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Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, uh.
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Speaker 4: Big. Happy birthday to Big John Aity by the way,
Speaker 4: albnize is his birthday. Yes, what he said, he wants
Speaker 4: us to spend about two grand on a gift.
Speaker 5: Nice Happy birthday. Will uh Loony cooney Looney's in there.
Speaker 5: Everybody's in anybody who's anybody's in there.
Speaker 6: Made another year, Another year he.
Speaker 5: Did yins made another year. Yeah, absolutely did.
Speaker 4: Sorry, pro I forgot my wig. It's in the other room. Problem,
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Speaker 5: Anyway, we had a good time at Indian did you
Speaker 5: miss us? We had a good time. We drank our
Speaker 5: faces off. I was just talking to Gonzo Rough. I'm like,
Speaker 5: I think I was up for the last three days.
Speaker 5: I think I was going through like withdrawal or something.
Speaker 6: I don't know, gons I don't even know who that
Speaker 6: man is. You know what he did? No, he had dessert.
Speaker 4: Oh that's right, that's right. Holy did he have dessert?
Speaker 6: No? Not one night?
Speaker 4: No, we went to We did a noble.
Speaker 7: Sam with sugar.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 5: I sent them the picture. I had a giant cone
Speaker 5: about this big, a giant cone. The next day I
Speaker 5: sent them a picture like who am I? I don't
Speaker 5: even know who I am?
Speaker 7: And hold on, but he slept in two mornings.
Speaker 5: I didn't go to the gym two mornings. Correct, I'm like,
Speaker 5: what is going on here?
Speaker 6: I have no idea. What the hell that was about?
Speaker 3: Getting old? Get no?
Speaker 6: And then he sends me a picture. I was watching
Speaker 6: the Masters and he sends me a picture of a
Speaker 6: bowl of ice cream ice cream cone?
Speaker 5: Please, ice cream cone, pistachio.
Speaker 3: Oh was it good?
Speaker 5: You gotta live a little you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: You gotta live a little man. That's I've been working
Speaker 5: on a new name for Louis.
Speaker 4: Oh are you okay?
Speaker 5: I am, because the guy is just he's he's so
Speaker 5: good with investing in money. I gotta see, even when
Speaker 5: we're kids, everybody wanted to call this, what do you
Speaker 5: kind of car?
Speaker 3: You want?
Speaker 4: Roofie?
Speaker 5: IBM stock, That's what I want? And uh, I gonna
Speaker 5: buy a couple of four families and a buy this
Speaker 5: and that. So he's earned every penny.
Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 4: Name Rookie, that's right. Get those rookie numbers right.
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Speaker 4: Your and g s getting sold the experience that is.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. God, good for you for you,
Speaker 4: so it could redirect to me. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5: God is actually working all the time on Easter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I gotta, I gotta do you know, you gotta,
Speaker 4: you gotta, you gotta bring in the shirkeles when you can.
Speaker 5: Ma, don't worry. His wife is Jewish, you know what,
Speaker 5: it doesn't matter, right, I mean she killed us. Save
Speaker 5: you for crying out lout right, thank you for killing us.
Speaker 3: Save you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Thank God he rose from the dead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and tomorrow, actually I'll show you.
Speaker 5: Oh hey, I'll show you coming back. Listen, let's get
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Speaker 5: And thank you Christy and Paul Meiinberg for the super chats. Yes,
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Speaker 5: Welcome, he's got tony guys.
Speaker 3: Funny guys.
Speaker 5: I had a hair on it. It's a little gray,
Speaker 5: but he still hasn't. Man, it's great, yeah, but it's there.
Speaker 5: Better gray than a way, right, that's true. That's before
Speaker 5: we get too far. We got to get patriotic. So
Speaker 5: he gave me the look like it's like, here we go.
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Speaker 2: of America and to the Republic, for which it stands,
Speaker 2: One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Speaker 5: Hey man, brother, ay amen? All right, So Jim, let's
Speaker 5: go uh back in the time machine. Let's talk about
Speaker 5: the early days of the Finel family, growing up, where
Speaker 5: you grew up. We know why you became a fireman,
Speaker 5: but talk about you and your brother and mom and dad. Well,
Speaker 5: grew up at Howard Beach Queens back in the day.
Speaker 3: Me. Yeah, forget on the on the old Howard, old
Speaker 3: Howard man. Yeah. And I can remember back in the
Speaker 3: day my dad was in in a quarter in the
Speaker 3: original firehouse. What treet was out of that? I couldn't
Speaker 3: even tell you what the original firehouses. But we had
Speaker 3: the wooden sign at our at our house forever, the
Speaker 3: black wooden sign on it. Sh yeah, we had it forever.
Speaker 3: That was my dad back in the day. How do
Speaker 3: how do they come upon that?
Speaker 5: He was like, guys, look over there.
Speaker 3: Whoops. When they moved the no, when they moved the
Speaker 3: fire house, yeah, he moved over to what was it
Speaker 3: Lynden Boulevard. Yeah, yeah, So at old house they took
Speaker 3: it down and he brought it home and we had
Speaker 3: her hanging over the garage in our house.
Speaker 5: Awesome man.
Speaker 3: And then after he passed, I contacted a guy from
Speaker 3: two and a quarter. I didn't know Ronnie at the time,
Speaker 3: and I gave it back to the firehouse.
Speaker 4: They had it that now, you know, so.
Speaker 5: Lefting like a circle, yeah, big circle, lefting like a circle.
Speaker 5: So dad was into twenty five. You had a brother
Speaker 5: older and younger, my brother's younger. Uh huh, you kicked
Speaker 5: the snot out of him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, him in the head with his shovel. He got
Speaker 3: a couple of stitches. When we kid it happens, you know,
Speaker 3: it was an accident.
Speaker 7: Hey, Jimmy, how much time did your father do?
Speaker 3: H He was on for a while.
Speaker 4: I I was.
Speaker 3: I got on the job. He was still working, and
Speaker 3: then he went on light duty. So I was bringing
Speaker 3: his check homes over twenty you know, maybe twenty maybe
Speaker 3: a little bit better than twenty.
Speaker 7: Five this whole time there in two and a quarter,
Speaker 7: he was at two and a quarter.
Speaker 3: They got promoted lieutenant and he went out to two
Speaker 3: seventy three and Queen's They worked two seventy three. Wow.
Speaker 5: And then that was probably before the Asian invasion.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, wait before that. And then my brother
Speaker 3: got I had a proby school. My brother got assigned
Speaker 3: to the house. My dad was already gone and retired,
Speaker 3: and he got there.
Speaker 5: He got there because somebody put him there, or he
Speaker 5: got there because no.
Speaker 3: My father knew a lot of guys, you know, he
Speaker 3: knew uh South sand Sol and Joe Ebert, like these
Speaker 3: chiefs and staff chiefs and everything else. So you know, chargers,
Speaker 3: he had a hook.
Speaker 5: He got there, you know, all right, so he went
Speaker 5: to the engine of the truck.
Speaker 3: He went to the engine. But then that whole house
Speaker 3: there was a whole shake up, you know, whether you
Speaker 3: were involved or not, the whole em S thing. Oh right,
Speaker 3: everybody got lifted that that happened. Yeah, my brother was
Speaker 3: there when that happened. So he got sent where he
Speaker 3: would Well, first they they said, like wherever you want
Speaker 3: to go. And then Union it's like any place, but
Speaker 3: those places places to places. Yeah yeah, yeah, so he's like,
Speaker 3: you know what, he had some time on everything else.
Speaker 3: He's so, you know, I'm going to one sixty four
Speaker 3: and I'll ride it out till every.
Speaker 7: Retire and that's it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: Those are the pink it's full of on right.
Speaker 3: In Douglas. Oh oh, the bird Actuary, the cemetery right
Speaker 3: across the street. Yeah, across the street too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then uh, my nephew's there now. Actually he's in
Speaker 3: the truck over there one twenty nine. Yeah, my nephews
Speaker 3: that I'm holding my nephew right there.
Speaker 4: What he what he did look like Wow.
Speaker 7: When I was a kid, Wow, I was like I was.
Speaker 3: Twenty seven man, no tattoos, no bikes. Did you always
Speaker 3: know you wanted to get on the job from your
Speaker 3: dad or you know what? Like back in the day,
Speaker 3: I was like just working odd jobs. I worked for
Speaker 3: the town of Smithtown. I bought some tow trucks. I
Speaker 3: was driving tow trucks. I took the seventy seven test
Speaker 3: kind of like only half into it, and then I
Speaker 3: got tired of doing all that other stuff and I'm like,
Speaker 3: soon as the test comes out again, I'm putting the
Speaker 3: time in. So I you know, I studied, I worked out,
Speaker 3: you know, with a bunch of guys in town here
Speaker 3: the local volleyhouse.
Speaker 6: We built the whole.
Speaker 3: Setup for the physical the four foot wall, eighth of wall,
Speaker 3: everything right, and most all of us that took that
Speaker 3: test got on.
Speaker 4: Do you remember the components of the test, because I
Speaker 4: know they changed it significantly from yeah, yeah with the mall.
Speaker 3: You had to hit the tie off the wall the
Speaker 3: eighth foot wall. Then you had to do the leg walk,
Speaker 3: got to run. You know, it's pretty tough, you know,
Speaker 3: But then I got like a ninety nine overall. But
Speaker 3: then the women fought it, so really it get held
Speaker 3: up in court like seven years. Wow, I would have
Speaker 3: been on a twenty. I got on twenty seven, right,
Speaker 3: So it took me. I did get almost the same
Speaker 3: thing as you. I was.
Speaker 5: I didn't really take it seriously at first, and I
Speaker 5: didn't get on with me and Louis took it together.
Speaker 5: He got on and the next time I was like,
Speaker 5: I'm not wasting any time I'm doing. I trained my
Speaker 5: ass off and I was in the first of that list.
Speaker 3: You know. I saw like Richie Eula, Tommy McCarry, the
Speaker 3: old guys in my town. The first test with those guys,
Speaker 3: those guys were already on is and they were loving it.
Speaker 3: So I was like, I gotta study, I gotta I
Speaker 3: gotta do this, I gotta work out and.
Speaker 4: Just do it.
Speaker 3: And you did it and I did it.
Speaker 5: You can do anything you want. That's the guy to
Speaker 5: try to get on Yula. You ever try to reach out.
Speaker 3: To him room.
Speaker 6: I did try to get him.
Speaker 7: He watches the show, but we might be able to
Speaker 7: get him down the road.
Speaker 6: I think he had some some help.
Speaker 3: Stuff for Yeah, I think Richie's got a little health
Speaker 3: things going on, all right. Well, Richie's a good guy,
Speaker 3: because I would run into him down and he would
Speaker 3: go down to Hilton Head in the winters and I
Speaker 3: would run into him down there.
Speaker 7: But he hasn't been down there the last couple of years.
Speaker 5: So when did you start with the motorcycles after he
Speaker 5: got on the job before?
Speaker 3: No, well I always had motorcycles, right always, and then
Speaker 3: when I got on I joined the fire Riders. I
Speaker 3: want to say, like right around eighty seven. I think
Speaker 3: the club started eighty five, but that was like the
Speaker 3: Firefighters edition they came out with right after nine to eleven.
Speaker 7: They built that fight.
Speaker 3: Actually, great Fagan from Squad one, he wrote a letter
Speaker 3: to Willie g who was the head of Holly Davidson,
Speaker 3: and said, oh, you know, you should do this and
Speaker 3: everything else, and then it came out with that bike.
Speaker 3: But the head of the fire Alan Arius, Yeah he was,
Speaker 3: but it was like kind of unorganized back then. So
Speaker 3: I kind of left for a little while and did
Speaker 3: my own thing. But then I came back and got
Speaker 3: back into it, right, you know, and it's been great,
Speaker 3: especially being retied. It's a good connection.
Speaker 5: So you left the fire Riders, joined the Hell's Angels
Speaker 5: and then.
Speaker 3: All right, so let's go.
Speaker 5: You get you get the coal. What were you doing
Speaker 5: at the time you got the coll I was driving.
Speaker 3: To trucks all right, you know, I have my own
Speaker 3: trucks and I had like four trucks. My brother was
Speaker 3: working with me there you go.
Speaker 7: I put the business up for sale.
Speaker 5: And do you remember where you were when you got
Speaker 5: the call where I was?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well it was actually a letter I got. You
Speaker 3: got a letter, right, yeah, I got a letter in
Speaker 3: the mail, you know. And I remember going to see
Speaker 3: the psychologists down there at first before that, you know,
Speaker 3: strange dude, man. Yeah, we were just talking about it.
