WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:04.759 Disclaimer. We'd like to know before the start of this 2 00:00:04.839 --> 00:00:07.360 interview that the opinions about to be expressed by the 3 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:10.519 guest of tonight's Getting Salty Experience Podcast are that of 4 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:13.519 the guest and do not directly or necessarily reflect the 5 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:30.879 views of the host of the Getting Salty Experience Podcast. 6 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:35.159 You're listening to the Getting Salty Experience Podcast. 7 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:49.159 Hello, Hello, Louis re Frado is still alive. 8 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:56.719 Thank god, Thank god, there he is. That is my boy. 9 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:00.399 Everybody's worried about it. I got so many phocals. How's 10 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:03.799 Louis doing? How's Ruffy doing? There? He is, he's doing better, 11 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:08.599 my boy. The only guy really enjoying his retirement's falling apart. 12 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:10.439 What happens? 13 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:13.000 I'll keep hearing this. What kind of happen happens? 14 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:13.400 You stop? 15 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:18.280 I'm running full speed. It's not like I'm sitting around 16 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:19.560 the couch. I don't know what happened. 17 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:24.239 He keeps dolling cools. You gotta slow down, man. I'm like, 18 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:26.200 if this is what's slowing down does I'm out on 19 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:28.719 slowing down, bro. I don't want to slow down. 20 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:31.359 Next week. 21 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:33.480 Next week, I'm going to be in Florida golfing I'm 22 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:35.560 going to be a I got stuff going. 23 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:39.760 Talking about back. Welcome back to the getting salty experience. 24 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:42.879 It's the only one that others claim to but we 25 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:45.319 are the only one that brings the kitchen firehouse, kitchen 26 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:47.760 table to you. I might get me, Pete. Remember we 27 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:51.000 used to joke around saying several claiming best fire fighter 28 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:53.920 podcast in the world, but now we got the proof 29 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:55.680 to back it up. I don't I should have took 30 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:58.280 taken the thing that the tank showed us. But we 31 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:02.359 are the number one podcast, uh top in the top thirty. 32 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:04.640 We are number one, thanks to you guys in there, 33 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:09.159 Matt Antley, Alreadie workle My Man, QC, Beastwood, Pee Wee 34 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:15.680 gave Fox Procaccini, Sammy Peters, Darren Defriese. Thanks to you guys, 35 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:17.080 we are number one. 36 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:19.400 Gonzo with the great Hair, bringing it back. 37 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:23.960 Bringing, bringing it back all style, the great Hairy. So 38 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:26.840 listen anyway, before you get onto the commercials, I really 39 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:28.879 got to talk. I was really worried about my boy, 40 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:32.360 you know, the forty something years of friends, right, I 41 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:35.639 mean yeah, you mean I was ready he needed blood. 42 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:37.280 I was ready up to give him a couple of pints. 43 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:38.479 Bro I was ready to go up there and give 44 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:40.199 him a couple of pints of Kooby cool blood. You 45 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:44.919 know what I mean. They begin on maybeck squatting. 46 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:49.680 I might have had to give time out on that blood. 47 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:50.719 Time out. 48 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:53.039 What's coming? 49 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:56.199 I know something's coming. Come on, I know it's come on. 50 00:02:56.479 --> 00:03:00.360 Give it anyway. Yeah he does, don't. But I don't 51 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:02.400 know if you know this, but your wife actually sent 52 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:05.960 us your inside the house video cameras of when you 53 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:07.919 went down and she had to call the ambulance. 54 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:09.000 So what happened. 55 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:11.319 I woke up in the middle of the night, he 56 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:13.919 wasn't feeling good. He went to the bathroom. Before you know, 57 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:17.560 Rosie Fraser. Down goes Fraser and she's got to call 58 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:19.919 the ambulance. And this is I mean, it's kind of garble, 59 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:21.400 but this is all we got on the camera. 60 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:27.639 Well, we'll have to do the audio because respectful video. 61 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:29.319 But it's sound a little something like this. It starts 62 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:33.439 out like this, whoa. 63 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:34.639 Then he goes down. 64 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:58.240 It's the way out. Stay away from. 65 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:52.840 What's my line? You can't use my lines on me. 66 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:01.240 Stay working a little buddy, Say. 67 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:02.759 Away the light, little buddy. 68 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:04.159 Yeah, we're all good. 69 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:06.199 We're feeling good, good, feeling better. 70 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:09.680 Yeah, off the medication that was I think one of. 71 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:12.639 The main things as the appetite back back. 72 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:13.560 Yeah good. 73 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:17.399 Yeah, it's a posta yet of course, come. 74 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:20.439 On, Oh bed bar going on here, you know, Oh. 75 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:23.240 Take it easy, guys, show yeah. 76 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:33.720 A yeah, right, these you guys didn't know. I'm not 77 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:36.199 I haven't think going out my family. I'm trying to 78 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:38.480 cut down on the cussin. 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You'll see the new me. 127 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:02.079 I won't be cussing nothing. 128 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:03.079 It'll be good. 129 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:06.120 You'll be two inches house. 130 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:10.480 You'll be too inches, but that that's right now. 131 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:11.399 It'll be on the one side. 132 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:14.360 It'll be I said, the news be done by that time. 133 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:18.319 In the oh, I am getting my neighbor placed July first. 134 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:20.199 And I walked in there and the guy looked, he says, 135 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:21.680 walk down the hallway from me. And I walked down 136 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:24.120 all yes, whoa man. Oh yeah, it looks like I 137 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.680 just got off a horse, right, I'm like, yep. So 138 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:29.120 we're gonna get that bed boy fixed up July first. 139 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:33.480 But maybe i'll gain an intro to height wise. You 140 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.000 know what I'm saying. Height wise, I was pretty many. 141 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:39.720 We got guy from the Blas. This seems to recurring 142 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.800 theme here. If he's sixteen seventeen busy house, busy. 143 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:47.560 Alum, green Berey Was that the green Berets. 144 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:52.000 It is the green Berets. We had a John Row 145 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:57.079 we had on the Chiefs lost in so they must 146 00:07:57.079 --> 00:07:59.319 have been doing it. Was Milner from there, Milna No, 147 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:02.560 he was nineteen nineteen, seventeen nineteen. 148 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:04.839 Mannix was from seventeen as well. 149 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:09.519 Ah, man, this guy might have about mustache than the 150 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:11.319 guy we had on last week. He's got some. 151 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:17.079 Had a pretty good mustache. Eddie Garrett is a good mustache. 152 00:08:17.879 --> 00:08:19.959 Did have a good mustache. All right, let's bring him 153 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:22.000 in here, rough you do, honesd mancon you have been here. 154 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:25.160 God you're ready, I'm ready, all right, coming to the 155 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:29.879 stage sixty engine his whole career, firefighter Guy Schneider. 156 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:37.360 Where's the correct. 157 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:40.159 He's got it around somewhere. 158 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:42.000 He does. 159 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:44.600 Yeah, I got it around. 160 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:49.679 We gotta get patriotical, we gotta do it all right, 161 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:51.879 Let's do it there. 162 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:58.639 Yeah, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United 163 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:03.759 States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, 164 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:12.000 one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. 165 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:24.200 Best country in the history of the world. 166 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:24.440 Bro. 167 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:26.799 And I just want to say to all Canadian friends 168 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:29.360 like Darren, welcome to the US. You's gonna be the 169 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:32.840 fifty first state. Way to go awesome wait of America. 170 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:37.279 Before we get started, we should uh gont you have uh? 171 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:38.000 I have. 172 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:41.879 Yes with that picture of for me, so I want 173 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:45.200 uh here we go, right. So today was. 174 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.080 One of those days, two separate fires. We lost guys 175 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:51.960 at two separate fires for the first time in some 176 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:53.279 ridiculous amount of years. 177 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:56.799 So Richards go founding very close with one O three 178 00:09:57.159 --> 00:09:57.720 one O three. 179 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:01.200 Joe Dibonatto was h He was in Squad sixty one 180 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:02.960 when Kevin and I weren't squat to eighty eight. He 181 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.080 ended up going to rescue three uh and John Pauloo 182 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:10.519 and Lieutenant Myron. So just keep him in your thoughts today, yep. 183 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:15.879 I was in Provy school with with Joey d great kid, 184 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:22.320 great kid. Rest you had to be close. 185 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:23.919 I told you how to be closed. 186 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:26.240 I saw him do one of these, which means, go 187 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:34.720 get my green brid All right, so let's let's start 188 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:38.720 talking about guys. Schneider the man. Where were you born? 189 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:39.360 Uh? 190 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:42.519 What neighborhood? What was family life back you know, back 191 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:43.559 then in the old days. 192 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:48.200 Yeah, born in Amityville Brunswick Hospital which doesn't exist anymore, 193 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.480 or down a couple of years ago, nineteen fifty two. 194 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:57.919 Lived in Babylon basically all my life until I got 195 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:04.879 into the fire debarment. Probably I got one sister. She's 196 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:06.360 down there with Delaware. 197 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.399 Somewhere Delaware with joe all right, what did dad do? 198 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:16.639 Dad? Well, I worked village of babylin sanitation for a while, 199 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:22.480 which helped me out a lot for the physical for 200 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:25.960 the fire department. That's all we're doing is lifting cans 201 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:28.840 and whatever else, throwing ship in the back of the truck. 