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Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, Louis re Frado is still alive.
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Speaker 6: Alum, green Berey Was that the green Berets.
Speaker 4: It is the green Berets. We had a John Row
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Speaker 4: have been doing it. Was Milner from there, Milna No,
Speaker 4: he was nineteen nineteen, seventeen nineteen.
Speaker 6: Mannix was from seventeen as well.
Speaker 4: Ah, man, this guy might have about mustache than the
Speaker 4: guy we had on last week. He's got some.
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Speaker 4: in here, rough you do, honesd mancon you have been here.
Speaker 7: God you're ready, I'm ready, all right, coming to the
Speaker 7: stage sixty engine his whole career, firefighter Guy Schneider.
Speaker 4: Where's the correct.
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Speaker 4: He does.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got it around.
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Speaker 6: Bro.
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Speaker 7: Before we get started, we should uh gont you have uh?
Speaker 5: I have.
Speaker 6: Yes with that picture of for me, so I want
Speaker 6: uh here we go, right. So today was.
Speaker 7: One of those days, two separate fires. We lost guys
Speaker 7: at two separate fires for the first time in some
Speaker 7: ridiculous amount of years.
Speaker 6: So Richards go founding very close with one O three
Speaker 6: one O three.
Speaker 7: Joe Dibonatto was h He was in Squad sixty one
Speaker 7: when Kevin and I weren't squat to eighty eight. He
Speaker 7: ended up going to rescue three uh and John Pauloo
Speaker 7: and Lieutenant Myron. So just keep him in your thoughts today, yep.
Speaker 4: I was in Provy school with with Joey d great kid,
Speaker 4: great kid. Rest you had to be close.
Speaker 6: I told you how to be closed.
Speaker 4: I saw him do one of these, which means, go
Speaker 4: get my green brid All right, so let's let's start
Speaker 4: talking about guys. Schneider the man. Where were you born?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: What neighborhood? What was family life back you know, back
Speaker 4: then in the old days.
Speaker 8: Yeah, born in Amityville Brunswick Hospital which doesn't exist anymore,
Speaker 8: or down a couple of years ago, nineteen fifty two.
Speaker 8: Lived in Babylon basically all my life until I got
Speaker 8: into the fire debarment. Probably I got one sister. She's
Speaker 8: down there with Delaware.
Speaker 4: Somewhere Delaware with joe all right, what did dad do?
Speaker 8: Dad? Well, I worked village of babylin sanitation for a while,
Speaker 8: which helped me out a lot for the physical for
Speaker 8: the fire department. That's all we're doing is lifting cans
Speaker 8: and whatever else, throwing ship in the back of the truck.
Speaker 5: Dead bodies dead.
Speaker 8: But yeah we had one dead body.
Speaker 5: Fellows, good fellows back then.
Speaker 4: I'll tak the dunk the first all I dunk. So
Speaker 4: Dad wasn't a fireman though, No, what makes you take
Speaker 4: your test? Were you a volley?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 8: It was volley and Babylon Village.
Speaker 4: Ah, there you go at what age?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 8: Well, I got in when I was eighteen. What year
Speaker 8: was that? What talking nineteen seventy?
Speaker 4: So you went down there in nineteen seventy with your
Speaker 4: bell bottoms on and you have to pooh shirt right
Speaker 4: rough and the platform shoes.
Speaker 8: And you're like, yeah, well really it's a good part.
Speaker 8: I only lived three hundred feet away from the firehouse.
Speaker 4: So were your friend's volleys? What made you go into
Speaker 4: the volley?
Speaker 8: Yeah, a lot of the guys from my class high school,
Speaker 8: they went in. It's about ten of us, I think.
Speaker 8: So you were in seven y you.
Speaker 4: Work in the Sanitage, which ain't a bad job now
Speaker 4: it's not bad, right, and you're doing the volley thing, right,
Speaker 4: So who your friends take the test? And what made
Speaker 4: you want to take the test?
Speaker 8: I'm the only one out of a crew that took
Speaker 8: the test so far. Really, yeah, as far as I know, So.
Speaker 4: Why did you take the test? Who told you was
Speaker 4: a good idea? You just like to a volley.
Speaker 8: You watch all the City of New York stuff, you know,
Speaker 8: fires and everything else. I figured what I'm gonna try.
Speaker 8: It took the test. I took the took the seventy seven,
Speaker 8: didn't do too great. And then and uh, I took
Speaker 8: the I think it was eighty two. Right, I did
Speaker 8: it much better because I had my five points. Military.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, you left that out. Wait, let's roll it
Speaker 4: back a little bit. When you go in the military.
Speaker 8: Military, I went in in seventy one.
Speaker 4: What what branch?
Speaker 8: Navy?
Speaker 6: Navy?
Speaker 4: Navyman?
Speaker 6: What was that like with your family involved in that?
Speaker 8: Now, well, my father was in the Navy World War two,
Speaker 8: so you know we picked up on that.
Speaker 5: They chance the name.
Speaker 8: I want to know what there is that's me. It's
Speaker 8: on the heel crash crew on the ship.
Speaker 4: Wait, what navy allows guys to have a head that's
Speaker 4: like that? Unruly?
Speaker 6: This is working.
Speaker 8: This is the seventies.
Speaker 6: What was that like?
Speaker 7: What was that like with the dealing with that stuff?
Speaker 7: I mean, did you guys get practiced a lot? Did
Speaker 7: you ever have an actual Well.
Speaker 8: We had a hero on board, you know, every time
Speaker 8: it had to go up and come back, we had
Speaker 8: to set up the crash crew just in case. So
Speaker 8: you are what kind of ship, yeah, destroyer escort destroyed frigate.
Speaker 4: So you already you were in the crash crew, you
Speaker 4: were fighting fires in the navy.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well yeah, I went to damage control school first.
Speaker 5: That's crazy.
Speaker 4: Did that was that next to you standing in water
Speaker 4: when he stuck his finger and that the buzzer out.
Speaker 6: Got to be windy on the deck decks, right, it's.
Speaker 8: Windy out that day. What can I And that's my
Speaker 8: boss on the right, that's your boss. That's the boss.
Speaker 5: What's going on over here? Wow?
Speaker 6: Did you did you guys? Did you guys stay in
Speaker 6: touch after all that time?
Speaker 8: Yeah? The my bus there, I still keep in touch.
Speaker 6: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: How old are you there?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 8: Probably nineteen?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 4: That that's a great picture.
Speaker 6: Man, How is a guy? How was the ports of call?
Speaker 6: As they say?
Speaker 8: That was good? I mean we did the first cruise
Speaker 8: in the Mediterranean, rode to Spain, Naples, Italy, Pereus, Greece.
Speaker 5: Forget about it.
Speaker 8: A short time?
Speaker 4: No short time?
Speaker 8: Yeah, a week. You can do a lot of damage,
Speaker 8: you know. That was good.
Speaker 4: He's elfing of these.
Speaker 8: You know, we had fun.
Speaker 4: No, you got old old navy tattoos?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I got one on my arm and I got you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: But The hardest part of that was Gontanamo Bay where
Speaker 8: they have the it's like the training course for going overseas, right,
Speaker 8: and for two weeks you do everything that you possibly
Speaker 8: couldn't do, and you know, like the crash crew to detail,
Speaker 8: you know, fires on the ship, stretching line, the whole bit.
Speaker 8: That was my baby there, So.
Speaker 4: You would listen. You in two years, No, I did
Speaker 4: four four years, four years wow. So that's then you
Speaker 4: came out. You got the sanitation and the well.
Speaker 8: I had the sanitation before I went in, came back out,
Speaker 8: and the mayor of the village wouldn't hire me back,
Speaker 8: and I told him, federal law says you got to
Speaker 8: take me back. This is during Vietnam, the whole bit.
Speaker 8: So because I'm not going to hire you. So I
Speaker 8: went down there unemployment and they told me to go
Speaker 8: to the v A. The VA wrote him a two
Speaker 8: page letter on all the federal laws that he broke
Speaker 8: not hiring me. Right the next day, I got hot,
Speaker 8: rehired again.
Speaker 4: Ah, how do you like them? Apple?
Speaker 8: It worked, so they stayed with it until you know,
Speaker 8: I took the test at eighty two and uh, you know,
Speaker 8: I got in, so I obviously I had to resign.
Speaker 8: So hey, it worked out pretty good.
Speaker 4: Sweet. So you got on in eighty four eighty four.
Speaker 4: I think my brother got out in eighty four. Well,
Speaker 4: I don't know what class he was in. What class
Speaker 4: were you in?
Speaker 8: Oh god, I know it was seven eleven eighty four.
Speaker 4: That was my You didn't have my brother, Richie Coobler,
Speaker 4: Richie the rugg had a bad rug.
Speaker 5: They don't come off with water.
Speaker 4: He might have your classes. He got in. I think
Speaker 4: he got on and in in the summertime of eighty four.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's when that guy went in in July.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you would know. It looked like a like a there.
Speaker 8: Was three classes going at the same time. We were
Speaker 8: the class of veterans. Oh I five points. We were
Speaker 8: there and then he had to.
Speaker 4: Call for my mother tomorrow. What did you say? He
Speaker 4: looked like he had a possum on his head, had a.
Speaker 6: With all respect to rich Man, that was the worst
Speaker 6: piece of him.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 7: Even as they got better, like they got better, what
Speaker 7: you couldn't tell anymore?
Speaker 6: He kept the first one. I think.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 8: He never changed. The good thing about the rock there
Speaker 8: we had old vets in the company that was formed
Speaker 8: and we had I forgot the guy the fire and say,
Speaker 8: a guy from ad Engine as our company commander. Well
Speaker 8: he sat there and to hold this, you guys, you
Speaker 8: probably don't know how to march. You know, you don't
Speaker 8: know anything about you know, cadence. Okay, So the next
Speaker 8: day we found out one of the guys in the
Speaker 8: company was a drill instructor. All right, we'll go to
Speaker 8: a little practice job and this poor guy from ad Engine.
Speaker 8: So he comes up and the guy goes, well, you
Speaker 8: guys gonna learn how to march, yes, sir, right. All
Speaker 8: of a sudden the guy could the d I gets something.
Speaker 4: All you heard was called.
Speaker 8: And then he started goes and you know, not a
Speaker 8: the poor guy made. He's like, oh right, you heard
Speaker 8: the feet bof. And then we started marching. We were
Speaker 8: doing obliques, real marches, you know, flanks every day. We
Speaker 8: came back, came back, did the right face. He's standing
Speaker 8: there and he's looking at us, goes a bunch of
Speaker 8: smart asses, Well, chief saconno.
Speaker 4: I was if he was down there, he was the.
Speaker 6: I was dead that long.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, he's there forever.
Speaker 8: Bro I know. Anyway, he comes up and he goes
Speaker 8: up to the guy from mate and goes they will
Speaker 8: run to every every station station, so we weren't allowed
Speaker 8: to walk anymore. We had a run. Yeah, because he.
Speaker 4: Didn't say he was gonna step on your cock.
Speaker 8: I don't think he's gonna mess with us. Not good
Speaker 8: for us, A good time. It was only eight weeks
Speaker 8: at the time.
Speaker 4: Well, you way, what do they call that? Most of
Speaker 4: the time, the military guys were the company whatever.
Speaker 8: That is, squad leaders, he WI crash crew. At the end,
Speaker 8: there seventy four. I got e five. They made me, uh,
Speaker 8: helicopter scene leader.
Speaker 4: No, when you went to the when you went to
Speaker 4: the provy school, usually they make military guys the squad.
Speaker 8: All of us were military, so we took the one
Speaker 8: guy and it was brill instructor demand.
Speaker 4: So who else was in your class? Any notable names
Speaker 4: in your class?
Speaker 8: God, I think one of my one of my lieutenants,
Speaker 8: I can't remember his name. Now, there was a bunch
Speaker 8: of guys. You know, I still got the picture. Yeah,
Speaker 8: you have to look on the helmets for the name.
Speaker 4: You don't have the You don't have that picture of
Speaker 4: provay class.
Speaker 8: The guns somewhere around here lost the parade. Come on,
Speaker 8: here guy.
Speaker 6: This is the question. Were you're making any class? You
Speaker 6: know where you wanted to go? Where do you want
Speaker 6: to go?
Speaker 8: No, I had no idea where he was going.
Speaker 4: He found up in sixty Engine. It just engine.