Speaker 3: It was only one dude. Do you look like a
Speaker 3: pasty white dude? Kill your Walmart suit? Yeah?
Speaker 6: The best. He's checking you out for your to make
Speaker 6: sure you all your marbles are there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. He was like a serial killer. Yeah, who's
Speaker 3: checking him out?
Speaker 6: You know exactly?
Speaker 5: There was like killing and something. I forget what his
Speaker 5: name was, yeah, laugh yette, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Laugh yeah yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Now I think Rescue six was down there for.
Speaker 5: A while there was, right, the old Rescue six. We
Speaker 5: should do a story on the Rescue six.
Speaker 7: Yeah, be interesting.
Speaker 6: Then.
Speaker 4: Uh then I Klahoma, went to.
Speaker 3: Proby School and a lot of guys didn't know Proby
Speaker 3: school are in like fire riders or I just know them.
Speaker 5: Still, you know who was your proby class?
Speaker 3: Anybody that we might know? VI the Quino John Holfest.
Speaker 4: Uh uh if you could pick him out, donny.
Speaker 5: Ma, whoa, I can't pick him out.
Speaker 7: I don't know any of the guys.
Speaker 3: It's hot to even see it, but probably don't know
Speaker 3: any of the guys there. But you know it was
Speaker 3: a good class. It was twelve weeks back then. Uh huh,
Speaker 3: no big deal, you know, and you did the whole
Speaker 3: peace officer training at the time that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't even know what it is any I
Speaker 5: still don't know.
Speaker 3: It was one week yeah, with nothing but no no
Speaker 3: firearms training.
Speaker 7: And now everybody's got I have a permit I carry
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 3: You should. Yeah, I mean I got a place in sel.
Speaker 3: I'm not far from you. You're a Warwick I'm right,
Speaker 3: I'm Sullomon, Yeah county, he's the Wolf of Warwick. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Then I went to three twenty four and really I
Speaker 3: was the first Proby they got there in a long time.
Speaker 5: So you had no hook, No, I had no hook.
Speaker 5: You know, had a busy little shop for single engine
Speaker 5: man they went to Corona.
Speaker 3: You know, we went to Corona to some good jobs,
Speaker 3: and we went to Left Rack all the time. We
Speaker 3: were right down the block from Left for Yeah, there
Speaker 3: were good jobs and left right Back in the day,
Speaker 3: the place was you know, really was a dump back then.
Speaker 3: And uh, there was a lot of guys there, so
Speaker 3: you really learned a lot from the guys. Are you
Speaker 3: the only guy that went there?
Speaker 6: Excuse me?
Speaker 3: Were you the only guy that? Yeah? I was the
Speaker 3: only guy that went there. You know, later on John Esposito,
Speaker 3: who's chief of department. Now John came there, I was
Speaker 3: still there. He was a proby when he came there,
Speaker 3: he was your bomp. Yeah, he was my fire but
Speaker 3: now he's cheap a department.
Speaker 6: So you taught him, well you get you're done, You've
Speaker 6: done good.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was just you know, I was just like
Speaker 3: always do the right thing at the fire house. You know,
Speaker 3: even later in my career when he came there, like
Speaker 3: a lot of guys just wanted to like do whatever,
Speaker 3: Like just do one thing to make the firehouse better,
Speaker 3: right to you.
Speaker 6: Know, do something.
Speaker 3: It's not hard. I thought you it was an easy
Speaker 3: fire house to get to one hundred and eighth Street. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's easy to This was a division Falkway and King's
Speaker 3: Park and I got off right there.
Speaker 7: No traffic lights.
Speaker 5: Was the division then when you got when you were in, No,
Speaker 5: it was the Burrow back then. Ah, the division was
Speaker 5: in with one I think right, yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 3: The borough we had Chief Patterson was in the Burrough.
Speaker 7: He was like in charge of it.
Speaker 3: Uh huh. Great guy. Yeah and uh. He would ask
Speaker 3: me to drive him a lot on the weekends and
Speaker 3: it was over time, and he really was.
Speaker 7: He was just a great guy.
Speaker 3: He would he would be doing his paperwork in the
Speaker 3: office and I would drive him get his like dry cleaning.
Speaker 7: And whatever else everybody needs.
Speaker 3: And he was like, all right, you know you can
Speaker 3: go home.
Speaker 5: Everybody needs a gig, right yeah.
Speaker 3: And it actually worked out because my buddy Great Fagan
Speaker 3: was getting on the job and I had an interview
Speaker 3: with him.
Speaker 6: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: So I was like, Craig, I know the guy. So
Speaker 3: I'm driving Chief Pattison one then and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: my buddy, Great Chagan's got an interview with you. It's like, oh,
Speaker 3: how is the guy? So I said, no, it's a
Speaker 3: good guy. And him forever like you know and everything.
Speaker 5: He's a good guy, but they call him fuck face Fagan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he you weren't.
Speaker 5: Here when you hit Roofie when he said that, that's
Speaker 5: what they really called him, face Vegan.
Speaker 3: I think he's actually listening right now now. So he
Speaker 3: got on the job too, and uh he went to
Speaker 3: two thirty six, and then he went to squad uh
Speaker 3: Squad one after.
Speaker 6: He had a tough time on the job too.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah. Yeah. His kids on the job now too.
Speaker 3: His kid Patrick's on the job right up the pro spunks.
Speaker 3: What's it, uh forty six and twenty seven?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got that right, yeah, twenty seven, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: that his kid's over there now. His kids probably got
Speaker 7: five six years on the job.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I remember seeing him all the time.
Speaker 3: That was fun.
Speaker 6: One.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So so when you were talking to his chief that
Speaker 6: like we shmoosing him, like you had him in the pocket,
Speaker 6: Like what was the story.
Speaker 3: He was such an easy going, soft spoken guy, easygoing guy. Know.
Speaker 3: It was like I knew the guy forever, you know,
Speaker 3: and he was like, no problem, you know, I'll meet
Speaker 3: with him. And that was it.
Speaker 7: And he met with him and next thing, you know,
Speaker 7: he was on the job in two thirty six.
Speaker 3: Who do you know thirty six? I don't know.
Speaker 6: He might have had that.
Speaker 7: I don't know that either, But he got on.
Speaker 6: The first job.
Speaker 7: Jim, what my first job?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Where was it when I was in three twenty four?
Speaker 3: You mean yeah, I'm gonna say probably left Rack. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I would say left Rack.
Speaker 6: It was funny.
Speaker 7: We didn't go out there so many times.
Speaker 5: Really, you know, I'm confusing those buildings, man, they are
Speaker 5: confusing with the different names right in the buildings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, each one had different names, you know, somewhere on
Speaker 3: the service road. Others you got to go around the backside,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very confusing, Like, yeah, builds a lot of people,
Speaker 5: hot hot fires in those buildings.
Speaker 3: The first job I was at, I had the nozzle
Speaker 3: and the guy gave me a nozzle on your first job. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And these guys are like they're like pushing me in
Speaker 3: and I'm like, it's hot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm like, you.
Speaker 3: Know, it's hot like finale, But they I mean really,
Speaker 3: I mean, it was a long time ago. Those guys.
Speaker 3: They were still shining the poles and everything else, clean
Speaker 3: the braass and the firehouse, you know, inspection, you know, uh,
Speaker 3: what they call yearly inspection, you know, house inspection, inspection,
Speaker 3: inspection was like serious, yeah, yeah for real.
Speaker 6: Well, when you got the burrow in there, that's a
Speaker 6: little bit more pressure, I think, probably.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But they kind of stayed upstairs. We didn't really
Speaker 3: see them too much. They did their own thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Did they eat with you know, no, they didn't eat
Speaker 3: with us. No, No, man and the guys, the old guys. Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I don't care if it was launch or dinner. There
Speaker 3: was no meal that even was near five dollars. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was in the eighties too.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that guy spend I don't know what they said.
Speaker 3: They spent more than five dollars on just a snack,
Speaker 3: you know, on CHIPS's crazy. So how long were you
Speaker 3: there before you got the itch to go to truck?
Speaker 3: I guess I was there about two or three years.
Speaker 3: And there was a couple of chiefs that I became
Speaker 3: friendly with over into four to six, you know, and
Speaker 3: they something they always come by over there, and uh
Speaker 3: we got to see I got to see a lot
Speaker 3: of like the burrow from that satellite four.
Speaker 6: Was in there.
Speaker 3: Uh, so we go around a lot. We didn't we
Speaker 3: didn't use that thing a lot. But every once in
Speaker 3: a while they set up the mount of hole and
Speaker 3: you just staying there for the night. But like vic Fi,
Speaker 3: Tally was a good chief Marty us So I got
Speaker 3: to be friendly with them guys. And uh, Vick was
Speaker 3: a big car guy like I was. And one day
Speaker 3: says to me, Uh, you know, you want to come
Speaker 3: over and drive me a little bit. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: well I'd really like to go to the truck too,
Speaker 3: you know, so come over and drive me a little bit,
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, we'll make it happen. So I
Speaker 3: was like two three years and three twenty four went
Speaker 3: over to the battalion. I wasn't a sign man, It
Speaker 3: was just you know, on a skin driving it. And
Speaker 3: uh then I put my paper in for the truck
Speaker 3: and I got a sign to the truck over there.
Speaker 3: No fun of going to one thirty eight at all. No,
Speaker 3: it just just the way it worked out. I guess
Speaker 3: Ian was right there upstairs and one thirty six, you know,
Speaker 3: so it was easy, easy transition right again, A lot
Speaker 3: of there was a lot of great guys in one
Speaker 3: thirty eight. We ran in with them all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: used to go into jobs with those guys and you'd
Speaker 3: be pulling down the block and they'd had the radio
Speaker 3: blast and like we didn't start the fire, you know.
Speaker 3: Last you know, I didn't even know they've never heard
Speaker 3: that before all the time.
Speaker 5: Look at that he's dropping a little nugget here.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Then I can't remember the captain's name, but if
Speaker 3: one captain over there, he would get so annoyed, like
Speaker 3: we were coming into the box first, and was there
Speaker 3: first two box? Yeah, I mean, like, you know, whatever,
Speaker 3: come in and take the box. You know, it's you
Speaker 3: guys at first, the no big deal, but he would
Speaker 3: be so pissed.
Speaker 5: That's not rabando was the box.
Speaker 3: No, I can't think of the guy. The guy's long,
Speaker 3: he's long gone, you know. Now.
Speaker 7: You guys had to be doing five thousand runs over there.
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, we were busy. It was a really busy house,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 5: And you had all different types of buildings over there. Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if we went to Elmhurst, you know, he went
Speaker 3: over to left Rack or you went like Forest Hills
Speaker 3: was a good area, but you'd always get some good
Speaker 3: private dwellings over there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You probably.
Speaker 5: One fifty one over there, second due, Yeah, one fifty
Speaker 5: one would be over there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, then we go by one fifty four, A lot up.
Speaker 3: I know they're up there.
Speaker 7: There was always good jobs up that way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he knew the rug rough.
Speaker 8: Oh so your brother up there all the time, all
Speaker 8: the time. Scared me with the cut sleeves, with arms
Speaker 8: to cut the sleeves off his shirts.
Speaker 3: All the time.
Speaker 6: God forgive me. With that squirrel on his head.
Speaker 3: You saw three in the morning, it'd be like a
Speaker 3: little sideway. Straight it up a little bit. Can't tell, Ken,
Speaker 3: you can't tell. They don't know it's not real.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, even his brother. When I was in three twenty four,
Speaker 3: his brother was always over there getting detailed. He take
Speaker 3: the detail and study was thirty eight, right, one thirty eighty,
Speaker 3: go over there, take the detail to three twenty four
Speaker 3: and study.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, big study. At least one of us
Speaker 5: had to, you know. I mean it's the only room
Speaker 5: for one deputy chief for the family Roughs.
Speaker 6: Everybody who were the bosses over in thirty You remember
Speaker 6: who they were when you.
Speaker 3: Had Richie Gonzalez was over there, Wayne at one point.
Speaker 6: You know who's right?
Speaker 7: I remember that great, kay?
Speaker 3: But John Pole, he was a really good guy.
Speaker 4: From fast un richmal High.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Then we had May mcmally came there.
Speaker 6: Later on.
