01:16:18.479
guy, and anybody want to go
home? And of course, and of

1062
01:16:18.600 --> 01:16:23.199
course I know nobody in the kitchen
and you could hear a pin yeah,

1063
01:16:24.079 --> 01:16:26.800
yeah. And then the funny thing
was like, I think I told you

1064
01:16:26.880 --> 01:16:30.560
this story privately. You know,
guys says asked me if the I laughed

1065
01:16:30.560 --> 01:16:34.600
all the time. He says,
he fires really hotterman Brooklyn. I was

1066
01:16:34.640 --> 01:16:39.000
like, crap, it's starting and
already, like I thought the kitchen one

1067
01:16:39.119 --> 01:16:44.479
seventy four was tough. This,
I said, uh no, bro I'm

1068
01:16:44.520 --> 01:16:46.439
sure just as hot and queens.
But there's a lot more of him over

1069
01:16:46.520 --> 01:16:50.800
there, so you should have probably
wanted to go over there when he came

1070
01:16:50.840 --> 01:16:55.079
out of prophy school. And then
after that that was really just a test

1071
01:16:55.199 --> 01:16:59.199
and h The funny thing was it
was a guy who was a lieutenant who

1072
01:16:59.319 --> 01:17:03.439
came from one two thirty one.
Yeah no, And when he saw me,

1073
01:17:03.520 --> 01:17:05.840
he says like, hey, Greg, welcome to one forty. You

1074
01:17:05.920 --> 01:17:09.039
want to take the ions today?
And I looked at the guy and I

1075
01:17:09.159 --> 01:17:11.399
was like, yeah, I'm not
going to say no. Why want not

1076
01:17:11.399 --> 01:17:14.520
to take the ions? Uh?
And it was funny because we want to

1077
01:17:14.960 --> 01:17:17.920
go on to our first run and
it was smoked from a house and on

1078
01:17:18.039 --> 01:17:20.399
the Brooklyn side. You know,
he had to switch to Brooklyn because we're

1079
01:17:20.439 --> 01:17:25.000
right near the two weeks. And
I keep looking and he keeps looking at

1080
01:17:25.079 --> 01:17:28.199
me. I guess he's testing me. You know what is what's is fantastic.

1081
01:17:28.279 --> 01:17:30.520
I love the guy now. I
really do get along great with him.

1082
01:17:30.880 --> 01:17:33.720
And uh, i'd say, Junior, did you get better buckle up

1083
01:17:33.920 --> 01:17:39.640
going to book? And the funny
part was it wasn't a job, but

1084
01:17:39.800 --> 01:17:42.920
you know, we got the point
across, and I guess he realized,

1085
01:17:42.960 --> 01:17:45.439
you know, I've been around a
little while and I kind of know when

1086
01:17:45.439 --> 01:17:47.560
you breaking my shoes and when you're
not. So it was it was all

1087
01:17:47.640 --> 01:17:53.319
fun. I really enjoyed that.
Um we talked about this to the pre

1088
01:17:53.479 --> 01:17:56.560
show. I don't know that they
are so close on the border. I

1089
01:17:56.600 --> 01:17:59.119
don't know how they don't go to
more work. I don't know what keeps

1090
01:17:59.159 --> 01:18:01.880
them in out of that that area
for work. I mean, you know,

1091
01:18:02.159 --> 01:18:05.560
Kevin, it's like when you always
say, when Louis says, with

1092
01:18:05.800 --> 01:18:10.399
any place you go to, that's
the best place, or that's the place

1093
01:18:10.439 --> 01:18:12.560
I want to be a part of, or that's the place I love.

1094
01:18:13.159 --> 01:18:18.560
And they welcome me when I needed
to be welcomed. And they're great guys

1095
01:18:18.760 --> 01:18:24.319
everywhere you go, even in the
best places. We said, we said

1096
01:18:24.319 --> 01:18:26.560
that you're going to find a guy
that you want to say, listen,

1097
01:18:27.600 --> 01:18:31.479
take your cheesecake, just pack up, you don't belong here and go somewhere

1098
01:18:31.520 --> 01:18:38.359
else. And these guys are really
great guys. They're good flyman, they're

1099
01:18:38.600 --> 01:18:42.039
energetic. The young guys. I
can give you a list of guys that

1100
01:18:42.159 --> 01:18:45.279
are in that place that I could
see being bosses. And I'm so proud

1101
01:18:45.319 --> 01:18:50.039
of him because it gave me the
opportunity to give to them what I wanted

1102
01:18:50.079 --> 01:18:55.439
to And then you bring in things
like YouTube and diamond plate and you're watching

1103
01:18:55.560 --> 01:19:00.520
videos and all of these things that
were taught to me telling me what would

1104
01:19:00.560 --> 01:19:04.640
happen from these guys that were super
fined in one seventy four. Now you

1105
01:19:04.720 --> 01:19:08.960
could see it and stop it and
say, hey, look at the color

1106
01:19:09.000 --> 01:19:12.960
of that smoke, or look out
whether things being pressurized. Do you see

1107
01:19:13.079 --> 01:19:15.840
they cut They must have cut the
roof because from outside you could see it

1108
01:19:15.960 --> 01:19:19.039
drawing back a little bit and then
it start getting that that grayish and then

1109
01:19:19.159 --> 01:19:23.439
start chugging. You're like, if
you got to make a move, you

1110
01:19:23.600 --> 01:19:28.079
better move because you're you're you're gonna
be in trouble. Now. Back years

1111
01:19:28.079 --> 01:19:30.279
ago they told me they'll be yelling, hey, idiot, get out of

1112
01:19:30.399 --> 01:19:33.920
there. That's that's no good.
So you're able to do this. And

1113
01:19:34.000 --> 01:19:39.159
these young guys I felt were really
good to me and they wanted to learn.

1114
01:19:39.680 --> 01:19:42.880
But Louis, it's like everywhere else. I think that they should go

1115
01:19:42.960 --> 01:19:45.680
to a lot more work in the
position there and I know guys could drive

1116
01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:49.520
up forest there when you can get
the forest and Myrtle probably would hitting the

1117
01:19:49.600 --> 01:19:56.399
lights and probably beat myself, but
for some reason, but for some reason

1118
01:19:58.039 --> 01:20:01.920
doesn't happen the time talking about there
was some boxes that you'd be one twenty

1119
01:20:01.960 --> 01:20:08.439
four and two exactly exactly, and
you know it's really hard. They got

1120
01:20:08.479 --> 01:20:12.600
a very big rig and those corners
people, there's so many people that lived

1121
01:20:12.600 --> 01:20:15.000
there. They park on the corner
and you can't make that turn. And

1122
01:20:15.159 --> 01:20:17.319
if you do make the turn,
you have it to be going down to

1123
01:20:17.399 --> 01:20:21.239
block the wrong way. If that
engine didn't get enough room to get that

1124
01:20:21.399 --> 01:20:27.119
hydrant. Now you head to head
with the other truck company. And when

1125
01:20:27.159 --> 01:20:30.119
things stuck going bad, they stuck
going bad, not slowly. It's boom

1126
01:20:30.199 --> 01:20:34.560
boom, and all of a sudden
you got three, three major problems instead

1127
01:20:34.600 --> 01:20:40.520
of just one. Bliss they have
like a really I mean most of the

1128
01:20:40.560 --> 01:20:44.840
Queens does anyway. But you know
they in that area there right right across

1129
01:20:44.880 --> 01:20:46.840
the street, right behind Carvel right, that's all frames back there right man.

1130
01:20:46.880 --> 01:20:51.319
And in Fairview that's all frames there. And then you got commercials.