Speaker 8: But the good thing is the captain that was there,
Speaker 8: Captain John Giblin, Him and I went to John Jay together.
Speaker 8: So it's like I walk in, I'm going, oh shit,
Speaker 8: I know you not that saying oh ship, I'm sorry, Sarah.
Speaker 8: You know, don't worry about that. Don't worry about it,
Speaker 8: you know. So we used to do, you know, sit
Speaker 8: and study hall there between classes and talking.
Speaker 4: And he was at the rock.
Speaker 8: No that John Jay.
Speaker 4: Oh he was a captain of the sixty at the time.
Speaker 4: Rough and he's somehow it's yeah, it's like a yeah,
Speaker 4: like a suck on. So he put in the word
Speaker 4: for you and he goes.
Speaker 8: He probably did, I don't know, because only two of
Speaker 8: us went down there, went to sixty out of the
Speaker 8: class and like where.
Speaker 7: Yeah, what was that like walking up there for the
Speaker 7: first time in nineteen eighty four?
Speaker 8: Well, see see we walked in. Of course we've got
Speaker 8: an old, brand new gear and all the senior men
Speaker 8: are standing there They're just like looking at us. I'm like,
Speaker 8: this isn't good. We're going to get in trouble. So
Speaker 8: next thing, you know, they we're gonna check your gear.
Speaker 8: So he took all the gear and they threw it
Speaker 8: down the basement, the helmet, everything down. I'm like, oh, well,
Speaker 8: we're really good ship now. So we managed. You know,
Speaker 8: we did our thing. We stayed the proby for a while.
Speaker 4: So who is the some of the senior guys there
Speaker 4: when you got there.
Speaker 8: I got h Hell's I'm not trying to think now, Well,
Speaker 8: we had well, Captain Giblin, we had Maxwell, Captain Maxwell
Speaker 8: in the truck. He became a chief a couple of
Speaker 8: years later. There was so many guys I can't remember.
Speaker 8: It had Bob Kenny, Billy Lawson was in the was
Speaker 8: in the engine already. I think he was there like
Speaker 8: two years before us.
Speaker 4: Oh so he was I don't remember. He was in
Speaker 4: the engine.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, it was in the edge of first. Jimmy
Speaker 8: Johnson was there. You know the guys that you saw
Speaker 8: right that we're on the air here.
Speaker 4: We hit that name all the time, Jimmy Johnson right.
Speaker 8: Roof what's that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we hit his name all the time.
Speaker 8: Jimmy Johnson, Yeah, yeah, he was. He's still around, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: he's Uh, what is in it? I think he's in Florida.
Speaker 4: Oh, we gotta get back to that roofie. So were
Speaker 4: you living still in Long Island when you get yeah,
Speaker 4: still still in Babylon. So you're making that commute up
Speaker 4: to the Bronx.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it wasn't too bad. Hour and twenty minutes at
Speaker 8: five o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 4: So when your first drive up there, right, because that's
Speaker 4: got to be when the Bronx is like, oh yeah.
Speaker 4: It was like what are you thinking to yourself as
Speaker 4: you're driving to the neighborhoods at.
Speaker 8: About you know, you go pass all these old laws,
Speaker 8: you know, and some of the schools are you know,
Speaker 8: the kids are out there, the old handball on the walls,
Speaker 8: and I'm like, wow, this is not exactly what we thought.
Speaker 8: But the streets are crap, you know, and the cars
Speaker 8: a couple of you know, a d V sitting in
Speaker 8: the parking lot. What are you gonna do? It was
Speaker 8: the Bronx. It was there my first daid tour three
Speaker 8: hours and my first.
Speaker 4: Job in three hours.
Speaker 8: Three hours. Wow, all the people are banging on the door.
Speaker 8: What guy opened the door. There's smoke pouring down the
Speaker 8: street and going, we got a job. Boys got into
Speaker 8: that thing, you.
Speaker 4: Know, but you had you had been in the volley, so.
Speaker 8: You are, well, I knew what was guy? I know
Speaker 8: and a half and a half, you know that whole thing.
Speaker 4: So and you were I guess back then everybody was
Speaker 4: a five man engine, right.
Speaker 8: Yeah at the time. Yeah, And I forgot what what
Speaker 8: year they cut it down the floor?
Speaker 4: Were they riding the back step when you got there?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 8: And then everybody had to get in the cab, right,
Speaker 8: So and that changed. I think it changed like a
Speaker 8: year before I got there. Here go, it's the ald
Speaker 8: America of France.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, look at that.
Speaker 5: Actually just one of our previous guests. I'm like, I
Speaker 5: was like, I'm gonna use this one again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what conto? You just earned every dime, every twenty
Speaker 4: five dollars, that whole twenty five You just earned it
Speaker 4: all right there.
Speaker 5: Bro, twenty five fifty.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna raise you up, pay to seventy five dollars.
Speaker 5: Nice, Hey, let's go.
Speaker 4: That's good. So you get there, you ride in the
Speaker 4: American of France and the first job.
Speaker 8: Is what Yeah, root project, third floor up we went.
Speaker 8: You know, we had the lines and stamp pipe right,
Speaker 8: they be the stamp pipe and I had no idea
Speaker 8: what the hell I was doing. So got got the
Speaker 8: whole spread it out, got the water they put out.
Speaker 8: There was one room. Let's enough to put a little
Speaker 8: water on anyway. That's good though, bro, Yeah great. My
Speaker 8: brother always just say to me, I hope you get
Speaker 8: your first job. Is just a controlled, easy job, and
Speaker 8: it's not one that's scares of living crap at it.
Speaker 4: You know, there was a few days we're scared of
Speaker 4: ye we'll talk about those.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: So what was it like up there? You know, work
Speaker 4: in the Bronx in eighty four.
Speaker 8: You drive around, you go on the ems, you know,
Speaker 8: RS runs everything else. You get the lay of the land.
Speaker 8: You can see you know, there were at any homeless
Speaker 8: back then, believe it or not. There were no tents,
Speaker 8: no tense city, nothing. You know, you had the junkies
Speaker 8: that were burning the crap underneath all the bridges, all
Speaker 8: that copper and everything else. That's the only time I've
Speaker 8: really seen anything no tents was eighty four.
Speaker 4: Like, would you say because I thought I had heard
Speaker 4: somewhere that most of the city was burning like in
Speaker 4: the mid seventies, but the Bronx was a little bit
Speaker 4: more like late seventies into the eighties.
Speaker 8: So yeah, I guess. Well, the calls we had, I mean,
Speaker 8: we never forget sleeping, We're out twenty runs at the
Speaker 8: night just to get in and out rs. You know,
Speaker 8: we didn't have ems yet, but then you know, you
Speaker 8: get there ten seventy five, okay, And it was only
Speaker 8: you know, at the time, three and two. That was it,
Speaker 8: so everybody knew everybody. It was fun. We had a
Speaker 8: good time.
Speaker 4: But who did you run? Who is sixteen and.
Speaker 8: Eighty three, twenty nine, seventy one, fifty five and the
Speaker 8: illustrious forty one engine?
Speaker 6: Did you were you going to eighty three and twenty nine?
Speaker 6: Did you go that way the most? At that time
Speaker 6: in eighty four.
Speaker 8: I really know, we had a lot of stuff around us.
Speaker 8: I mean they would come to us. Really, our borderline
Speaker 8: was like three or four blocks away.
Speaker 6: It was already the work was already moving up from
Speaker 6: from there. Right.
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, there was a lot of I mean, we
Speaker 8: had a lot of old factories that were burning. We
Speaker 8: had the coffin factory. I don't know how many fires
Speaker 8: we had in there, old coffin factory. I was with
Speaker 8: the truck then, and uh doing overtime and went in
Speaker 8: the basement, just stacked up coffins in the basement. I'm like,
Speaker 8: oh my god, I'm let's take one back.
Speaker 5: You go back to the court.
Speaker 8: In the TV room. The chief said, that's it. No,
Speaker 8: you're not bringing into the firehouse. Come on. So we tried,
Speaker 8: We tried.
Speaker 4: Is it who's up in fifty five truck? Now? Is
Speaker 4: that what Jimmy is the captain?
Speaker 7: Uh real, Oh no, he's in fifty six.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Nothing.
Speaker 8: I don't know anybody anymore that all the houses have changed.
Speaker 8: Do you still out of my crew? There's nobody, everybody retired.
Speaker 4: Do you still go back at all?
Speaker 8: Yeah? We go.
Speaker 5: We have a.
Speaker 8: Memorial mass every year in June. So that first week
Speaker 8: of June, so we get that. That's when I get
Speaker 8: to see everybody again. Right, the guy look great, you
Speaker 8: want to see some of these other guys. Oh my god,
Speaker 8: but we.
Speaker 4: Just had raw on. He's all great.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's all great.
Speaker 4: You know, was he there when you got there?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, he was already he was there two or
Speaker 8: three years. I guess before I got there.
Speaker 4: Ah, he was all sulty.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah. We did a lot of backstepping together. It
Speaker 8: was fun. But nineteen eighty eight the captain decided he
Speaker 8: found out I was a volley and I was a
Speaker 8: trainer for the pump pumpers. So he said, oh, you're
Speaker 8: going to Chulfer school. Cap I don't want to go
Speaker 8: to shelf of School because you gotta go like so anyway,
Speaker 8: off they sent me two weeks. You know, we did
Speaker 8: everything there. It's amazing how many guys were there that
Speaker 8: have never driven an engine. I never saw parallel parking
Speaker 8: an engine. These poor guys had no idea really, And
Speaker 8: so now one of the instructors found out I was
Speaker 8: a little more savvy about pumping in the truck, so
Speaker 8: showing him how to back up this way and that. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I did my thing. I was doing the great. But
Speaker 8: we had a guy from they used to set you
Speaker 8: up to go to shelf of schooling. He's to be
Speaker 8: the turnaround all the way at the end of the
Speaker 8: the uh the rock anymore. At the rock there it's
Speaker 8: like a driver's training thing. And they would set up
Speaker 8: the cones and yeah, around around this one thing and
Speaker 8: get the cones right. So, you know, I had just left.
Speaker 8: They sent another guy down. Captain gets a call from
Speaker 8: the shof for school, so he goes. You know the
Speaker 8: guy who sent us. Yeah, he hit every cone on
Speaker 8: the run, right, It's gotta be a hundred cones out there.
Speaker 8: All they were doing was picking up cones as he
Speaker 8: was driving past. I'm like, oh my god, he made
Speaker 8: them a chauffeur.
Speaker 6: Hey, yeah, I was just gonna say we got a carry.
Speaker 8: We had a guy from Australia, which I did a
Speaker 8: few Australian trips. That's the only picture I got me
Speaker 8: on a pump. So that was the second alarm over.
Speaker 8: And uh it was a parking garage in the Bronx
Speaker 8: right off the one hundred forty nine street.
Speaker 6: Did you did you get nervous over?
Speaker 7: You know, after after the years that you were doing that,
Speaker 7: did you did you still get nervous at the pump?
Speaker 8: Like kind of hydrant that worked? You gotta find a
Speaker 8: hydrant that worked. We had a lot of hydrants that
Speaker 8: didn't work, So it was Yeah, after doing it for
Speaker 8: a while, you used to what you're doing.
Speaker 5: Man's look at those breast fittings and stuff.
Speaker 4: Man, Yeah, that was a failure. That would have to
Speaker 4: be towards the end of your career, right because those
Speaker 4: little that was.
Speaker 8: That was a little heavier than too.
Speaker 7: Anyway, I want to I want to see that picture
Speaker 7: Gods of him. That the one that we used for
Speaker 7: the thumb Now.
Speaker 5: Oh that one you didn't send me, but I say
Speaker 5: it this way by.
Speaker 4: Yeah that woh what guy?
Speaker 8: That was? That was my promo shot. We had a
Speaker 8: camera crew come in on cable vision. They wanted to
Speaker 8: film us, so we had They took sixty Engineana who
Speaker 8: put him in there. The camera lady. She was gorgeous too,
Speaker 8: with the America of France. We had a seat in
Speaker 8: the middle between the captain and me. That was her spot.
Speaker 8: This camera was bigger than her. I mean she would
Speaker 8: sit there and the lens would hit the windshield. So
Speaker 8: we had her. It's called in the Line of Fire,
Speaker 8: which nineteen eighty nine. Yeah, and they followed us around
Speaker 8: for two days. Never got a thing except you know,
Speaker 8: e R S box and a car fire and that
Speaker 8: was it. But they took this picture is this whole thing?