Speaker 3: I drove Jimmy McNally for a while and he became
Speaker 3: he'd become a staff chief, but I think he went
Speaker 3: up to deputy retired in the last year year or two.
Speaker 7: He just got used to play volleyball with him all
Speaker 7: the time.
Speaker 3: I told you, volleyball single guy forever.
Speaker 7: Ye got married and I was like married, got like
Speaker 7: one hundred kids.
Speaker 6: Yeah, did get married.
Speaker 5: And late Bloomer, that's all.
Speaker 3: Late Bloomer.
Speaker 4: Were you? Were you?
Speaker 3: So you in the fire house when Wayne Smith passed. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it does not have to be put a big hit
Speaker 3: that first up Bobby Dayton. Bobby Dayton passed. I came
Speaker 3: there just after Bobby Date passed. He was in a
Speaker 3: fire in Paul, Washington. He passed, but he was in
Speaker 3: the truck over at one thirty six. But then I
Speaker 3: was there when Wayne passed. And uh, it was tough
Speaker 3: because we did like housewatch at the firehouse. We had
Speaker 3: the journal there, everything else.
Speaker 7: Guys that house.
Speaker 3: Watch, you know, twenty four to seven. Hilly Pey, he
Speaker 3: lived for a few months in the hospital, was ninety five.
Speaker 6: What year was that?
Speaker 5: It was before I got on because the guy who
Speaker 5: was in who was turned around in the closet with him,
Speaker 5: I think his irons or his canmn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, John Ferring, right, he he came down.
Speaker 5: And he talked to the proby class when I was
Speaker 5: in there, he was he got turned around, right, he was.
Speaker 6: I was on the job. I remember.
Speaker 4: The ninety four What I'm looking at on the computer
Speaker 4: ten wamith what what.
Speaker 3: Kind of what was that that?
Speaker 5: They were on the floor above right or something?
Speaker 7: I don't yeah, on the floor above, Yeah.
Speaker 5: What type of building was it was?
Speaker 6: It was Jens, wasn't it Jans?
Speaker 3: Jan's ice cream was downstairs? Yeah, I remember Jan's.
Speaker 5: Ice Cream all the way down by Myrtle Avenue.
Speaker 7: Boy Queen's Boulevard over there, I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't by Myrtles by Queens Boulevard, No, I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: somewhere off Queen's Boulevard.
Speaker 6: I think, all right.
Speaker 3: And then John Ferring actually he went to rescue Fall
Speaker 3: later on.
Speaker 7: I worked with John over there.
Speaker 5: His brother was in Menhead. Yeah, you gotta love the
Speaker 5: brothers names Menhead.
Speaker 3: How is I came on with uh intense Pence? Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: he was intense. Yeah, he was good though. He ran
Speaker 3: a tight ship over there.
Speaker 6: I had a good relationship with him over the years
Speaker 6: that you know, obviously being in the squad and running
Speaker 6: in with him.
Speaker 7: He was he was always uh, we always had a
Speaker 7: good relationship.
Speaker 3: Hill. He was a good guy, Bhill. He worked for
Speaker 3: a long time, right, yeah, not long ago.
Speaker 7: No, we got out about the same time. But he
Speaker 7: was there a long time in the truck.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, he was make sure everything was always organized,
Speaker 3: ran a tight ship.
Speaker 6: You know. I was told me he could have been
Speaker 6: a sick guy.
Speaker 3: But you know, a lot of guys, even with my nephews,
Speaker 3: guys get comfortable.
Speaker 6: You know, he was there. He was the guy there,
Speaker 6: you know. Yeah.
Speaker 5: We always say that if you're gonna make it, make
Speaker 5: a move, do it earlier, because you get too complacent
Speaker 5: in the place comfortable, especially if you become the senior man.
Speaker 5: You know, then you're like, you're really comfortable.
Speaker 4: You never want to go.
Speaker 6: I had the seat he had. You know, he's been there.
Speaker 6: He was there for at least twenty it was over
Speaker 6: twenty five years. He was there.
Speaker 3: You know. I had to be Yeah, I had to
Speaker 3: be worked on Norma was on the side, Billy guys.
Speaker 5: I love guys things that they do on the side. Man,
Speaker 5: you should do a show just on the ship that
Speaker 5: guys do on the side. What do you do all
Speaker 5: like skyde job Bob or something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, dudes on the side.
Speaker 6: What was I just ask?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: Uh so you got a couple of medals? Were they
Speaker 5: both in one? Thirty six?
Speaker 3: With thirty six that which was actually in left rack
Speaker 3: And I want to say Richie got Gonzalez he was
Speaker 3: the lieutenant that day, Jeff Mice that had the can,
Speaker 3: and uh we got in there early, you know, and
Speaker 3: uh we went up. I want to say it was
Speaker 3: like on the sixth floor.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm not really.
Speaker 3: Positive, but I think it was on the sixth floor
Speaker 3: and the h the apartment door was open, and the
Speaker 3: hallway was charged. It was hot, and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: Richie was like, he was a great guy. He was like,
Speaker 3: come on, let's just go. So me and Jeff just
Speaker 3: followed him and we got in the apartment and you
Speaker 3: searched around and uh, I found a woman in a
Speaker 3: wheel chair and uh, as I'm taking her out, I
Speaker 3: guess the can was just about expired. It had like
Speaker 3: no water left in it and it just steamed up
Speaker 3: and the can't exploded.
Speaker 7: It was like a bomb going off in the apartment.
Speaker 3: It was so loud.
Speaker 5: Is that when you exploded in your pants?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 7: So I got with there.
Speaker 3: There's the can there with all the guys that were
Speaker 3: at the job.
Speaker 6: I don't think I've ever heard that before.
Speaker 5: But they can't explode it.
Speaker 6: Look at the can there.
Speaker 4: You never had it in your hand. It was always
Speaker 4: down the hallway. I got one. I got one. That's crazy, man, man, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that is insane.
Speaker 3: So chance they saved the can. Yeah, they got can still.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 6: The guy all the way to left, the black dude
Speaker 6: on the left, I remember him, ju Ray Smith.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were just talking about he broke I want
Speaker 3: to say both his ankles.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for the shift. Yeah, funny enough. Is I'm the
Speaker 5: one that guy I found him in the shift?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I remember that guy. I remember him. He was
Speaker 6: always a cool dude.
Speaker 3: Man, great guy. I still see him. I saw him
Speaker 3: not long ago.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 3: Is that lieutenant get promoted from No, No, he's still
Speaker 3: he was always a lieutenant betide. He's got a brother
Speaker 3: on the job and went thirty three that retired and Uh,
Speaker 3: his brother's on Facebook, but Ritchie kind of lost touch.
Speaker 7: I don't see Ritchie's manure here from Richie at all.
Speaker 3: He retired out of one thirty six.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he retired at one thirty six.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, did you wheel a woman out in
Speaker 6: the wheelchair?
Speaker 3: No, no, she was out of a wheelchair.
Speaker 7: She was on the floor.
Speaker 3: So I carried her out and listen, I was still
Speaker 3: fairly knew.
Speaker 7: I didn't even know what to say, you know.
Speaker 3: So when I got her in the hallway and then
Speaker 3: down the staircase, EMS was there. They took it down
Speaker 3: the rest of the way, and then I went back in.
Speaker 3: I said, oh, Richie, by the way, I just brought
Speaker 3: this woman out and I handed off the EMS. Right.
Speaker 3: So then, uh, you know, afterwards he did his whole thing,
Speaker 3: wrote it up and whatever else.
Speaker 5: After that he gave the.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so I didn't really think that much of it.
Speaker 7: But then I went up.
Speaker 3: That's when I got you weren't the medal day that year,
Speaker 3: and I got a class too for that, the Thomas
Speaker 3: Crimmin's medal. And he had a picture.
Speaker 5: I think you had a couple of pictures with the family.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have this one and we have this one.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I was saying that. Guys were like, oh,
Speaker 3: you're going to get the Bennett. You're going to get
Speaker 3: the Bennett. You're going to get the Bennett. And then
Speaker 3: like almost towards the end of the year, Richard grabs
Speaker 3: a baby out of a crib, gets the Bennett. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so you knock me out of the box the topper.
Speaker 6: What did you get the huge bona?
Speaker 7: Did you get the huge Bonaea?
Speaker 3: But the guys were good there, you know, they showed up,
Speaker 3: everybody in the house, came to middle day.
Speaker 7: It was a great day.
Speaker 5: What year was that, Oh that was back in I
Speaker 5: would say ninety eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've made notes here about to try to look
Speaker 3: back on all my notes, but I want to ninety eight.
Speaker 5: So when they first started talking about putting the squad
Speaker 5: in two eighty eight, what the guys had the guys
Speaker 5: feel in thirty six and two eighty.
Speaker 3: Seven, There really wasn't a lot of a lot of
Speaker 3: discussion about it. It really, you know, I don't think
Speaker 3: it really it didn't phaze me at all. I was like, whatever,
Speaker 3: you know, no big deal, you know, And uh, I
Speaker 3: think guys were like they weren't sure how it was
Speaker 3: going to work out because like two eighty eight was
Speaker 3: a slow house over there, you know, yeah, and everything
Speaker 3: like the area you're in, you're gonna be able to
Speaker 3: get like get around and stuff, you know, and rescue
Speaker 3: fourds right down the block too, right.
Speaker 7: So you're fighting all the time, right, So it was
Speaker 7: kind of a tough spot to be in.
Speaker 5: But it were originally going to put the squad in
Speaker 5: three sixteen, which I think would have been a better
Speaker 5: spot for the single house over there right by the Parkway.
Speaker 5: I would have been at home, and they do first
Speaker 5: to work over there. Yeah, I mean that what's so
Speaker 5: funny is that two it is not that far from
Speaker 5: one thirty six and the amount of work that I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: right down the block.
Speaker 3: Masspit was such a good area, right, Yeah, it was
Speaker 3: beautiful down here. Yeah. You know, I guess if you
Speaker 3: went over too, like green Point, you know, you go
Speaker 3: down into Brooklyn right there, you.
Speaker 7: Got some work right there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you guys went there too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we went there too. Yeah, Well we can beat
Speaker 3: him in there. But there were good guys because I
Speaker 3: remember I went there all the time as a dcon
Speaker 3: guy that has Matt, So I know a lot of
Speaker 3: guys that were into a even before.
Speaker 7: I went to squad.
Speaker 3: A lot of guys you know who he knew, Jack
Speaker 3: Cack Yeah, Bill mcgonell they feel I still see Phil
Speaker 3: every day, not often.
Speaker 5: What do we always say about Jack hack Bro.
Speaker 6: The nicest guy. He would rub your back and then
Speaker 6: you could say anything to me and be like he'd
Speaker 6: be rubbing your back at the at the at breakfast
Speaker 6: and he'd be like, he'd be like, hey, Jack, you
Speaker 6: know it was just what your old lady last night,
Speaker 6: doing all sorts of silly things to it.
Speaker 9: He'd be going, you did well, God bless you. No
Speaker 9: matter what you said to him, right, he didn't care
Speaker 9: what you said. He always would a smile, a lot
Speaker 9: of golic. I need a lot of golic Golic. He
Speaker 9: always smell like colic because he's eat real golic all
Speaker 9: the time.
Speaker 7: He's got to be gone too for years now, right Jack.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, dude, he'd be he'd be waiting by
Speaker 5: the house squats for the relief to come in.
Speaker 3: He'd be out like his hand was on fire.
Speaker 7: Yeah, good guy.
Speaker 6: He was a sweet he really was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a couple of good guys over there. What
Speaker 3: the has bat when we became a squad over there. Well,
Speaker 3: and you were talking about Tito earlier, right, I remember
Speaker 3: it with the hair all the time. It was like
Speaker 3: perfect mn.
Speaker 6: I just I was up at the Armory in Harlem
Speaker 6: for my daughter's track, and all of a sudden, I
Speaker 6: hear somebody go, hey, Louis, you know, and around and
Speaker 6: he's I see this quaff of hair like it's from
Speaker 6: I can't it's he still has it. He's gotta be
Speaker 6: fifty something years old the sixties, bro.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was older than us, right, Yeah, I'm like, dude,
Speaker 7: are you kidding me?
Speaker 6: With this hair? Still?
Speaker 4: You still?
Speaker 6: But he started late with the kids, so his kids
Speaker 6: was actually even younger than my kid. So you know,
Speaker 6: he waited a long.
Speaker 7: Time, like like you were saying, before I could get married.