1131
01:20:51.359 --> 01:20:56.960
If you got commercial yeah, yeah, go down, go down past Flushing

1132
01:20:57.079 --> 01:21:00.119
on Metro right there first and there
right, that's all factories there west and

1133
01:21:00.159 --> 01:21:04.520
beef all that crap over there right
down by by the bridge over there by

1134
01:21:04.560 --> 01:21:08.680
two oh six. You know,
those jobs are the jobs you don't really

1135
01:21:08.920 --> 01:21:12.439
you know, I'm going down there, no know, like they could get

1136
01:21:12.479 --> 01:21:15.520
shitty. And you know, we
used to go to a place on Utica

1137
01:21:15.560 --> 01:21:19.079
Avenue all the time for an automatic. Alombent was a plastic company and it

1138
01:21:19.279 --> 01:21:23.239
as much as I love going on
fires, yeah, I think, I

1139
01:21:23.359 --> 01:21:27.239
hope I'm off to day that this
thing goes because this has got black lung

1140
01:21:27.359 --> 01:21:30.520
and cancer written all over. How
many times I went to that recycling There

1141
01:21:30.600 --> 01:21:32.720
was like a recycling plant over there
somewhere, and the junkyards over there.

1142
01:21:33.359 --> 01:21:36.079
We used to go to those at
a couple of times a year. You

1143
01:21:36.119 --> 01:21:42.479
know, place a phone that made
foam, Yeah yeah, right near the

1144
01:21:42.520 --> 01:21:45.039
cemetery on the horse yeah yeah,
yeah, screw that place. That's where

1145
01:21:45.079 --> 01:21:48.800
you live right up this That was
where I first lived and then then moved

1146
01:21:48.800 --> 01:21:53.680
to the other side when we bought
the new house, which was with Grand

1147
01:21:53.760 --> 01:21:59.279
and Flushing met and I had a
back porch that had like this iron staircase

1148
01:21:59.399 --> 01:22:00.520
and we're going to put a deck
and all that stuff. And I was

1149
01:22:00.560 --> 01:22:04.159
like, leave the platform for my
to build off of. But the steps

1150
01:22:04.159 --> 01:22:06.039
are going to be in a way, and I'm thinking, how am I

1151
01:22:06.079 --> 01:22:09.800
gonna get rid of this? I'm
like, these guys probably want to use

1152
01:22:09.880 --> 01:22:13.319
their tool and have fun. Why
not ask them? And then you guys

1153
01:22:13.399 --> 01:22:19.319
came over and sure enough with chief
off. Yeah, I think so that

1154
01:22:19.479 --> 01:22:25.000
was great. There was a yeah, it was a metal staircase, like

1155
01:22:25.079 --> 01:22:28.399
a metal like landing for a deck. They just drow it on there.

1156
01:22:28.439 --> 01:22:30.920
Instead of making a nice wood deck
in the back, they put like a

1157
01:22:30.000 --> 01:22:34.840
metal deck, steel and a steel
staircase coming down. And I'm like,

1158
01:22:34.960 --> 01:22:36.960
it's in the way. I need
to get rid of this so I can

1159
01:22:38.039 --> 01:22:41.640
build off of this staircase, put
the post in the ground, making nice

1160
01:22:41.760 --> 01:22:44.000
deck, put a pool in the
yard. And I was like, I

1161
01:22:44.119 --> 01:22:46.159
asked those guys that you want to
come and have a drill or do something.

1162
01:22:46.159 --> 01:22:48.439
I gotta get rid of this.
I sure shit, don't have a

1163
01:22:49.359 --> 01:22:53.920
I think to burn it myself.
And they came with every kind of tool

1164
01:22:53.960 --> 01:22:57.479
that they wanted and they had fun, and I was more happy to do

1165
01:22:57.560 --> 01:23:00.000
whatever I could do for them.
Yeah, it was good, um,

1166
01:23:00.439 --> 01:23:03.319
But before I had too, my
father was there in two ninety one of

1167
01:23:03.359 --> 01:23:08.319
my uncle was in one forty.
I think he retired with like forty four

1168
01:23:08.479 --> 01:23:11.479
years or something like that from one
forty. Yeah, I tell you,

1169
01:23:11.680 --> 01:23:14.239
like I said so many, I'm
gonna get to these guys because I don't

1170
01:23:14.239 --> 01:23:16.760
want to slide anybody, And if
I ever did throughout the show, I'm

1171
01:23:16.840 --> 01:23:21.560
sorry, but I mean the way
this job is. You guys know you

1172
01:23:21.640 --> 01:23:26.560
could meet a guy from out of
town and become best of friends with him.

1173
01:23:27.039 --> 01:23:29.960
You know, I ever got a
friend, Scott Laprade who was from

1174
01:23:30.560 --> 01:23:35.159
uh Lem Lemons to Fire Department of
Massa. Yeah, I'm sure he is.

1175
01:23:35.680 --> 01:23:39.800
Scottie is an awesome dude. And
he used to bring his son,

1176
01:23:39.920 --> 01:23:42.920
Mikey as a picture there of me
and Mikey when he was really young.

1177
01:23:43.520 --> 01:23:46.239
And Mikey grew up and he Mikey
grew up to be a fireman. He

1178
01:23:46.359 --> 01:23:50.000
was on the show with Captain Dugan
from one twenty three, and that was

1179
01:23:50.119 --> 01:23:54.399
Mikey when he was a kid.
And now now Mikey's all grown up.

1180
01:23:54.479 --> 01:24:00.119
He works for the Auburn, New
Hampshire Fire Department. That's Mikey build the

1181
01:24:00.199 --> 01:24:03.640
house is that he's got a forty
four truck. I saw that on the

1182
01:24:03.760 --> 01:24:08.840
fineteen seventy eight and he's making a
bar out of it. How great is

1183
01:24:08.880 --> 01:24:11.920
that? That's cool man. Yeah, I saw the Yeah I saw he

1184
01:24:12.000 --> 01:24:15.239
made the forty four chilled. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's Scotty

1185
01:24:15.399 --> 01:24:18.119
right there. Another wonderful human being
I saw always in the chat. It's

1186
01:24:18.119 --> 01:24:21.520
always like your face to the guy's
name in the chat. Yes, yes,

1187
01:24:23.119 --> 01:24:25.720
he's a good guy. And they're
down in Florida. Now. I

1188
01:24:25.760 --> 01:24:30.600
think he had his first grandchild,
and uh, fantastic for him. He

1189
01:24:30.760 --> 01:24:33.239
took so many pictures, used to
hang around one eleven, and then Captain

1190
01:24:33.319 --> 01:24:35.720
Dugan saw his kid. He says, come on, we'll take you back

1191
01:24:35.720 --> 01:24:40.760
to the firehouse, and Scottie followed
him back and it was love at first

1192
01:24:40.760 --> 01:24:44.119
sight. After ever since then it
was great. Um. But like I

1193
01:24:44.199 --> 01:24:46.359
said, very good guys that I
worked with. We'll get to some funny

1194
01:24:46.399 --> 01:24:50.039
stories at one forty if you want. Uh, I'm sure you probably have

1195
01:24:50.159 --> 01:24:53.560
some in the back you didn't tell
me about. But we'll get there.

1196
01:24:54.319 --> 01:24:59.479
Uh. Uh, guys, some
of the bosses we had, Steve Viola,

1197
01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:02.399
we had Richie Scott great great guy. Captain Campbell is there now,

1198
01:25:03.079 --> 01:25:08.840
Uh, Anthony Roman, Lieutenant Joy
Anthony Roman, He's ready wants to be

1199
01:25:08.960 --> 01:25:11.640
ready, wants these guys to be
ready to go. That's him right there.