202 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:30.320 Dead bodies dead. 203 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:36.679 But yeah we had one dead body. 204 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:39.720 Fellows, good fellows back then. 205 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:46.440 I'll tak the dunk the first all I dunk. So 206 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:49.720 Dad wasn't a fireman though, No, what makes you take 207 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:50.799 your test? Were you a volley? 208 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:51.679 Yeah? 209 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:53.039 It was volley and Babylon Village. 210 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:55.399 Ah, there you go at what age? 211 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:56.039 Uh? 212 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:59.480 Well, I got in when I was eighteen. What year 213 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:01.759 was that? What talking nineteen seventy? 214 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:04.200 So you went down there in nineteen seventy with your 215 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:07.720 bell bottoms on and you have to pooh shirt right 216 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:09.360 rough and the platform shoes. 217 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:13.240 And you're like, yeah, well really it's a good part. 218 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:15.519 I only lived three hundred feet away from the firehouse. 219 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:18.480 So were your friend's volleys? What made you go into 220 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:18.879 the volley? 221 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:23.399 Yeah, a lot of the guys from my class high school, 222 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:25.840 they went in. It's about ten of us, I think. 223 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:28.559 So you were in seven y you. 224 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.159 Work in the Sanitage, which ain't a bad job now 225 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:34.840 it's not bad, right, and you're doing the volley thing, right, 226 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:38.480 So who your friends take the test? And what made 227 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:39.320 you want to take the test? 228 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:40.919 I'm the only one out of a crew that took 229 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:45.320 the test so far. Really, yeah, as far as I know, So. 230 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:47.360 Why did you take the test? Who told you was 231 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:49.120 a good idea? You just like to a volley. 232 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:51.519 You watch all the City of New York stuff, you know, 233 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:55.120 fires and everything else. I figured what I'm gonna try. 234 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:58.519 It took the test. I took the took the seventy seven, 235 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:01.360 didn't do too great. And then and uh, I took 236 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:04.639 the I think it was eighty two. Right, I did 237 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:07.840 it much better because I had my five points. Military. 238 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:10.799 Oh oh, you left that out. Wait, let's roll it 239 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:13.120 back a little bit. When you go in the military. 240 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:14.399 Military, I went in in seventy one. 241 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:16.200 What what branch? 242 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:17.240 Navy? 243 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:17.840 Navy? 244 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:19.120 Navyman? 245 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:23.360 What was that like with your family involved in that? 246 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:26.759 Now, well, my father was in the Navy World War two, 247 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:28.919 so you know we picked up on that. 248 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:32.080 They chance the name. 249 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:41.919 I want to know what there is that's me. It's 250 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:43.799 on the heel crash crew on the ship. 251 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:48.440 Wait, what navy allows guys to have a head that's 252 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:49.720 like that? Unruly? 253 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:52.120 This is working. 254 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:53.600 This is the seventies. 255 00:13:58.960 --> 00:13:59.720 What was that like? 256 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:02.360 What was that like with the dealing with that stuff? 257 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:04.279 I mean, did you guys get practiced a lot? Did 258 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:05.480 you ever have an actual Well. 259 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:07.440 We had a hero on board, you know, every time 260 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:09.120 it had to go up and come back, we had 261 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:13.120 to set up the crash crew just in case. So 262 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:19.519 you are what kind of ship, yeah, destroyer escort destroyed frigate. 263 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:22.039 So you already you were in the crash crew, you 264 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:23.399 were fighting fires in the navy. 265 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:26.600 Yeah, well yeah, I went to damage control school first. 266 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:28.279 That's crazy. 267 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:31.000 Did that was that next to you standing in water 268 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:34.679 when he stuck his finger and that the buzzer out. 269 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:39.919 Got to be windy on the deck decks, right, it's. 270 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:43.600 Windy out that day. What can I And that's my 271 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:47.799 boss on the right, that's your boss. That's the boss. 272 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:49.759 What's going on over here? Wow? 273 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:52.559 Did you did you guys? Did you guys stay in 274 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:53.879 touch after all that time? 275 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:56.559 Yeah? The my bus there, I still keep in touch. 276 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:57.919 That's pretty cool. 277 00:14:58.080 --> 00:14:59.039 How old are you there? 278 00:14:59.639 --> 00:14:59.840 Uh? 279 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:01.039 Probably nineteen? 280 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:02.320 Wow? 281 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:05.399 That that's a great picture. 282 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:08.960 Man, How is a guy? How was the ports of call? 283 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:09.840 As they say? 284 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:12.600 That was good? I mean we did the first cruise 285 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:18.399 in the Mediterranean, rode to Spain, Naples, Italy, Pereus, Greece. 286 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:19.279 Forget about it. 287 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:24.759 A short time? 288 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:27.000 No short time? 289 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:31.559 Yeah, a week. You can do a lot of damage, 290 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:33.759 you know. That was good. 291 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:36.080 He's elfing of these. 292 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:38.519 You know, we had fun. 293 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:41.919 No, you got old old navy tattoos? 294 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:46.200 Yeah, I got one on my arm and I got you. 295 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:48.799 Yeah. 296 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:51.799 But The hardest part of that was Gontanamo Bay where 297 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:56.840 they have the it's like the training course for going overseas, right, 298 00:15:56.919 --> 00:15:59.399 and for two weeks you do everything that you possibly 299 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:03.279 couldn't do, and you know, like the crash crew to detail, 300 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:06.879 you know, fires on the ship, stretching line, the whole bit. 301 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:09.200 That was my baby there, So. 302 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:13.720 You would listen. You in two years, No, I did 303 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:18.440 four four years, four years wow. So that's then you 304 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:20.840 came out. You got the sanitation and the well. 305 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:24.919 I had the sanitation before I went in, came back out, 306 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:28.600 and the mayor of the village wouldn't hire me back, 307 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:31.360 and I told him, federal law says you got to 308 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:34.320 take me back. This is during Vietnam, the whole bit. 309 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:36.720 So because I'm not going to hire you. So I 310 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:39.600 went down there unemployment and they told me to go 311 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:42.440 to the v A. The VA wrote him a two 312 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:45.200 page letter on all the federal laws that he broke 313 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:48.919 not hiring me. Right the next day, I got hot, 314 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:49.639 rehired again. 315 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:51.279 Ah, how do you like them? Apple? 316 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.519 It worked, so they stayed with it until you know, 317 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:59.080 I took the test at eighty two and uh, you know, 318 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:01.799 I got in, so I obviously I had to resign. 319 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:04.119 So hey, it worked out pretty good. 320 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:09.680 Sweet. So you got on in eighty four eighty four. 321 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:12.480 I think my brother got out in eighty four. Well, 322 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:14.000 I don't know what class he was in. What class 323 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:14.519 were you in? 324 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.079 Oh god, I know it was seven eleven eighty four. 325 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:20.839 That was my You didn't have my brother, Richie Coobler, 326 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:22.240 Richie the rugg had a bad rug. 327 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:27.880 They don't come off with water. 328 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:31.279 He might have your classes. He got in. I think 329 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:34.640 he got on and in in the summertime of eighty four. 330 00:17:35.160 --> 00:17:37.119 Yeah, that's when that guy went in in July. 331 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:41.400 Yeah, you would know. It looked like a like a there. 332 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:44.440 Was three classes going at the same time. We were 333 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:51.319 the class of veterans. Oh I five points. We were 334 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:52.640 there and then he had to. 335 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:55.559 Call for my mother tomorrow. What did you say? He 336 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:59.079 looked like he had a possum on his head, had a. 337 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:03.880 With all respect to rich Man, that was the worst 338 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:04.440 piece of him. 339 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:06.440 Man. 340 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:08.559 Even as they got better, like they got better, what 341 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:09.519 you couldn't tell anymore? 342 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:10.799 He kept the first one. I think. 343 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:11.279 I don't know. 344 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:16.440 He never changed. The good thing about the rock there 345 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:19.240 we had old vets in the company that was formed 346 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:21.720 and we had I forgot the guy the fire and say, 347 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:26.000 a guy from ad Engine as our company commander. Well 348 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:28.160 he sat there and to hold this, you guys, you 349 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:30.759 probably don't know how to march. You know, you don't 350 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:34.720 know anything about you know, cadence. Okay, So the next 351 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:36.960 day we found out one of the guys in the 352 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:41.279 company was a drill instructor. All right, we'll go to 353 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:44.319 a little practice job and this poor guy from ad Engine. 354 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:46.720 So he comes up and the guy goes, well, you 355 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:50.279 guys gonna learn how to march, yes, sir, right. All 356 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:53.160 of a sudden the guy could the d I gets something. 357 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:55.680 All you heard was called. 