Speaker 5: Had that high pitch point.
Speaker 3: Yeah I'm available, You're available all I don't know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my time, your time, anytime, over time.
Speaker 3: I don't care your ti there. I think there was
Speaker 3: only a few guys from two eighty eight that went
Speaker 3: to the squad right one too.
Speaker 5: Well, Jay win Stein had cancers and they just kept
Speaker 5: him on the uh. Other than that, so where's the
Speaker 5: second gramm you make? Was that in that was in
Speaker 5: rescue for all right, So let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Speaker 5: Any other fires that you can remember called to mind
Speaker 5: from one thirty six.
Speaker 7: That were a lot of fires. I don't want to
Speaker 7: scare I've already getting low man, get.
Speaker 5: Like any you have any old ship moments and.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, but you know what, like I was getting
Speaker 3: some time on and when you're with the guys, you know,
Speaker 3: you just go with it right and it just works
Speaker 3: out and you know afterwards, you know, you know it
Speaker 3: is you're just like, oh that was awesome job.
Speaker 6: That was great.
Speaker 3: You know, you know you never got jammed up. We
Speaker 3: thought no, not not really, you know, whether I was
Speaker 3: lucky or just you know good whatever, you were that
Speaker 3: good Jim. That's who were some of.
Speaker 7: The guys who were thirty six. You remember that like
Speaker 7: really took you under the wing.
Speaker 6: Or you know with truck work and stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, there was an older guy there, Frankie Nips.
Speaker 6: There was.
Speaker 3: A lot of Chiefs were great guys, know me and
Speaker 3: Chief itally. You know Tom McNally, he was a good guy.
Speaker 3: John trip Tree, Brian malloy with Brian malloy a single guy.
Speaker 3: He was there forever. I think he only just retired recently.
Speaker 3: Keith Lippid he was in the engine, he was senior man.
Speaker 3: I think he just retired this year.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 7: Yeah, from all the way back then, that's a lot.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say.
Speaker 7: He came there was a proby though when I.
Speaker 6: Was Yeah, that's a lot of running.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 6: They're still running their ass off over there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, working out of containers in a parking lot, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I saw that. Yeah, where is it? What quarters they use? No, quarters,
Speaker 3: they're up the block. They put content together and they're containers.
Speaker 5: The firehouse is in the container, yeah, shipping containers, like
Speaker 5: shipping containers.
Speaker 3: And then they have the you know, like housing over
Speaker 3: the over the rigs and both companies are in there.
Speaker 7: Both companies are in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Did they demolished the firehouse?
Speaker 3: Yeah they did.
Speaker 7: God yeah, I think they just put the foundation in
Speaker 7: last week.
Speaker 6: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 5: That's a shame. So you're saying something happened with the
Speaker 5: high rise they put next to it.
Speaker 3: Right, Jim, Yeah, Yeah, I guess when they were doing
Speaker 3: the pilings for the high rise, they cracked the foundation
Speaker 3: in the firehouse and the back wall was coming down.
Speaker 3: That's then the firehouse. When I was there, they renovated
Speaker 3: that firehouse. We went up to two ninety two and
Speaker 3: Rescue four one thirty six was up there for a
Speaker 3: while because they were renovating, right, they did the whole firehouse,
Speaker 3: all the new new apparatus, floor, a.
Speaker 7: New second member. When they did that floor, I remember that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was funny. Second floor. They do handicap accessible bathrooms,
Speaker 3: wheelchair accessible, right, and they do brail on all the
Speaker 3: signs were in brail. Also. Yeah, there was no accent,
Speaker 3: no elevator to the second floor, so you're not getting
Speaker 3: up there with a wheelchair. What blind guys are gonna
Speaker 3: be in the firehouse like trying to figure out where
Speaker 3: they are.
Speaker 5: That's how they that's how they make money off the city.
Speaker 3: You need, but you know that sucks.
Speaker 5: So uh when do you get the the inkling to
Speaker 5: go over and rescue for the itch?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 5: I kind of because you were around the corner from
Speaker 5: those guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and I we ran in with them a lot,
Speaker 3: so I knew a lot of the guys over there,
Speaker 3: and you know, Richie Eula, Tommy mccuarie, they were local
Speaker 3: to me right in King spark. I was in the
Speaker 3: volley house with them, and uh I kind of became
Speaker 3: friendly with Terry Farrell and uh they were like, oh,
Speaker 3: come on over, Come on over.
Speaker 7: Come on over.
Speaker 3: And then I had you know, wrote up a letter
Speaker 3: back then and sent it to It was Captain Corkran
Speaker 3: at the time, and nothing really happened, you know, and
Speaker 3: then uh, after that, Captain Hickey came there. Terry was
Speaker 3: good friends with Captain Hickey, and uh then I was
Speaker 3: able to come right over with Captain.
Speaker 5: How much time did you have it at that moment?
Speaker 3: Uh, I almost had like twelve maybe like twelve years
Speaker 3: that's perfect time. Yeah, about twelve years engine time, truck
Speaker 3: time and then yeah, yeah, and so it was a
Speaker 3: luck getting used to you know, like Ula was there.
Speaker 3: It was like the sage, you know, and uh right,
Speaker 3: but there was a lot of good guys there, and uh,
Speaker 3: you know, he really had a It.
Speaker 7: Took a lot to learn the rink. It was so
Speaker 7: much on that thing, you know. Yeah, and uh, I
Speaker 7: couldn't even make Milner's name when you said that.
Speaker 3: No, Milner, he was.
Speaker 6: He was a funny guy. Mike Murray ur Yeah.
Speaker 3: He's absurprised, he's not watching tonight, he is, He's.
Speaker 6: In the chat.
Speaker 3: He's in the chat. Yeah, Mike was a good guy.
Speaker 3: I was running the mic once in a while, I'll
Speaker 3: same minute event or something. Uh huh, you know, but uh,
Speaker 3: it was a great house. We had great guys there.
Speaker 5: Who are the offices when you got there? Tickey, Lieutenant
Speaker 5: dot Dell?
Speaker 3: Wow, Yeah, Timmy Kelly wasn't there yet. I think Timmy
Speaker 3: Kelly came after nine to eleven. Yeah, you poached him
Speaker 3: off of us after Yeah?
Speaker 7: Uh who else was there?
Speaker 3: Honestly, can't think who was about about? Harry Ford was
Speaker 3: a great guy. And you know what a small world, right.
Speaker 3: So I'm working there and I'm talking with Harry one night,
Speaker 3: and Harry would stay up all night long during coffee,
Speaker 3: eat whatever, and so about his wife Denise. And there's
Speaker 3: a whole Howard Beach connection with Denise and relatives of mine.
Speaker 3: So there was a whole, big connection, like a whole
Speaker 3: how and he would always kid around about the whole
Speaker 3: Howard Beach connection with his wife and everything in my family,
Speaker 3: you know. So I got to be pretty friendly with Harry.
Speaker 3: Harry was a great guy and he didn't say a lot,
Speaker 3: but he knew a lot, right, Z Man was no
Speaker 3: fun Eddie. Eddie was a character and we go to
Speaker 3: a food store or anything else. Eddie was a character.
Speaker 7: He was a great guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember his got his son on the job, right,
Speaker 3: isn't his son of chief or someone.
Speaker 5: Just got got promoted captain?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I remember. I remember watching Eddie at jobs.
Speaker 6: I was in once seventeen at first, and then obviously
Speaker 6: going to two eighty eight. But it's such a big
Speaker 6: dude man, like he take up the whole door frame.
Speaker 6: He really was just a presence, Like I remember seeing
Speaker 6: him and just be.
Speaker 3: Like big hairy, you know, great guy, great guy at
Speaker 3: the fire out, great guy to know, approachable, friendly guy,
Speaker 3: regular guy.
Speaker 5: He's a slim down version of himself.
Speaker 3: Now. Yeah, he's living down I think Saint Augustine down Florida,
Speaker 3: in Florida. I haven't seen him.
Speaker 6: In a long time.
Speaker 5: His sodden is right by me, so that's the only
Speaker 5: time I see him sometimes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's songs like yet Cliff Rock and Surf,
Speaker 3: I think, right, yeah, yeah, right, Cliff Cliff is the one.
Speaker 7: I think he had four boys.
Speaker 6: Did he have four boys?
Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
Speaker 7: I'm not sure I had those three names, but you know,
Speaker 7: I'm not sure. Trying to think of guys. How about uh,
Speaker 7: Ray Strong was right yere.
Speaker 3: Ray was already gone, but I got yeah, he was gone.
Speaker 4: On him was gone.
Speaker 6: Who do we have.
Speaker 7: Who was there?
Speaker 3: Well, you know Pete Brennan, he came there after, right,
Speaker 3: you know, I was there ready, And uh.
Speaker 5: What about Mike uh what's his name from one seventy
Speaker 5: six trucks.
Speaker 3: Leam Flaherty was there, Eddie Curley was there?
Speaker 6: Yeah about with Pete that you were there with Pete
Speaker 6: or that was before you Pete Nelson McGlaughlin.
Speaker 4: Oh, no, that was after me.
Speaker 3: That was after I was in one thirty six one
Speaker 3: when yeah, yeah he got killed. Yeah, Tommy Williams got
Speaker 3: killed there.
Speaker 6: That was just after me.
Speaker 3: Tommy Williams.
Speaker 7: He was a King's fawk guy.
Speaker 3: How about Larry Archer he was there, right, Larry Archer
Speaker 3: was there. He was a lieutenant Dad, Larry. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I like the drill like two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's like Garrow Hungary is the same thing, right that.
Speaker 3: Morn Yeah on Garo, I remember him on Garo.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a great guy man. Yeah, Yeah, Dennis Scalzo.
Speaker 6: Dennis. Yeah, Dennis was dude, I tell you if you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he get a hold of you with those Mitch bro.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did, cause like I would like to buy
Speaker 3: and sell cause and I was Dennis.
Speaker 7: All the time at the auction buying cause too. You know,
Speaker 7: really I didn't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, him and this other.
Speaker 7: Guy always bought some calls, fixed them up and sold him.
Speaker 3: Mike Travers QC Best. Oh yeah, Mike.
Speaker 7: Travers, the angry, angry Travis.
Speaker 3: Angry Travis got out. I think he got out and
Speaker 3: came back. I think he did. The only I ever
Speaker 3: heard that he got out came back.
Speaker 7: He did get out and come back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike. I liked Mike. Michael was a good guy. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean he would bunch the balls, but one all on.
Speaker 5: He was good man.
Speaker 3: I used to talk to me all the time.
Speaker 4: He was good.
Speaker 3: Terry Farrell I used to you know, Terry was in
Speaker 3: dick Hills, so I used to commute with him. You know,
Speaker 3: I drive from King Spoke to dix Hills Volley House
Speaker 3: and we go together and then we picked up Hickey
Speaker 3: on the way in or whatever. But we always wound
Speaker 3: up riding in together. You know, so it's pretty pretty good.
Speaker 5: So when you got to fourth did you think, you know,
Speaker 5: how olng did it take you before you felt like
Speaker 5: I'm sure you felt like the guys were watching you
Speaker 5: to make sure.
Speaker 3: You were Yeah, it took a while, Like you know,
Speaker 3: I'm like kind of quiet, laid back, you know, so
Speaker 3: it really took a while. I felt like, you know,
Speaker 3: but I don't know, within the year, I felt like,
Speaker 3: you know, I kind of fit in, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what about learning all the rescue stuff, you know how
Speaker 3: it took a lot, you know, but you don't think
Speaker 3: it was nice. You would see a lot of the
Speaker 3: guys when you go to the different like you know,
Speaker 3: ropes and right stuff like that, and you know, do
Speaker 3: different training, you meet a lot of different guys, you know.
Speaker 3: But then some of that training stop. Of course when
Speaker 3: nine to eleven happened. You didn't finish everything, you know, Well.
Speaker 5: I used to do them out in the trailers. Remember
Speaker 5: there were just trailers at the rescue school with a barbecue. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: the rescue tree. It was yeah, it was pretty minimal, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh so you had Hickey was there when you
Speaker 3: were there. Yeah, yeah, Brian Hickey, great guy. Louis Torres.
Speaker 5: He was, said, Louis Louis Torres.