Speaker 5: Sorry?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 6: How much time did how much time did you have
Speaker 6: in that pic. Guy, how much time do you think
Speaker 6: you had at that time?
Speaker 8: A couple of years? That was what you mean that picture?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: How many years did you have on the job at
Speaker 6: that time?
Speaker 8: I have it was nineteen eighty nine, so I had
Speaker 8: five five year yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you never thought to make your way over
Speaker 4: to the truck that interested you?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 8: Did you know we did the when you were pro
Speaker 8: you did a thirty day stint over on the truck.
Speaker 8: I busted my ass, you know, you can. You can
Speaker 8: only do a hook and a can so much. But
Speaker 8: after a while, when we did into the project, I
Speaker 8: can bring a mall with me and say, up a hook,
Speaker 8: what am I gonna do? Sit there and puncture you
Speaker 8: know a concrete block. Say, yeah, it's a good idea.
Speaker 8: If I went, I had a twelve pound mall in
Speaker 8: the can and off we went. So it worked, It worked,
Speaker 8: everybody was happy.
Speaker 4: But back worked.
Speaker 5: What's that You prefer?
Speaker 4: An engine worked?
Speaker 8: Though? Yeah? I enjoyed the engine when you got Jimmy
Speaker 8: Johnson Bill Lawson on the backstep half the time. So
Speaker 8: it worked out.
Speaker 4: So any fives that you know, uh uh forefront in
Speaker 4: your memory that you can remember early on in your
Speaker 4: career that you went to.
Speaker 8: All right, I remember one there you'll laugh at this, hu.
Speaker 8: I think it was working overtime. Had the knob went up,
Speaker 8: it was like the third floor. So I'm leaning up
Speaker 8: against the wall until the truck finished, you know, forcing
Speaker 8: the doors and everything and everything. We saw sup that
Speaker 8: burning really bad and I'm like, yeah, maybe i'd look
Speaker 8: around and my turnout coach burning wall. I didn't notice
Speaker 8: it for now leaning up against got it down the
Speaker 8: wall with the with the knob and uh they had
Speaker 8: the firearm. That was it.
Speaker 4: How long you have in sixty before they give you
Speaker 4: the nozzle?
Speaker 8: You like, I say, backstep? You know, if you're a chauffeur,
Speaker 8: you can get the backstep easy.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 4: I mean how long though before they would give you
Speaker 4: the nozzles? As a young guy in sixty.
Speaker 8: He'd probably be there two or three years. Some of
Speaker 8: the older guys didn't want to go up, you know.
Speaker 8: They all of a sudden, you know, on the backstep
Speaker 8: and the senior man's pulling nozzle. He hands it to me,
Speaker 8: go okay going and all by what So I was
Speaker 8: gonna complaint, good, good guy, I got good nozzle time?
Speaker 4: Who are some of the senior guys there when you
Speaker 4: got there.
Speaker 8: Uh, Jerry Rooney, Rooney her, Rudy Rooney Man, Roone Man.
Speaker 8: I had, like you know who else is there? Johnson
Speaker 8: John raww was not exactly the biggest scenior, but he
Speaker 8: was senior man than me. We had, Uh, I'm trying
Speaker 8: to remember Patty mac the chauffeur. He uh. I think
Speaker 8: he retired at sixty and sixty. Wow, I was sixty
Speaker 8: years old. Have retired at sixty? I think that's the story.
Speaker 8: But we had a lot of you.
Speaker 6: Know, brought you met those over there. No Ucons and no.
Speaker 8: We had I'm trying to remember names, so many names,
Speaker 8: but yeah, every I mean guys are good. I mean
Speaker 8: Louis Morales the chaufe Yeah, but he's got like four
Speaker 8: brothers that are all named Louis Morales. Honest to god,
Speaker 8: it was great. But yeah, just keep going. But you know,
Speaker 8: like I say, we we were busy in the first
Speaker 8: four or five years, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 8: it was like someone dropped a cloth on top of
Speaker 8: the bronx. We we you know, there's some nights we
Speaker 8: actually slept through the night. Then we started e MS
Speaker 8: was always big thing. But that was already an e
Speaker 8: m T before I came in. But they didn't qualify
Speaker 8: me as an EMT, so I had to go through
Speaker 8: the cfr D course certified first Responder. So all right,
Speaker 8: we did it. We got our thing down. We get
Speaker 8: a call. I was driving at the time and it
Speaker 8: was only one cfr D at the time. Everybody else
Speaker 8: is still working on it. We pull up the old
Speaker 8: black lie. We're on the Grand concourse. Woman's delivering a baby.
Speaker 8: Oh boy, he's in the back seat. Oh know, this
Speaker 8: is great. Now what he were gonna do? So I said,
Speaker 8: get the oldbe kid, let's do this. I'll do the
Speaker 8: right thing right, got in there. As I opened the door,
Speaker 8: the baby popped out, and I'm like, oh, this is
Speaker 8: much nice. I can disagree anyway. She's Chinese, her husband's Chinese.
Speaker 8: So I'm sitting there, says give me the get me
Speaker 8: the clamps or anything else. So I look up at
Speaker 8: the guy and he go, you got a baby girl.
Speaker 8: This is the time when China had restrictions on babies.
Speaker 8: Second baby. If it was a girl, it was like
Speaker 8: if he he takes off runs, he runs away from us,
Speaker 8: and the cops like, what's going on? Get him? He said, father.
Speaker 8: Two of them are running after this guy. I don't
Speaker 8: know how far up they went, but this bull woman's screaming.
Speaker 8: The Chinese no idea, what's going on? So Ems finally
Speaker 8: showed up up. We clamped to cut the cord, you know,
Speaker 8: we wrapped her up and they granted the ambulass. Where's
Speaker 8: the father. The woman is screaming, father, father. I'm like,
Speaker 8: they're still running after him. I don't know how long
Speaker 8: they took before they actually bought him to Lincoln Hospital.
Speaker 8: But that that's the way it was. I know, the
Speaker 8: first in China, the first born can be a female,
Speaker 8: the second one if it's a female. Now we got
Speaker 8: a problem, all those agents like that. No, no, they
Speaker 8: changed that whole thing. Yeah, yeah, they changed the whole thing.
Speaker 4: The best guy about the nineteen thirty La France.
Speaker 8: Oh, that's the valley volley outfit. Yeah, we had, that
Speaker 8: was our in fact, I believe it was in nineteen
Speaker 8: twenty nine America of France. Well, it was a volley outfit.
Speaker 8: That was our first pumper in my company in the valleys.
Speaker 8: But you had if you didn't have the start working right,
Speaker 8: you had to crank in the front. Comma god, let
Speaker 8: me tell you something. A lot of guys had hurt
Speaker 8: hands that you don't do that the right way. That
Speaker 8: think pops back out and you can lose a hand.
Speaker 4: You had to rake get it started.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, you had a magneto you had to
Speaker 8: put down and you had to you know, there's no key,
Speaker 8: It's just that, you know, you got to step on
Speaker 8: the starter pedal. A lot of fun.
Speaker 6: I'm sure they did. They still have it or they
Speaker 6: got rid of it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they still have it now. They got it. Everything else.
Speaker 8: We actually uh a friend of mine in the volleys,
Speaker 8: but i'll saet Roger. We actually were cleaning it up
Speaker 8: and we wanted to see if we get the booster
Speaker 8: tank working because it did have a booster line on
Speaker 8: it with over two and a half. So we you know,
Speaker 8: we put water in it and the thing was like
Speaker 8: a sprinkless system all the holes of you know, from
Speaker 8: the rod. So we figured out, let's try something out.
Speaker 8: So we plugged it up, we got the water in it,
Speaker 8: we got a call for a car fire, so we're
Speaker 8: looking and like another guy goes, what do you think
Speaker 8: frank up? When we got there, there was a crank siren,
Speaker 8: and off we went. We figured we're going to do it.
Speaker 8: Had one light siren was nasty and we like this, yeah,
Speaker 8: almost like that.
Speaker 5: There's so many of them. I'm not sure what it
Speaker 5: looks like. There's so many of them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I should have sent you a picture of it. Anyway,
Speaker 8: we we we get to the fire scene. The chief
Speaker 8: is standing going and he's just shaking his head. I
Speaker 8: want to talk to you guys when we get back.
Speaker 8: So we put out the fire and now the other
Speaker 8: rigs are coming, all the big rigs. Now it're sitting
Speaker 8: there and they're all like, oh my god, that's a chief.
Speaker 8: Will never bring that out to a fire again. It
Speaker 8: stays a parade truck.
Speaker 7: And I was going to say a parade probably that's exactly.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well this I don't know if it has a
Speaker 8: pump on it behind the seat, like I.
Speaker 5: See the hole in the front of the crank.
Speaker 8: But yeah, there you go.
Speaker 6: That's crazy. We had we had a picture of the
Speaker 6: dog on the rig.
Speaker 8: What what was the story with Joey. Yes, that he
Speaker 8: was a trucky. That's that was his. He would hear
Speaker 8: the alarm go you know that the tone go off,
Speaker 8: and then the guys are saying, truck goes Joey wherever
Speaker 8: he was, he jump up. This is before they had
Speaker 8: the cab. It was just a door. Who we used
Speaker 8: to leave it open. He used to jump up, get
Speaker 8: up there. We had like four or five old turnout coats.
Speaker 8: He was happy. He was happy. In fact, he gets
Speaker 8: on to a job, he'll get off, do whatever he
Speaker 8: has to do. Unfortunately, we had a multiple alarm up
Speaker 8: in the It's somewhere in the sixties. So he jumps
Speaker 8: off the truck. No problem. This three tower ladders working.
Speaker 8: The dogs will know how to read numbers. I'm going
Speaker 8: where's we I don't know where is he? I don't know,
Speaker 8: no problem. So we got back the quarters, mixting, you know.
Speaker 8: Forty four. Truck pulls up. There's Joey sitting on the turntable.
Speaker 8: I forget something. He was happy, he was very happy.
Speaker 4: I love the duct tape on the door. There's Joey.
Speaker 8: That's uh by the way, I think that is uh. Oh,
Speaker 8: what the hell was I forgot his name? Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 8: there's Joey when he was a little bit smaller. But yeah,
Speaker 8: we had I forgot I forgot the name of the
Speaker 8: dispatch now used to be in the Bronx three three beef. Yeah,
Speaker 8: that's the beef beef. That was the that was the
Speaker 8: beef beef.
Speaker 5: See, I don't I can try to blow it up
Speaker 5: and get a little closer, but that must be a
Speaker 5: young beef.
Speaker 4: That's it is like a beef, bro that's a sluid beef.
Speaker 8: Yeah, when he's up, all the pillows sometimes fell out.
Speaker 8: But we were already.
Speaker 6: There was a lot of dogs that.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, what happened to Joey, because usually
Speaker 4: it's not a good turnout and for the dog somehow.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, yeah, one of the guys took him home
Speaker 8: and I think you had him for about a year, and.
Speaker 4: It's not a good turnout, right if somebody runs him over, or.
Speaker 8: We had a couple like that. We had you said,
Speaker 8: have a beagle, got the hell his name? Now? The
Speaker 8: dog's out, runs out of the quarters, he gets run
Speaker 8: over by a car. All he did was roll under
Speaker 8: the car, got up and walked right back into corners.
Speaker 8: We're like the guy, so all right, get him in here,
Speaker 8: get him in here.
Speaker 7: Said the fire house dogs were tough like that. They
Speaker 7: were like a straight dog the guys found right, and
Speaker 7: they just adopted him and that was it.
Speaker 8: Well, the dog that they had there was called Stevie.
Speaker 8: Stevie was blind in one eye, right, and uh a
Speaker 8: few times we had our stair door and then the
Speaker 8: pole hole right next to it. Well, Stevie not looking right,
Speaker 8: we go to the pole hall down he goes. So
Speaker 8: when I first care, I was one of the why
Speaker 8: ald Toornaio coats around the pole. That's Stevie.
Speaker 4: He falls through the pole.
Speaker 8: Yea, he knows. He goes right down, lands on his feet,
Speaker 8: lays down and he'll sit there and wait for the
Speaker 8: rigs to come back.
Speaker 6: That's that one was free.
Speaker 4: Who dude, who is the guy that ran over the
Speaker 4: over the dog and then taped the paws to somebody's steering.