358 00:18:57.920 --> 00:18:59.839 And then he started goes and you know, not a 359 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:03.680 the poor guy made. He's like, oh right, you heard 360 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:07.519 the feet bof. And then we started marching. We were 361 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:11.839 doing obliques, real marches, you know, flanks every day. We 362 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:15.119 came back, came back, did the right face. He's standing 363 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:17.200 there and he's looking at us, goes a bunch of 364 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:22.839 smart asses, Well, chief saconno. 365 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:26.720 I was if he was down there, he was the. 366 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:27.720 I was dead that long. 367 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:29.759 Oh my god, he's there forever. 368 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:32.240 Bro I know. Anyway, he comes up and he goes 369 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:34.960 up to the guy from mate and goes they will 370 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:41.240 run to every every station station, so we weren't allowed 371 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:43.720 to walk anymore. We had a run. Yeah, because he. 372 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:48.319 Didn't say he was gonna step on your cock. 373 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:55.240 I don't think he's gonna mess with us. Not good 374 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:59.079 for us, A good time. It was only eight weeks 375 00:19:59.079 --> 00:19:59.559 at the time. 376 00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:03.240 Well, you way, what do they call that? Most of 377 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:06.720 the time, the military guys were the company whatever. 378 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:11.759 That is, squad leaders, he WI crash crew. At the end, 379 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:16.039 there seventy four. I got e five. They made me, uh, 380 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:18.039 helicopter scene leader. 381 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:19.960 No, when you went to the when you went to 382 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:22.920 the provy school, usually they make military guys the squad. 383 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:26.160 All of us were military, so we took the one 384 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:30.319 guy and it was brill instructor demand. 385 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:35.279 So who else was in your class? Any notable names 386 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:35.880 in your class? 387 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:38.279 God, I think one of my one of my lieutenants, 388 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:40.519 I can't remember his name. Now, there was a bunch 389 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:44.079 of guys. You know, I still got the picture. Yeah, 390 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:45.880 you have to look on the helmets for the name. 391 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:47.839 You don't have the You don't have that picture of 392 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:48.440 provay class. 393 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:53.720 The guns somewhere around here lost the parade. Come on, 394 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:55.279 here guy. 395 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:57.720 This is the question. Were you're making any class? You 396 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:00.160 know where you wanted to go? Where do you want 397 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:00.319 to go? 398 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:01.960 No, I had no idea where he was going. 399 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:07.200 He found up in sixty Engine. It just engine. 400 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:10.200 But the good thing is the captain that was there, 401 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:13.440 Captain John Giblin, Him and I went to John Jay together. 402 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:18.279 So it's like I walk in, I'm going, oh shit, 403 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:21.519 I know you not that saying oh ship, I'm sorry, Sarah. 404 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:24.720 You know, don't worry about that. Don't worry about it, 405 00:21:24.759 --> 00:21:27.839 you know. So we used to do, you know, sit 406 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:30.400 and study hall there between classes and talking. 407 00:21:31.799 --> 00:21:33.519 And he was at the rock. 408 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:35.599 No that John Jay. 409 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:38.839 Oh he was a captain of the sixty at the time. 410 00:21:39.559 --> 00:21:44.039 Rough and he's somehow it's yeah, it's like a yeah, 411 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:47.039 like a suck on. So he put in the word 412 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:48.680 for you and he goes. 413 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:50.920 He probably did, I don't know, because only two of 414 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:53.359 us went down there, went to sixty out of the 415 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:56.400 class and like where. 416 00:21:56.759 --> 00:21:59.160 Yeah, what was that like walking up there for the 417 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:01.000 first time in nineteen eighty four? 418 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:03.799 Well, see see we walked in. Of course we've got 419 00:22:03.799 --> 00:22:06.559 an old, brand new gear and all the senior men 420 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:09.640 are standing there They're just like looking at us. I'm like, 421 00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:13.319 this isn't good. We're going to get in trouble. So 422 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:15.759 next thing, you know, they we're gonna check your gear. 423 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:17.519 So he took all the gear and they threw it 424 00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:23.400 down the basement, the helmet, everything down. I'm like, oh, well, 425 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:26.640 we're really good ship now. So we managed. You know, 426 00:22:26.839 --> 00:22:30.200 we did our thing. We stayed the proby for a while. 427 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:33.079 So who is the some of the senior guys there 428 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:33.920 when you got there. 429 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:37.480 I got h Hell's I'm not trying to think now, Well, 430 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:42.720 we had well, Captain Giblin, we had Maxwell, Captain Maxwell 431 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:46.240 in the truck. He became a chief a couple of 432 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:49.680 years later. There was so many guys I can't remember. 433 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:53.640 It had Bob Kenny, Billy Lawson was in the was 434 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:55.880 in the engine already. I think he was there like 435 00:22:55.920 --> 00:22:57.160 two years before us. 436 00:22:57.440 --> 00:22:59.599 Oh so he was I don't remember. He was in 437 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:00.000 the engine. 438 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:02.559 Yeah, yeah, it was in the edge of first. Jimmy 439 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:05.799 Johnson was there. You know the guys that you saw 440 00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:07.960 right that we're on the air here. 441 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:10.799 We hit that name all the time, Jimmy Johnson right. 442 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:11.759 Roof what's that? 443 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:13.960 Yeah, we hit his name all the time. 444 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:19.079 Jimmy Johnson, Yeah, yeah, he was. He's still around, Yeah, yeah, 445 00:23:19.160 --> 00:23:21.279 he's Uh, what is in it? I think he's in Florida. 446 00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:25.359 Oh, we gotta get back to that roofie. So were 447 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:28.200 you living still in Long Island when you get yeah, 448 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:31.880 still still in Babylon. So you're making that commute up 449 00:23:31.880 --> 00:23:32.519 to the Bronx. 450 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:35.519 Yeah, it wasn't too bad. Hour and twenty minutes at 451 00:23:35.519 --> 00:23:36.640 five o'clock in the morning. 452 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:39.680 So when your first drive up there, right, because that's 453 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:42.000 got to be when the Bronx is like, oh yeah. 454 00:23:42.039 --> 00:23:44.759 It was like what are you thinking to yourself as 455 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:46.039 you're driving to the neighborhoods at. 456 00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:48.720 About you know, you go pass all these old laws, 457 00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:51.160 you know, and some of the schools are you know, 458 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:54.119 the kids are out there, the old handball on the walls, 459 00:23:54.160 --> 00:23:57.079 and I'm like, wow, this is not exactly what we thought. 460 00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:01.319 But the streets are crap, you know, and the cars 461 00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:03.759 a couple of you know, a d V sitting in 462 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:08.200 the parking lot. What are you gonna do? It was 463 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:11.720 the Bronx. It was there my first daid tour three 464 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:12.839 hours and my first. 465 00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:14.559 Job in three hours. 466 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:19.000 Three hours. Wow, all the people are banging on the door. 467 00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:21.799 What guy opened the door. There's smoke pouring down the 468 00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:25.720 street and going, we got a job. Boys got into 469 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:26.640 that thing, you. 470 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:29.400 Know, but you had you had been in the volley, so. 471 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:31.279 You are, well, I knew what was guy? I know 472 00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:34.400 and a half and a half, you know that whole thing. 473 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:37.000 So and you were I guess back then everybody was 474 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:38.319 a five man engine, right. 475 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:41.759 Yeah at the time. Yeah, And I forgot what what 476 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:43.359 year they cut it down the floor? 477 00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:46.160 Were they riding the back step when you got there? 478 00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:46.799 No? 479 00:24:47.079 --> 00:24:50.240 And then everybody had to get in the cab, right, 480 00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:52.200 So and that changed. I think it changed like a 481 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:55.200 year before I got there. Here go, it's the ald 482 00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:56.119 America of France. 483 00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:58.039 Oh wow, look at that. 484 00:24:59.319 --> 00:25:01.279 Actually just one of our previous guests. I'm like, I 485 00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:02.480 was like, I'm gonna use this one again. 486 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:07.440 Yeah, what conto? You just earned every dime, every twenty 487 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:09.599 five dollars, that whole twenty five You just earned it 488 00:25:09.640 --> 00:25:10.319 all right there. 489 00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:13.319 Bro, twenty five fifty. 490 00:25:14.519 --> 00:25:16.960 I'm gonna raise you up, pay to seventy five dollars. 491 00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:18.759 Nice, Hey, let's go. 492 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:21.000 That's good. So you get there, you ride in the 493 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:22.880 American of France and the first job. 494 00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:26.480 Is what Yeah, root project, third floor up we went. 495 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:29.319 You know, we had the lines and stamp pipe right, 496 00:25:29.400 --> 00:25:31.359 they be the stamp pipe and I had no idea 497 00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:33.920 what the hell I was doing. So got got the 498 00:25:33.960 --> 00:25:37.240 whole spread it out, got the water they put out. 499 00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:40.839 There was one room. Let's enough to put a little 500 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:44.240 water on anyway. That's good though, bro, Yeah great. My 501 00:25:44.279 --> 00:25:45.880 brother always just say to me, I hope you get 502 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:48.440 your first job. Is just a controlled, easy job, and 503 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:50.559 it's not one that's scares of living crap at it. 504 00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:53.559 You know, there was a few days we're scared of 505 00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:55.160 ye we'll talk about those. 506 00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:57.079 Yeah. Yeah, a lot of fun. 507 00:25:58.079 --> 00:25:59.960 So what was it like up there? You know, work 508 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:02.640 in the Bronx in eighty four. 509 00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:07.200 You drive around, you go on the ems, you know, 510 00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:10.359 RS runs everything else. You get the lay of the land. 511 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:13.400 You can see you know, there were at any homeless 512 00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:16.960 back then, believe it or not. There were no tents, 513 00:26:17.079 --> 00:26:21.000 no tense city, nothing. You know, you had the junkies 514 00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:23.960 that were burning the crap underneath all the bridges, all 515 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:27.000 that copper and everything else. That's the only time I've 516 00:26:27.079 --> 00:26:30.680 really seen anything no tents was eighty four. 517 00:26:31.160 --> 00:26:33.720 Like, would you say because I thought I had heard 518 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:36.240 somewhere that most of the city was burning like in 519 00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:38.640 the mid seventies, but the Bronx was a little bit 520 00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:40.680 more like late seventies into the eighties. 