Speaker 3: Yeah he retired. Let me tell you, like you want
Speaker 3: to talk about feeling old. But they sent out this
Speaker 3: group me having to like a get together over the
Speaker 3: winter at this Irish joint in like Beth Page. So
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what, I'm just gonna go check
Speaker 3: it out, find out I got This kid comes up
Speaker 3: and thinking, sir, I just want to introduce myself. I'm
Speaker 3: Louis Torres. I would be your father. Where does his
Speaker 3: son work? Rescue four? He's in four. He's in four.
Speaker 3: Isn't Harry ford Son? Yeah, Danny Hickey's there right, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of guys. Yeah. Then Dadell's sons in two.
Speaker 3: I don't he's still in too. We got promoter wide,
Speaker 3: but he was in two.
Speaker 5: Tomboke was lieutenant there right because he was.
Speaker 6: Trying to get him for a while. He won't do
Speaker 6: it now.
Speaker 3: If we got runs down to the rockaway or whatever else.
Speaker 3: Lieutenant Daldella had a house in Breezy, So we go
Speaker 3: down to Breeze and you gotta park down hend to
Speaker 3: like the boardwalk. He send it's two boys to watch
Speaker 3: the rig and we'd sit down on his deck and
Speaker 3: we'd have lunch. Nice was a watch and yeah, his
Speaker 3: oldest son, I can't remember his name off him, the
Speaker 3: oldest son, but his oldest son was like number one
Speaker 3: on the list and turned the job down because he
Speaker 3: already had like a family and a good job and
Speaker 3: he was making money.
Speaker 7: He turned it down.
Speaker 5: So let's talk me about yours. To be talking about
Speaker 5: your second grad yet.
Speaker 3: No, no, I would say that was in April of
Speaker 3: two thousand and one on sixty six I'm gonna say
Speaker 3: sixty sixth Street, right by the firehouse. It was close
Speaker 3: right behind the two ninety two, and uh that job,
Speaker 3: Like you said before we were talking, we were riding
Speaker 3: a little heavy. Lieutenant down Dell and Captain Hickey.
Speaker 5: Were working well us my lines, Yeah, allegedly they were
Speaker 5: working together.
Speaker 3: Allegedly so Lieutenant Doutdell he was at the front door
Speaker 3: with the engine and you know whoever else and they
Speaker 3: were doing whatever else there. We went around the side.
Speaker 3: Captain Hickey's like, uh, what do you think do you
Speaker 3: think going the window? Like yeah, I guess why not?
Speaker 3: So he boosted me up in the window and uh,
Speaker 3: the place is already like rowing it's Collie's mansion. You know,
Speaker 3: like flames are already coming out the top of the window,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, you know, okay, still, I'm like, all right, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll go in the window. Yeah, cat masking, what do
Speaker 3: you say? Oh no, I'm gonna go in the window.
Speaker 3: So I go in the window and I'm like one
Speaker 3: room in and I'm like feeling around and you know,
Speaker 3: you're feeling like couch and like a little table, and
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, I feel like I feel like
Speaker 3: a body is a guy, a woman whatever, And I
Speaker 3: start heading towards the window with him, and John Gang
Speaker 3: comes in a window behind me, tells me, get yeah,
Speaker 3: if all the game helps me get him towards the window,
Speaker 3: we pass him out the window.
Speaker 7: Game goes out and the room just like lights up.
Speaker 7: I dive out the window.
Speaker 3: I don't even know how all those guys new to
Speaker 3: like catch me, but they like caught me coming out
Speaker 3: the window, and uh.
Speaker 5: Thell walked around the side and it's like, oh, what's
Speaker 5: going on?
Speaker 3: What's going on? Like, oh, you know, phen Gang just
Speaker 3: got this guy out, you know, in the room there,
Speaker 3: and that does like settle down, don't go back in
Speaker 3: just sit over there, relax, relax. And then that was
Speaker 3: you know, that was a class I got a Class
Speaker 3: three for that. There was no Metal Day, so there
Speaker 3: was no actually like you know that metals, So there
Speaker 3: was no name metal because there was no Metal Day
Speaker 3: that year.
Speaker 7: But it was a Class three.
Speaker 5: They should have had something, man, I know it was Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they they didn't really do anything that year because
Speaker 3: you know right up there yet Father's Day. Yeah, strads
Speaker 3: and I you know, a lot happened.
Speaker 5: Oh so you were there for Father's Day but you
Speaker 5: were working there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was there. I wasn't working, you know. I
Speaker 3: got to call at home and went in. You know,
Speaker 3: same thing with U nine to eleven. Uh, I was
Speaker 3: watching on the news in the morning.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: My brother lives like two doors down from me, so
Speaker 3: it was at my house and watch on the news.
Speaker 6: So it happened.
Speaker 3: Him and I both hop on on motorcycles and we're
Speaker 3: flying in and like I think it must have been
Speaker 3: every fireman was in the h OV lane flying in. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and uh he shot off to go to one twenty
Speaker 3: nine and I went into four and I think he
Speaker 3: wound up getting sent They sent them guys to like
Speaker 3: Shase Stadium, a lot of guys got guys, went to
Speaker 3: shake stage over there, and uh I met, uh.
Speaker 7: Met a rescue fall with uh no.
Speaker 3: I can't think Dave Rainer and even I like we
Speaker 3: comment did some guy in a suburban and the guy
Speaker 3: in the suburban drove us all the way in there,
Speaker 3: and uh yeah, we wound up being in there and
Speaker 3: then you know, eventually met up with the other guys
Speaker 3: and everything else late at night.
Speaker 6: But you ever ever take jim how you I mean
Speaker 6: even for us Kevin and myself. Kevin was at at
Speaker 6: Father's Day. But to think how you like sneak through
Speaker 6: these jobs? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: So many things right crazy?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it could have easily been just.
Speaker 3: Anybody. Yeah, you know, guys put up some of the
Speaker 3: pictures from the mutual or whatever else you just happen
Speaker 3: to be off or yeah, ication.
Speaker 6: They called me on Sunday night, Sunday day to work
Speaker 6: ot on Tuesday day and I didn't take it. And
Speaker 6: Joey Hunter, don't you remember him?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I remember Joey Hunt.
Speaker 6: Joey took it.
Speaker 4: And uh, obviously, which one do you.
Speaker 5: Want coop the pictures of the break down by nine
Speaker 5: to eleven.
Speaker 3: It was even back then you really thought like, at
Speaker 3: least for me, those first couple of days, you felt
Speaker 3: like you were going to really do something, you want
Speaker 3: to accomplish something like yeah it was Freddy uh Lamina
Speaker 3: was on the radio and they were looking for like
Speaker 3: a welder like Jimmy, you there, and I'm like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll come over, I'll weld it, you know, and you know,
Speaker 3: different things. But it really didn't accomplish anything. It was
Speaker 3: too much going on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I had a picture like that. To have
Speaker 6: pictures like that too, it was.
Speaker 5: Like pissing on the forest fire. Really, we weren't doing nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 5: when they brought in those those grapplers, that's when they
Speaker 5: started making any kind out.
Speaker 3: We were doing five. But it was frustrating when they
Speaker 3: started like you would have like right, oll the sock
Speaker 3: companies here, but there for so long, and then they
Speaker 3: bring like a fresh company down, a fresh officer, and
Speaker 3: we were like stop, stop, stop, like no, let the
Speaker 3: grapple guy go. He knows what he's doing, you know,
Speaker 3: don't stop the guy every five minutes.
Speaker 6: Ye no, I was saying like Jim was saying, like
Speaker 6: I would say, I mean we were there for three
Speaker 6: days straight. You would think, like early on, I remember
Speaker 6: thinking like we would find some voids here and there,
Speaker 6: like weird stuff, and he thought that not not that somebody,
Speaker 6: that somebody would be under there, you know, like, but
Speaker 6: it just never you know, the pretty soon you realized
Speaker 6: that that wasn't gonna be.
Speaker 3: I remember walking in there, and I don't even know
Speaker 3: who the guys were, but we wound up grabbing like
Speaker 3: radios from a couple of guys.
Speaker 7: Me and Reina.
Speaker 3: We just kind of winged it, went off on our
Speaker 3: own and we would kind of buy where Rescue one
Speaker 3: was with that overpass was it was collapsed on the roof. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we went up and over there and they went down
Speaker 3: in a wool and I remember those guys from six
Speaker 3: coming out. I was like, holy oh, these guys come.
Speaker 4: From like yeah J Jonaeson company, Yeah.
Speaker 7: J Joneson and guy.
Speaker 3: So I was like wow, you know yeah, And I
Speaker 3: actually got a call from a lieutenant in the firehouse,
Speaker 3: not from six. It's forty something. I can't remember the house,
Speaker 3: but the lieutenant actually called up Rescue four and he goes, oh,
Speaker 3: I heard you and another guy outside there when we
Speaker 3: were down there. And we just followed your voices, thirty
Speaker 3: nine Engine. Yeah, we just followed your voices. And I
Speaker 3: was like, okay, you.
Speaker 5: Know thirty nine Engine rolle the collapse down too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Anybody bought that break the big crane in they built
Speaker 3: it on site, really thought something was gonna happen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and nothing. Well that's early on. That's an early
Speaker 5: on picture.
Speaker 4: This is the first one. This is where that was balked,
Speaker 4: and then you actually then you can follow it up
Speaker 4: with the other one where that's where it was park
Speaker 4: from the other angle after the collapse, so.
Speaker 3: That rig didn't get destroyed, Jen, No, I'm get destroyed now,
Speaker 3: but it's found in uh out in the Hall of
Speaker 3: Flame now right, Yeah, And you know what, you know,
Speaker 3: it was horrible at like somebody bought that at the
Speaker 3: city auction, I guess, and they turned out to be
Speaker 3: like I don't remember, like you guys big social media guys.
Speaker 3: But they're going around the city, around the country scamming
Speaker 3: people like really, and then these people here from like
Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame got wind of it and they
Speaker 3: were able to get a hold of the rig and
Speaker 3: get the rig back from those people and they restored
Speaker 3: it and put in the museum and everything else. But yeah,
Speaker 3: there were guys going around scamming with the things.
Speaker 7: Shocking that still goes on with these Stolen Valley guys.
Speaker 3: Right they oh, unbelieved.
Speaker 7: You see him every now and then, right, you see.
Speaker 6: And everything and then yeah about like they were there
Speaker 6: even one day in the fire department.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have like all these medals and stuff that
Speaker 3: not even anything to do with New York City or
Speaker 3: anything else, Like what is that? Nothing of OZ?
Speaker 6: They give it speeches.
Speaker 7: Yeah, people are Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 5: People don't know how to They don't know at a ball,
Speaker 5: So you have to do that, try to scan man
Speaker 5: like holy ship, you had to rebuild the company, right
Speaker 5: who became the captain?
Speaker 3: Right after that? Hegland Paul Hen came down okay, right
Speaker 3: and d Yeah, so you know Dano drove his brother
Speaker 3: a lot, right.
Speaker 5: Then you know, like, uh, they were originally going to
Speaker 5: roll the squads into the rescues because uh, who are
Speaker 5: we talking to? Just recently that confirmed that. I don't remember,
Speaker 5: but I remember John Gain asking me, you know, he
Speaker 5: is we're gonna be looking to take the squads. Did
Speaker 5: would you want to come all day, I said, yeah, sure,
Speaker 5: what never happened. They just decided to rebuild the command,
Speaker 5: which I think was the better thing anyway.
Speaker 3: You know, it was a whole strange time, Like it
Speaker 3: was hard, like when the new guys came, even like
Speaker 3: you know, being friendly, like I don't know, it was
Speaker 3: just all I don't know how to describe it. It
Speaker 3: was good guys, but I don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I had a little bit of a problem with
Speaker 5: the guys coming to I don't know, and I can't
Speaker 5: just understand why they were good guys, but I don't
Speaker 5: know if it's like these guys are taking the place
Speaker 5: of your friends, and you know, I got a little attitude,
Speaker 5: So I don't know what it was. But I remember
Speaker 5: getting into like a fight at one of the company
Speaker 5: meetings that we had, you know, and I fucking bow
Speaker 5: my stack over nonsense. It was over nothing, and I
Speaker 5: felt that way.
Speaker 3: I'm like, why am I.
Speaker 5: Giving these guys an attitude? They stepping up with.
Speaker 3: Even the offices, like you know, they'd be like trying
Speaker 3: to like do their thing and be like but that
Speaker 3: that's not how we did it here, Like, you know,
Speaker 3: I just went with it, but you know, it was
Speaker 3: just I don't know, it wasn't a comfortable feeling at first,
Speaker 3: you know. Yeah, it took a while to get used
Speaker 3: to the whole new routine.