1200
01:25:12.119 --> 01:25:16.239
And uh, yeah, he came
from nine Engine and uh I remember

1201
01:25:18.239 --> 01:25:21.800
like a kid. Yeah, but
I'll tell you he wants still wants everybody

1202
01:25:21.920 --> 01:25:27.119
to be so super ready and he's
willing to do whatever he can to to

1203
01:25:27.319 --> 01:25:30.920
make everybody go home safe. And
like I said to you before, it's

1204
01:25:30.960 --> 01:25:35.079
not a it's not a shot at
anybody or any company. But I think

1205
01:25:35.159 --> 01:25:40.920
the companies that don't do as much
work, it's more it's harder on the

1206
01:25:41.039 --> 01:25:45.159
boss, you know what I'm saying, Because you're motivated, right, And

1207
01:25:45.319 --> 01:25:48.640
that's why you have to have a
very good relationship with your chauffeur, so

1208
01:25:48.800 --> 01:25:51.760
he could take care of the outside
team. You got to worry about the

1209
01:25:51.880 --> 01:25:56.359
inside team. And if you have
guys who like to drill, it takes

1210
01:25:56.399 --> 01:26:00.840
a little pressure off of them because
in the more busy places, you can't

1211
01:26:00.840 --> 01:26:03.640
get these guys to slow down from
drilling. They're drilling more than maybe you

1212
01:26:03.760 --> 01:26:09.680
want them to. But they're ready
to go. But guys like that Lieutenant

1213
01:26:09.760 --> 01:26:13.800
Hwai went out to be a chief
right away. Uh. Lieutenant Demano another

1214
01:26:13.920 --> 01:26:17.800
fantastic human being in two ninety one. He wants any company he works in

1215
01:26:17.880 --> 01:26:25.199
to be the absolute best, never
make a mistake. But the guys you

1216
01:26:25.279 --> 01:26:29.520
know, they're they're great. They're
great guys and accepted me there and I

1217
01:26:29.760 --> 01:26:32.760
could only try to do what I
wanted to do and make friends with them

1218
01:26:32.840 --> 01:26:39.079
in lifelong friends too. John Sicatella
another great dude. Man, do anything

1219
01:26:39.159 --> 01:26:42.119
for you anytime you need something,
drop of a hat, he's there.

1220
01:26:42.800 --> 01:26:45.399
Uh. You got guys like Charlie
Young guys, Charlie Kump, Ryan Zaccaro,

1221
01:26:46.479 --> 01:26:50.880
guys like Chris Cronus, Steve Della
Rosa. We all taken test to

1222
01:26:50.920 --> 01:26:55.840
be lieutenants. They're they're great.
I got Frank Munch, Josh Lassman,

1223
01:26:56.319 --> 01:27:00.960
Jooe Browne, another guy that would
just give you his kidney if you need

1224
01:27:01.039 --> 01:27:04.600
it, he give it to you. It did, and I find that

1225
01:27:04.760 --> 01:27:09.399
anywhere in the job. He got
Lieutenant Fields right there. Here's a guy

1226
01:27:09.439 --> 01:27:12.399
who passed through. He ended up
going to one sixteen. He was a

1227
01:27:12.520 --> 01:27:16.079
forty truck guy who used to talk
about working in Harlem and how you know

1228
01:27:17.000 --> 01:27:23.640
twenty six and fourteen eek with forty
you know all those little jokes and Chris

1229
01:27:23.800 --> 01:27:26.439
Fields man, this guy will call
up and say, hey, man,

1230
01:27:26.479 --> 01:27:29.159
I was thinking to you, you
know, how's it going. How's retirement

1231
01:27:29.199 --> 01:27:33.760
going? And retirement's great at times
other times not so great. I mean

1232
01:27:34.319 --> 01:27:38.000
you have the freedom and something's coming
up. I went there like when you

1233
01:27:38.039 --> 01:27:40.640
go to Ranger game game seven,
all of a sudden you buy a ticket

1234
01:27:40.760 --> 01:27:43.560
that day. It's not I got
to work tomorrow. Who can I get

1235
01:27:43.600 --> 01:27:45.920
to work for me? You just
go because you retired? Yeah, they

1236
01:27:48.039 --> 01:27:53.840
no, no, no, And
uh drove all the way back home to

1237
01:27:53.960 --> 01:27:57.800
Pennsylvania from Jersey from the game seven. I'm like, I wish I was

1238
01:27:57.800 --> 01:28:00.520
going to the firehouse. I just
wasted time and money and now I'm driving

1239
01:28:00.560 --> 01:28:04.000
all I wish I was going to
five ass. So those are the guys

1240
01:28:04.079 --> 01:28:08.319
that, uh, you know,
and and not to forget, we lost

1241
01:28:08.359 --> 01:28:11.800
Lieutenant Corrigan. He was a guy
passing through two ninety one last year.

1242
01:28:13.640 --> 01:28:16.439
Just uh you heard all the stories
about the guys from thirty eight and fifty

1243
01:28:16.479 --> 01:28:20.880
one that would talk about him,
and uh, I wish I got to

1244
01:28:21.359 --> 01:28:25.399
work with him much longer. You
know. He it was he passed the

1245
01:28:25.479 --> 01:28:28.640
Captain's test. I think it was
number seventy six on the list all he

1246
01:28:28.680 --> 01:28:32.119
wanted to do was be a captain
and life was short for him, and

1247
01:28:32.359 --> 01:28:38.520
I'm sorry for him and his family. Um, so I guess I'm open

1248
01:28:38.600 --> 01:28:44.439
now he could start taking shots at
me. I don't know. It was

1249
01:28:44.840 --> 01:28:46.600
when you work with coons, right, Yeah. They started to make me

1250
01:28:46.800 --> 01:28:51.720
fit into Steve Delaros's shirt because Steve
was kind of a small guy, very

1251
01:28:51.800 --> 01:28:56.399
thin obviously, and uh, I
had to try to measure up to him.

1252
01:28:56.439 --> 01:28:59.319
So I had to go down on
my knees and put my shoes on

1253
01:28:59.399 --> 01:29:01.680
him and he and uh, guys
are having fun. Man. There's Chris

1254
01:29:01.800 --> 01:29:05.640
Cronus on the left and Steve Kolbick
on the right. Steve Kolbick is probably

1255
01:29:05.720 --> 01:29:10.399
one of the most talented guys I've
ever met. With his hands, he

1256
01:29:10.479 --> 01:29:15.359
could make anything, he could weld
anything. He gives himself tattoos. I

1257
01:29:15.359 --> 01:29:18.079
don't know how you do that,
but the guy is incredibly talented. Yeah,

1258
01:29:18.399 --> 01:29:23.520
very much. So that's how's my
boy? How is my boy doing

1259
01:29:23.560 --> 01:29:28.000
over there? Danny's doing fantastic,
Yes, Danny, Danny, I think

1260
01:29:28.079 --> 01:29:30.720
like to sixteen for the year that
he was there. Of course, I

1261
01:29:30.800 --> 01:29:36.079
had my best friend Jeff Miller look
out for him and uh he Danny.

1262
01:29:36.239 --> 01:29:43.920
Danny's a good good uh addition to
the crew. He really is. Mikey

1263
01:29:44.119 --> 01:29:47.640
was into eighty year already, but
I got the pleasure of getting a little

1264
01:29:47.680 --> 01:29:51.880
friendly with him and we retired around
the same time. We went to his

1265
01:29:53.039 --> 01:29:58.119
party at O'Neill's. All the good
stuff. But as far as the firehouse,

1266
01:29:58.199 --> 01:30:00.399
I remember some of the senior guys
in two ninety one, like Bill

1267
01:30:00.479 --> 01:30:05.560
Barry and those guys were telling me
guy was a superb fireman. Superb.