521 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:47.200 So yeah, I guess. Well, the calls we had, I mean, 522 00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:50.119 we never forget sleeping, We're out twenty runs at the 523 00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:53.359 night just to get in and out rs. You know, 524 00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:55.759 we didn't have ems yet, but then you know, you 525 00:26:55.839 --> 00:26:59.279 get there ten seventy five, okay, And it was only 526 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:03.759 you know, at the time, three and two. That was it, 527 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:07.359 so everybody knew everybody. It was fun. We had a 528 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:07.880 good time. 529 00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:10.880 But who did you run? Who is sixteen and. 530 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:15.160 Eighty three, twenty nine, seventy one, fifty five and the 531 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:16.759 illustrious forty one engine? 532 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:21.599 Did you were you going to eighty three and twenty nine? 533 00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:23.440 Did you go that way the most? At that time 534 00:27:23.480 --> 00:27:24.240 in eighty four. 535 00:27:24.119 --> 00:27:26.359 I really know, we had a lot of stuff around us. 536 00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:29.720 I mean they would come to us. Really, our borderline 537 00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:31.240 was like three or four blocks away. 538 00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:35.279 It was already the work was already moving up from 539 00:27:35.440 --> 00:27:36.200 from there. Right. 540 00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:39.119 Well, yeah, there was a lot of I mean, we 541 00:27:39.160 --> 00:27:41.559 had a lot of old factories that were burning. We 542 00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:43.720 had the coffin factory. I don't know how many fires 543 00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:46.960 we had in there, old coffin factory. I was with 544 00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:51.319 the truck then, and uh doing overtime and went in 545 00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:55.359 the basement, just stacked up coffins in the basement. I'm like, 546 00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:58.480 oh my god, I'm let's take one back. 547 00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:08.599 You go back to the court. 548 00:28:05.880 --> 00:28:09.960 In the TV room. The chief said, that's it. No, 549 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:15.200 you're not bringing into the firehouse. Come on. So we tried, 550 00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:16.680 We tried. 551 00:28:17.839 --> 00:28:19.920 Is it who's up in fifty five truck? Now? Is 552 00:28:19.960 --> 00:28:21.240 that what Jimmy is the captain? 553 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:28.200 Uh real, Oh no, he's in fifty six. 554 00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:29.440 Yeah. 555 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:30.440 Nothing. 556 00:28:31.319 --> 00:28:34.200 I don't know anybody anymore that all the houses have changed. 557 00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:38.720 Do you still out of my crew? There's nobody, everybody retired. 558 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:40.119 Do you still go back at all? 559 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:40.960 Yeah? We go. 560 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:41.640 We have a. 561 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:45.440 Memorial mass every year in June. So that first week 562 00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:47.720 of June, so we get that. That's when I get 563 00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:50.799 to see everybody again. Right, the guy look great, you 564 00:28:50.839 --> 00:28:52.880 want to see some of these other guys. Oh my god, 565 00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:53.440 but we. 566 00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:55.200 Just had raw on. He's all great. 567 00:28:55.480 --> 00:28:56.440 Yeah, he's all great. 568 00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:58.799 You know, was he there when you got there? 569 00:28:59.079 --> 00:29:01.359 Oh yeah, he was already he was there two or 570 00:29:01.359 --> 00:29:03.079 three years. I guess before I got there. 571 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:05.079 Ah, he was all sulty. 572 00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:08.119 Yeah. Yeah. We did a lot of backstepping together. It 573 00:29:08.160 --> 00:29:12.119 was fun. But nineteen eighty eight the captain decided he 574 00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:15.519 found out I was a volley and I was a 575 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:18.680 trainer for the pump pumpers. So he said, oh, you're 576 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:21.000 going to Chulfer school. Cap I don't want to go 577 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:25.119 to shelf of School because you gotta go like so anyway, 578 00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:28.359 off they sent me two weeks. You know, we did 579 00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:31.400 everything there. It's amazing how many guys were there that 580 00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:36.720 have never driven an engine. I never saw parallel parking 581 00:29:36.759 --> 00:29:41.079 an engine. These poor guys had no idea really, And 582 00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:44.480 so now one of the instructors found out I was 583 00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:48.680 a little more savvy about pumping in the truck, so 584 00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:52.079 showing him how to back up this way and that. Yeah, 585 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:55.039 I did my thing. I was doing the great. But 586 00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:57.880 we had a guy from they used to set you 587 00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:00.240 up to go to shelf of schooling. He's to be 588 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:03.480 the turnaround all the way at the end of the 589 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:07.039 the uh the rock anymore. At the rock there it's 590 00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:09.920 like a driver's training thing. And they would set up 591 00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:14.160 the cones and yeah, around around this one thing and 592 00:30:14.200 --> 00:30:17.480 get the cones right. So, you know, I had just left. 593 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:20.759 They sent another guy down. Captain gets a call from 594 00:30:20.759 --> 00:30:24.000 the shof for school, so he goes. You know the 595 00:30:24.039 --> 00:30:27.400 guy who sent us. Yeah, he hit every cone on 596 00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:31.680 the run, right, It's gotta be a hundred cones out there. 597 00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:33.720 All they were doing was picking up cones as he 598 00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:37.319 was driving past. I'm like, oh my god, he made 599 00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:38.079 them a chauffeur. 600 00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:44.079 Hey, yeah, I was just gonna say we got a carry. 601 00:30:44.759 --> 00:30:47.079 We had a guy from Australia, which I did a 602 00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:50.960 few Australian trips. That's the only picture I got me 603 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:54.200 on a pump. So that was the second alarm over. 604 00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:58.160 And uh it was a parking garage in the Bronx 605 00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:01.759 right off the one hundred forty nine street. 606 00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:05.279 Did you did you get nervous over? 607 00:31:05.480 --> 00:31:07.960 You know, after after the years that you were doing that, 608 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:10.519 did you did you still get nervous at the pump? 609 00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:15.240 Like kind of hydrant that worked? You gotta find a 610 00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:18.599 hydrant that worked. We had a lot of hydrants that 611 00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:25.440 didn't work, So it was Yeah, after doing it for 612 00:31:25.480 --> 00:31:27.200 a while, you used to what you're doing. 613 00:31:28.039 --> 00:31:30.039 Man's look at those breast fittings and stuff. 614 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:33.279 Man, Yeah, that was a failure. That would have to 615 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:34.839 be towards the end of your career, right because those 616 00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:35.519 little that was. 617 00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:38.039 That was a little heavier than too. 618 00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:41.720 Anyway, I want to I want to see that picture 619 00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:43.440 Gods of him. That the one that we used for 620 00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:44.119 the thumb Now. 621 00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:47.839 Oh that one you didn't send me, but I say 622 00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:48.559 it this way by. 623 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.240 Yeah that woh what guy? 624 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:56.000 That was? That was my promo shot. We had a 625 00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:59.480 camera crew come in on cable vision. They wanted to 626 00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:03.680 film us, so we had They took sixty Engineana who 627 00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:07.559 put him in there. The camera lady. She was gorgeous too, 628 00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:10.039 with the America of France. We had a seat in 629 00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:13.680 the middle between the captain and me. That was her spot. 630 00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:16.559 This camera was bigger than her. I mean she would 631 00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:19.519 sit there and the lens would hit the windshield. So 632 00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:22.160 we had her. It's called in the Line of Fire, 633 00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:27.559 which nineteen eighty nine. Yeah, and they followed us around 634 00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:31.079 for two days. Never got a thing except you know, 635 00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:33.559 e R S box and a car fire and that 636 00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:39.640 was it. But they took this picture is this whole thing? 637 00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:41.839 Sorry? 638 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:44.240 Yeah? 639 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.440 How much time did how much time did you have 640 00:32:46.599 --> 00:32:48.960 in that pic. Guy, how much time do you think 641 00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:49.799 you had at that time? 642 00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:53.039 A couple of years? That was what you mean that picture? 643 00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:54.359 Yeah? 644 00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:55.720 How many years did you have on the job at 645 00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:56.000 that time? 646 00:32:57.200 --> 00:33:00.519 I have it was nineteen eighty nine, so I had 647 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:02.480 five five year yeah. 648 00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:05.839 Yeah, so you never thought to make your way over 649 00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:07.200 to the truck that interested you? 650 00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:07.319 Like? 651 00:33:08.599 --> 00:33:10.400 Did you know we did the when you were pro 652 00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:12.759 you did a thirty day stint over on the truck. 653 00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:17.400 I busted my ass, you know, you can. You can 654 00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:20.119 only do a hook and a can so much. But 655 00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:23.400 after a while, when we did into the project, I 656 00:33:23.480 --> 00:33:25.400 can bring a mall with me and say, up a hook, 657 00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:27.759 what am I gonna do? Sit there and puncture you 658 00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:30.359 know a concrete block. Say, yeah, it's a good idea. 659 00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:33.000 If I went, I had a twelve pound mall in 660 00:33:33.079 --> 00:33:39.079 the can and off we went. So it worked, It worked, 661 00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:40.559 everybody was happy. 662 00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:42.160 But back worked. 663 00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:44.000 What's that You prefer? 664 00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:44.759 An engine worked? 665 00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:49.799 Though? Yeah? I enjoyed the engine when you got Jimmy 666 00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:53.240 Johnson Bill Lawson on the backstep half the time. So 667 00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:54.559 it worked out. 668 00:33:55.279 --> 00:34:00.640 So any fives that you know, uh uh forefront in 669 00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:02.640 your memory that you can remember early on in your 670 00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:03.440 career that you went to. 671 00:34:04.359 --> 00:34:08.400 All right, I remember one there you'll laugh at this, hu. 672 00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:11.679 I think it was working overtime. Had the knob went up, 673 00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:14.360 it was like the third floor. So I'm leaning up 674 00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:17.280 against the wall until the truck finished, you know, forcing 675 00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:20.239 the doors and everything and everything. We saw sup that 676 00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:24.400 burning really bad and I'm like, yeah, maybe i'd look 677 00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:29.880 around and my turnout coach burning wall. I didn't notice 678 00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:37.119 it for now leaning up against got it down the 679 00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:39.639 wall with the with the knob and uh they had 680 00:34:39.639 --> 00:34:40.920 the firearm. That was it. 681 00:34:41.880 --> 00:34:44.000 How long you have in sixty before they give you 682 00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:44.519 the nozzle? 