Speaker 5: Yep, guys, put some pictures up because we got a
Speaker 5: lot of pictures, a lot of good ones.
Speaker 3: I want to go with some of them.
Speaker 4: Okay, well you just mentioned we'll go to That was
Speaker 4: Dan Hagelin.
Speaker 3: Then Dan had passed away nine to eleven cancer, probably
Speaker 3: five years ago. I guess Dan passed. I was in
Speaker 3: Centapore Cenaport Fire Department.
Speaker 7: You got buried right right across the way.
Speaker 3: M hmm. Yeah, and that was you know, they reserved
Speaker 3: the chair for him at a lunch one day mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Uh, what're you gonna go back to? You get
Speaker 4: this guy too? You want to mention earlier?
Speaker 3: That's buck face Fagan me and that's his son Patrick
Speaker 3: is son. Patrick's in the Bronx right now. That's amazing,
Speaker 3: that's so funny, man. Yeah, we getting old man that
Speaker 3: I know Fagan, probably over forty years that roof all right.
Speaker 4: I have another good one for you, another family member
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 3: My nephew James at the shops. He took one twenty
Speaker 3: nine to the shops and.
Speaker 7: He saw four his ring desk. We got a picture.
Speaker 6: You take a ship.
Speaker 7: Eighteen years on the.
Speaker 3: Job, now ship in the ed. I do side jobs
Speaker 3: with him. Now he's got a side job. He high
Speaker 3: his mate.
Speaker 4: Side job.
Speaker 3: Jimmy side job, Jimmy.
Speaker 4: Ut. I got a little There's gonna be a story
Speaker 4: behind this.
Speaker 3: That's Phil.
Speaker 7: Phil mcconald's Matt e s U.
Speaker 3: That's his brother.
Speaker 5: They couldn't stand each other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they didn't get along. Apparently Phil rides with us.
Speaker 3: I see Phil a lot. I saw him the day
Speaker 3: we had our meeting Tuesday up in Blooming Grove.
Speaker 7: Did he have like a black onesie on.
Speaker 5: Jumpsuit, the jumpsuit that jumps you can tell stories?
Speaker 3: No, Ray five Ray in the club.
Speaker 7: Ray was a great guy, came to everything.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, cancer bro. Yeah.
Speaker 7: As a memorial Bobby Meadows, he was a Bronx guy.
Speaker 6: I remember him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anytime we take a ride, if we see him, memorial,
Speaker 3: we always stop trying to take a picture around the country.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, missus fight for you.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. It was Ray's house with the family transport
Speaker 3: van had a lot of stuff.
Speaker 6: Holy marcat the van.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a trip that was a trip down
Speaker 3: to Washington that we did with a bunch of the
Speaker 3: guys with fire riders.
Speaker 5: Run Zony, Yeah, the runs, the runs to.
Speaker 4: The zone.
Speaker 7: Nice Donny maw.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of the guys nice. You got it.
Speaker 7: What was Donny Meyer, right, Donny Meyer?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was in three fourteen.
Speaker 6: I remember.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a ride pick Cracy. You got Cameron Even
Speaker 3: he's like the senior man over in too now close
Speaker 3: to it, Yeah, gotta be. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think he's a senior man, does he?
Speaker 6: Oh? No, well, Jimmy, Jimmy's a senior man. He gave
Speaker 6: the speech at the centennial.
Speaker 5: Okay, so he's gotta be like he's like number two
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, ok number.
Speaker 3: Two gnother fire riders ride.
Speaker 5: You guys get around man?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, in California twice, Canada twice.
Speaker 4: From here on your motorcycle the whole way.
Speaker 7: Motorcycle, Yeah, motorcycle the whole way.
Speaker 5: Holy, that's gotta be how many hours your driving day?
Speaker 7: Seven hundred miles a day?
Speaker 4: Girls, crap?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a long. By the time you stop, you
Speaker 3: just want to eat, go to bed, and then wake
Speaker 3: up and do the same thing the next day. We
Speaker 3: got to do the same thing.
Speaker 4: Nice, all right, before I have a little thing here, okay, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 4: this is want to make sure before okay, here we
Speaker 4: go a little bit about the story.
Speaker 3: Okay, that was uh this Poors of War and that's
Speaker 3: concert They trained service dogs for first responders a military
Speaker 3: and I was able to get in the program with
Speaker 3: my dog Henry. And uh, he's probably not quite a
Speaker 3: year there, not three years to train him. I still
Speaker 3: have him. He's he's six years old. Now he's a
Speaker 3: good boy. One hundred and twenty five pounds.
Speaker 5: Now, wow, those dogs to get the hind legs right,
Speaker 5: they have problems lay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's doing pretty good. I give him these pills
Speaker 3: and he does pretty good.
Speaker 5: We give him to Louis too.
Speaker 4: But you see he's laying on the couch over there.
Speaker 3: He wants to play all the time. That's the problem.
Speaker 7: When he puts the best on, you know, he's working.
Speaker 7: But when he don't have the best on, he just
Speaker 7: wants to flay.
Speaker 3: Okay, and we y in a club flies the Blackhawk
Speaker 3: helicopters to the military, and he flew that on the
Speaker 3: twentieth anniversary of nine to eleven. He had the fight
Speaker 3: Department flag, the American flag, and a fire at his
Speaker 3: flag which we we made a shadow box. One of
Speaker 3: the guys made a shadow box out of it, uh,
Speaker 3: Steve bum And we want to donate it to the
Speaker 3: to the Rock. But we're just trying to work the
Speaker 3: whole details out to donate it so it doesn't walk away.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, I.
Speaker 3: Just don't know anybody. Most of us will retired the Yeah.
Speaker 7: So I didn't know Mike when he was in four, but.
Speaker 3: Actually when it was in thirty six, his father used
Speaker 3: to come to like multi unit drill all that was
Speaker 3: the chief, right, But uh, I think it would know Mike.
Speaker 7: He would know me if I ran into him.
Speaker 3: So maybe maybe I'll arrange it.
Speaker 5: Look at this, this pee wee wants to hurt my feelings.
Speaker 5: Did you see this? The legs were bowed more than
Speaker 5: Kevin's after fighting seven hundred miles a day. Come on,
Speaker 5: pee wee, not for long, long baby, two weeks the
Speaker 5: replacements here it comes, Oh, all right, walking boat legged?
Speaker 4: No more that the little funky little like gallop you
Speaker 4: got going on?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 4: All right? So that's a good picture because we you
Speaker 4: mentioned this in the you know description as far as
Speaker 4: the the.
Speaker 3: NBC crew, Oh yeah yeah. Home was out on a run.
Speaker 3: So we got to run to Manhattan and we wound
Speaker 3: up going to Rockefeller Center, and uh, it took a
Speaker 3: long time to get out of Everybody wanted to take pictures.
Speaker 5: Throwing their panties at you. Hold yeah, little kid, All right,
Speaker 5: Tom Jones, you know.
Speaker 7: He got Lieutenant dal Della. You know you got Dan o'hegelan.
Speaker 7: Who's not there anymore.
Speaker 6: That's Mendoza, isn't it.
Speaker 3: I remember his name? Rough, I couldn't remember.
Speaker 6: He was a one o three guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bully, Yeah, I haven't heard. Where is that.
Speaker 4: One o three?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Still trying to figure out where that company is.
Speaker 5: Who's the guy in the front, Jim, he lives in
Speaker 5: the talking.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of his name, getting like me.
Speaker 3: I wish some of the guys were for were in
Speaker 3: the chat because David know him. His hair was never
Speaker 3: out of place, he was never dirty. Great guy. Somebody
Speaker 3: will know his name.
Speaker 10: No not Mike Fitzgerald could be that's what mild was
Speaker 10: coming in hot right, Yeah, yeah, he's right, he's right.
Speaker 3: What's the chauffeur?
Speaker 5: Mike was the chauff Mikey Milmer.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, Mike is right, he.
Speaker 4: Is, and uh yeah, well that's what we you have.
Speaker 4: For the most part. We got a couple of young
Speaker 4: in pictures if you want you. We didn't get to
Speaker 4: take the picture him and his brother and this. Oh
Speaker 4: that's the old idea.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 6: I think I remember that guy. I remember that guy.
Speaker 3: That guy I remember. I don't remember the other guy.
Speaker 3: I didn't steal anything from you guys or anything that
Speaker 3: I not that I know. That was always a big
Speaker 3: thing though.
Speaker 7: Right, there's my my two girls, you.
Speaker 4: Know, yeah, this one I was able to pull back up,
Speaker 4: you know a little.
Speaker 3: My brother with my parents when that wasn't Roosevelt, and
Speaker 3: that was a Welfare.
Speaker 4: Island welfare.
Speaker 3: Super Roosevelt back then, the super clursal, wake.
Speaker 5: Look at it, look at a MAPA hair on your
Speaker 5: old man, Now, I know where you get it from.
Speaker 3: Bro. Yeah, and my brother's bald right now, my brother
Speaker 3: that sucks.
Speaker 6: It is your dad still around?
Speaker 3: No, he passed.
Speaker 5: So somebody was just gonna ask a question, I'm stealing stuff?
Speaker 3: Yeah, God, I was gonna say, right, it's always the
Speaker 3: whole rumor, like a rescue came up. They came in,
Speaker 3: they took the line, They did this, they did that.
Speaker 6: Shut your bottle off.
Speaker 3: It was. It was always such like bullshit. You know,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't do that to anybody. But there was times
Speaker 3: we went in and there was just a line laying
Speaker 3: on the floor and she was like, can you guys
Speaker 3: take the line. Yeah, we're gonna take the line if
Speaker 3: you want to want us to take it.
Speaker 7: But why getting a way of a good story?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 5: Why you know it make it look like you dropped
Speaker 5: the line in the hallway.
Speaker 3: And when you're claim it on rescue, you go to
Speaker 3: a car accident and they're trying to start the hur stool,
Speaker 3: start and start. It won't start, they got no gas
Speaker 3: in it. Whatever else. Start a her stool and start
Speaker 3: using it like.
Speaker 5: Sorry, you know they stole it. You stole the job.
Speaker 3: We stole it.
Speaker 4: We're supposed to do because because thinner is the faster
Speaker 4: you go, skinner gets there, you go. Yah, I stopped it.
Speaker 4: I was gonna do. I was gonna share a little
Speaker 4: blip of the NBC special, but I don't wants to
Speaker 4: get copyrighted.
Speaker 3: Well it's a new show. No, No, it's an old
Speaker 3: that was old.
Speaker 4: That show That was the one that they did with
Speaker 4: what the heck.
Speaker 3: They were at a firehouse for like it. Ha'd be
Speaker 3: like three weeks they rolled with us really everything else. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's the one with game with the Yes, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: game with the brillo and uh oh.
Speaker 4: What you want to? Where is it?
Speaker 6: There is really quick use most people.
Speaker 4: So when you guys, let the fire to get him
Speaker 4: out of the room. Anyway, We'll leave it at that
Speaker 4: so nobody gets into trouble.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they follow They follow us to the plane crash.
Speaker 3: There was a scaffolding collapse in the city. We want
Speaker 3: to That was one of the ones, like ye special,
Speaker 3: I was gonna go watch it, but it's on a
Speaker 3: b C. You know, it's on a videotape. Who's gotta be.
Speaker 6: Him? He was in the in the sink.
Speaker 7: If you say he was a mechanic too, he was
Speaker 7: a car guy.
Speaker 3: Oh, you have to go back to the picture, right,
Speaker 3: which which one do you go on?
Speaker 6: No, he was in the he's in the sink scrubbing
Speaker 6: the pot and he's scrubbing something.
Speaker 4: He's talking about the souls. Right, you're gonna have a
Speaker 4: good meal or something like that.
Speaker 6: I remember him at the Rock he was at the rock.
Speaker 6: He passed away too, but he was in two ninety two.
Speaker 6: He was a he was a car guy. Maybe somebody
Speaker 6: in the chat would if they say his name. I
Speaker 6: remember it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I missed the picture.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I didn't see.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was trying to show too too much. I
Speaker 4: don't with them the dings, but.
Speaker 3: That was always tough. I don't know about you guys,
Speaker 3: like you know two ID eight, but like when the
Speaker 3: widows came back to the firehouse or anything else, right,
Speaker 3: especially in the beginning, it was.
Speaker 7: Like, what do you say, bring the kids?