1268
01:30:06.920 --> 01:30:12.439
Yeah. I recruited him. Yeah, and you know I was. I

1269
01:30:12.560 --> 01:30:15.479
busted his shoes for a long time, broke he would, yeah and uh

1270
01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:19.439
yeah. So it was a good
time. I mean, very very nice,

1271
01:30:19.640 --> 01:30:25.920
nice person. That's a nice was
the firehouse man. Yeah, your

1272
01:30:26.000 --> 01:30:29.600
parties there, Christmas parties, but
yeah, Christmas parties a lot of the

1273
01:30:29.680 --> 01:30:32.479
first firehouse I ever went into him
when me and Kevin went to go see

1274
01:30:32.520 --> 01:30:39.159
his father. I'll give you.
I'll give you. Louis. You talk

1275
01:30:39.199 --> 01:30:43.039
about you talk about how how small
the fire department is in places you go,

1276
01:30:43.279 --> 01:30:47.119
like I mentioned before, Uh,
you had Nel's Jourgensen on yeah this

1277
01:30:47.279 --> 01:30:53.439
podcast, Nice Man one twelve,
Happy Go Lucky, we're talking. He

1278
01:30:53.560 --> 01:30:57.720
comes to one seventy four one day
and I'm driving him with talkings. Oh,

1279
01:30:57.800 --> 01:30:59.600
your father was on the job,
he says, yeah, but father

1280
01:30:59.680 --> 01:31:04.920
with him seventy two. Say how
old you? He told me how old

1281
01:31:04.960 --> 01:31:08.800
he was? It said, my
father worked in three thirty. I said,

1282
01:31:08.800 --> 01:31:13.399
do you remember the Christmas parties?
Yeah? Me and him with the

1283
01:31:13.479 --> 01:31:16.279
same Christmas parties. Oh my god, we're like five, six, seven

1284
01:31:16.359 --> 01:31:23.119
years old. And here I am
driving him thirty years later. Has this

1285
01:31:23.279 --> 01:31:28.039
happened? Crazy? Yeah, small
world everywhere you go, but if it

1286
01:31:28.079 --> 01:31:30.640
could happen to me, it does. And probably a segue you went to

1287
01:31:30.720 --> 01:31:35.199
some of your things you got there
that I should talk about, don't Well

1288
01:31:35.279 --> 01:31:41.439
we have a picture of a car
that guy I was waiting to bring that

1289
01:31:41.520 --> 01:31:47.920
bad boy. Yeah? Am I
talking too much? Okay? Yeah?

1290
01:31:51.000 --> 01:31:56.960
Okay, Well that is you know
the building where um kmart is on Metropolitan

1291
01:31:57.039 --> 01:32:03.319
Avenue. Oh, the big shopping
center that Metro mall d Yeah, and

1292
01:32:03.560 --> 01:32:10.159
where's the building a quarter of a
mile wide? Okay? Well, me

1293
01:32:10.239 --> 01:32:14.880
and my wife, I'm in my
my Pennsylvania house. We bought a house

1294
01:32:14.920 --> 01:32:18.039
in Pennsylvania and we were up there
and you know, getting out of the

1295
01:32:18.119 --> 01:32:23.239
city for a little while and are
here. It's got to snow really bad.

1296
01:32:23.479 --> 01:32:26.960
It's like a Wednesday. I'm working
Thursday night Friday. I said to

1297
01:32:27.079 --> 01:32:30.560
my wife, listen, I'm not
taking you back to the city because of

1298
01:32:30.640 --> 01:32:33.279
the snow. I'm having dinner with
you. I'm beating the snow because you

1299
01:32:33.399 --> 01:32:39.880
try driving on these highways. These
truckers do ninety five in the snow downhill

1300
01:32:40.359 --> 01:32:43.119
and I'm not getting killed on my
way to work. I want to get

1301
01:32:43.199 --> 01:32:46.039
to work. It's fun there.
So she says, Okay, I go.

1302
01:32:46.479 --> 01:32:48.680
She says, you gotta be careful
so that, honey, wo it'd

1303
01:32:48.680 --> 01:32:53.439
be fine. Well lo and behold. I go to the firehouse, spend

1304
01:32:53.479 --> 01:32:58.439
the night there. The morning comes
and say, hey, bru, they

1305
01:32:58.520 --> 01:33:02.039
want to need guys for overtime today. They said you could work today and

1306
01:33:02.439 --> 01:33:06.439
they'll hire somebody tomorrow. I said, you know, I had some things

1307
01:33:06.479 --> 01:33:10.239
that they got to the bank.
I got I gotta go to Kmart.

1308
01:33:10.279 --> 01:33:12.359
You gotta go to kmart. Yeah, I gotta go to Kmart. I

1309
01:33:12.359 --> 01:33:15.800
gotta get shoot, you know,
put dungarees for work and stuff. So

1310
01:33:15.920 --> 01:33:19.039
okay, forget that. They hired
somebody else. I go. They didn't

1311
01:33:19.039 --> 01:33:24.039
plow the street on match Pothanamian.
So I see the guard in with a

1312
01:33:24.479 --> 01:33:27.720
with a freight areas. He said, oh, you're the fireman. I

1313
01:33:27.840 --> 01:33:29.880
said yeah, I said, we
come here wrong time. I said,

1314
01:33:30.680 --> 01:33:31.960
they didn't plow the street, and
I just leave the car here. Yeah,

1315
01:33:32.079 --> 01:33:35.199
nobody's coming here anyway. You want
to talk there? Well, I

1316
01:33:35.319 --> 01:33:40.680
leave my jacket in the car.
I run the kmart. I opened the

1317
01:33:40.800 --> 01:33:44.279
door. I'm not even I didn't
even go in the building. The gates

1318
01:33:44.359 --> 01:33:47.159
three quarters down their closing because of
the stall. I come running back and

1319
01:33:47.239 --> 01:33:53.239
says, oh, firemen at the
Indian guy, firemen, your car you

1320
01:33:53.319 --> 01:33:58.399
got hit? I said, how
did my car get hit? There?

1321
01:33:58.479 --> 01:34:01.239
There's no cars, there's no truck. The guy hit your car. I

1322
01:34:01.399 --> 01:34:04.520
walk around the front of the car
Louis, and there's a guy laying on

1323
01:34:04.640 --> 01:34:12.319
the ground gurgling. Mark these guys. Wait, wait a minute. I'm

1324
01:34:12.359 --> 01:34:16.239
looking up and I see his assprint
on the overhang of where they parked the

1325
01:34:16.319 --> 01:34:20.159
trucks. This guy tried to kill
himself. He jumped off the roof.

1326
01:34:21.680 --> 01:34:26.880
He is ass hit them hit the
thing and he went forward. Now,

1327
01:34:27.199 --> 01:34:31.520
if my car was like three roof, he tried to play Peter Pan off

1328
01:34:31.560 --> 01:34:36.880
of the roof. All right,
I came straight down, hit it and

1329
01:34:38.159 --> 01:34:43.159
face plane it right into the back
of my car. Did you get it?

1330
01:34:43.439 --> 01:34:46.399
Start compressions? Did you start compressions
on him? I said to him,

1331
01:34:46.520 --> 01:34:49.399
wait, if I'm thinking, if
my car was up three feet,

1332
01:34:49.439 --> 01:34:53.560
this guy be dead. If my
car was back three feet, he would

1333
01:34:53.560 --> 01:34:55.720
have crushed the top. I would
have got a new car because the car

1334
01:34:55.800 --> 01:34:58.680
was only about a year old,
because he would have bent the posts alls.