Speaker 7: I forget who that was. One of the guys in
Speaker 7: the channel know that was a great story.
Speaker 4: That was so funny.
Speaker 6: Ran the dog, the.
Speaker 4: Dog and then put in somebody's car and taped the door.
Speaker 6: And then taped it to his like the dog arriving
Speaker 6: the brothers. I forget who. I can't remember ship man.
Speaker 6: There's so many.
Speaker 4: I said. That guy's name comes up a lot. He's
Speaker 4: been on the show.
Speaker 6: Chief, Yeah, well what what?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 4: Remember them? Oh? My god? So what how how long
Speaker 4: do you get the seat in the.
Speaker 8: From eighty eight right to two thousand and four?
Speaker 4: Oh you got it in eighty eight when you went down?
Speaker 8: Yep, yep, they.
Speaker 4: Sent how'd you like driving in the Bronx?
Speaker 8: That's not that bad? Really? Right now I go on
Speaker 8: the Bronx. Now they're changing all the roads around. Yeah,
Speaker 8: the the Deacans switched over. You got all the other
Speaker 8: roads are going in there. They took all the exits out,
Speaker 8: so now you're getting go all the way around the Bronx.
Speaker 8: That get to you know, one hundred and one hundred
Speaker 8: and thirty eighth Street. What a pain in the neck?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Who is that?
Speaker 5: Guns pulled up Patrick thomb He was asking about for
Speaker 5: the uh when you guys drove basically, did you know
Speaker 5: the streets or did you leave it up to the
Speaker 5: company officers to get you?
Speaker 8: Now we have to know where we're going.
Speaker 4: You have to know.
Speaker 8: You know, you go to a certain building like times
Speaker 8: a month, you get to know the building, the people
Speaker 8: in it, who screams at you. You know where the
Speaker 8: hydrants are and everything else.
Speaker 6: You hadrons. You had to know because there was no grid.
Speaker 7: There's no grid service there, man, it's there's just streets
Speaker 7: coming everywhere.
Speaker 6: They got hills, they.
Speaker 8: Got and they put the they took the old caps off.
Speaker 8: He's had the hydrant wrench. They put those other caps on.
Speaker 8: Had a special runch.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they didn't realize when they put that in. They
Speaker 8: had a iron ring that set itself against the hydrant. Well,
Speaker 8: they rust try and get that cap off. You see
Speaker 8: a lot of shots, but guys are beating the cap
Speaker 8: with an axe or sledge hammer with them all. You
Speaker 8: always got the axe next to the seat in the shelf.
Speaker 8: You had to beat it and then hold to god
Speaker 8: that it would at least spin right, And a lot
Speaker 8: of hydrantcy was it one one job we pull up
Speaker 8: eighty three, was down the block and put the hydrant,
Speaker 8: you know, the wrench on top. The hydrant falls.
Speaker 6: Down going on by you right, yeah, man.
Speaker 5: With a hit of a.
Speaker 8: Truck, chance to my rates and I got a working fire,
Speaker 8: two windows of fire, and I'm like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 8: And I've seen plenty of you know, we used to
Speaker 8: get down there and the hydrate inspection. You kick it
Speaker 8: before you actually do anything and if it falls down
Speaker 8: right up. The crew had a lot of hydrates and
Speaker 8: you usually get the ones that get hit by a truck.
Speaker 8: And you're looking. You see that the fitting there, Well,
Speaker 8: there's a hydrant. Now we're looking for the hydrot because
Speaker 8: you know, no one's going to pick that thing up.
Speaker 8: It waits. Yeah, there, it's all cast iron, and you're looking,
Speaker 8: you're looking, and finally one guy gets founded. Somebody threw
Speaker 8: it in the garbage. Can wow, come on, that's that's
Speaker 8: the way it was the Bronx.
Speaker 4: At the high of what would you say, the busiest
Speaker 4: times of what year? If you got there in eighty four.
Speaker 8: Uh, the first four or four years is busy.
Speaker 4: Now when you say busy, we had any given how
Speaker 4: many jobs you're.
Speaker 8: Going, there's some days free jobs at once, you know,
Speaker 8: just in and out. You know, we we have In fact,
Speaker 8: when you pull up, you have the relocators there and
Speaker 8: they're all lined up down the street. It's like six
Speaker 8: or seven relocators. You know, one set would be nice,
Speaker 8: but now we have to wait for them to leave.
Speaker 8: They're all doing there.
Speaker 5: By the way, I found what I see, that's exactly.
Speaker 5: I just figure I found the one you were talking about.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's night. The new caps they got. Now there's
Speaker 8: ones at the special rench you got. Yeah, the pain
Speaker 8: and neck they really were that day. We persevered. That's it.
Speaker 8: We got. We got water one way or another.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Crazy when you said that it slowed down after let's
Speaker 7: say like ninety Uh did you feel like you where
Speaker 7: was the work was it?
Speaker 6: Was it much further north? Like was it going north?
Speaker 8: Had a lot of work then in Harlem? Yeah, a
Speaker 8: lot of work there, and we went to a lot
Speaker 8: of second third alarms. You know, it's just it was crazy.
Speaker 8: But then, like I say, everything started to slow down.
Speaker 8: Give me some nights where we actually slept through the
Speaker 8: night or stay in a day to work.
Speaker 4: Allegedly there's nothing there.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So you guys ran in first do with forty one
Speaker 4: and uh we were talking to raw Sorry.
Speaker 6: They just have me gone.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna drive my car to your house. I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna plow into your garbage cans for the hell of it.
Speaker 8: Bro, there you go.
Speaker 4: So, so you ran it with forty one. I brought
Speaker 4: refused to call them a squad, so he would.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Well when they went to uh an engine and
Speaker 8: hair handst engine. Some of the people there, I mean really,
Speaker 8: oh yeah, we're gonna do this with that, and they're like, easy, easy,
Speaker 8: take it easy, right, forty one we had a job.
Speaker 8: You're like this. We had a job on one hundred
Speaker 8: and forty ninth Street. So then we get there. It's
Speaker 8: a small job. Forty one, first two, so we'll see,
Speaker 8: you know. The chief goes sixty take up. Now, John
Speaker 8: rule wasn't working, but I was just as bad as
Speaker 8: he was. We swing around to forty one's quarters. Back
Speaker 8: in the quarters, shut the door, we stretched the line,
Speaker 8: got water. As soon as they pull up, the door
Speaker 8: opens up, wolf streaming right through the camp. The walkers
Speaker 8: his helmet off, the Shoffer's screaming, right. They were like,
Speaker 8: you know, just let the host off. Water Wars back
Speaker 8: in the day, Oh yeah, oh yeah, the cam.
Speaker 4: You know, I think you said that the water Wars
Speaker 4: were insane.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, like everybody has their fresh air of water
Speaker 5: warves man, So.
Speaker 4: Don't work.
Speaker 6: Teleprinted doesn't work, nothing works. Everything's wet house.
Speaker 8: Watching it soaked the kid. They can't well, when I
Speaker 8: was working the truck, thirty day detail still a proby
Speaker 8: and you know the guys are going up, I got
Speaker 8: the can. I think it was twenty nine truck had
Speaker 8: the can. Next thing you know, I get locked in
Speaker 8: the head with a stream of water from the from
Speaker 8: the extinguisher. Right, what do you want to play games?
Speaker 4: Anyway?
Speaker 8: On the hallway, smoke pouring out of the door, and
Speaker 8: we're squirting each other with the cans. Right, we're laughing
Speaker 8: our asses off. Oh my god, ship, thank god they
Speaker 8: put the fire out. We were out of water, so
Speaker 8: we were stuck. That was it for us.
Speaker 4: So you left in two thousand and four, But there
Speaker 4: were a squad. They actually went.
Speaker 8: From Yeah, they went. Yeah, they went to a squad.
Speaker 4: And they're in a perfect spot man, because they can
Speaker 4: pick up a lot of work and haul them. They
Speaker 4: go right across the bridge in and they catch a
Speaker 4: lot of work over there.
Speaker 8: They used to have a hard time. They used to
Speaker 8: have what is it, motor vehicle office right next door.
Speaker 8: Now you know, motor vehicle everybody's got their car where.
Speaker 6: They double everything.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we couldn't get out. Maybe you're sitting there, siren
Speaker 8: and air horn and everybody kind of like, you know,
Speaker 8: what are you gonna do?
Speaker 5: It?
Speaker 8: Just couldn't make the turnout either. Way.
Speaker 4: That's the tight door there too.
Speaker 8: And for that oh yeah, I mean you know I
Speaker 8: drove forty one one time. Oh my god. The guy,
Speaker 8: the officer there was like, you know how to drive? Yeah?
Speaker 8: I think so, I've been doing this for like ten
Speaker 8: years now. So we go buy in this two part
Speaker 8: cars are and I'm going raman speed right, didn't touch
Speaker 8: a car. He's like, oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 8: So it's great. We get to this. It's i gotta
Speaker 8: find me another shouffe. You're out of your mind. You
Speaker 8: have to be able to drive this thing. What do
Speaker 8: you kidding me?
Speaker 4: They have the lime green on that back then.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that was there at the time. Mac Yeah it
Speaker 8: was an old Mac.
Speaker 4: Fast Fast.
Speaker 8: Yeah they were. They were good up to a point,
Speaker 8: but every time, you you know, something would fall off.
Speaker 8: And like Jesus, I remember we had uh I was
Speaker 8: working up at sixty eight engine fourth of July. They
Speaker 8: had the Nelson fire that night. I think it was
Speaker 8: one hundred and sixty something street. Every window in this
Speaker 8: abandoned tenement was blown flame. We're first due, so I'm
Speaker 8: driving up this pork captain sitting going do you want
Speaker 8: me to do a ten seventy five. Just let the
Speaker 8: chief do it. Do whatever you want, cap, I'm gonna
Speaker 8: gonna find the hydrat found the hydrant.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 8: We start, I'm now I'm away from the building, but
Speaker 8: this thing is roaring. You start and forty one comes up.
Speaker 5: Sorry, I gotta stretch your line.
Speaker 8: Your tore the air. Yeah, God take it. I don't care.
Speaker 8: They stretched the line. The last couple of falls and
Speaker 8: it's dragged down the street. I hold up the last
Speaker 8: couple and I've got this. You can't even hook up.
Speaker 8: But we were there for like six seven hours. The
Speaker 8: whole night, three or four tower ladders work, and yeah,
Speaker 8: you couldn't do it. Everything's six floor tenement.
Speaker 6: Guy, did you ever use the sting like when you
Speaker 6: got the job?
Speaker 8: And I'll give you another story. Was it thirty seconds? Yeah,
Speaker 8: we got in. There was a job on one hundred
Speaker 8: and forty fifth Street in Harlem. So we get there
Speaker 8: and there the fourth floor is total flame. Must have
Speaker 8: been six apartments holling across. They're trying to get in
Speaker 8: and they can't have too much fire. I'm sitting there.
Speaker 8: Ems has parked in front of the hydrant. So I
Speaker 8: told the guy move your rig. Now I got to
Speaker 8: get the hose here, and he looked at me, so okay,
Speaker 8: So I got the old five inch yellow hose there,
Speaker 8: ran up, knocked him over right, He got the hydrant,
Speaker 8: looked up, gave him water and the thing the hose
Speaker 8: whacked the door, entered the door and he got in there.
Speaker 8: Fifty nine engine had put the hydrant, had tried to
Speaker 8: hook up to the hydrant on the across the street.
Speaker 8: He did one of those and the hydrant fell and
Speaker 8: rolled down the street, so he was out of water.
Speaker 8: I told him, get up on the deck. Gun, we're
Speaker 8: gonna do this. Flit all the way across. So the
Speaker 8: deputies there, the you the guy who was a lieutenant
Speaker 8: in eighty three ins at the time, so Chief Tobyn
Speaker 8: I think yeah. Anyway, he comes up and goes think
Speaker 8: you can handle that. He says, yeah, just get everybody
Speaker 8: out of the building because we're gonna we're gonna smash
Speaker 8: this right right, everything that we can do, we did it.
Speaker 8: The poor guy in fifty nine was having up. He
Speaker 8: was yeah, knocked the fire down.
Speaker 6: I mean every a lot of water right at dage
Speaker 6: if you.
Speaker 5: Use that right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we knocked it all down. The towel ladder was
Speaker 8: around the corner. What they were doing there. Most of
Speaker 8: the fire was on this side, but we got it down.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean we're saying lost art, right, I'm just
Speaker 10: saying it's just ast you talk about water wars.