683 00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:47.679 You like, I say, backstep? You know, if you're a chauffeur, 684 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:49.280 you can get the backstep easy. 685 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:50.079 No. 686 00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:52.000 I mean how long though before they would give you 687 00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:54.599 the nozzles? As a young guy in sixty. 688 00:34:54.559 --> 00:34:57.280 He'd probably be there two or three years. Some of 689 00:34:57.320 --> 00:34:59.800 the older guys didn't want to go up, you know. 690 00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:01.760 They all of a sudden, you know, on the backstep 691 00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:05.400 and the senior man's pulling nozzle. He hands it to me, 692 00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:10.280 go okay going and all by what So I was 693 00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:14.480 gonna complaint, good, good guy, I got good nozzle time? 694 00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:17.159 Who are some of the senior guys there when you 695 00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:17.719 got there. 696 00:35:18.159 --> 00:35:24.599 Uh, Jerry Rooney, Rooney her, Rudy Rooney Man, Roone Man. 697 00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:28.119 I had, like you know who else is there? Johnson 698 00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:32.000 John raww was not exactly the biggest scenior, but he 699 00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:35.199 was senior man than me. We had, Uh, I'm trying 700 00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:39.199 to remember Patty mac the chauffeur. He uh. I think 701 00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:43.320 he retired at sixty and sixty. Wow, I was sixty 702 00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:46.760 years old. Have retired at sixty? I think that's the story. 703 00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:48.199 But we had a lot of you. 704 00:35:48.119 --> 00:35:52.679 Know, brought you met those over there. No Ucons and no. 705 00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:56.119 We had I'm trying to remember names, so many names, 706 00:35:57.239 --> 00:35:59.760 but yeah, every I mean guys are good. I mean 707 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:05.880 Louis Morales the chaufe Yeah, but he's got like four 708 00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:09.920 brothers that are all named Louis Morales. Honest to god, 709 00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:17.800 it was great. But yeah, just keep going. But you know, 710 00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:19.679 like I say, we we were busy in the first 711 00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:21.400 four or five years, and then all of a sudden, 712 00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:25.199 it was like someone dropped a cloth on top of 713 00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:28.440 the bronx. We we you know, there's some nights we 714 00:36:28.519 --> 00:36:33.480 actually slept through the night. Then we started e MS 715 00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:37.199 was always big thing. But that was already an e 716 00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:41.000 m T before I came in. But they didn't qualify 717 00:36:41.079 --> 00:36:43.239 me as an EMT, so I had to go through 718 00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:48.440 the cfr D course certified first Responder. So all right, 719 00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:51.840 we did it. We got our thing down. We get 720 00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:53.840 a call. I was driving at the time and it 721 00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:57.000 was only one cfr D at the time. Everybody else 722 00:36:57.079 --> 00:36:59.559 is still working on it. We pull up the old 723 00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:05.400 black lie. We're on the Grand concourse. Woman's delivering a baby. 724 00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:08.920 Oh boy, he's in the back seat. Oh know, this 725 00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:11.280 is great. Now what he were gonna do? So I said, 726 00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:13.519 get the oldbe kid, let's do this. I'll do the 727 00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:16.639 right thing right, got in there. As I opened the door, 728 00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:19.400 the baby popped out, and I'm like, oh, this is 729 00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:26.079 much nice. I can disagree anyway. She's Chinese, her husband's Chinese. 730 00:37:26.519 --> 00:37:28.480 So I'm sitting there, says give me the get me 731 00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:30.320 the clamps or anything else. So I look up at 732 00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:33.000 the guy and he go, you got a baby girl. 733 00:37:33.719 --> 00:37:37.320 This is the time when China had restrictions on babies. 734 00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:41.880 Second baby. If it was a girl, it was like 735 00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:46.719 if he he takes off runs, he runs away from us, 736 00:37:46.760 --> 00:37:50.159 and the cops like, what's going on? Get him? He said, father. 737 00:37:50.719 --> 00:37:52.480 Two of them are running after this guy. I don't 738 00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:55.480 know how far up they went, but this bull woman's screaming. 739 00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:59.639 The Chinese no idea, what's going on? So Ems finally 740 00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:02.079 showed up up. We clamped to cut the cord, you know, 741 00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:05.280 we wrapped her up and they granted the ambulass. Where's 742 00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:08.719 the father. The woman is screaming, father, father. I'm like, 743 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:11.880 they're still running after him. I don't know how long 744 00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:14.760 they took before they actually bought him to Lincoln Hospital. 745 00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:18.800 But that that's the way it was. I know, the 746 00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:23.159 first in China, the first born can be a female, 747 00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:26.480 the second one if it's a female. Now we got 748 00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:30.719 a problem, all those agents like that. No, no, they 749 00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:35.039 changed that whole thing. Yeah, yeah, they changed the whole thing. 750 00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:38.239 The best guy about the nineteen thirty La France. 751 00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:45.239 Oh, that's the valley volley outfit. Yeah, we had, that 752 00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:48.159 was our in fact, I believe it was in nineteen 753 00:38:48.199 --> 00:38:53.840 twenty nine America of France. Well, it was a volley outfit. 754 00:38:53.880 --> 00:38:57.639 That was our first pumper in my company in the valleys. 755 00:38:57.960 --> 00:39:00.239 But you had if you didn't have the start working right, 756 00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:04.760 you had to crank in the front. Comma god, let 757 00:39:04.840 --> 00:39:06.920 me tell you something. A lot of guys had hurt 758 00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:09.239 hands that you don't do that the right way. That 759 00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:12.519 think pops back out and you can lose a hand. 760 00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:15.760 You had to rake get it started. 761 00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:18.559 Yeah, you know, you had a magneto you had to 762 00:39:18.599 --> 00:39:20.840 put down and you had to you know, there's no key, 763 00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:22.239 It's just that, you know, you got to step on 764 00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:24.519 the starter pedal. A lot of fun. 765 00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:28.159 I'm sure they did. They still have it or they 766 00:39:28.159 --> 00:39:28.639 got rid of it. 767 00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:33.079 Yeah, they still have it now. They got it. Everything else. 768 00:39:33.119 --> 00:39:36.559 We actually uh a friend of mine in the volleys, 769 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:39.880 but i'll saet Roger. We actually were cleaning it up 770 00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:41.960 and we wanted to see if we get the booster 771 00:39:42.079 --> 00:39:44.239 tank working because it did have a booster line on 772 00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:47.360 it with over two and a half. So we you know, 773 00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:49.320 we put water in it and the thing was like 774 00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:52.360 a sprinkless system all the holes of you know, from 775 00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:54.559 the rod. So we figured out, let's try something out. 776 00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:57.360 So we plugged it up, we got the water in it, 777 00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:00.480 we got a call for a car fire, so we're 778 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:03.239 looking and like another guy goes, what do you think 779 00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:08.039 frank up? When we got there, there was a crank siren, 780 00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:10.679 and off we went. We figured we're going to do it. 781 00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:16.239 Had one light siren was nasty and we like this, yeah, 782 00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:17.280 almost like that. 783 00:40:18.840 --> 00:40:21.280 There's so many of them. I'm not sure what it 784 00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:22.519 looks like. There's so many of them. 785 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:25.599 Yeah, I should have sent you a picture of it. Anyway, 786 00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:29.960 we we we get to the fire scene. The chief 787 00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:32.719 is standing going and he's just shaking his head. I 788 00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:35.119 want to talk to you guys when we get back. 789 00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:37.079 So we put out the fire and now the other 790 00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:39.880 rigs are coming, all the big rigs. Now it're sitting 791 00:40:39.880 --> 00:40:43.199 there and they're all like, oh my god, that's a chief. 792 00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:46.719 Will never bring that out to a fire again. It 793 00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:48.000 stays a parade truck. 794 00:40:48.079 --> 00:40:55.719 And I was going to say a parade probably that's exactly. 795 00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:57.280 Yeah, well this I don't know if it has a 796 00:40:57.320 --> 00:41:00.239 pump on it behind the seat, like I. 797 00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:01.559 See the hole in the front of the crank. 798 00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:02.599 But yeah, there you go. 799 00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:09.440 That's crazy. We had we had a picture of the 800 00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:10.280 dog on the rig. 801 00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:13.440 What what was the story with Joey. Yes, that he 802 00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:17.199 was a trucky. That's that was his. He would hear 803 00:41:18.320 --> 00:41:20.519 the alarm go you know that the tone go off, 804 00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:23.800 and then the guys are saying, truck goes Joey wherever 805 00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:26.599 he was, he jump up. This is before they had 806 00:41:26.599 --> 00:41:28.920 the cab. It was just a door. Who we used 807 00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:31.440 to leave it open. He used to jump up, get 808 00:41:31.559 --> 00:41:34.519 up there. We had like four or five old turnout coats. 809 00:41:34.920 --> 00:41:38.719 He was happy. He was happy. In fact, he gets 810 00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:41.920 on to a job, he'll get off, do whatever he 811 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:45.960 has to do. Unfortunately, we had a multiple alarm up 812 00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:49.599 in the It's somewhere in the sixties. So he jumps 813 00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:52.719 off the truck. No problem. This three tower ladders working. 814 00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:59.519 The dogs will know how to read numbers. I'm going 815 00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:02.760 where's we I don't know where is he? I don't know, 816 00:42:03.519 --> 00:42:06.440 no problem. So we got back the quarters, mixting, you know. 817 00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:10.239 Forty four. Truck pulls up. There's Joey sitting on the turntable. 818 00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:16.000 I forget something. He was happy, he was very happy. 819 00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:21.760 I love the duct tape on the door. There's Joey. 820 00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:26.239 That's uh by the way, I think that is uh. Oh, 821 00:42:26.280 --> 00:42:29.079 what the hell was I forgot his name? Anyway, Yeah, 822 00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:33.400 there's Joey when he was a little bit smaller. But yeah, 823 00:42:33.400 --> 00:42:37.920 we had I forgot I forgot the name of the 824 00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:42.559 dispatch now used to be in the Bronx three three beef. Yeah, 825 00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:45.840 that's the beef beef. That was the that was the 826 00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:48.119 beef beef. 827 00:42:48.280 --> 00:42:50.119 See, I don't I can try to blow it up 828 00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:52.199 and get a little closer, but that must be a 829 00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:52.760 young beef. 830 00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:58.519 That's it is like a beef, bro that's a sluid beef. 831 00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:02.719 Yeah, when he's up, all the pillows sometimes fell out. 832 00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:06.360 But we were already. 