Speaker 6: Yeah, when I when I was in the detail, one
Speaker 6: time I was working in the rescue and it was
Speaker 6: we were in the bucking engine gotta run two ninety two,
Speaker 6: gotta run. And there was a senior man again I
Speaker 6: used to see his face all the time, and he
Speaker 6: said the lights went on and eddie' zelman was working
Speaker 6: and Eddie said something and then he says, yeah, well,
Speaker 6: you know, two ninety two, while the cougar is raw
Speaker 6: and the rescue snare or something like that.
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you that they got stuck with a
Speaker 3: lot though, because we were out of court as so.
Speaker 5: Much, especially if you've got to run down to the
Speaker 5: Rockaways or something. Man, just oh good, because you.
Speaker 3: Guys got turned out on the report of a pin. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: So we would try to listen up on the radio.
Speaker 3: So if you heard something coming in, you know, maybe
Speaker 3: not maybe not so much a pin, but you heard
Speaker 3: something come in, it sounded like a good job multiple calls. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we'd head that way before you even got the ticket.
Speaker 3: So at least you got on the road because you
Speaker 3: could be in Rockaway then get job in a story
Speaker 3: after that, you know, and you're not gonna it's too
Speaker 3: far away?
Speaker 5: Is a big geographic distance, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: Like what's Queens is like one hundred and fifty square
Speaker 3: miles or something like that.
Speaker 6: That's pretty crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was nothing like twenty four hours
Speaker 3: to put one hundred miles on the rig was nothing.
Speaker 3: Did you drive before you retired? I did? Yeah. How
Speaker 3: do you like driving?
Speaker 6: I liked it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? At night sometimes it was tough, but I liked it.
Speaker 4: Garbage in your way.
Speaker 3: When they were working on the b que and they
Speaker 3: had those jersey walls up wheels on the rig used
Speaker 3: to scream both sides of the wall wheels.
Speaker 5: There there was no room it was too tight when
Speaker 5: you went through the tunnel. How about when you went
Speaker 5: to the Midtown tunnel.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, you're gonna hit anything like duck and
Speaker 7: go through.
Speaker 3: Jackie Robinson, I'm like.
Speaker 7: No, we're good, We're good. Was Richie Schmidt there?
Speaker 3: Richie came after nine eleven. Richie came. Richie's got some
Speaker 3: health problems going on right now. A good guy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he does flags and everything else for a tunnel of
Speaker 3: Taois and all the other events. Yeah.
Speaker 5: He helped build the the whole thing out with the
Speaker 5: rock too, that yeah, pavilion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, rich is a good guy. Talk about guy with
Speaker 3: hands like a baseball man. Oh my god, you saying
Speaker 3: that all the time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, big hands.
Speaker 3: He was good friends with Terry Fowell. Oh that yeah,
Speaker 3: really good friends. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So he was in uh one fifty four, that's where
Speaker 5: he came. My brothers in three or seven. Now, Richie
Speaker 5: would never talk to me when I saw him on
Speaker 5: a job ever, wouldn't say two words to me.
Speaker 3: So we're pulling.
Speaker 5: Ceilings in an apartment one day and he stops, he
Speaker 5: my brother just had a heart attack, right, So he goes,
Speaker 5: how's your brother doing him? Like he's stayable, he's doing good,
Speaker 5: he goes good, they go fuck yourself.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, I took. I told to Richie a
Speaker 3: couple of times on the phone, like when he was
Speaker 3: at one fifty four and uh, he was asking like
Speaker 3: they were looking for guys to come over. And I
Speaker 3: think Timmy Kelly was already at the firehouse by then,
Speaker 3: and I think I talked to Timmy and Timmy was like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: we need guys, you know. And then Richie came over.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, what's his name too? Came from four we
Speaker 5: we'veman Rob No, Charlie.
Speaker 3: I worked with it well. I worked with his father
Speaker 3: a short time and his father was driving a battalion
Speaker 3: when I got to one thirty six.
Speaker 7: Oh really yeah yeah yeah, a good guy too.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened to him. He got he
Speaker 3: got hurt of something I don't remember. Yeah, that had
Speaker 3: like a I want to say, a job in a
Speaker 3: factory or something like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3: I remember, I don't off the mezzanine right or something.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, off the mezzanine or something like that. Ev
Speaker 7: like a door or something that was outward opening door
Speaker 7: or something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 7: I've seen him here and the Yeah he seems to
Speaker 7: be doing okay.
Speaker 3: Is he married yet? Yeah, he's married, got a couple
Speaker 3: of kids. Whoa, he was the same.
Speaker 7: It was like twentieth house by now or something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Probably.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: He always had houses, him and his father.
Speaker 5: He was flipping houses.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: He was just a handy. Yeah, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So there are a couple of guys from that house
Speaker 5: to go to rescues. Anderson went to three, Jollie and
Speaker 5: uh Richie went to four, a.
Speaker 7: Couple of Jimmy what was Timmy's name?
Speaker 6: He went to three. From there.
Speaker 7: From must no, no, no, tim Uh, what the heck
Speaker 7: was his name?
Speaker 3: I'll think it great.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he went to rescue three from more and fifty
Speaker 7: four mm.
Speaker 6: His son. I think his son was got killed in
Speaker 6: the a TV actually or something if I remember right,
Speaker 6: really sure.
Speaker 3: I don't remember that. I don't remember who you was
Speaker 3: speaking of? Is uh detail in uh ninety eight detail?
Speaker 4: Tim Wrenn? Yeah, yep, Rans, I say w r Ian. Yes,
Speaker 4: Well I'm leading to chat while you guys looking around.
Speaker 3: Oh Scotty Maxwell too, Oh Scotty Maxwell, right, Yeah, Scotty.
Speaker 3: He was a good guy.
Speaker 5: Scott he was too, Yeah, forty one, and then he
Speaker 5: went to rescue three as a lieutenant I believe, Yeah,
Speaker 5: my cousin Tommy mcgallisty.
Speaker 7: That's so he did his rotation through there.
Speaker 3: Right. What year was at he left?
Speaker 5: Not doing a run?
Speaker 3: He's still no, he's still on the job, all right,
Speaker 3: but he's probably got life. He probably got over twenty
Speaker 3: five on the job right now.
Speaker 5: So, hey, bro, what was that stat that we heard
Speaker 5: about the amount of guys on the job pre nine?
Speaker 7: Was just saying that it's, uh, eight hundred guys or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, something ridiculous. Only one hundred guys left on the
Speaker 5: job before nine to eleven.
Speaker 7: That's great telling us that was that Chief Mayers or
Speaker 7: was that Leab.
Speaker 3: One of them?
Speaker 6: One of them?
Speaker 5: Not sure? Somebody saw it off the icy Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: so let's talk about the fire riders before we finish
Speaker 5: up here.
Speaker 7: Oh you know what, it was funny live.
Speaker 3: I just tell you one thing you know I meant
Speaker 3: on the job one time that wound up being big
Speaker 3: on our job was Vigihanna. When it's a three twenty
Speaker 3: four one day, somehow he came there doing overtime and
Speaker 3: it's like, hey, kid, you're going to get the drill
Speaker 3: today on the satellite and I had my two months there.
Speaker 3: I was like, what.
Speaker 4: Do you want me to do?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 3: And I don't think I realized who he was at
Speaker 3: the time, but years later then I realized, like who
Speaker 3: this guy is? You know?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, speaking of guys like that, we ran into
Speaker 5: uh Chaptain Mars down in the icy.
Speaker 6: Still looks good, I told me, shrinking a little bit
Speaker 6: though now he's a little shrinking.
Speaker 3: So good man. He and he loves the show, so
Speaker 3: that's good stuff.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 5: I'll let's talk about the fire Riders a little bit.
Speaker 5: So you're still active Canada. Isn't it cold on the
Speaker 5: bike when you're freaking driving to Canada?
Speaker 3: I mean, I had to eat a year, but you
Speaker 3: don't really need it that much. It's not bad, you know,
Speaker 3: it's really not terrible, and uh, you know what, it's
Speaker 3: just a good thing being with you know, you missed
Speaker 3: the fire house, right, so it's just like another one
Speaker 3: of those things. That is my nephew, myself. I mean,
Speaker 3: we all got the same tattoos there same time. Oh,
Speaker 3: my nephew, my brother and myself. You're all on the
Speaker 3: fire Riders. All on fire riders. We all ride, you know,
Speaker 3: and it's uh, it's just like a connection still to
Speaker 3: the job. Oh that was back. Uh after nine eleven
Speaker 3: Milwaukee Hawley Davidson House o' holly invited us out there
Speaker 3: and they gave myself, Bobby West and Greg Fagan brand
Speaker 3: new motorcycles to ride.
Speaker 7: For a couple of days we were there.
Speaker 5: That's cool.
Speaker 9: Wow.
Speaker 3: And how that came about. We went out there at
Speaker 3: for Hally's ninety fifth anniversary and we met guys in
Speaker 3: the Milwaukee Firehouse and we became friends with them. So
Speaker 3: then after nine to eleven they invited.
Speaker 7: Us to come out. So we went out there after
Speaker 7: that and they give us the.
Speaker 3: Bikes to ride.
Speaker 5: And so what is that thing about this? They're just
Speaker 5: what did you do that?
Speaker 3: Sturtis multiple times, you know Laconia Late we just got
Speaker 3: back from Late George.
Speaker 7: We donated to a marine up there was his.
Speaker 3: Twentieth anniversary was a live day. So, jimm are you married?
Speaker 3: I'm married now?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: When I retired, I wasn't married, and that's one of
Speaker 3: the reasons I've retired. But I'm married now for almost
Speaker 3: fifteen years.
Speaker 5: Wow, you old lady must be cool. Let you drive
Speaker 5: around the country on a bike.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she's good.
Speaker 3: She's good.
Speaker 7: She likes to ride on it too, so she does.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she does at Old Pinky Tuscadero right right.
Speaker 3: Days you know. Actually, yeah, those are plaques we had
Speaker 3: made up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just trying to find a couple of.
Speaker 3: Specifically that we have those polished plaques. Anybody ever wants one.
Speaker 6: We had.
Speaker 3: A lot of guys have money bikes.
Speaker 7: Some guys put them on a cause whatever.
Speaker 6: Do you guys go off for donations? Like what do
Speaker 6: you guys do?
Speaker 3: We do a raffle every year and we just finished up.
Speaker 3: We actually sold out already and the raffle is going
Speaker 3: to be actually this Saturday, we have a tuner party
Speaker 3: at the Plat Deutsch at one o'clock to five o'clock
Speaker 3: at the Plat Deutsch and Fink Franklin Square. Everybody's in
Speaker 3: buy it. They call it a tuner party. So I
Speaker 3: think a lot of people think it's like, oh, guy's
Speaker 3: gonna be working on their bikes. No, nobody's working on
Speaker 3: their bikes. Everybody's drinking and eating and having a good time, right,
Speaker 3: and they'll do to raffles. So we sell five hundred
Speaker 3: tickets every year, one hundred dollars a ticket, we give
Speaker 3: away fifteen grand and then you know, second and third
Speaker 3: prize or a great new motorcycle, and every year we
Speaker 3: donate five family transport gift of life off the love
Speaker 3: burns in a camp. And then like if anybody raised
Speaker 3: their hand in the club and wants to donate to somebody,
Speaker 3: he said, yeah, will donate, and then we passed the
Speaker 3: hat to and we give the money, like we just
Speaker 3: gave to Jimmy Harvison his widow. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you remember the story. He was jogging, yeah, in the
Speaker 3: track and a couple of kids just decided that he
Speaker 3: was like to shoot somebody, and he shot and killed him.
Speaker 3: He had like three years on the job. So we
Speaker 3: just went to his widow's house. And that's probably could
Speaker 3: be twenty years ago, I remember that, and they were
Speaker 3: like shutting off for electric. The house was falling apart.
Speaker 3: So all the guys from Snyder Revenue, I think it's
Speaker 3: one seventy four four, they were all doing work on
Speaker 3: the house. So we went there with some of our
Speaker 3: raffle money and we made a donation toois and materials
Speaker 3: and everything else. Home depot gave a donation and the
Speaker 3: woman was literally in tears when we showed up to
Speaker 3: give her the money, you know, to put their house.
Speaker 3: Those guys said they actually paid her electric bill that
Speaker 3: day so they wouldn't shut the electric off. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was a ride. I was leaving to go on.