Speaker 4: When I went to two ten that had this thing
Speaker 4: where they would set up to stang so it would
Speaker 4: point directly into the walkway of the kitchen. So if
Speaker 4: all they had to do was just pull the thing,
Speaker 4: so the chauffeur would pretend like he's just checking the
Speaker 4: rig in the morning. I walked out one morning with
Speaker 4: the garbage can. I'm emptying the garbage in my hand,
Speaker 4: and they pulled the button and it hit me right
Speaker 4: in the face, a garbage can about twenty feet away
Speaker 4: and knock me about ten feet into the kitchen like
Speaker 4: a little dangerous water was But.
Speaker 8: Ye can do it. In fact, a lot of times
Speaker 8: I used that. You know, we had big rubbish fires.
Speaker 8: I mean in three corner, three year all day, Am
Speaker 8: I by the hydrid hook up? Stand up here, get
Speaker 8: the proby up there. Look where the fire is. Hit
Speaker 8: it with the water. How do you do it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean what it is in the uh in the
Speaker 4: hey days, the most runs that you ever did?
Speaker 8: Uh what a day or that for the year.
Speaker 4: Uh, no, for the year? How many runs were doing?
Speaker 8: Ye, he was doing about sixty seven hundred runs back
Speaker 8: in the late seventies. Okay, we managed to take out
Speaker 8: about a little over four hundred. I was in uh huh,
Speaker 8: you know before before the time of quiet. Let's put
Speaker 8: it that way.
Speaker 4: Now, when you in your busy time, right, what you
Speaker 4: perceived to be busy in those years with the guys
Speaker 4: who were there from like the late seventies, like, yeah,
Speaker 4: this is not so busy like it was when we
Speaker 4: were Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: As we running out, you know, twenty five times at
Speaker 8: night during the day, there was always some type of
Speaker 8: fire that they're going to. It was crazy. We get
Speaker 8: the stories, you know, we had them, and then we
Speaker 8: made up. We managed to Uh we did a couple
Speaker 8: of good jobs. We had a covering captain. One time
Speaker 8: came in I think he was from Queens anyway. Over
Speaker 8: time he got in the seat, he goes, you guys busy,
Speaker 8: He says, no, not really, we're kind of done. Three
Speaker 8: jobs later he was the second alarm in the middle
Speaker 8: of the night. This guy, this guy got kind of
Speaker 8: like plus three. They had to put him in the
Speaker 8: ambulance to send him over to Jacoby.
Speaker 5: Shot.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know why. Anyway, we come back back
Speaker 8: in the quarters, you know, no problem. Well, the aids car,
Speaker 8: the chiefs car, whatever it was. At the time he
Speaker 8: gets out, he's still got his gown on. He looks
Speaker 8: at me at points goes you starts chasing down the street.
Speaker 4: You told me it was quite not.
Speaker 8: I said, we're not that busy. Probably won't get anything.
Speaker 6: Long, probably they won't get anything.
Speaker 5: Murphy was there.
Speaker 6: We heard start showed up and you heard that and said,
Speaker 6: tell the hell did he happen?
Speaker 4: God bless you, Jack, But he just.
Speaker 5: He did manage to do this in a spare time
Speaker 5: at the firehouse.
Speaker 4: But is Thatt's see it.
Speaker 5: It's on the back of all the multice cross.
Speaker 8: Yeah. The engine office door is right below it. So, uh,
Speaker 8: this was in my my When I came on six
Speaker 8: months the guys found out I was a welder. Okay,
Speaker 8: so Commissaw at the time was Tom Mahoney, let's go
Speaker 8: get you a welder guy. I'm only a proby here,
Speaker 8: what are you doing? Went to the welding shop. We
Speaker 8: picked out a welder brought it back, you know. We
Speaker 8: it was like three or four hundred dollars with all
Speaker 8: the welding rods. So he comes up and goes, uh,
Speaker 8: what can you do for us? I says, well, you
Speaker 8: know the racks we had for the for the gear,
Speaker 8: there was all that one inch pipe that was like
Speaker 8: screwed on and it was like, you know, just standing
Speaker 8: there and if you put too much, gear would start
Speaker 8: to sway a little bit and then rock and roll. Sorry,
Speaker 8: you want to redo the racks, right? So I did
Speaker 8: once one side. We used angle ion flat bar. I
Speaker 8: did everything I could. We bolted the racks right into
Speaker 8: the wall. That was my thing. I wasn't a probium one.
Speaker 8: Now I'm welding, you know. I had the rig pulled
Speaker 8: out so I could get the welder in there and
Speaker 8: everything else, and we redid all the racks, of which
Speaker 8: they gone today when they redid the floor. But while
Speaker 8: I was I figured, uh, this looks good. So I
Speaker 8: had the garbage can cover. So I had one of
Speaker 8: the guys painted up and I made the Maltese cross
Speaker 8: out of here.
Speaker 4: Is that still there?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's still there.
Speaker 4: That's cool.
Speaker 8: Taken a year ago it's still there.
Speaker 4: It's left one of those new red racks.
Speaker 8: Yeah. They finally they had to redid the floors. They
Speaker 8: actually came in with the red racks on wheels, you know,
Speaker 8: they took everything off the walls, which they had to
Speaker 8: and uh yeah, they redid the whole floor. Took them
Speaker 8: two years, but they did it.
Speaker 5: You got Albanese on there is is the same guy
Speaker 5: in the chat.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we talk a lot about like certain houses that
Speaker 7: have like a lot of pride, you know what I mean,
Speaker 7: like throughout the job. You know, forty four and one
Speaker 7: twenty and you know seventeen is definitely in that that
Speaker 7: group of you know, they have like a great following
Speaker 7: of retirees and obviously the guys we've fed on the show.
Speaker 7: Why do you think that is that it keeps going
Speaker 7: like that, like it's such a sought after house and
Speaker 7: that the guys you know, stick together for so much
Speaker 7: so many years like that.
Speaker 8: It's just it's the area that they're in the firehouse
Speaker 8: is what one hundred years old now, so you know,
Speaker 8: it's just like old style. You feel like you're in
Speaker 8: a real firehouse, not like some of these new ones
Speaker 8: they got now concrete black walls. I mean the house
Speaker 8: was built eighteen eighteen seventy seven. The truck was the
Speaker 8: first truck in the Bronx. Oh shit, we had a
Speaker 8: single story, single girl. And then they built out because
Speaker 8: I needed the uh what is it? The called wagon
Speaker 8: for the engine that was going to come in sixty
Speaker 8: was down on one hundred and thirty seventh Street, right,
Speaker 8: single engine. Now there's projects around there. They got nineteen
Speaker 8: forty five and they brought the engine up. They the
Speaker 8: new firehouse, new firehouse at the time, but there was them,
Speaker 8: and then fourteen Battalion came in.
Speaker 4: Well, that sounds like a good.
Speaker 6: That would be a great house to do too.
Speaker 4: That would ballad like we could. We'll find the sixties
Speaker 4: old quarters and an old firehouse. We should do a
Speaker 4: spotlight on.
Speaker 8: A couple of picture of it. I don't know what
Speaker 8: I did with it. I didn't put it in the
Speaker 8: thing there.
Speaker 4: Back in the day, the trucks and the engines were
Speaker 4: never together. That didn't happen later, that's right. And then
Speaker 4: they started building. Eventually they started building firehouses to house
Speaker 4: a truck and an engine together, but they were never together.
Speaker 8: Yeah, then say the the engine hundred year was nineteen
Speaker 8: ninety five and the truck was just last.
Speaker 6: Year, last year, guys, and fifty anniversary, right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that Annirosary yep, that's all that.
Speaker 4: Things have changed in that firehouse, especially when he got there.
Speaker 4: Who would you look at and say, like, that's the
Speaker 4: guy I want to be like that That that is
Speaker 4: a real hard charging fireman right there.
Speaker 8: That you had Pete Lusskis, who's now like I believe it,
Speaker 8: I don't know if he's captain lieutenant. He was a
Speaker 8: go getter. That man knew everything about how to force
Speaker 8: a door, you know, getting in the right apartment, you know,
Speaker 8: and doing every truck thing, you know, the old power
Speaker 8: tools everything else. It was amazing. With the saw, he
Speaker 8: could just cut piece of metal up and it's like
Speaker 8: holy shit. He went to do that no time, you know.
Speaker 8: And it was just one of the most I guess
Speaker 8: knowledgeable firefighter in the trunk.
Speaker 4: A bunch of about an engine but like what what
Speaker 4: nozzle man? Did you look up and say, wow, that
Speaker 4: guy is.
Speaker 8: Like you had Tommy Cappiello, Jimmy Johnson lost in when
Speaker 8: he was in the engine. He wait a bunch of guys,
Speaker 8: a bunch of good guys. You know. They kept me
Speaker 8: through the whole thing. You know, you want the nozzle, yeah,
Speaker 8: I'll take you it, you know, just to wash down
Speaker 8: or whatever it was. There. We we kept together, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: You never thought ever of getting you know, starting to
Speaker 7: study to get a you know, to move on.
Speaker 8: I wasn't interested in it.
Speaker 4: That's my man right there.
Speaker 8: My shop. Yeah I had that. They finally we cleaned
Speaker 8: out the basement and we put the welder down there.
Speaker 8: We had a work bench and everything else. And yeah,
Speaker 8: I used to go down I had my leathers and
Speaker 8: everything else there.
Speaker 4: You go, Wow, that is an old firehouse.
Speaker 8: They I used to have my leathers on and I'd
Speaker 8: be welded down there. We got a run all r Yeah,
Speaker 8: I gotta go right, so I'm still wearing my leathers, right,
Speaker 8: and we have a covering captain. This guy scared me.
Speaker 8: He got I got in the rig. He's sitting there.
Speaker 8: He had the creases on his shirt sleeves. You could
Speaker 8: cut a piece of meat with him. This guy was
Speaker 8: so clean, you know, and the shirt was buttoned up.
Speaker 8: Everything was going you know, like okay, yeah, you know,
Speaker 8: so he's going up. Are we ready? Hanging on the
Speaker 8: chiefs coming down the stairs. Our battalion office was upstairs,
Speaker 8: but they made him a staircase. From all the fumes
Speaker 8: and everything else where he comes down was chief Ed Brown.
Speaker 8: This man had a baritone voice. I don't think he
Speaker 8: ever used his hand you're talking to make commands. He
Speaker 8: would yell right, but he was. He was one of
Speaker 8: the best guys. His hair was mussed up. Now he's
Speaker 8: coming out the door. He's got the Bronx T shirt
Speaker 8: with coffee stains on it, his officers shirt hanging hanging
Speaker 8: off his you know, he's wearing his slippers and the
Speaker 8: knees on his pants were almost shot. So anyway, he's
Speaker 8: walking towards the rig. The gang was right in the
Speaker 8: middle of us, and the Captain's looking and I look
Speaker 8: at the count and go, that's my hero. The day
Speaker 8: he just wouldn't go to mere was he was? He was.
Speaker 8: He was a funny guy.
Speaker 4: You ever get to work in any other Burroughs. What's
Speaker 4: that You get to work in any other Burroughs over time?
Speaker 8: Maybe you know eighty three or forty one. No, we
Speaker 8: never left there because we weren't rescued.
Speaker 4: Right, But he never worried or queens or anything like that.
Speaker 8: No, never, No, I was over there one time for
Speaker 8: two sixty three.
Speaker 6: Yeah right, I was gonna say, you guys used to
Speaker 6: I was in one seventeen.
Speaker 7: We used to relocate. We would go right over. Yeah,
Speaker 7: that's pretty funny, how that was. I was just gonna
Speaker 7: ask you that. It feels like that's we went to seventeen.
Speaker 7: We didn't get relocated much, but if we did, it
Speaker 7: was either one thirty eight if I remember right, or
Speaker 7: or seventeen truck. A lot of Yeah, sometimes we got
Speaker 7: a fourteen truck, but those were only a few.
Speaker 6: I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 8: We had a lot of one sixty three is to
Speaker 8: show we had Fourth of July. Hell was I dry?