833 00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:06.840 There was a lot of dogs that. 834 00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:09.800 I was gonna say, what happened to Joey, because usually 835 00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:12.760 it's not a good turnout and for the dog somehow. 836 00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:17.039 Yeah, well, yeah, one of the guys took him home 837 00:43:17.079 --> 00:43:19.280 and I think you had him for about a year, and. 838 00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:24.199 It's not a good turnout, right if somebody runs him over, or. 839 00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:28.199 We had a couple like that. We had you said, 840 00:43:28.199 --> 00:43:31.000 have a beagle, got the hell his name? Now? The 841 00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:33.800 dog's out, runs out of the quarters, he gets run 842 00:43:33.840 --> 00:43:36.480 over by a car. All he did was roll under 843 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:38.880 the car, got up and walked right back into corners. 844 00:43:39.079 --> 00:43:45.079 We're like the guy, so all right, get him in here, 845 00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:47.119 get him in here. 846 00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:49.760 Said the fire house dogs were tough like that. They 847 00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:51.760 were like a straight dog the guys found right, and 848 00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:53.480 they just adopted him and that was it. 849 00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:57.360 Well, the dog that they had there was called Stevie. 850 00:43:57.920 --> 00:44:01.559 Stevie was blind in one eye, right, and uh a 851 00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:04.480 few times we had our stair door and then the 852 00:44:04.519 --> 00:44:07.880 pole hole right next to it. Well, Stevie not looking right, 853 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:11.039 we go to the pole hall down he goes. So 854 00:44:11.119 --> 00:44:12.440 when I first care, I was one of the why 855 00:44:12.480 --> 00:44:17.159 ald Toornaio coats around the pole. That's Stevie. 856 00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:18.440 He falls through the pole. 857 00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:21.719 Yea, he knows. He goes right down, lands on his feet, 858 00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:23.519 lays down and he'll sit there and wait for the 859 00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:24.280 rigs to come back. 860 00:44:24.840 --> 00:44:25.760 That's that one was free. 861 00:44:26.280 --> 00:44:28.400 Who dude, who is the guy that ran over the 862 00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:31.239 over the dog and then taped the paws to somebody's steering. 863 00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:33.159 I forget who that was. One of the guys in 864 00:44:33.159 --> 00:44:34.800 the channel know that was a great story. 865 00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:36.199 That was so funny. 866 00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:37.400 Ran the dog, the. 867 00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:40.840 Dog and then put in somebody's car and taped the door. 868 00:44:41.480 --> 00:44:44.159 And then taped it to his like the dog arriving 869 00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:50.199 the brothers. I forget who. I can't remember ship man. 870 00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:51.679 There's so many. 871 00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:55.320 I said. That guy's name comes up a lot. He's 872 00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:56.119 been on the show. 873 00:44:56.920 --> 00:45:00.239 Chief, Yeah, well what what? 874 00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:00.840 What? 875 00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:01.480 What? 876 00:45:03.360 --> 00:45:06.440 Remember them? Oh? My god? So what how how long 877 00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:12.039 do you get the seat in the. 878 00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:12.000 From eighty eight right to two thousand and four? 879 00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:14.800 Oh you got it in eighty eight when you went down? 880 00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:17.480 Yep, yep, they. 881 00:45:17.400 --> 00:45:20.559 Sent how'd you like driving in the Bronx? 882 00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:24.360 That's not that bad? Really? Right now I go on 883 00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:27.280 the Bronx. Now they're changing all the roads around. Yeah, 884 00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:32.159 the the Deacans switched over. You got all the other 885 00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:34.800 roads are going in there. They took all the exits out, 886 00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:36.840 so now you're getting go all the way around the Bronx. 887 00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:39.480 That get to you know, one hundred and one hundred 888 00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:41.679 and thirty eighth Street. What a pain in the neck? 889 00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:43.800 Yeah? Who is that? 890 00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:47.239 Guns pulled up Patrick thomb He was asking about for 891 00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:50.679 the uh when you guys drove basically, did you know 892 00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:51.920 the streets or did you leave it up to the 893 00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:53.280 company officers to get you? 894 00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:54.840 Now we have to know where we're going. 895 00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:55.280 You have to know. 896 00:45:55.480 --> 00:46:00.519 You know, you go to a certain building like times 897 00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:03.119 a month, you get to know the building, the people 898 00:46:03.159 --> 00:46:05.760 in it, who screams at you. You know where the 899 00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:07.119 hydrants are and everything else. 900 00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:12.840 You hadrons. You had to know because there was no grid. 901 00:46:13.079 --> 00:46:15.960 There's no grid service there, man, it's there's just streets 902 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:16.920 coming everywhere. 903 00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:18.000 They got hills, they. 904 00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:23.559 Got and they put the they took the old caps off. 905 00:46:23.559 --> 00:46:26.320 He's had the hydrant wrench. They put those other caps on. 906 00:46:26.920 --> 00:46:28.039 Had a special runch. 907 00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:28.639 Yeah. 908 00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:31.119 Yeah, they didn't realize when they put that in. They 909 00:46:31.239 --> 00:46:36.320 had a iron ring that set itself against the hydrant. Well, 910 00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:40.480 they rust try and get that cap off. You see 911 00:46:40.519 --> 00:46:43.239 a lot of shots, but guys are beating the cap 912 00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:45.800 with an axe or sledge hammer with them all. You 913 00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:48.440 always got the axe next to the seat in the shelf. 914 00:46:48.760 --> 00:46:50.719 You had to beat it and then hold to god 915 00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:54.360 that it would at least spin right, And a lot 916 00:46:54.360 --> 00:46:57.840 of hydrantcy was it one one job we pull up 917 00:46:57.840 --> 00:47:00.559 eighty three, was down the block and put the hydrant, 918 00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:03.760 you know, the wrench on top. The hydrant falls. 919 00:47:03.519 --> 00:47:10.320 Down going on by you right, yeah, man. 920 00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:13.039 With a hit of a. 921 00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:15.880 Truck, chance to my rates and I got a working fire, 922 00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:19.440 two windows of fire, and I'm like, are you kidding me? 923 00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:21.679 And I've seen plenty of you know, we used to 924 00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:24.360 get down there and the hydrate inspection. You kick it 925 00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:27.880 before you actually do anything and if it falls down 926 00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:32.840 right up. The crew had a lot of hydrates and 927 00:47:32.920 --> 00:47:34.840 you usually get the ones that get hit by a truck. 928 00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:39.039 And you're looking. You see that the fitting there, Well, 929 00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:41.760 there's a hydrant. Now we're looking for the hydrot because 930 00:47:41.760 --> 00:47:43.199 you know, no one's going to pick that thing up. 931 00:47:43.239 --> 00:47:47.639 It waits. Yeah, there, it's all cast iron, and you're looking, 932 00:47:47.719 --> 00:47:50.800 you're looking, and finally one guy gets founded. Somebody threw 933 00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:55.480 it in the garbage. Can wow, come on, that's that's 934 00:47:55.480 --> 00:47:58.159 the way it was the Bronx. 935 00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:02.400 At the high of what would you say, the busiest 936 00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:05.400 times of what year? If you got there in eighty four. 937 00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:08.679 Uh, the first four or four years is busy. 938 00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:12.519 Now when you say busy, we had any given how 939 00:48:12.519 --> 00:48:13.199 many jobs you're. 940 00:48:13.079 --> 00:48:15.719 Going, there's some days free jobs at once, you know, 941 00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:19.440 just in and out. You know, we we have In fact, 942 00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:22.679 when you pull up, you have the relocators there and 943 00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:25.360 they're all lined up down the street. It's like six 944 00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:28.199 or seven relocators. You know, one set would be nice, 945 00:48:28.199 --> 00:48:30.800 but now we have to wait for them to leave. 946 00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:32.920 They're all doing there. 947 00:48:33.519 --> 00:48:37.480 By the way, I found what I see, that's exactly. 948 00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:39.360 I just figure I found the one you were talking about. 949 00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:44.920 Yeah, that's night. The new caps they got. Now there's 950 00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:48.039 ones at the special rench you got. Yeah, the pain 951 00:48:48.119 --> 00:48:52.239 and neck they really were that day. We persevered. That's it. 952 00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:54.679 We got. We got water one way or another. 953 00:48:55.199 --> 00:48:55.920 Yeah. 954 00:48:56.360 --> 00:49:00.559 Crazy when you said that it slowed down after let's 955 00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:04.440 say like ninety Uh did you feel like you where 956 00:49:04.599 --> 00:49:05.320 was the work was it? 957 00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:07.639 Was it much further north? Like was it going north? 958 00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:11.239 Had a lot of work then in Harlem? Yeah, a 959 00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:12.920 lot of work there, and we went to a lot 960 00:49:12.920 --> 00:49:17.400 of second third alarms. You know, it's just it was crazy. 961 00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:20.079 But then, like I say, everything started to slow down. 962 00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:22.880 Give me some nights where we actually slept through the 963 00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:26.400 night or stay in a day to work. 964 00:49:26.320 --> 00:49:27.800 Allegedly there's nothing there. 965 00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:30.280 Yeah. 966 00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:32.440 So you guys ran in first do with forty one 967 00:49:32.679 --> 00:49:40.039 and uh we were talking to raw Sorry. 968 00:49:39.320 --> 00:49:40.119 They just have me gone. 969 00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:43.440 I'm gonna drive my car to your house. I'm just 970 00:49:43.440 --> 00:49:45.599 gonna plow into your garbage cans for the hell of it. 971 00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:46.719 Bro, there you go. 972 00:49:47.159 --> 00:49:51.519 So, so you ran it with forty one. I brought 973 00:49:51.760 --> 00:49:54.440 refused to call them a squad, so he would. 974 00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:59.719 Yeah. Well when they went to uh an engine and 975 00:49:59.800 --> 00:50:05.000 hair handst engine. Some of the people there, I mean really, 976 00:50:05.559 --> 00:50:09.519 oh yeah, we're gonna do this with that, and they're like, easy, easy, 977 00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:13.000 take it easy, right, forty one we had a job. 978 00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:16.599 You're like this. We had a job on one hundred 979 00:50:16.599 --> 00:50:19.280 and forty ninth Street. So then we get there. It's 980 00:50:19.320 --> 00:50:22.000 a small job. Forty one, first two, so we'll see, 981 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:25.199 you know. The chief goes sixty take up. Now, John 982 00:50:25.280 --> 00:50:27.559 rule wasn't working, but I was just as bad as 983 00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:31.920 he was. We swing around to forty one's quarters. Back 984 00:50:31.920 --> 00:50:35.119 in the quarters, shut the door, we stretched the line, 985 00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:38.440 got water. As soon as they pull up, the door 986 00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:43.320 opens up, wolf streaming right through the camp. The walkers 987 00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:46.519 his helmet off, the Shoffer's screaming, right. They were like, 988 00:50:48.400 --> 00:50:53.559 you know, just let the host off. Water Wars back 989 00:50:53.599 --> 00:50:55.800 in the day, Oh yeah, oh yeah, the cam. 990 00:50:56.760 --> 00:50:59.199 You know, I think you said that the water Wars 991 00:50:59.199 --> 00:50:59.760 were insane. 992 00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:02.920 Oh yeah, like everybody has their fresh air of water 993 00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:04.400 warves man, So. 994 00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:06.679 Don't work. 995 00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:11.000 Teleprinted doesn't work, nothing works. Everything's wet house. 996 00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:13.840 Watching it soaked the kid. They can't well, when I 997 00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:17.639 was working the truck, thirty day detail still a proby 998 00:51:18.239 --> 00:51:20.159 and you know the guys are going up, I got 999 00:51:20.159 --> 00:51:23.199 the can. I think it was twenty nine truck had 1000 00:51:23.199 --> 00:51:25.159 the can. Next thing you know, I get locked in 1001 00:51:25.159 --> 00:51:26.960 the head with a stream of water from the from 1002 00:51:26.960 --> 00:51:30.400 the extinguisher. Right, what do you want to play games? 