1335
01:34:58.720 --> 01:35:00.560
They would have said thank you very
much much. Instead we find out

1336
01:35:00.640 --> 01:35:05.399
he at HIV. His face went
through my tailgate, and all State wants

1337
01:35:05.399 --> 01:35:10.159
to fix my tailgate and shample my
carpet. Call of the day. So

1338
01:35:10.760 --> 01:35:15.920
now and then right every time I'm
driving the car, you got rattling from

1339
01:35:16.000 --> 01:35:21.520
the from the glass, I said
to the guy. Guys, I hear

1340
01:35:21.560 --> 01:35:25.119
to fire. I'm a fineman.
I worked down the block. Don't move,

1341
01:35:25.560 --> 01:35:27.239
so I don't I don't have a
call out. I don't know.

1342
01:35:27.279 --> 01:35:29.600
I don't want to touch him.
I don't want to just I don't know

1343
01:35:29.680 --> 01:35:31.399
how bad his injuries are. Don't
move. They're coming. You hear them,

1344
01:35:31.439 --> 01:35:35.560
They're coming. All of a sudden
two ninety one comes Richie Scott.

1345
01:35:36.039 --> 01:35:39.840
Great boss. He gets out,
Hey Greg, what happened to the guy?

1346
01:35:40.039 --> 01:35:45.079
They're thinking I stuff to help him
as a good samaritan, which I

1347
01:35:45.199 --> 01:35:48.000
am trying to help him. But
I said, I'm looking at You're gonna

1348
01:35:48.000 --> 01:35:51.239
be all right, man, Just
look at just call he just took it

1349
01:35:53.159 --> 01:35:56.880
off. Yeah, I'm not I
promise we're gonna take it. Look at

1350
01:35:56.920 --> 01:36:00.439
my car, like how particular.
And my wife just said be careful.

1351
01:36:00.560 --> 01:36:05.640
Right. So now my boys,
Greg, that's the Calac Yes, boss,

1352
01:36:05.680 --> 01:36:09.520
it's a Catillac. Yes, yes. So he writes it all down

1353
01:36:09.960 --> 01:36:12.640
and now the cops got the car
roped off because they got to wait to

1354
01:36:12.640 --> 01:36:15.199
see if this guy dies. Now
it's evidence, and I got no code

1355
01:36:15.239 --> 01:36:18.680
on. I'm standing out in the
snow. I'm like, holy crap,

1356
01:36:19.000 --> 01:36:23.800
this is not good. So lo
and behold. The guy had a note

1357
01:36:23.800 --> 01:36:27.159
in his pocket. It was supposed
to be in court for some type of

1358
01:36:27.279 --> 01:36:30.600
pedophile thing with the judge, and
he had aids and he was left the

1359
01:36:30.680 --> 01:36:34.800
note for his sister in his pocket. And my car broke his fall and

1360
01:36:34.920 --> 01:36:40.000
the guy broke two ribs and lived. And I got a new tailgate and

1361
01:36:40.279 --> 01:36:44.640
a sham lived. He lived,
he left Stepd Kevin. Yes, he

1362
01:36:44.720 --> 01:36:47.119
did see that rattle. Isn't a
glass? Those are his teeth somewhere around

1363
01:36:47.199 --> 01:36:54.359
probably, I'm like what. I
called my wife and said, hunt.

1364
01:36:54.680 --> 01:36:56.640
He said, you had an accident. I said, no, no,

1365
01:36:56.800 --> 01:36:59.760
I didn't have an accident. What
was the matter? He said, there

1366
01:36:59.800 --> 01:37:01.720
was a guy to play. Peter
Paney jumped up what. She hung up

1367
01:37:01.760 --> 01:37:06.039
the phone. She hung up on
me. A couple of minutes later,

1368
01:37:06.119 --> 01:37:09.039
she cloes back and said, Greg, tell me what really happened. I

1369
01:37:09.079 --> 01:37:11.880
said, I'm sending you a picture
of the car. I sent their picture

1370
01:37:11.920 --> 01:37:15.159
of the car. I said,
that's where the guy's face went through in

1371
01:37:15.279 --> 01:37:17.600
the front. So that was something
else that happened. If it could only

1372
01:37:17.640 --> 01:37:20.640
happen to me, it happened.
So what are the pictures we got there?

1373
01:37:20.720 --> 01:37:23.760
Gonza? We have anymore? We
had a lot of good one to

1374
01:37:23.800 --> 01:37:26.399
hear a little story here for this
guy right here if you want, oh

1375
01:37:26.520 --> 01:37:30.720
yeah, okay, um that is
I could tell you the guys that are.

1376
01:37:30.800 --> 01:37:32.640
But that was the job we had. The good fellows, Dina right

1377
01:37:32.680 --> 01:37:39.680
on the corners, yea, yeah, yeah, yeah. That boss Gregg

1378
01:37:39.880 --> 01:37:45.640
came from one thirteen and he's Engine
Boston two eighty seven. Right now on

1379
01:37:45.760 --> 01:37:49.119
the left is George you lad and
myself. In the middle is my man

1380
01:37:49.239 --> 01:37:54.119
Steven Delarosa. That I put his
shirt on. You could see the little

1381
01:37:54.159 --> 01:37:59.199
difference in size. And you got
John Sick Charlie Kump right there, who's

1382
01:38:00.000 --> 01:38:02.279
had a good career ahead of him. I definitely he's going place as that

1383
01:38:02.399 --> 01:38:06.840
guy. And there's my good man
John Ticatella. Guy do anything for you

1384
01:38:09.279 --> 01:38:18.319
guys who go far back to do
it good. So I have a couple

1385
01:38:18.439 --> 01:38:24.359
here, or do you. We
had a few minutes before the day.

1386
01:38:24.880 --> 01:38:30.079
Yeah, that was That was a
job in Cannossy we had and uh we

1387
01:38:30.199 --> 01:38:33.600
were to a SECONDU and you know
by time anybody needed to come help us,

1388
01:38:33.680 --> 01:38:36.560
it was out. We did it. Everybody did their job, uh,

1389
01:38:36.760 --> 01:38:41.359
just clearing the place out and it
happened. Happened to get a picture

1390
01:38:41.399 --> 01:38:45.920
of me. Uh didn't smile for
the camera, nothing but just the way.

1391
01:38:45.920 --> 01:38:50.560
Yeah, yeah, I was doing
it. But uh I didn't get

1392
01:38:50.640 --> 01:38:55.680
to give you a picture because it's
on YouTube. But it's it's a Probably

1393
01:38:55.720 --> 01:39:00.159
the best fire I ever went to
was on It was with Chief Richardson and

1394
01:39:00.319 --> 01:39:01.920
every single time I see him.
He doesn't know me by name, but

1395
01:39:02.000 --> 01:39:05.279
he looks at me and I look
at him and I say Kingston and Carroll,

1396
01:39:05.720 --> 01:39:09.880
and he's like, uh huh,
Kingston and Carroll. It was on

1397
01:39:10.000 --> 01:39:15.640
a down a downgrade street and I
don't know what happened. Sometime in like

1398
01:39:15.800 --> 01:39:19.800
June, so a guy had an
argument with somebody and they tried to burn

1399
01:39:19.920 --> 01:39:24.720
him out and burnt his apartment.
The guy fixed the apartment up. The

1400
01:39:24.840 --> 01:39:29.640
day he moved in was labor Day
weekend, and we were in two eighty

1401
01:39:29.680 --> 01:39:31.760
three at the time, and the
box comes over and they hear it and

1402
01:39:32.640 --> 01:39:35.079
they're asking for an extra engine and
truck and bull him. They bang a

1403
01:39:35.159 --> 01:39:41.039
second and we're flying down. We
get we get there right away and fire.