Speaker 8: I was driving sixty eight engine an old mac. Oh
Speaker 8: my god, this thing was so bad. The starter wouldn't work,
Speaker 8: So I knew what the starter was like. With my
Speaker 8: body outfit. We used to keep a hammer in the
Speaker 8: in the cab and that there was like one sprocket
Speaker 8: missing from the starter and it would catch. You couldn't
Speaker 8: get it starts, it stuck beating. I'm under the rig
Speaker 8: now I'm beating it. Hit bang bang bang, and I
Speaker 8: go gates on it. Now, all right, we got it,
Speaker 8: let's go. The Lieutenant's going, oh shit, hell, so we
Speaker 8: go out. We had a rubbers fire that was a
Speaker 8: block long and block high, so we used all and
Speaker 8: I say, I'm looking down the block and this bacon.
Speaker 8: They got flames blown out of the top window. Here
Speaker 8: comes one sixty three. I'm like, all right, we got
Speaker 8: Queen's cut in. They put the bucket up, knocked it
Speaker 8: all out. The engine went in with a hose just
Speaker 8: to make sure no problem. That was fourth of July.
Speaker 8: Fourth of July we had I was working. I was working,
Speaker 8: you know, sixty eight engine. I think we had forty
Speaker 8: five runs that night. Wow, we were getting there. And
Speaker 8: we went out and we didn't get back till four
Speaker 8: in the morning. We were running. The guys were pooped.
Speaker 8: I was pooped.
Speaker 6: Had no idea that Giuliani screwed everything up. That Giuliani.
Speaker 4: Everybody, Yeah, got rid of all the fireworks.
Speaker 8: Bro ah. Fourth of July when I first caught a
Speaker 8: drive in nineteen eighty eight, fireworks around our firehouses, like unbelievable.
Speaker 8: Come on, you know we got you know, we got
Speaker 8: an E. R.
Speaker 5: S box.
Speaker 8: So I would have to go down the block. As
Speaker 8: I'm turned the corner, the Roman candles were going across.
Speaker 8: They shut the windows, shut the windows, right and duck.
Speaker 8: So I'm halling hal ass life sirens, air horns, and
Speaker 8: the things are still stooping hitting a rig and I'm like,
Speaker 8: oh my god, this is worse than you know. Wartime here,
Speaker 8: get down there. We had then eighty strown at us.
Speaker 8: I mean, come on, you.
Speaker 4: Know we got a little of that roughy, right. I
Speaker 4: only got the very very tail end of that. Man,
Speaker 4: I didn't get much of it.
Speaker 7: But I worked every fourth of July for like fifteen
Speaker 7: fourteen years or some in a row, fourteen year row.
Speaker 7: And then it just got to the part where, you
Speaker 7: you know, it was it was like just a regular day.
Speaker 6: It was nothing. There was no fireworks.
Speaker 8: Now it's quiet. I don't know if it's quiet anymore.
Speaker 6: It was, yeah, it's quiet.
Speaker 8: It was very quiet. Maybe here a firecracker go off.
Speaker 4: Did you ever move up? Stayed at today? We stayed in,
Speaker 4: stayed and stayed right there.
Speaker 8: I got a house in Sound Beach, which is next
Speaker 8: to Miller Place. You know, got married, had kids, so
Speaker 8: that that that worked out. I mean that the commute
Speaker 8: wasn't that bad. I was the only one living out
Speaker 8: eas at the time, so I was stuck. No carpooling,
Speaker 8: and then we just kind of like, you know, get in,
Speaker 8: get out, do twenty four come home.
Speaker 4: Did you ever have that one fire? There was an
Speaker 4: no ship moment, like you thought you were done.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was not, you know what, not really when
Speaker 8: I got behind the seat there, it was like, you know,
Speaker 8: do the old ship and I hope the guy we
Speaker 8: get enough water on it. It was the under guys,
Speaker 8: you know, tell the story. Oh yeah, we're going down
Speaker 8: the hallway and we knocked down.
Speaker 5: Me. Did you have a favorite rig that you drove
Speaker 5: out of the ones you're driven.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the new one they gave us, a ninety four
Speaker 8: Sea Grave. That was the first one that we got,
Speaker 8: which turned out really to be a ship. I mean,
Speaker 8: you couldn't control it in the snow. I'd be driving
Speaker 8: and then all of a sudden, the thing would skid
Speaker 8: and the steel wheel would go to the left, go
Speaker 8: to the right, and I'm like, oh my god, this
Speaker 8: is crazy. There was no traction on that front end
Speaker 8: at all. And the fact was even worse. Even without chains,
Speaker 8: you know, you could at least get there. But it
Speaker 8: was kind of like it's tough. I'll give you a
Speaker 8: story of it. I had to go to the shops
Speaker 8: with the rig, the ninety four rig. They were going
Speaker 8: to try and fix the trainny. So I go to
Speaker 8: the you know, the shops. I'm on the tripe bridge.
Speaker 8: They give me an old eighty mac. This thing looked
Speaker 8: like it was through the war. So I'm coming back.
Speaker 8: I'm driving over the triborough Bridge and I'm looking in
Speaker 8: the mirror and they see cars doing one of these.
Speaker 8: I'm like, what the hell, what the hell's going on?
Speaker 4: Next?
Speaker 8: Again, I got an empty fuel tank. The tank fell
Speaker 8: off the rig and landed in the middle.
Speaker 7: How do you explain about right?
Speaker 8: You know, you know, you you know. Could you call
Speaker 8: Battalian fourteen and tell him I'm stuck on the bridge?
Speaker 8: Is it was body of the beef? Yeah, what's the matter?
Speaker 8: I go, I lost my fuel tank. Silence, You mean
Speaker 8: you lost the fuel Yeah, it's in the middle of
Speaker 8: the triborough Bridge. By the way, we need Hasthma here too,
Speaker 8: because there's full fifty Catholics for four hours and turn
Speaker 8: around in the middle of the bridge and go back
Speaker 8: the other way. I'm like, and I'm sitting in the
Speaker 8: tow truck. Are you gonna give me another piece of ship?
Speaker 8: I don't need that. We needed a rig six. He's
Speaker 8: at the shots. This thing is shot.
Speaker 5: Me.
Speaker 7: How many times did you go get a spare? And
Speaker 7: it was like you couldn't even believe you were going
Speaker 7: to drive away with that thing.
Speaker 4: Piece of ship.
Speaker 6: The cabinets closed, right, I mean the fucking you know person.
Speaker 4: Nail nail and it wouldn't even close. You had to
Speaker 4: put a nail in the cabin.
Speaker 6: You know, rolling down the street as you make it
Speaker 6: a turn. It was like horrendous.
Speaker 8: We had to bring our America la France to the
Speaker 8: shops for the trany shot. So we get it there
Speaker 8: and I says, ah, it'd be about a week, all right.
Speaker 8: So the other choulver's driving it back, the other rig.
Speaker 8: So I go back. He says, the rig's ready. I
Speaker 8: go there. All the wood slats are taking out of
Speaker 8: the hose bed. I'm like, what is this? He goes, well,
Speaker 8: they you know, they we didn't have any extras, so
Speaker 8: some of the guys took it. What am I supposed
Speaker 8: to do?
Speaker 5: I got way?
Speaker 8: Am I gonna put the hose. So now I'm looking
Speaker 8: at it. Says, all right, that's it. I'm done. I
Speaker 8: started walking the hall. You know the shop it's huge, right, ye,
Speaker 8: another America of France. No hose in the bed, I says,
Speaker 8: I want a screwdriver and a set of sockets. He goes,
Speaker 8: what are you gonna do? You take my I'm taking his.
Speaker 8: So we took all the wood out. We put it
Speaker 8: back in the hose bed. Tighten it down, says see you.
Speaker 8: Oh the calls have got Oh my god, the chief
Speaker 8: is waiting for me on the ramp. What did you do?
Speaker 8: He took my hose bed away? What am I supposed
Speaker 8: to do? Bring it back? We're gonna put the hounds
Speaker 8: on top of the cab.
Speaker 4: How did you like that pro pressure governor as opposed
Speaker 4: to that the ross relief valve?
Speaker 8: Remember it was like oh yeah, I remember, yeah, I
Speaker 8: remember that. Yeah, the Murder of France had it.
Speaker 4: It was a lot easier, right, the prop pressure governor.
Speaker 4: You just hit that move you done it?
Speaker 8: It's good? Yeah, yeah, it was. It was good.
Speaker 5: The adjustment was fire proof.
Speaker 8: The two stags pump was nice, ye, Murder of France,
Speaker 8: because you had or pressure yeah, right, you know the
Speaker 8: truck and we're working in Harlem. One day, they're up there,
Speaker 8: they're doing you know, you can see that. I'm giving
Speaker 8: them two hundred pounds, and so I altered. I tell
Speaker 8: I asked her the lit up there. You want to
Speaker 8: knock the bricks down, and you want to put out
Speaker 8: the fire? He goes, I want to knock the bricks down.
Speaker 8: Put it in volume, And I cranked that baby. After
Speaker 8: three pounds. It looked like a laser beam going into
Speaker 8: the building. Yeah, that's good. You can see the We're
Speaker 8: flying everywhere in the chiefs and they go, what are
Speaker 8: you doing? They wanted they wanted pressure. I gave it
Speaker 8: to him. They had a good fire, and leave it,
Speaker 8: you know, leave it in pressure and just give them
Speaker 8: what they got. Yeah, two hundred and fifty pounds for
Speaker 8: the towel ladder.
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, somebody somebody in the chat was asking, uh,
Speaker 7: did you weld the office's door shut?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Somebody out there dropping some bombs, I mean, some some information.
Speaker 8: Mister John Giblin and uh that was his name, Kelly, Yeah,
Speaker 8: and Lieutenant Well, it was Lieutenant En. They were in
Speaker 8: the office and they were arguing and screaming, and the
Speaker 8: guys are like, that was going on in there? I go,
Speaker 8: I don't know. They're fighting around and I hear a
Speaker 8: chair get wrong. What the hell's going on? Had a
Speaker 8: piece of flat bar put it up against the door.
Speaker 8: Well did it shut? We get a run. The guys
Speaker 8: are going, where is everybody? No worry, They're good. Let's
Speaker 8: go see jumps in the you know in the office.
Speaker 8: Seat off we went.
Speaker 4: Come on.
Speaker 8: What they had they had They had a scale, the
Speaker 8: whole scale, you know your movie at the bar. Yeah,
Speaker 8: boom boom, break the door going. I'm gonna get expended
Speaker 8: for this, so I gotta I got to cut the
Speaker 8: torch and I just cut the world right. They opened
Speaker 8: the door and we were like, they're sweaty there. It's like,
Speaker 8: what you do? I didn't do anything. We went on
Speaker 8: the run. You guys heard, wasn't me. They knew all
Speaker 8: the fighting they were doing that. We're afraid you've got
Speaker 8: a fist the company there. But it was funny because
Speaker 8: that that later that night, uh uh Joe Kelly, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: there was Joe Kelly and something goes You're a pistol.
Speaker 8: I thought that was the best thing that ever happened.
Speaker 8: All right, we won't do.
Speaker 4: It anymore today you get charges.
Speaker 5: On the streets.
Speaker 6: Shure.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we had everything. We had an incident one night.
Speaker 8: We come back from a run and all the locker
Speaker 8: doors you had, the old wooden lockers on the floor,
Speaker 8: the insert you know, all the doors are open. I'm
Speaker 8: like one of the windows in the bunk rooves, there's
Speaker 8: a there's a rope hanging down. The guy grappled from
Speaker 8: the building next door, grabbed the rope, climbed in. I
Speaker 8: don't know how many hundreds of dollars. So I'm sitting
Speaker 8: there going, oh God. So I had broken my my
Speaker 8: wrist on a little incident at home, so I was
Speaker 8: I was going on like duty. So they told me.
Speaker 8: He got down to the got down to the you know,
Speaker 8: the chief. You know, see what like duty you'll give you.
Speaker 8: So get down there, and the chief I knew from
Speaker 8: I guess the rocket time. He goes, ah, mister Schneider,
Speaker 8: how are you, And they're going I'm good, I said,
Speaker 8: I mean for light duty. Where do you want to
Speaker 8: put me? I heard you had a robbery in the
Speaker 8: old firehouse.
Speaker 6: I said, yeah, no fire house, said journey. Yeah.