1003 00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:30.800 Anyway? 1004 00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:33.239 On the hallway, smoke pouring out of the door, and 1005 00:51:33.239 --> 00:51:36.639 we're squirting each other with the cans. Right, we're laughing 1006 00:51:36.719 --> 00:51:42.159 our asses off. Oh my god, ship, thank god they 1007 00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:44.000 put the fire out. We were out of water, so 1008 00:51:44.480 --> 00:51:46.480 we were stuck. That was it for us. 1009 00:51:48.559 --> 00:51:51.079 So you left in two thousand and four, But there 1010 00:51:51.079 --> 00:51:52.360 were a squad. They actually went. 1011 00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:54.880 From Yeah, they went. Yeah, they went to a squad. 1012 00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:57.039 And they're in a perfect spot man, because they can 1013 00:51:57.079 --> 00:51:58.760 pick up a lot of work and haul them. They 1014 00:51:58.760 --> 00:52:01.440 go right across the bridge in and they catch a 1015 00:52:01.440 --> 00:52:02.320 lot of work over there. 1016 00:52:02.599 --> 00:52:04.199 They used to have a hard time. They used to 1017 00:52:04.199 --> 00:52:08.280 have what is it, motor vehicle office right next door. 1018 00:52:08.920 --> 00:52:12.039 Now you know, motor vehicle everybody's got their car where. 1019 00:52:11.840 --> 00:52:13.079 They double everything. 1020 00:52:13.159 --> 00:52:16.360 Yeah, we couldn't get out. Maybe you're sitting there, siren 1021 00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:18.519 and air horn and everybody kind of like, you know, 1022 00:52:18.559 --> 00:52:19.280 what are you gonna do? 1023 00:52:19.559 --> 00:52:19.599 It? 1024 00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:22.320 Just couldn't make the turnout either. Way. 1025 00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:24.000 That's the tight door there too. 1026 00:52:24.039 --> 00:52:27.119 And for that oh yeah, I mean you know I 1027 00:52:27.239 --> 00:52:30.840 drove forty one one time. Oh my god. The guy, 1028 00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:34.840 the officer there was like, you know how to drive? Yeah? 1029 00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:36.400 I think so, I've been doing this for like ten 1030 00:52:36.480 --> 00:52:39.760 years now. So we go buy in this two part 1031 00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:45.480 cars are and I'm going raman speed right, didn't touch 1032 00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:48.320 a car. He's like, oh my god, Oh my god. 1033 00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:51.840 So it's great. We get to this. It's i gotta 1034 00:52:51.840 --> 00:52:54.559 find me another shouffe. You're out of your mind. You 1035 00:52:54.679 --> 00:52:56.239 have to be able to drive this thing. What do 1036 00:52:56.280 --> 00:52:56.719 you kidding me? 1037 00:52:57.599 --> 00:53:00.760 They have the lime green on that back then. 1038 00:53:01.159 --> 00:53:05.559 Yeah, that was there at the time. Mac Yeah it 1039 00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:06.440 was an old Mac. 1040 00:53:08.719 --> 00:53:10.199 Fast Fast. 1041 00:53:10.440 --> 00:53:12.880 Yeah they were. They were good up to a point, 1042 00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:15.360 but every time, you you know, something would fall off. 1043 00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:19.480 And like Jesus, I remember we had uh I was 1044 00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:22.679 working up at sixty eight engine fourth of July. They 1045 00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:25.079 had the Nelson fire that night. I think it was 1046 00:53:25.079 --> 00:53:28.880 one hundred and sixty something street. Every window in this 1047 00:53:29.159 --> 00:53:34.360 abandoned tenement was blown flame. We're first due, so I'm 1048 00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:38.159 driving up this pork captain sitting going do you want 1049 00:53:38.199 --> 00:53:39.880 me to do a ten seventy five. Just let the 1050 00:53:39.960 --> 00:53:42.760 chief do it. Do whatever you want, cap, I'm gonna 1051 00:53:42.880 --> 00:53:45.280 gonna find the hydrat found the hydrant. 1052 00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:45.679 You know. 1053 00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:48.079 We start, I'm now I'm away from the building, but 1054 00:53:48.119 --> 00:53:51.599 this thing is roaring. You start and forty one comes up. 1055 00:53:51.719 --> 00:53:52.960 Sorry, I gotta stretch your line. 1056 00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:55.719 Your tore the air. Yeah, God take it. I don't care. 1057 00:53:56.239 --> 00:53:58.360 They stretched the line. The last couple of falls and 1058 00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:07.480 it's dragged down the street. I hold up the last 1059 00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:10.840 couple and I've got this. You can't even hook up. 1060 00:54:11.440 --> 00:54:15.440 But we were there for like six seven hours. The 1061 00:54:15.480 --> 00:54:18.679 whole night, three or four tower ladders work, and yeah, 1062 00:54:18.679 --> 00:54:20.880 you couldn't do it. Everything's six floor tenement. 1063 00:54:21.719 --> 00:54:24.400 Guy, did you ever use the sting like when you 1064 00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:25.119 got the job? 1065 00:54:25.159 --> 00:54:31.440 And I'll give you another story. Was it thirty seconds? Yeah, 1066 00:54:31.480 --> 00:54:33.440 we got in. There was a job on one hundred 1067 00:54:33.440 --> 00:54:36.199 and forty fifth Street in Harlem. So we get there 1068 00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:39.960 and there the fourth floor is total flame. Must have 1069 00:54:39.960 --> 00:54:43.079 been six apartments holling across. They're trying to get in 1070 00:54:43.159 --> 00:54:46.199 and they can't have too much fire. I'm sitting there. 1071 00:54:46.239 --> 00:54:48.880 Ems has parked in front of the hydrant. So I 1072 00:54:48.920 --> 00:54:51.119 told the guy move your rig. Now I got to 1073 00:54:51.159 --> 00:54:53.840 get the hose here, and he looked at me, so okay, 1074 00:54:54.039 --> 00:54:56.719 So I got the old five inch yellow hose there, 1075 00:54:57.360 --> 00:54:59.960 ran up, knocked him over right, He got the hydrant, 1076 00:55:00.039 --> 00:55:03.000 looked up, gave him water and the thing the hose 1077 00:55:03.159 --> 00:55:06.719 whacked the door, entered the door and he got in there. 1078 00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:10.480 Fifty nine engine had put the hydrant, had tried to 1079 00:55:10.519 --> 00:55:13.079 hook up to the hydrant on the across the street. 1080 00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:15.639 He did one of those and the hydrant fell and 1081 00:55:15.719 --> 00:55:18.639 rolled down the street, so he was out of water. 1082 00:55:19.079 --> 00:55:21.119 I told him, get up on the deck. Gun, we're 1083 00:55:21.159 --> 00:55:23.880 gonna do this. Flit all the way across. So the 1084 00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:27.079 deputies there, the you the guy who was a lieutenant 1085 00:55:27.159 --> 00:55:29.960 in eighty three ins at the time, so Chief Tobyn 1086 00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:32.719 I think yeah. Anyway, he comes up and goes think 1087 00:55:32.719 --> 00:55:34.920 you can handle that. He says, yeah, just get everybody 1088 00:55:34.960 --> 00:55:37.079 out of the building because we're gonna we're gonna smash 1089 00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:40.519 this right right, everything that we can do, we did it. 1090 00:55:41.079 --> 00:55:42.760 The poor guy in fifty nine was having up. He 1091 00:55:42.920 --> 00:55:46.239 was yeah, knocked the fire down. 1092 00:55:46.280 --> 00:55:50.199 I mean every a lot of water right at dage 1093 00:55:50.199 --> 00:55:50.480 if you. 1094 00:55:50.440 --> 00:55:50.920 Use that right. 1095 00:55:51.480 --> 00:55:54.239 Yeah, we knocked it all down. The towel ladder was 1096 00:55:54.280 --> 00:55:56.599 around the corner. What they were doing there. Most of 1097 00:55:56.639 --> 00:55:59.079 the fire was on this side, but we got it down. 1098 00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:06.960 Yeah, I mean we're saying lost art, right, I'm just 1099 00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:10.519 saying it's just ast you talk about water wars. 1100 00:56:10.639 --> 00:56:12.400 When I went to two ten that had this thing 1101 00:56:12.440 --> 00:56:16.360 where they would set up to stang so it would 1102 00:56:16.440 --> 00:56:21.599 point directly into the walkway of the kitchen. So if 1103 00:56:21.639 --> 00:56:23.960 all they had to do was just pull the thing, 1104 00:56:24.079 --> 00:56:26.400 so the chauffeur would pretend like he's just checking the 1105 00:56:26.480 --> 00:56:28.559 rig in the morning. I walked out one morning with 1106 00:56:28.599 --> 00:56:30.760 the garbage can. I'm emptying the garbage in my hand, 1107 00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:33.079 and they pulled the button and it hit me right 1108 00:56:33.079 --> 00:56:36.760 in the face, a garbage can about twenty feet away 1109 00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:39.960 and knock me about ten feet into the kitchen like 1110 00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:42.000 a little dangerous water was But. 1111 00:56:42.760 --> 00:56:48.519 Ye can do it. In fact, a lot of times 1112 00:56:48.559 --> 00:56:52.199 I used that. You know, we had big rubbish fires. 1113 00:56:52.840 --> 00:56:57.400 I mean in three corner, three year all day, Am 1114 00:56:57.440 --> 00:57:00.639 I by the hydrid hook up? Stand up here, get 1115 00:57:00.639 --> 00:57:03.239 the proby up there. Look where the fire is. Hit 1116 00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:05.360 it with the water. How do you do it? Yeah? 1117 00:57:05.800 --> 00:57:08.480 I mean what it is in the uh in the 1118 00:57:08.519 --> 00:57:10.360 hey days, the most runs that you ever did? 1119 00:57:10.840 --> 00:57:13.320 Uh what a day or that for the year. 1120 00:57:14.159 --> 00:57:16.519 Uh, no, for the year? How many runs were doing? 1121 00:57:16.679 --> 00:57:19.679 Ye, he was doing about sixty seven hundred runs back 1122 00:57:19.679 --> 00:57:24.119 in the late seventies. Okay, we managed to take out 1123 00:57:24.119 --> 00:57:28.000 about a little over four hundred. I was in uh huh, 1124 00:57:28.039 --> 00:57:31.719 you know before before the time of quiet. Let's put 1125 00:57:31.760 --> 00:57:32.159 it that way. 1126 00:57:32.199 --> 00:57:35.800 Now, when you in your busy time, right, what you 1127 00:57:35.840 --> 00:57:38.440 perceived to be busy in those years with the guys 1128 00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:41.199 who were there from like the late seventies, like, yeah, 1129 00:57:41.239 --> 00:57:43.559 this is not so busy like it was when we 1130 00:57:43.559 --> 00:57:45.079 were Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1131 00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:47.360 As we running out, you know, twenty five times at 1132 00:57:47.480 --> 00:57:50.119 night during the day, there was always some type of 1133 00:57:50.119 --> 00:57:53.599 fire that they're going to. It was crazy. We get 1134 00:57:53.599 --> 00:57:56.280 the stories, you know, we had them, and then we 1135 00:57:56.800 --> 00:58:00.480 made up. We managed to Uh we did a couple 1136 00:58:00.519 --> 00:58:03.920 of good jobs. We had a covering captain. One time 1137 00:58:04.039 --> 00:58:08.079 came in I think he was from Queens anyway. Over 1138 00:58:08.159 --> 00:58:12.039 time he got in the seat, he goes, you guys busy, 1139 00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:15.719 He says, no, not really, we're kind of done. Three 1140 00:58:15.800 --> 00:58:19.599 jobs later he was the second alarm in the middle 1141 00:58:19.599 --> 00:58:23.719 of the night. This guy, this guy got kind of 1142 00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:25.880 like plus three. They had to put him in the 1143 00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:28.119 ambulance to send him over to Jacoby. 1144 00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:30.440 Shot. 1145 00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:33.320 Yeah, I don't know why. Anyway, we come back back 1146 00:58:33.320 --> 00:58:37.239 in the quarters, you know, no problem. Well, the aids car, 1147 00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:40.000 the chiefs car, whatever it was. At the time he 1148 00:58:40.039 --> 00:58:43.239 gets out, he's still got his gown on. He looks 1149 00:58:43.239 --> 00:58:47.480 at me at points goes you starts chasing down the street. 1150 00:58:48.400 --> 00:58:49.719 You told me it was quite not. 1151 00:58:50.360 --> 00:58:52.800 I said, we're not that busy. Probably won't get anything. 1152 00:58:53.599 --> 00:58:55.400 Long, probably they won't get anything. 1153 00:58:58.400 --> 00:58:59.079 Murphy was there. 1154 00:58:59.280 --> 00:59:01.519 We heard start showed up and you heard that and said, 1155 00:59:01.679 --> 00:59:03.599 tell the hell did he happen? 1156 00:59:04.480 --> 00:59:07.360 God bless you, Jack, But he just. 1157 00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:09.320 He did manage to do this in a spare time 1158 00:59:09.360 --> 00:59:10.119 at the firehouse. 1159 00:59:10.719 --> 00:59:12.719 But is Thatt's see it. 1160 00:59:12.719 --> 00:59:14.639 It's on the back of all the multice cross. 1161 00:59:14.719 --> 00:59:19.400 Yeah. The engine office door is right below it. So, uh, 1162 00:59:19.440 --> 00:59:23.480 this was in my my When I came on six 1163 00:59:23.559 --> 00:59:27.199 months the guys found out I was a welder. Okay, 1164 00:59:27.880 --> 00:59:31.760 so Commissaw at the time was Tom Mahoney, let's go 1165 00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:34.639 get you a welder guy. I'm only a proby here, 1166 00:59:34.639 --> 00:59:36.960 what are you doing? Went to the welding shop. We 1167 00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:39.360 picked out a welder brought it back, you know. We 1168 00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:42.039 it was like three or four hundred dollars with all 1169 00:59:42.039 --> 00:59:45.039 the welding rods. So he comes up and goes, uh, 1170 00:59:45.639 --> 00:59:47.719 what can you do for us? I says, well, you 1171 00:59:47.719 --> 00:59:49.760 know the racks we had for the for the gear, 1172 00:59:50.280 --> 00:59:52.599 there was all that one inch pipe that was like 1173 00:59:52.679 --> 00:59:55.480 screwed on and it was like, you know, just standing 1174 00:59:55.559 --> 00:59:57.280 there and if you put too much, gear would start 1175 00:59:57.320 --> 01:00:01.119 to sway a little bit and then rock and roll. Sorry, 1176 01:00:01.199 --> 01:00:05.000 you want to redo the racks, right? So I did 1177 01:00:05.039 --> 01:00:08.840 once one side. We used angle ion flat bar. I 1178 01:00:08.880 --> 01:00:11.599 did everything I could. We bolted the racks right into 1179 01:00:11.639 --> 01:00:14.559 the wall. That was my thing. I wasn't a probium one. 1180 01:00:14.559 --> 01:00:17.159 Now I'm welding, you know. I had the rig pulled 1181 01:00:17.159 --> 01:00:18.599 out so I could get the welder in there and 1182 01:00:18.679 --> 01:00:21.920 everything else, and we redid all the racks, of which 1183 01:00:21.960 --> 01:00:24.639 they gone today when they redid the floor. But while 1184 01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:27.960 I was I figured, uh, this looks good. So I 1185 01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:31.400 had the garbage can cover. So I had one of 1186 01:00:31.440 --> 01:00:34.159 the guys painted up and I made the Maltese cross 1187 01:00:34.159 --> 01:00:34.559 out of here. 1188 01:00:35.199 --> 01:00:36.239 Is that still there? 