1404
01:39:41.279 --> 01:39:44.239
If you look at him, punch
it in on YouTube, it's fourth

1405
01:39:44.279 --> 01:39:48.159
a long Kingston and Carrol. I
think it was twenty twelve, and I

1406
01:39:48.279 --> 01:39:54.319
remember being on the stairs with Chief
Richardson and this guy was just talking like

1407
01:39:54.479 --> 01:39:58.399
he I'm talking to you nothing,
yeah, three eight yeah, yeah.

1408
01:39:58.439 --> 01:40:02.239
We got heavy fire. Yeah,
Like I'm hunked down And all of a

1409
01:40:02.319 --> 01:40:08.000
sudden, one side was vacant and
the other side was occupied and it burned

1410
01:40:08.039 --> 01:40:11.039
through the door. Louis, I'm
telling you, like you would see in

1411
01:40:11.079 --> 01:40:14.920
the smoke house. You see the
fire guy like this went right over us,

1412
01:40:15.680 --> 01:40:17.439
right into that apartment. And he
looked at me while he was talking.

1413
01:40:17.479 --> 01:40:21.399
He stopped on the mic. He
said, did you see that just

1414
01:40:21.640 --> 01:40:26.920
like that? Did you see it? Yeah? And or afterwards he told

1415
01:40:26.960 --> 01:40:30.920
me like that was probably one of
the only jobs that went to that many

1416
01:40:30.000 --> 01:40:36.199
alarms that was never like an outside
operation. Yeah, did he write that?

1417
01:40:36.479 --> 01:40:41.239
I mean that was that was?
That was like one of those that

1418
01:40:41.319 --> 01:40:44.199
you say, was it on Labor
Day? It was on Labor Day,

1419
01:40:44.239 --> 01:40:48.359
was Sunday night going into Monday.
Yeah, you got it. And there

1420
01:40:48.439 --> 01:40:53.680
were guys on the fire escape.
There were guys from truck companies trying to

1421
01:40:53.760 --> 01:41:00.159
bang on. Yeah, Kevin,
it was if you could say, you

1422
01:41:00.239 --> 01:41:04.399
got your ass kick, definitely when
it was all over, you did it

1423
01:41:04.560 --> 01:41:10.399
was? It was? It was
something. So that was really that was

1424
01:41:10.479 --> 01:41:13.560
one of my better ones. Pretty
funny. Did you see that? Well?

1425
01:41:13.600 --> 01:41:15.960
Else we got guns eponymous all right, so we have a I don't

1426
01:41:15.960 --> 01:41:17.960
know he wanted he took me a
little bit about this earlier. I want

1427
01:41:17.960 --> 01:41:20.159
to see if he wants to touch
on your dad's story with the badge.

1428
01:41:20.640 --> 01:41:26.239
Yeah, yeah, okay, um, tremendous amount of respect from a tremendous

1429
01:41:26.239 --> 01:41:32.239
amount of respect for my old man. He uh always looked into my well

1430
01:41:32.279 --> 01:41:35.439
being, of course, teaching me. Wanted me to learn from the best.

1431
01:41:35.920 --> 01:41:41.840
And he called up the badge desk
to see if his badge was available

1432
01:41:41.880 --> 01:41:44.319
when I was ready to get out
of probi school. And sure enough,

1433
01:41:44.359 --> 01:41:46.159
it was only like three and a
half to four years from when he retired

1434
01:41:46.520 --> 01:41:49.159
to when I got hired, and
they said, yeah, you know,

1435
01:41:49.359 --> 01:41:53.239
mister Bruno's available. He said,
like my son to have it. So

1436
01:41:53.399 --> 01:41:58.640
that badge was actually in my family
probably for more than more than sixty years,

1437
01:41:58.680 --> 01:42:01.840
so close to sixty years, and
lucky enough to have my father still

1438
01:42:01.920 --> 01:42:06.239
here. I said, it's no
brainer. I got to get him back

1439
01:42:06.279 --> 01:42:10.880
his badge. You know. I
got mine on my cap. And I

1440
01:42:11.079 --> 01:42:15.079
was last Thanksgiving after dinner at my
brother's house. I said, hey,

1441
01:42:15.159 --> 01:42:18.560
Pop, you know, he congratulated
me on my retirement, and I said,

1442
01:42:19.039 --> 01:42:23.760
I told my nieces and nephew of
my whole story about the scanner and

1443
01:42:23.840 --> 01:42:27.600
not having the money for the church, the whole bit. And I said,

1444
01:42:27.680 --> 01:42:30.439
Dad, look you know I have
something for you. Please open this,

1445
01:42:30.560 --> 01:42:31.000
you know, and I want you
to have it. I hope,

1446
01:42:31.039 --> 01:42:34.800
I hope you have it for a
hundred years and someday it'll come back to

1447
01:42:34.920 --> 01:42:39.399
me. But I think you deserve
this. This is yours. And he

1448
01:42:39.600 --> 01:42:43.359
was he was touched. You know. It was something that I felt I

1449
01:42:43.399 --> 01:42:45.720
can get back to him. It
was great. I protected it. I

1450
01:42:45.359 --> 01:42:51.439
never lost it, and uh,
I never got I bought the badges when

1451
01:42:51.479 --> 01:42:58.319
I retired, and like I said, I gave him back his original and

1452
01:42:58.399 --> 01:43:00.439
it's the old style, like the
real over with the block letters and so

1453
01:43:00.680 --> 01:43:04.239
like the Budweiser kin. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So

1454
01:43:04.359 --> 01:43:08.000
it was nice. It was a
it was a good thing. I felt

1455
01:43:08.000 --> 01:43:14.119
good about doing it. Yeah.
My father gave my brother his badge and

1456
01:43:14.239 --> 01:43:18.800
they really when my brother passed away, my brother Steve bought it. So

1457
01:43:19.079 --> 01:43:25.000
we really have it since nineteen sixty
fantastic. Yeah, good stuff, family

1458
01:43:25.039 --> 01:43:28.279
stuff. Yeah yeah, really,
Gods, it was a time for the

1459
01:43:28.319 --> 01:43:30.560
old school tip. But we can
we can sneak one more in their short

1460
01:43:30.600 --> 01:43:34.680
little one and then we could do
the right right continuing with his dad and

1461
01:43:34.720 --> 01:43:39.920
we goes a little history. Oh
that's a good picture. Yeah, lowie.

1462
01:43:40.079 --> 01:43:43.079
I was in the firehouse. We
had a job one forty one night,

1463
01:43:43.640 --> 01:43:45.359
and uh, I came back,
showered up, and I'm on the

1464
01:43:45.479 --> 01:43:49.760
upstairs computer and I'm I had like
Instagram pictures or whatever, and I'm looking

1465
01:43:49.800 --> 01:43:55.199
and it says Brooklyn second alarm,
like nineteen seventy four. And I'm thinking,

1466
01:43:55.680 --> 01:43:58.479
wait, he didn't get he didn't
get laid off till seventy five.

1467
01:43:59.039 --> 01:44:03.520
And I'm looking and guy buckling his
jacket is the guy straight straight ahead,

1468
01:44:03.720 --> 01:44:09.640
straight ahead, his helmet on the
car, his buckling. You see how

1469
01:44:09.680 --> 01:44:13.359
big the Scott packs were and all
that way. And I'm saying, that's

1470
01:44:13.439 --> 01:44:16.000
him. And the only way would
have been better if the helmet was turned

1471
01:44:16.039 --> 01:44:19.279
over you would have seen the Bedge
number obviously on the front. And I

1472
01:44:19.399 --> 01:44:23.439
said, all right, I got
a Father's Day gift. I got that

1473
01:44:23.560 --> 01:44:25.800
and I blew it up and I
brought it to him. It's like,

1474
01:44:25.920 --> 01:44:28.399
where the hell did you get this? And I said he remember the job?