Speaker 8: He goes, yeah, you're going there for light duty, and
Speaker 8: are you gonna do any welding? Yeah? Probably, He goes, alight,
Speaker 8: I'll be over there and check it later on. Okay,
Speaker 8: went back to sixties. John Ray and I went out
Speaker 8: to the We had a steel mill down the block
Speaker 8: from eighty three, so we got all the angle lion,
Speaker 8: we got reebar, we got flat bar. We must spend
Speaker 8: four hundred dollars on you know windows that I was
Speaker 8: gonna bar up. So it worked. We it took me
Speaker 8: a couple of you know, a couple of days to
Speaker 8: get it one, and we put one set in. We
Speaker 8: used the concrete Molly's bolted everything right into the brick wall.
Speaker 8: So now you ain't getting in there anymore unless you
Speaker 8: go to the third flom. By that time you might
Speaker 8: as well give up. So the bars are still there today,
Speaker 8: really there today.
Speaker 4: Where did you learn the welding.
Speaker 8: There was a welding, steel mill, a steel I guess
Speaker 8: a shop down on I'm trying to think now, hundred
Speaker 8: and forty first Street, all the way down to the river. Sure,
Speaker 8: going past eighty three and twenty nine, you just keep
Speaker 8: going and there's this big, huge building. Unfortunately hold the
Speaker 8: steer was made in Canada because they made sure they
Speaker 8: put Canada on everything there, and so we did. We
Speaker 8: loaded up the engine ring.
Speaker 4: Where did you learn how to weld?
Speaker 8: Oh? I was welder in the navy. Oh when I
Speaker 8: got in, I wanted to be a damaged controlman. But
Speaker 8: they combined the ship for the rates and the damaged
Speaker 8: control rate into a hull technician. So they did that
Speaker 8: while I was in boot camp. So I had to
Speaker 8: go to two different schools. So welding, you know, meg, tig,
Speaker 8: you name it, stick, We did everything. So what I
Speaker 8: did in the firehouse most of the time.
Speaker 4: That's a great build man. There aren't enough welders there today.
Speaker 8: Now. How do you know what they got into shops anymore?
Speaker 8: We had guys come in with you know, mailbox, broken
Speaker 8: mailbox four by fours. They come in with like a
Speaker 8: two inch you know, square doc of steel. Can you
Speaker 8: you make a plate? Put the mailbox? Like, yeah, that's
Speaker 8: no problem, make up something the next morning, it's done.
Speaker 8: But I had it. I had the shop in the
Speaker 8: basement and we had we had an old two thousand
Speaker 8: gallon gas tank gas that was never used, sitting in
Speaker 8: the basement right down the bottom of the stairs. So
Speaker 8: you know, it was sitting there and I'm going, you
Speaker 8: got to get rid of this thing. It's in the way.
Speaker 8: In fact, they had to climb over it to get
Speaker 8: to the rest of the basement. So I had Tom
Speaker 8: Robi as my captain at the time. He comes in,
Speaker 8: he goes, what can you do? I'll cut it up
Speaker 8: and we can figure out what you want to do
Speaker 8: with it later. It took me two hours to cut
Speaker 8: this thing up. The last piece I had it was
Speaker 8: actually on detention. Well it exploded, knocked me on my ass.
Speaker 8: Everybody was eating dinner here they all come down the
Speaker 8: stairs is black smoke everywhere. I got t splunt in half.
Speaker 8: So and you know, Robie goes, are you are riosis? Yeah?
Speaker 8: That was really interesting. I never had that happen to me.
Speaker 8: What're you gonna do with the pieces? So everybody's going,
Speaker 8: let's make a stove, Like, oh my god, a stove.
Speaker 8: We're gonna put it in the parking.
Speaker 5: I'll do something with it.
Speaker 8: This thing looked like Apollo eleven by the time it's
Speaker 8: high fur on it that you could you know, it
Speaker 8: could trap somebody in there and then we'll get out
Speaker 8: put the legs on it. We had it in pieces.
Speaker 8: We got it up to the apparatus floor, welded it up,
Speaker 8: put it out here you go. You can burn wood
Speaker 8: now in the parking lot. They it worked still there. No,
Speaker 8: they had they had a problem. I don't know. See,
Speaker 8: you got all new guys in there. Now they had
Speaker 8: one kid that knew how to weld more or less.
Speaker 8: But uh, you know, they had to get rid of
Speaker 8: all that stuff because when they replaced the floor, everything
Speaker 8: had to go. So the parking lot was all packed up.
Speaker 8: I think the tower ladder was in there and the
Speaker 8: gate gated the fence, so everything spent. The other thing
Speaker 8: left is that engine sixty Maltie crossed.
Speaker 4: Where did sixty go? And then did the floor over?
Speaker 8: You were at eighty three. They were in the parking
Speaker 8: lot in eighty three.
Speaker 7: Guys, we got a couple more pictures, don't we We
Speaker 7: have one show.
Speaker 8: There's the flags, all right, give you the story. The
Speaker 8: old guys, the senior men used to go golfing a lot.
Speaker 8: So I come in one morning and there's, I said,
Speaker 8: the seventeenth hole. I guess they called it a pin
Speaker 8: was a pin was screwed onto the side of the
Speaker 8: rig and I'm going, what are you kidding me? You
Speaker 8: guys got a flag and get me one? Why didn't
Speaker 8: you get one with six on it? I could have
Speaker 8: put a zero on it. So anyway, they got the flag,
Speaker 8: so I that's the green one. I had one made up.
Speaker 8: You can see it wow on the driver's side. I
Speaker 8: went through six of those flags while I was there,
Speaker 8: So down the truck is all pistol because their flag
Speaker 8: is smaller than our flag. So they wanted me to
Speaker 8: go get seventeen. And then the guys voted no in
Speaker 8: the truck, so I kept going with the flags. It worked.
Speaker 8: It worked there you go, what's that?
Speaker 6: Do they still have one that's on? Now?
Speaker 8: My left everything? Everything got lost? Good car with the
Speaker 8: third alarm in Harlem? The flag is up there. When
Speaker 8: I used to get up to you know any do,
Speaker 8: I used to always go to the first two engine,
Speaker 8: make sure they're all right, you got everything you need help?
Speaker 8: That was my act. I come back. There's some local
Speaker 8: white guy. He's trying to take the plastic straps off
Speaker 8: the Pole's standing on top of the cab trying to
Speaker 8: get the flag. I'm like, I'm looking at him. Who
Speaker 8: cops are standing behind the rig. Yo, guys, I see
Speaker 8: you a minute, he says. See what he's doing. He says, yeah,
Speaker 8: what's that? He says, it's the flag for the engine.
Speaker 8: It's fire department property. Okay, So the one cop said
Speaker 8: one was a sergeant goes, excuse me, Sarah, what are
Speaker 8: you doing. Well, I'm taking the flag. I can use
Speaker 8: this as a souvenir. I'm gonna give you a souvenir.
Speaker 8: And he pulls out the handcuffs and wings them in
Speaker 8: the air. Will you arrest me? Yep. They put the
Speaker 8: cuffs on them and they walk them back. So I'm
Speaker 8: sitting there, going now, I got to sit there, make sure.
Speaker 8: If I lose the flag, that's it. I'm done that.
Speaker 8: That was the one flag story. But a lot of
Speaker 8: fun for sure. That something always happened.
Speaker 4: What makes you pack it?
Speaker 8: And four well trade center. I couldn't pass my physical Ah,
Speaker 8: the lungs asthma. I got to sinus signs. I have
Speaker 8: no sinuses left. Three operations on my nose. Not a
Speaker 8: nice thing. You know. Everything's starting to go now, so.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's like Louis, everything's time to go.
Speaker 6: How old are you guy? How old are you.
Speaker 4: I'm seventy two. Now, Wow, great, that's.
Speaker 8: What I'm.
Speaker 6: Are You still are still doing stuff in the volleys?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 8: I gave up on that once I hit a certain age.
Speaker 8: I said, you know what am I doing? You know? So?
Speaker 6: What did you have a did you? Did you move
Speaker 6: up in the ranks in the volleys too or no?
Speaker 8: Yeah? I was a captain in my company in Bablin Village.
Speaker 8: Then I got married and I had to move because
Speaker 8: the wife worked at Manorville and I worked at Babbling.
Speaker 8: We figure we find a place in the middle, so
Speaker 8: we moved to Holtzville right off the expressway, and she
Speaker 8: did hunting. I did mind. It lasted about two years
Speaker 8: and then we found this house that I'm in now.
Speaker 8: So we've been here for twenty four years.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: Do you have any any sons?
Speaker 8: Yep, three, two in the navy, one of the Marines.
Speaker 4: Good for you. None of them want to be on
Speaker 4: the job.
Speaker 8: What's that?
Speaker 4: None of them want to be fineman.
Speaker 8: My son's going in for his interview for the Fire Department.
Speaker 8: Good for you, tomorrow morning. He's going in tomorrow morning.
Speaker 8: He also applied for the PD. So we'll see what
Speaker 8: comes from I don't even know what that place is.
Speaker 7: He did he I'm assuming he's gonna be fix the engine.
Speaker 5: I know, somebody get you know, is.
Speaker 4: He gonna go to sixty engine if he gets in?
Speaker 8: Oh no, that's everybody. Everybody knew, My my youngest son, Garrett,
Speaker 8: you know, because but uh, it was funny one that
Speaker 8: I had two of my sons said all right, let's
Speaker 8: go get up there and use my rack and you
Speaker 8: know the extra rack. We got a third alarm in Harlem.
Speaker 8: They slept right through the thing. I tried to wake
Speaker 8: him up, you know, so we're out, we come back
Speaker 8: three hours later, they're still sleeping. What I'm waking them up?
Speaker 8: You're gonna be if you're gonna sleep to a run and.
Speaker 6: A fire? No less you could have all right.
Speaker 4: You ever sleep through a run?
Speaker 5: Goddam No, I've gotten close though. Yeah, we can't run,
Speaker 5: you know, we can't rolling heavy, miss somebody you get away.
Speaker 8: With being that fifth man or you know you're in
Speaker 8: ot and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're rolling heavy as two guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, three guys are kind of the third guy.
Speaker 4: You need him put that backup, gods that.
Speaker 6: Yeah guy?
Speaker 4: Yeah, asked you about his five ft wide broom for
Speaker 4: the prob's.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, my welding days.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 8: Jonathan Maritz Murmurts is now is in fourteen truck. I
Speaker 8: think he's a lieutenant anyway he gets uh, he comes
Speaker 8: in as a prob. Very good friend of mine. I've
Speaker 8: known him for years. And uh, guys who are complaining
Speaker 8: that bruins would break and everything else. So I took
Speaker 8: two of the the brooms, put a metal bar in
Speaker 8: between and one pole. So now if you swept, you
Speaker 8: had the two brooms doing the job, and then you
Speaker 8: know you're getting stuck into the rig and they need
Speaker 8: the tie. Guys, you know it worked.
Speaker 4: It worked for a while, so you would have did
Speaker 4: that thing.
Speaker 8: Bro It was heavy. The handle two brooms welded together
Speaker 8: and worked out real good.
Speaker 4: Maybe you got anything else in that guy.
Speaker 5: Before we get to the ollarpicks are gone.
Speaker 8: No hold up before before that's my son.
Speaker 5: He was scared of the light.
Speaker 8: I mean scared of there because the lights are off.
Speaker 4: We don't even you know it is that the guy
Speaker 4: that's getting on the job.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's going for Why.
Speaker 4: Try that when you're on the job, bro.
Speaker 8: He just got out of the navy. He had eight
Speaker 8: years there decided well.
Speaker 6: You know, you know, you get it?
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Hey, God, speaking of the navy, do you know what's long,
Speaker 4: hard and full of seamen? Not answering this submarine?
Speaker 6: Hey hey guy, are you are you teaching around the
Speaker 6: Are you doing anything?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 6: That are doing that?
Speaker 8: What's that?
Speaker 6: Why are you doing that? At one point or no?
Speaker 6: Teaching writ inhouse here.
Speaker 8: In middle Place. You know, I taught the guys you know,
Speaker 8: how to drive, you know, drills and everything else. You know,
Speaker 8: it's a lot of stuff in the city.
Speaker 4: I got you drive it like you stole it.
Speaker 8: Yes, that's the way I do it. You know.
Speaker 4: I like this guy. I knew I like this guy.
Speaker 5: You're gonna have one arm out the window because that's
Speaker 5: what I used to do.
Speaker 6: And you fast you go.