Speaker 3: And you guys find know how many times the nine
Speaker 3: to eleven or three forty three shows on my motorcycle
Speaker 3: every day?
Speaker 6: Every day?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Every day?
Speaker 4: Right, yep, I'm trying to I found this one too.
Speaker 4: This was This is a pretty cool pick. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: plane man, I still see it around.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that's great blue right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, jet blue, all kinds of jet plane.
Speaker 3: We went. We went around with a lot of the
Speaker 3: a lot of steel that was stored over there at
Speaker 3: the airport.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: We took down a quantico, We escorted all the way.
Speaker 3: We probably had like sixty guys at a club riding
Speaker 3: down police escort the whole way to want to go
Speaker 3: Virginia to donate steel for the memorial down there.
Speaker 5: That's a short run California, but you know it's just
Speaker 5: a good way.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you guys do this. It's kind of keep
Speaker 3: in touch. With the job keeps you guys, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of like the same thing. Otherwise you lose touch.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: I still try to do. Over in Farmingdale, they had
Speaker 3: the retirees. They have the breakfast over there, Bouncing Unit,
Speaker 3: or we're gonna do a show.
Speaker 5: I was talking to you, Ronny, Yeah, we're gon We're
Speaker 5: gonna do a show from there.
Speaker 3: You just had what's his name on the Jimmy and Mont.
Speaker 3: He's always over there too, jim Yeah. And you know
Speaker 3: he the guy that I lost his son his house. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and we try to help him. He's like, no, I'm good,
Speaker 3: I don't need anything. I'm okay.
Speaker 6: I actually tried when we had him on the show.
Speaker 6: I had been talking to him, obviously a couple of
Speaker 6: weeks before. I said, listen, let me know because we could,
Speaker 6: let's put it out there. You got to go fund me,
Speaker 6: let's let's do He don't want to do nothing.
Speaker 3: No, he didn't want to do anything.
Speaker 7: He didn't want to do nothing.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: Well, even down in flor I go to Florida for
Speaker 3: two months in the winter nice and uh see so
Speaker 3: many retirees down there and they have like a get together.
Speaker 3: They do this like they call a giraffe party underneath
Speaker 3: the bridge where all the guys get together. And it's
Speaker 3: guys from like their forties up to their nineties that
Speaker 3: you know, and it's just it's a good time.
Speaker 4: You know what part of Florida is it.
Speaker 3: It's down in pomp Coast, it's West coast. Probably get
Speaker 3: fifty sixty guys show up and it's a good time,
Speaker 3: you know. And I do a lot of the guys
Speaker 3: when I'm down there in Florida.
Speaker 5: I'm going to ask you the same question I ask
Speaker 5: every retired guy.
Speaker 4: Oh, here it comes.
Speaker 3: Do you have the dream?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know what dream?
Speaker 4: That is?
Speaker 3: The dream that you get a run and you can't
Speaker 3: find your bunker here. Yeah, have you had that dream? Jim,
Speaker 3: I've had that dream.
Speaker 5: Eight Every freaking guy get on the show says the
Speaker 5: same thing.
Speaker 3: We got it. Could you look into this.
Speaker 4: Police for conspiracy?
Speaker 6: Know they get it, you know, like it's like Sigmund
Speaker 6: Freud that it has something to do like they used
Speaker 6: to say, like fall out or something or something going on.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, I don't know, but it is nobody retired
Speaker 3: that doesn't miss the job, right, everybody misses it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for the most part, yeah, I would say, yeah,
Speaker 4: well you gotta look at you're doing something for twenty
Speaker 4: five thirty years. Thirty five years, you got a routine.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know, it's just gonna.
Speaker 3: I felt like I left, you know, for me. At
Speaker 3: the time, I got hurt, right uf I one fifty
Speaker 3: four was at the job. My leg went through the
Speaker 3: floor and blew out my knee. Oh man. And at
Speaker 3: the time I was a single dad. My kids were
Speaker 3: like six and seven and I had them.
Speaker 4: On my own.
Speaker 3: Yeah, babysity is everything. Trying to juggle everything, and you know,
Speaker 3: I went to special surgery and the doctor was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you could fight to go back, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, you know, it's either go back and
Speaker 3: waiting another five six years to maybe get what I'm
Speaker 3: going to get if I retiring, now take care of
Speaker 3: my kids. So you know, it just worked out.
Speaker 7: I just stim I.
Speaker 3: Got out in two thousand and five. You know, my
Speaker 3: kids were still young man and uh now of course
Speaker 3: they were in their thirties. You know, they got houses
Speaker 3: and married whatever else. No, No, he's playing, they're working
Speaker 3: on it. But practice, it's just fun. It's funny. Thing
Speaker 3: like I got the place in Sullivan County, like I
Speaker 3: don't know, eons ago, and when the kids were little,
Speaker 3: nobody wanted to go. We got no WiFi, we got
Speaker 3: no this, we got we hated want to go now,
Speaker 3: Like my daughter lives a block away from me up there,
Speaker 3: and they and last year they just bought the local house,
Speaker 3: went up to sell. They both where where is Lake Huntington?
Speaker 3: All right, yeah, right by not fall from calcun right there.
Speaker 3: So they're on the local firehouse plus a house a
Speaker 3: block away from us. And all the kids are constantly
Speaker 3: at my house up there. So as much as they
Speaker 3: hate it, they all love it up there. Now we
Speaker 3: got one hundred acres up there, get tractors, everything, well,
Speaker 3: hunting and whatever else, hunting, a lot of some bear,
Speaker 3: a lot of.
Speaker 6: What was the website for that?
Speaker 7: In case guys want to donate to the fire well,
Speaker 7: really we don't take donations.
Speaker 3: We just do the raffle.
Speaker 7: But it's New York cityfire Riders dot com.
Speaker 4: You know I say that.
Speaker 3: But if anybody wants to come to the party on
Speaker 3: Saturday platote o'clock, it's a great time.
Speaker 5: I recommend the Bavarian pretzel and also meeting degrees out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, recommend using the a t.
Speaker 5: M there several times.
Speaker 6: That your at M.
Speaker 7: I have three of them in there, dude, I'm going
Speaker 7: there for the three reunion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll take.
Speaker 6: It.
Speaker 3: Takes a lot of events, right, what's that They do
Speaker 3: a lot of events there.
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, they do a lot of events. That newcastle
Speaker 5: is built out there.
Speaker 6: Ye see that that machine. I can't wait.
Speaker 5: Don't touch it. I have cameras on it. The roofing proof.
Speaker 5: How dairy use, son of a bitch?
Speaker 6: Son of a bitch?
Speaker 3: You you dick?
Speaker 5: Anything else you want to throw out there before we do?
Speaker 3: You know what else?
Speaker 6: To exhausted.
Speaker 7: He hasn't done as much talking.
Speaker 5: And twenty years was he talking to Well, he's running
Speaker 5: now to himself.
Speaker 3: Listen when I was when I was president fire Riders,
Speaker 3: I had the headset on. Guys are calling. I'm riding
Speaker 3: on my motorcide. Guys are calling, he texted me. Or
Speaker 3: at the headside. I'm like, I'm riding my bike. I can't.
Speaker 6: No, it's like this, Jim, I'm riding.
Speaker 3: I had a Harley. Uh, let me tell you. When
Speaker 3: we went to Lake George took about cold growing up there, Boy,
Speaker 3: it was freezing.
Speaker 4: You have the windshielded, No, you don't have a windshield
Speaker 4: so cold. Yeah, when begin helps a little bit. It's
Speaker 4: like a dumble dumber when you get there frozen.
Speaker 5: All right, So it might be that time, Johns, what
Speaker 5: time is that?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 6: It is time for.
Speaker 4: Day day take away, my friend.
Speaker 3: I would say, my old school tip of the day
Speaker 3: would be, really just check the rig, know the tools
Speaker 3: on the rig, make sure everything works, make sure the
Speaker 3: mess have you know your pack has air, make sure
Speaker 3: the batteries are charged, the other tools have gasoline, and
Speaker 3: just know where everything is, you know, because half the
Speaker 3: time companies pull up, not half the time, but companies
Speaker 3: pull up and they're not ready to go.
Speaker 7: You gotta be ready to go.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: It's definitely the jullet.
Speaker 3: You don't use all that all the time that you
Speaker 3: wanted to get exactly what was saying about, guys, They
Speaker 3: took the line, No, you ran out of air, ran
Speaker 3: on the floor, you know, maybe you didn't want to
Speaker 3: go in there right school started. Sorry, I'm sorry, you know.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, all right, yeah, ezy stuff.
Speaker 5: Guys for sharing your career with us. Broy thoroughly enjoyed it.
Speaker 7: Well, thanks for having me on. You know, hopefully it
Speaker 7: was a decent show.
Speaker 3: Ah, it was great man.
Speaker 5: Yeah, next time you're going up to uh Lake George
Speaker 5: on a bike, don't give me a call because I.
Speaker 3: Really have no interest to go.
Speaker 5: Guys like you man, Oh George, it's great career. Thank you,
Speaker 5: God's anybody got a shout out?
Speaker 4: And you should have our less commercial.
Speaker 3: Oh do it?
Speaker 6: Here we go.
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Speaker 5: Old school health and safety tip is watch next week's show.
Speaker 5: Ruffy won't be there, but we're doing the show and
Speaker 5: mental health. We're gonna emphasize mental health not only for you,
Speaker 5: but what you bring home to your wife and kids.
Speaker 5: And we're gonna have Vinnie Dunn as a guest, Mike
Speaker 5: Milner as a guest, and Anti Carbone and maybe one
Speaker 5: other president. Kenny Delaney's filling in for Luerfrano. We'll be
Speaker 5: all to say. I still go to counsel unit once
Speaker 5: a month. Yeah, man, Yeah, you gotta get a check
Speaker 5: out from the neck up, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: You can't look that the otherwise like Gonzo.
Speaker 3: You know like that.
Speaker 4: Well you know, I mean not go but it's not helping, kidding.
Speaker 5: And we just got who we just oh you see,
Speaker 5: I just got Danny Sheridan.
Speaker 6: When is that when put?
Speaker 3: I don't know, he's on the list somewhere.
Speaker 6: I got Miro two from Ah.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you're say you have that one
Speaker 5: for for May fifteenth. Oh god, So speaking of which
Speaker 5: May fifteenth.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I was waiting for you to kare it
Speaker 4: is there.
Speaker 3: It is all right.
Speaker 5: So this is a show that I and Louis will
Speaker 5: be here.
Speaker 4: May sixteenth, seventeenth.
Speaker 5: Sixteenth, and seventeenth at the Lancaster County Fireman's Association fifty
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Speaker 5: two hundred and fifty emergency service exhibits featuring the world's
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Speaker 5: May seventeen, twenty twenty five, nine to four. Come out
Speaker 5: and see me and Rufie have a drink. Maybe we'll
Speaker 5: go out to dinner with you. Well, maybe you can
Speaker 5: take us out of dinner. Either way, come on out
Speaker 5: and see us.
Speaker 7: What do we get the cold smoke Delmonico?
Speaker 5: We know we get the cold smoke Delmonico, Steak, wonder Ball.
Speaker 5: We'll be out there with the guys.
Speaker 3: This is the worst looking at I ever saw by
Speaker 3: a hat like this. I'll let You're gonna free powl
Speaker 3: a soup finish. Sorry, that's where will be and that's
Speaker 3: all I got.
Speaker 6: Give me a nice job.
Speaker 3: Kid, Thank you, guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Doing well.
Speaker 5: Ride to the end, bro, keep on Ryde keeps you young.
Speaker 7: Yeap nailed the guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, lose some of that hair.
Speaker 5: Well, you really comes ten years old of me.
Speaker 3: He's got more ahead of me.
Speaker 5: But anyhoy, that's all I got. We will see you
Speaker 5: next Thursday. Well Louis won't, but we will see you
Speaker 5: until then. Stay low and go all.
Speaker 7: Right, everybody will here the big one. Thanks again, Jim,
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 4: All right, guys, give a little I was gonna give
Speaker 4: a little shout out earlier. Sorry, I had a moment
Speaker 4: there for the victims for the FSU shooting today, so
Speaker 4: I obviously you know that's hit me. Impacts me a
Speaker 4: little bit different, you know than some other people. But
Speaker 4: I just want to give a shout out condolences to
Speaker 4: the families up there, and with that, just be better
Speaker 4: today than you wore yesterday. Have a good night, everyone,
Speaker 4: good night, Get on