1475
01:44:28.479 --> 01:44:30.359
He remember? Yes, he does, he actually does. He told

1476
01:44:30.359 --> 01:44:34.560
me the names of all the people
that were y too. Yeah, what

1477
01:44:34.800 --> 01:44:42.960
is that? What is that?
Idea? Helmets are actually yellow? That

1478
01:44:43.079 --> 01:44:46.119
looks like it doesn't look like it
looks yellow. There were helmets, auxiliary

1479
01:44:46.159 --> 01:44:49.279
guys that would come in and it
would you know, that was all the

1480
01:44:49.800 --> 01:44:53.600
you know back in the day,
you know, leather helmets, the whole

1481
01:44:53.680 --> 01:45:00.520
bit. Yeah. Look how big
that thing is, like a jet post.

1482
01:45:00.640 --> 01:45:02.079
I'm using that picture tomorrow on Instagram. It's like a jet ski.

1483
01:45:03.359 --> 01:45:09.039
Where was it? Where was that
picture from? Brigg? I think it

1484
01:45:09.199 --> 01:45:14.560
was Ocean Avenue or Ocean Parkway in
Brooklyn. I think it was somewhere.

1485
01:45:14.720 --> 01:45:18.439
I think it said nineteen seventy four. If I remember the burrow of Via

1486
01:45:18.560 --> 01:45:26.000
Fuego, we might have a shirt
that says that. Yeah, I'll sure

1487
01:45:26.079 --> 01:45:29.720
I'm sending him all right. I
think it's that time. You know what

1488
01:45:29.840 --> 01:45:32.000
time it is, It's time for
Are you ready? R I'm ready?

1489
01:45:32.119 --> 01:45:44.640
Nay hold on him four the old
of the Day, Day day away,

1490
01:45:45.520 --> 01:45:50.600
Okay. I I put a little
um emphasis on what I was gonna say,

1491
01:45:50.640 --> 01:45:54.000
and I didn't want it to go
too long. And first, like

1492
01:45:54.119 --> 01:45:57.800
I said, apologize to anybody in
case it might have forgot all the wonderful

1493
01:45:57.880 --> 01:46:03.720
people who have helped me enjoy my
career as much as I did. You

1494
01:46:03.800 --> 01:46:06.680
know, I always put a lot
of things to say that we are all

1495
01:46:06.880 --> 01:46:12.880
very privileged in being a New York
City fire fighter and being able to serve

1496
01:46:12.960 --> 01:46:16.359
the public. It's really important,
as if I always felt it was,

1497
01:46:16.840 --> 01:46:20.199
the call was going out to your
own family member, and you got to

1498
01:46:20.239 --> 01:46:25.800
do what you can to get there
safely. You have to, especially when

1499
01:46:25.840 --> 01:46:29.279
you're driving, ensure the safety the
guys that you love that you're working with,

1500
01:46:30.520 --> 01:46:33.560
and be able to get to where
you're going in a timely fashion.

1501
01:46:35.319 --> 01:46:39.760
As far as a guy, you
know, being a chauffeur tremendous amount of

1502
01:46:39.840 --> 01:46:44.520
responsibility. You have everybody's life in
your hands. You want to get to

1503
01:46:44.600 --> 01:46:48.720
where you're going safely. You want
to get there quickly. Your positioning of

1504
01:46:49.319 --> 01:46:55.760
how you put your apparatus is obviously
could be the difference of life and death.

1505
01:46:56.199 --> 01:46:58.359
You want to get your roof guy
up there as soon as you can,

1506
01:46:58.520 --> 01:47:01.960
and you want to have a good
report with your bosses so that they

1507
01:47:02.039 --> 01:47:05.720
have the confidence in you that you're
taking care of two of the guys that

1508
01:47:05.800 --> 01:47:09.359
they don't have to worry about,
and if they need something, you're going

1509
01:47:09.399 --> 01:47:13.479
to be there. Um. It
really goes a long way. UM.

1510
01:47:13.960 --> 01:47:17.279
So that's one thing. Another thing
is like when you're just the receipt of

1511
01:47:17.319 --> 01:47:20.880
your ticket. You know, I
always felt it was good. Guys want

1512
01:47:20.960 --> 01:47:24.159
you to get there. They want
you to beat the guy in and want

1513
01:47:24.199 --> 01:47:27.000
to get piece of the work.
Get out there and start the rig.

1514
01:47:27.479 --> 01:47:32.279
You know everything's gonna boot up.
Sid's information things on the MDT. If

1515
01:47:32.399 --> 01:47:35.560
more information is coming over the radio
as you're getting in the rig. The

1516
01:47:35.680 --> 01:47:40.279
guys think you're leaving without them that
rig is started. They're like, I

1517
01:47:40.399 --> 01:47:43.920
gotta get going. He's gonna leave
me, which we wouldn't do. But

1518
01:47:44.159 --> 01:47:46.560
you want to get them. You
know, in a in a good thinking

1519
01:47:46.640 --> 01:47:49.600
mind that you got to get on
the rig and go and get out the

1520
01:47:49.680 --> 01:47:54.199
door. So I that to me
is important. And for guys are a

1521
01:47:54.359 --> 01:47:58.279
drive and if you're in a in
a place where it's always it's really important

1522
01:47:58.279 --> 01:48:01.840
to get there quickly. But if
you use your head and think about what

1523
01:48:02.119 --> 01:48:06.680
guy Gary Not told me. You
look going down on a two way street,

1524
01:48:06.760 --> 01:48:10.840
you look up ahead and that light
is red, you can get there

1525
01:48:10.960 --> 01:48:13.359
quick. But then you're gonna have
to jam on your brakes and start up

1526
01:48:13.399 --> 01:48:15.079
all over again when it turns green, or you proceed through the red.

1527
01:48:15.680 --> 01:48:19.159
If you maybe keep the momentum going
and take your foot up a little bit.

1528
01:48:19.479 --> 01:48:23.439
It may give you enough time for
that light to turn yellow to red

1529
01:48:23.880 --> 01:48:27.680
and green for you, and you're
gonna keep going. And as much as

1530
01:48:27.720 --> 01:48:30.159
we say, you can't make up
time on the road because you can only

1531
01:48:30.239 --> 01:48:34.960
drive so fast. If you eliminate
the amount of times you got to come

1532
01:48:35.039 --> 01:48:39.199
to a complete stop and then start
up again, you may pick up a

1533
01:48:39.279 --> 01:48:43.000
couple of seconds, and that may
be the difference of somebody. So that

1534
01:48:43.039 --> 01:48:46.479
would be the only tip that I
have, and I appreciate you guys having

1535
01:48:46.520 --> 01:48:53.079
me on and please brothers. As
my buddy Lenny would always say, always

1536
01:48:53.199 --> 01:48:57.680
right safe, dude. That was
a great Like that a lot, bro.

1537
01:48:58.279 --> 01:49:00.800
I bet you somebody's going to be
using that because that is true,

1538
01:49:00.199 --> 01:49:04.000
right, It really is true.
Why you got a race to the light,

1539
01:49:04.119 --> 01:49:09.680
go through the stops and slow down
a little bit. And you know

1540
01:49:09.800 --> 01:49:13.760
what, being a great, being
a good chauffeur, there are times when

1541
01:49:13.800 --> 01:49:15.840
the brothers need you. You have
to drive that thing as fast as you

1542
01:49:15.960 --> 01:49:19.319
possibly can, but you have to
do it in a safely manner. And

1543
01:49:20.159 --> 01:49:26.319
you may pick up three times or
four times in that stretch where coming to

1544
01:49:26.399 --> 01:49:29.800
a stop make take your ten seconds
to start up again. You just say

1545
01:49:29.920 --> 01:49:34.000
forty seconds. Yeah, so yeah, I got another question, man,

1546
01:49:34.079 --> 01:49:42.159
how do you keep that hassled?
Kevin starting to go, starting to go.