Speaker 8: We had rainy day. Truck was coming down one hundred
Speaker 8: and thirty eighth. We're coming down Willis Avenue, and the
Speaker 8: poor lieutenant was like, you gotta slow down. The truck's coming. Yeah,
Speaker 8: they'll see, just don't worry about it. Well, the truck
Speaker 8: hit the brakes. I hit the brakes, slid sideways, and
Speaker 8: we pa some you know, with the front end, and
Speaker 8: we're waving to the I got it back in again,
Speaker 8: and we kiss go off the guys to show up
Speaker 8: for the truck. I think I shopped my pants. We
Speaker 8: get to the scene, it's like, damn it, I think
Speaker 8: I did something. Rolled down. Yeah, yeah, I had to
Speaker 8: do it.
Speaker 4: I ain't no stranger to it.
Speaker 8: A lot of fun driving, it's a lot more.
Speaker 5: We've had a couple of moment I know, I've had
Speaker 5: a couple.
Speaker 7: Yeah, coming back from a run of something and I'll
Speaker 7: be like, put those lights on, dude.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 5: Got something brewin, let's go.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna make it. Get on it.
Speaker 4: So I'll give you a quick story. One day. Blaze
Speaker 4: right a buddy, Blaze, all right. He's in the back
Speaker 4: seat I'm driving. He's like, dude, you gotta hurry up.
Speaker 4: I gotta take a ship. So now, previously hitting every
Speaker 4: single light on the way back to the firehouse, we're
Speaker 4: about four blocks firehouse, four blots and files. The door
Speaker 4: swings open, flying running towards the firehouse.
Speaker 6: Dude, unless you've been on the rig, like you know, dude,
Speaker 6: it's been I've been like that at a job, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean, Like you're in a job all
Speaker 6: of a sudden something happened, right, oh yeah, we had some.
Speaker 8: Good job old five story and we're sitting there, were
Speaker 8: going down the hallway knocking down fire and all of
Speaker 8: a sudden we hear was that? I going, what's going on?
Speaker 8: We opened up the door. It's the bathroom. The battalion
Speaker 8: ads sitting on the toilet. What are you doing? I
Speaker 8: had to go on that. I had to go go.
Speaker 7: My god, you gotta go, you gotta go. Everybody has
Speaker 7: done something.
Speaker 4: Poop stories are always funny. You never go roll with
Speaker 4: poop stories, bro. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 8: Anyway, we uh halfway into my U sixty edgine there
Speaker 8: we decided a lot of guys. I used to I
Speaker 8: still smoke cigars, don't ask me why we brought it.
Speaker 8: And I used to buy your box and everybody, oh, heck,
Speaker 8: can we have one? Yeah? Yeah, So my five cigars
Speaker 8: are gone within an hour, So I go listen, guys,
Speaker 8: everybody wants this gar Why don't we go out and
Speaker 8: get a cigar box and we'll get I'll get the cigars.
Speaker 8: Yeah right, that's great. They bought this four hundred dollars
Speaker 8: cigar box. This thing was like, you know, two feet long.
Speaker 8: By another foot and a half and I could put
Speaker 8: three hundred cigars. He how much you'd think I'm gonna get? Oh,
Speaker 8: we'll get your box. And they gave me three hundred dollars.
Speaker 8: So I went out and I bought three hundred dollars
Speaker 8: worth of cigars. They had different ones. Guys are different.
Speaker 8: We got a new captain. I don't think I mentioned
Speaker 8: his name right now. Anyway, he comes in and with
Speaker 8: with you know, walking to the engine office, he goes, oh, oh, oh,
Speaker 8: is that a cigar box? This is yeah, cap it's
Speaker 8: you know, something that men have. It's the only place
Speaker 8: that could put it. When I'm getting ripped off. I
Speaker 8: hate cigars, I really do. Oh nice to know. Okay, well,
Speaker 8: I'll make sure you know.
Speaker 4: Let us know.
Speaker 8: He goes out, goes home. The next night he comes
Speaker 8: in his first night tour. Half hour before he gets there,
Speaker 8: fourteen of us grab a cigar, close the engine door,
Speaker 8: and we puffed. You couldn't see from your knees up
Speaker 8: all right, you know, a sudden you know, we hear
Speaker 8: a little fell and caps coming in. Let's go. We opened,
Speaker 8: you know, we close the door. We go back in
Speaker 8: the city cause away. So we didn't know we were smoking.
Speaker 8: He comes in and goes, hey, guys, how you the
Speaker 8: guy was I'd be a very nice guy. He comes in,
Speaker 8: he goes, oh, how you going, guys, I'll be in
Speaker 8: the engine office. We hear the door but and he goes, come.
Speaker 6: On, guys, what's the what's the worst thing? He could
Speaker 6: tell a bunch.
Speaker 4: Of men like, look, I don't like, I don't like.
Speaker 4: All right now, probably we'll have every single time you work.
Speaker 6: James, just call me Jimmy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, all right, we do again like that? Right? Oh,
Speaker 4: actually it was the other way around. His name was James.
Speaker 4: He wanted to be called James. Don't call him Jimmy, remember,
Speaker 4: all right, all right Jimmy. All right, god, I think
Speaker 4: it might be that time if we have the more pictures?
Speaker 5: Is it that time?
Speaker 4: Oh? First we gotta do uh, I will do it afterwards,
Speaker 4: we'll do that.
Speaker 5: Well, okay, we're gonna do it. It's time for.
Speaker 8: Oh good, James, take it away, my friend. Okay, alright,
Speaker 8: know you knew people coming into the fire apartment, male
Speaker 8: and female. Always get and find out who the senior
Speaker 8: man is. He's got to know more than all of
Speaker 8: you put together. He knows what's going on. He will
Speaker 8: help you. He will sit down with you and give
Speaker 8: you the rules of the road and what the firehouse is.
Speaker 8: You've got to do it. Don't ever back up and
Speaker 8: say you know what you're talking about. He knows what
Speaker 8: he's talking about. He could be in his cups and
Speaker 8: he still knows what he's talking about. Yeah, believe you
Speaker 8: got to know who we go to. There's plenty of
Speaker 8: people out there that know all their stuff. They've been
Speaker 8: two more fires and you'll ever probably see in your life.
Speaker 8: That's my word of the day.
Speaker 4: There, you go, right, very nice?
Speaker 5: All right, you guys get I don't know if I'm
Speaker 5: in my cups.
Speaker 8: Some people don't know what that means.
Speaker 4: Cops.
Speaker 8: Oh my ye, I'm telling you he has some young
Speaker 8: kids in there. Now, it's amazing.
Speaker 4: I got those health and safety tip all right, here
Speaker 4: we go.
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Speaker 4: there are many simple Note Coast steps firefighters can take
Speaker 4: to manage their risk of cancer, such as cleaning your helmet,
Speaker 4: especially the inside liner. I'm gonna tell you another one
Speaker 4: that I got for myself. My brother just called me today,
Speaker 4: although he's not a fine and it will pertain to finement.
Speaker 4: So he called me and he had gone for one
Speaker 4: of those what are those calcium scores? I just went
Speaker 4: for mine actually, so he gets it back and it's
Speaker 4: not good. It's not it's not what was yours, Louis?
Speaker 4: Was your your blockage was.
Speaker 6: What one, one, seventy or something like that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, block what percent blockage did you have when you
Speaker 4: went for six or sixty? So his is up there
Speaker 4: close to that. But the thing is, uh, you don't
Speaker 4: have You didn't have any symptoms, right, you didn't feel
Speaker 4: terrible at all? Right, neither, He's like, I feel fine.
Speaker 4: So that's why it's so important to go get these tests, bro,
Speaker 4: because if you don't know what's going on, you don't
Speaker 4: know what's going on, and it might be too late.
Speaker 4: You know, you might get a clog, or you might
Speaker 4: get something and have a heart attack. So it doesn't
Speaker 4: cost much. Go get the all the testing that you need,
Speaker 4: especially to fight apartment, because they offer it for free.
Speaker 4: My brother had to pay out of his pocket, but
Speaker 4: for fire fighters that stuff is free.
Speaker 6: Calcium scores is the key one.
Speaker 7: Like all these other these other tests, like the stress
Speaker 7: test and all this other stuff, it's good, but it's
Speaker 7: not it's not giving you the true The calcium score
Speaker 7: is the one you want to know, and that is
Speaker 7: more expensive, and that's why they don't really do it.
Speaker 4: Uh so, but they will do it every couple of years.
Speaker 6: I gotta get on it.
Speaker 4: You gotta get it done because you don't want to
Speaker 4: get caught. You know.
Speaker 8: The Will Trade Center annual usually does all blood.
Speaker 4: Work correct, right right, but they don't do the calcium score.
Speaker 4: You gotta do the calcium score. You got to check
Speaker 4: the karate arterie. There's a whole bunch of other ones
Speaker 4: because you may not feel you might feel great, but
Speaker 4: you may have that clock like Louis had. You know,
Speaker 4: he had he waited and not gone to Rob Brown,
Speaker 4: who knows maybe he would have been had a bad
Speaker 4: clam and a bad heart. Who knows especial.
Speaker 5: Family history like me. I just went from mine, uh
Speaker 5: came back loves were fourteen, but I still had it
Speaker 5: done and it's uh pay attention to it now.
Speaker 4: Yep. See do you have any mustache grooming tips? You
Speaker 4: want to throw up all out.
Speaker 8: Once a week? Yeah? Uh swallowing it is nothing grows
Speaker 8: here anymore.
Speaker 4: Tell me about it. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, when you well, you get you get a little
Speaker 7: extra like a hamp sandwich at the end of the week.
Speaker 8: Everything that's catting it, having a beer or something like that,
Speaker 8: it gets.
Speaker 6: The whole thing is coming off tomorrow and that's it.
Speaker 6: I'm going to the guy tomorrow.
Speaker 4: What shaving it up?
Speaker 6: Coming off? Baby? Fresh?
Speaker 4: You're shaving yours off.
Speaker 8: Record?
Speaker 4: Oh, Gunzo, please pull up that one. Not I gotta
Speaker 4: I gotta say that. It's in the Let me get it.
Speaker 4: You have, I got it, Come see me and Louis
Speaker 4: and will be there. There'll be a lot of great firefighters,
Speaker 4: a lot of great f d n Y guys. The
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five Long Island Metro Fire Expo. It's at
Speaker 4: the Nassau Coliseum. We may or may not be drinking
Speaker 4: in the booth. Probably may is a good bet. And
Speaker 4: the also doing the what's the book that they came
Speaker 4: out with any Potter and the other guy that we're
Speaker 4: in uh in New York. They're gonna have a booth
Speaker 4: so you could uh get if you purchased that book,
Speaker 4: you can get it signed by the guys that will
Speaker 4: be there. I think they're actually going to bring all
Speaker 4: the guys from the book down there. So go on
Speaker 4: down and see us and maybe guile join us. We
Speaker 4: have a couple of shots with guys if you want, Yeah,
Speaker 4: come on and see us. There you go, and that's it. Guy,
Speaker 4: Thanks so much, man, I.
Speaker 8: Really enjoyed you accepting me here.
Speaker 4: Oh anytime, tell your son, man, come on, we don't
Speaker 4: miss runs anymore. We don't do that. No, mom is
Speaker 4: in run schnids.
Speaker 5: No, it's too dark.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know what we got next week, but we'll
Speaker 4: have something. We got a lot of other good guests coming.
Speaker 8: Up, so keep track of everybody.
Speaker 4: So there you go, fella. Thank you for your service too. Man,
Speaker 4: I appreciate your service, and your boys too, and the
Speaker 4: boys the Marine the Navy. Guys, excellent stuff, Ganzo, thanks
Speaker 4: for coming your head tonight. You look wonderful. Appreciate it.
Speaker 4: We got a new shirt that's out. Rough right, what
Speaker 4: is it? My fighting is like? How does it go again? Rough?
Speaker 7: Riding a bike, riding your hair is on fire, everything, everything.
Speaker 4: It's actually pretty funny. So we should have it on
Speaker 4: the website tomorrow. We would definitely have it with us,
Speaker 4: have it at the show. And that's all coliseem correct,
Speaker 4: all right, guys.
Speaker 8: All right, good enough, guys, thanks a lot, Thanks guys,
Speaker 8: thank you very much. Thank you.
Speaker 4: See you again. You know right, stay low and go guys.
Speaker 6: All right, everybody, we'll see it the big one. Thank
Speaker 6: you again. Guy.
Speaker 5: All right, guys, see the top floor or maybe at
Speaker 5: the command post. We'll see you