1547
01:49:43.039 --> 01:49:45.479
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1557
01:50:30.840 --> 01:50:34.399
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1558
01:50:35.159 --> 01:50:44.399
swinging a miss East. There's a
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1559
01:50:44.520 --> 01:50:49.079
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1560
01:50:49.279 --> 01:50:54.319
dragons hooks. He's still muted?
Is he still muted? Thank god?

1561
01:50:54.720 --> 01:50:57.640
All right? So then wallet,
he's still muted. You might as well

1562
01:50:57.800 --> 01:51:01.359
good, You might as well play
often safety tip of the day, and

1563
01:51:01.560 --> 01:51:04.479
that is going to be by people
at first responding. And let me get

1564
01:51:04.520 --> 01:51:09.800
to it. You're gonna buy a
computer, more money, more money,

1565
01:51:09.880 --> 01:51:15.039
more money. That's when it comes
down to what exactly. The First Responders

1566
01:51:15.039 --> 01:51:19.000
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1567
01:51:19.079 --> 01:51:24.800
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1568
01:51:24.960 --> 01:51:29.680
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safety, and well being of firefighters,

1569
01:51:29.760 --> 01:51:32.399
EMS, personnel, and other first
responders too. They are an affiliate of

1570
01:51:32.479 --> 01:51:41.199
the National Falling Firefighter Foundation. The
Old school health and safety tipt for this

1571
01:51:41.319 --> 01:51:45.359
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lives. Make an annual medical appointment today.

1572
01:51:45.720 --> 01:51:48.119
Amen to that, bro, I
just got mine the mail today.

1573
01:51:49.000 --> 01:51:55.319
Early detection is key. You want
to be around for a long time,

1574
01:51:55.399 --> 01:52:00.319
guys. I want to have roughly
as my right hand asshole man the next

1575
01:52:00.479 --> 01:52:03.760
fifty years, right Broyes whole buddy
sh to do. We got shit to

1576
01:52:03.800 --> 01:52:05.960
do. It's Bruno. Maybe we
get the old man on what do you

1577
01:52:06.039 --> 01:52:11.079
think? I think it would be
great. He has h he's probably got

1578
01:52:11.399 --> 01:52:15.920
better stories than me. What war
time, war years. Let's uh,

1579
01:52:15.439 --> 01:52:18.119
let's let's try and get it going. See talked to him first if he's

1580
01:52:18.119 --> 01:52:21.560
interested, and then uh, give
me a tickle and we'll get it going.

1581
01:52:23.239 --> 01:52:27.680
It. I appreciate this guy's very
much. Hold on, woman,

1582
01:52:27.760 --> 01:52:30.680
I got three shot, Louis,
and I will be at the New York

1583
01:52:30.720 --> 01:52:36.399
State Chiefs June fourteenth through the seventeenth, one hundred and seventeenth Annual New York

1584
01:52:36.439 --> 01:52:42.279
State Chiefs. Come up and see
us in Syracuse. Maybe bias center on

1585
01:52:42.439 --> 01:52:46.800
the on center in Syracuse. My
next shout out goes to the lovely delicious

1586
01:52:47.000 --> 01:52:53.520
Missus Procuccini. It's her birthday,
Happy birthday, Missus Procuccini. Yummy.

1587
01:52:54.119 --> 01:52:58.279
Oh let me get this straight.
It's Procuccini's wife's birthday and he's on the

1588
01:52:58.560 --> 01:53:02.560
in the chat. Yeah okay,
I think on birthdays Sunday and Monday.

1589
01:53:03.439 --> 01:53:10.359
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and
one more uh. He was known as

1590
01:53:10.600 --> 01:53:16.640
Captain Stanley Mike Norrel on emergency passed
away May twelve. Uh, eighty five

1591
01:53:16.760 --> 01:53:25.039
years old. CON's wiz your there
you go, eighty five years old.

1592
01:53:25.239 --> 01:53:33.800
I'm available. That's all I got
himself. Where'd you get the empty cheat

1593
01:53:33.840 --> 01:53:47.199
thing? You? Buff? Greg
was like this, you know, I

1594
01:53:47.399 --> 01:53:50.960
remember that as a kid, waiting
to trying not to fall asleep. I

1595
01:53:51.079 --> 01:53:55.920
was so tired and I'd wait for
these guys go running down the canyon before

1596
01:53:55.960 --> 01:54:00.520
the explosions and he had a bomb. No. I was was into that.

1597
01:54:00.720 --> 01:54:06.199
Yeah, great book, great show, enjoy appreciate, enjoyed you coming

1598
01:54:06.239 --> 01:54:11.880
on fully. Yeah, thank you
very much, Dona and uh you know

1599
01:54:13.439 --> 01:54:16.039
right safe brothers. Yeah you have. Now you have an invite to the

1600
01:54:16.079 --> 01:54:20.359
annual boat ride on the fire Boat
because past number which is coming up by

1601
01:54:20.399 --> 01:54:24.720
the way, for all you pass
guests in the end, for the beginning

1602
01:54:24.760 --> 01:54:28.119
first week in August. I believe
we'll get more info out there. That's

1603
01:54:28.159 --> 01:54:30.000
it, all right, guys,
all right, weekend. I don't know

1604
01:54:30.000 --> 01:54:33.039
if we have a show on Monday, do we negative? No show?

1605
01:54:33.119 --> 01:54:38.000
Holiday? No show? Not available
for all the time. All right,

1606
01:54:38.119 --> 01:54:41.520
Gonzo play the close out, buddy, all right, it's ten four,

1607
01:54:41.600 --> 01:54:43.920
here we go. Well, thank
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1608
01:54:44.000 --> 01:54:46.640
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show. You could also find us
on social media if you so please.

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Of course, we're on Instagram,
where Lou posts great fd andy content from

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yesteryear. We're also on TikTok tank
them as Prime was on top of that,

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and we're also on LinkedIn to where
yours truly Mike mcbob Cologne is on

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top of things on that front.
Head on over to Getting Salty Apparel dot

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com. By the way, for
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accessories, there is a super chat
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of you for your support. You
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amount of your choosing during the program. After all, you guys, yes,

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you guys are our number one sponsors
Super thanks as well. If you

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missed the show live, you can
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wish to open up your wallet.
The super Thanks is basically a thank you

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after the fact for another great episode
of ours. The Facebook fan pages in

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existence too, now over sixty thou
strong and continuing to grow. It's not

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created by us to Getting Salty Experience, but it is nevertheless a great way

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to connect with firefighters from all over
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you want to advertise with the Getting
Salty Experience, send your information on over

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to Getting Salty Ads at gmail dot
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or have a guest suggestion, please
send them to Getting Salty Experience at gmail

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dot com with the necessary contact information. And finally, if you have content

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for anything else, please send them
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Of course, that's Kevin coobler secondary
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things like rig photos, firehouse kitchen
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tattoos, mustache photos and yes photos
for the unofficial Hotto Ladies contest that we

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may or may not be holding allegedly. Thanks once again for tuning in to

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the Getting Salty experience, and thank
you Patty Lee. It is my birthday

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in fact on Saturday. Thank you
for the birthday which double Nichols. Saturday's

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your birthday, so as Captain Florencos
as well. I'll rappy bard to the

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Captain Flurenco. Yes well, alright, alright guys, what you get brutal?

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Yeah, all right, guys,
we'll see you next Thursday. Until

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then, stay low and all everybody
will see it the big one. Thanks

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all, Greg