1189 01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:37.400 Yeah, it's still there. 1190 01:00:37.639 --> 01:00:38.119 That's cool. 1191 01:00:38.519 --> 01:00:41.559 Taken a year ago it's still there. 1192 01:00:41.559 --> 01:00:44.920 It's left one of those new red racks. 1193 01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:48.679 Yeah. They finally they had to redid the floors. They 1194 01:00:49.079 --> 01:00:51.639 actually came in with the red racks on wheels, you know, 1195 01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:54.199 they took everything off the walls, which they had to 1196 01:00:55.159 --> 01:00:58.920 and uh yeah, they redid the whole floor. Took them 1197 01:00:58.920 --> 01:01:00.320 two years, but they did it. 1198 01:01:01.320 --> 01:01:03.039 You got Albanese on there is is the same guy 1199 01:01:03.039 --> 01:01:03.480 in the chat. 1200 01:01:04.280 --> 01:01:04.719 Yeah. 1201 01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:09.679 Yeah, we talk a lot about like certain houses that 1202 01:01:09.760 --> 01:01:12.599 have like a lot of pride, you know what I mean, 1203 01:01:12.679 --> 01:01:15.280 like throughout the job. You know, forty four and one 1204 01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:19.519 twenty and you know seventeen is definitely in that that 1205 01:01:19.760 --> 01:01:22.519 group of you know, they have like a great following 1206 01:01:22.559 --> 01:01:25.159 of retirees and obviously the guys we've fed on the show. 1207 01:01:25.320 --> 01:01:27.880 Why do you think that is that it keeps going 1208 01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:30.760 like that, like it's such a sought after house and 1209 01:01:30.760 --> 01:01:32.880 that the guys you know, stick together for so much 1210 01:01:32.920 --> 01:01:33.880 so many years like that. 1211 01:01:34.599 --> 01:01:38.719 It's just it's the area that they're in the firehouse 1212 01:01:38.840 --> 01:01:42.000 is what one hundred years old now, so you know, 1213 01:01:42.119 --> 01:01:45.000 it's just like old style. You feel like you're in 1214 01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:47.119 a real firehouse, not like some of these new ones 1215 01:01:47.119 --> 01:01:50.280 they got now concrete black walls. I mean the house 1216 01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:55.440 was built eighteen eighteen seventy seven. The truck was the 1217 01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:58.440 first truck in the Bronx. Oh shit, we had a 1218 01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:01.760 single story, single girl. And then they built out because 1219 01:02:01.760 --> 01:02:06.840 I needed the uh what is it? The called wagon 1220 01:02:07.519 --> 01:02:09.800 for the engine that was going to come in sixty 1221 01:02:09.960 --> 01:02:13.039 was down on one hundred and thirty seventh Street, right, 1222 01:02:13.159 --> 01:02:16.840 single engine. Now there's projects around there. They got nineteen 1223 01:02:17.199 --> 01:02:20.800 forty five and they brought the engine up. They the 1224 01:02:20.880 --> 01:02:24.320 new firehouse, new firehouse at the time, but there was them, 1225 01:02:24.400 --> 01:02:26.480 and then fourteen Battalion came in. 1226 01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:31.000 Well, that sounds like a good. 1227 01:02:30.960 --> 01:02:32.440 That would be a great house to do too. 1228 01:02:32.639 --> 01:02:35.679 That would ballad like we could. We'll find the sixties 1229 01:02:35.719 --> 01:02:39.400 old quarters and an old firehouse. We should do a 1230 01:02:39.880 --> 01:02:40.639 spotlight on. 1231 01:02:41.320 --> 01:02:43.239 A couple of picture of it. I don't know what 1232 01:02:43.280 --> 01:02:44.880 I did with it. I didn't put it in the 1233 01:02:44.920 --> 01:02:45.360 thing there. 1234 01:02:46.039 --> 01:02:47.840 Back in the day, the trucks and the engines were 1235 01:02:47.880 --> 01:02:51.639 never together. That didn't happen later, that's right. And then 1236 01:02:51.679 --> 01:02:55.159 they started building. Eventually they started building firehouses to house 1237 01:02:55.159 --> 01:02:57.280 a truck and an engine together, but they were never together. 1238 01:02:59.400 --> 01:03:03.400 Yeah, then say the the engine hundred year was nineteen 1239 01:03:03.440 --> 01:03:06.320 ninety five and the truck was just last. 1240 01:03:06.119 --> 01:03:10.519 Year, last year, guys, and fifty anniversary, right. 1241 01:03:10.840 --> 01:03:14.480 Yeah, that Annirosary yep, that's all that. 1242 01:03:14.559 --> 01:03:17.840 Things have changed in that firehouse, especially when he got there. 1243 01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:21.360 Who would you look at and say, like, that's the 1244 01:03:21.400 --> 01:03:23.440 guy I want to be like that That that is 1245 01:03:23.480 --> 01:03:26.079 a real hard charging fireman right there. 1246 01:03:26.119 --> 01:03:30.039 That you had Pete Lusskis, who's now like I believe it, 1247 01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:32.480 I don't know if he's captain lieutenant. He was a 1248 01:03:32.480 --> 01:03:35.400 go getter. That man knew everything about how to force 1249 01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:39.599 a door, you know, getting in the right apartment, you know, 1250 01:03:39.679 --> 01:03:43.119 and doing every truck thing, you know, the old power 1251 01:03:43.199 --> 01:03:46.679 tools everything else. It was amazing. With the saw, he 1252 01:03:46.719 --> 01:03:49.119 could just cut piece of metal up and it's like 1253 01:03:49.320 --> 01:03:52.000 holy shit. He went to do that no time, you know. 1254 01:03:52.239 --> 01:03:55.079 And it was just one of the most I guess 1255 01:03:55.480 --> 01:03:58.519 knowledgeable firefighter in the trunk. 1256 01:03:59.519 --> 01:04:01.519 A bunch of about an engine but like what what 1257 01:04:02.199 --> 01:04:04.239 nozzle man? Did you look up and say, wow, that 1258 01:04:04.239 --> 01:04:04.760 guy is. 1259 01:04:04.719 --> 01:04:10.280 Like you had Tommy Cappiello, Jimmy Johnson lost in when 1260 01:04:10.280 --> 01:04:14.199 he was in the engine. He wait a bunch of guys, 1261 01:04:14.599 --> 01:04:17.400 a bunch of good guys. You know. They kept me 1262 01:04:17.440 --> 01:04:19.760 through the whole thing. You know, you want the nozzle, yeah, 1263 01:04:19.800 --> 01:04:21.800 I'll take you it, you know, just to wash down 1264 01:04:21.880 --> 01:04:27.239 or whatever it was. There. We we kept together, right. 1265 01:04:27.760 --> 01:04:27.960 Yeah. 1266 01:04:28.039 --> 01:04:31.000 You never thought ever of getting you know, starting to 1267 01:04:31.039 --> 01:04:32.719 study to get a you know, to move on. 1268 01:04:33.639 --> 01:04:34.840 I wasn't interested in it. 1269 01:04:35.199 --> 01:04:36.840 That's my man right there. 1270 01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:42.320 My shop. Yeah I had that. They finally we cleaned 1271 01:04:42.320 --> 01:04:44.760 out the basement and we put the welder down there. 1272 01:04:45.239 --> 01:04:47.599 We had a work bench and everything else. And yeah, 1273 01:04:47.599 --> 01:04:49.199 I used to go down I had my leathers and 1274 01:04:49.239 --> 01:04:50.119 everything else there. 1275 01:04:50.119 --> 01:04:52.039 You go, Wow, that is an old firehouse. 1276 01:04:55.719 --> 01:04:58.079 They I used to have my leathers on and I'd 1277 01:04:58.079 --> 01:05:00.719 be welded down there. We got a run all r Yeah, 1278 01:05:00.760 --> 01:05:03.480 I gotta go right, so I'm still wearing my leathers, right, 1279 01:05:03.559 --> 01:05:07.039 and we have a covering captain. This guy scared me. 1280 01:05:07.280 --> 01:05:09.800 He got I got in the rig. He's sitting there. 1281 01:05:10.800 --> 01:05:13.400 He had the creases on his shirt sleeves. You could 1282 01:05:13.440 --> 01:05:15.800 cut a piece of meat with him. This guy was 1283 01:05:15.880 --> 01:05:19.000 so clean, you know, and the shirt was buttoned up. 1284 01:05:19.519 --> 01:05:22.280 Everything was going you know, like okay, yeah, you know, 1285 01:05:22.360 --> 01:05:24.360 so he's going up. Are we ready? Hanging on the 1286 01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:28.039 chiefs coming down the stairs. Our battalion office was upstairs, 1287 01:05:28.320 --> 01:05:31.000 but they made him a staircase. From all the fumes 1288 01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:34.360 and everything else where he comes down was chief Ed Brown. 1289 01:05:35.119 --> 01:05:37.360 This man had a baritone voice. I don't think he 1290 01:05:37.400 --> 01:05:40.039 ever used his hand you're talking to make commands. He 1291 01:05:40.079 --> 01:05:44.159 would yell right, but he was. He was one of 1292 01:05:44.159 --> 01:05:46.880 the best guys. His hair was mussed up. Now he's 1293 01:05:46.880 --> 01:05:49.440 coming out the door. He's got the Bronx T shirt 1294 01:05:49.480 --> 01:05:53.920 with coffee stains on it, his officers shirt hanging hanging 1295 01:05:53.960 --> 01:05:57.320 off his you know, he's wearing his slippers and the 1296 01:05:58.320 --> 01:06:01.679 knees on his pants were almost shot. So anyway, he's 1297 01:06:01.679 --> 01:06:04.559 walking towards the rig. The gang was right in the 1298 01:06:04.599 --> 01:06:07.039 middle of us, and the Captain's looking and I look 1299 01:06:07.079 --> 01:06:12.440 at the count and go, that's my hero. The day 1300 01:06:13.119 --> 01:06:19.519 he just wouldn't go to mere was he was? He was. 1301 01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:20.519 He was a funny guy. 1302 01:06:20.800 --> 01:06:23.480 You ever get to work in any other Burroughs. What's 1303 01:06:23.519 --> 01:06:27.159 that You get to work in any other Burroughs over time? 1304 01:06:27.239 --> 01:06:30.760 Maybe you know eighty three or forty one. No, we 1305 01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:33.559 never left there because we weren't rescued. 1306 01:06:33.960 --> 01:06:38.119 Right, But he never worried or queens or anything like that. 1307 01:06:38.239 --> 01:06:41.199 No, never, No, I was over there one time for 1308 01:06:41.239 --> 01:06:42.159 two sixty three. 1309 01:06:42.719 --> 01:06:44.639 Yeah right, I was gonna say, you guys used to 1310 01:06:44.840 --> 01:06:45.920 I was in one seventeen. 1311 01:06:47.239 --> 01:06:50.280 We used to relocate. We would go right over. Yeah, 1312 01:06:50.280 --> 01:06:52.480 that's pretty funny, how that was. I was just gonna 1313 01:06:52.480 --> 01:06:55.000 ask you that. It feels like that's we went to seventeen. 1314 01:06:56.159 --> 01:06:58.480 We didn't get relocated much, but if we did, it 1315 01:06:58.519 --> 01:07:01.159 was either one thirty eight if I remember right, or 1316 01:07:02.239 --> 01:07:04.800 or seventeen truck. A lot of Yeah, sometimes we got 1317 01:07:04.800 --> 01:07:07.599 a fourteen truck, but those were only a few. 1318 01:07:07.719 --> 01:07:08.440 I guess, I don't know. 1319 01:07:09.039 --> 01:07:11.079 We had a lot of one sixty three is to 1320 01:07:11.119 --> 01:07:14.079 show we had Fourth of July. Hell was I dry? 1321 01:07:14.159 --> 01:07:17.880 I was driving sixty eight engine an old mac. Oh 1322 01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:21.280 my god, this thing was so bad. The starter wouldn't work, 1323 01:07:21.719 --> 01:07:24.039 So I knew what the starter was like. With my 1324 01:07:24.119 --> 01:07:26.440 body outfit. We used to keep a hammer in the 1325 01:07:26.599 --> 01:07:29.480 in the cab and that there was like one sprocket 1326 01:07:29.519 --> 01:07:32.360 missing from the starter and it would catch. You couldn't 1327 01:07:32.360 --> 01:07:34.679 get it starts, it stuck beating. I'm under the rig 1328 01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:37.559 now I'm beating it. Hit bang bang bang, and I 1329 01:07:37.679 --> 01:07:40.519 go gates on it. Now, all right, we got it, 1330 01:07:40.599 --> 01:07:45.039 let's go. The Lieutenant's going, oh shit, hell, so we 1331 01:07:45.119 --> 01:07:46.639 go out. We had a rubbers fire that was a 1332 01:07:46.679 --> 01:07:51.480 block long and block high, so we used all and 1333 01:07:51.519 --> 01:07:54.000 I say, I'm looking down the block and this bacon. 1334 01:07:54.039 --> 01:07:56.360 They got flames blown out of the top window. Here 1335 01:07:56.400 --> 01:07:59.400 comes one sixty three. I'm like, all right, we got 1336 01:07:59.480 --> 01:08:02.320 Queen's cut in. They put the bucket up, knocked it 1337 01:08:02.360 --> 01:08:04.719 all out. The engine went in with a hose just 1338 01:08:04.760 --> 01:08:08.119 to make sure no problem. That was fourth of July. 1339 01:08:08.760 --> 01:08:11.360 Fourth of July we had I was working. I was working, 1340 01:08:11.639 --> 01:08:14.400 you know, sixty eight engine. I think we had forty 1341 01:08:14.400 --> 01:08:19.520 five runs that night. Wow, we were getting there. And 1342 01:08:19.560 --> 01:08:21.319 we went out and we didn't get back till four 1343 01:08:21.359 --> 01:08:25.640 in the morning. We were running. The guys were pooped. 1344 01:08:25.840 --> 01:08:26.600 I was pooped. 1345 01:08:26.760 --> 01:08:29.840 Had no idea that Giuliani screwed everything up. That Giuliani. 1346 01:08:31.159 --> 01:08:34.119 Everybody, Yeah, got rid of all the fireworks. 1347 01:08:34.119 --> 01:08:38.399 Bro ah. Fourth of July when I first caught a 1348 01:08:38.479 --> 01:08:43.960 drive in nineteen eighty eight, fireworks around our firehouses, like unbelievable. 1349 01:08:44.279 --> 01:08:47.079 Come on, you know we got you know, we got 1350 01:08:47.119 --> 01:08:47.439 an E. R. 1351 01:08:47.560 --> 01:08:47.960 S box. 1352 01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:49.760 So I would have to go down the block. As 1353 01:08:49.800 --> 01:08:52.800 I'm turned the corner, the Roman candles were going across. 1354 01:08:54.119 --> 01:08:57.479 They shut the windows, shut the windows, right and duck. 1355 01:08:57.880 --> 01:09:00.760 So I'm halling hal ass life sirens, air horns, and 1356 01:09:00.800 --> 01:09:03.119 the things are still stooping hitting a rig and I'm like, 1357 01:09:03.199 --> 01:09:06.359 oh my god, this is worse than you know. Wartime here, 1358 01:09:07.039 --> 01:09:09.199 get down there. We had then eighty strown at us. 1359 01:09:09.279 --> 01:09:10.840 I mean, come on, you. 1360 01:09:10.840 --> 01:09:13.039 Know we got a little of that roughy, right. I 1361 01:09:13.399 --> 01:09:15.680 only got the very very tail end of that. Man, 1362 01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:16.720 I didn't get much of it. 1363 01:09:16.800 --> 01:09:21.159 But I worked every fourth of July for like fifteen 1364 01:09:21.359 --> 01:09:24.079 fourteen years or some in a row, fourteen year row. 1365 01:09:24.199 --> 01:09:26.560 And then it just got to the part where, you 1366 01:09:26.560 --> 01:09:28.840 you know, it was it was like just a regular day. 1367 01:09:28.840 --> 01:09:30.560 It was nothing. There was no fireworks. 1368 01:09:32.119 --> 01:09:35.000 Now it's quiet. I don't know if it's quiet anymore. 1369 01:09:35.119 --> 01:09:37.359 It was, yeah, it's quiet. 1370 01:09:37.399 --> 01:09:41.239 It was very quiet. Maybe here a firecracker go off. 1371 01:09:41.760 --> 01:09:43.920 Did you ever move up? Stayed at today? We stayed in, 1372 01:09:44.279 --> 01:09:45.600 stayed and stayed right there. 1373 01:09:45.880 --> 01:09:49.560 I got a house in Sound Beach, which is next 1374 01:09:49.600 --> 01:09:53.760 to Miller Place. You know, got married, had kids, so 1375 01:09:55.319 --> 01:09:57.520 that that that worked out. I mean that the commute 1376 01:09:57.600 --> 01:09:59.800 wasn't that bad. I was the only one living out 1377 01:09:59.800 --> 01:10:03.279 eas at the time, so I was stuck. No carpooling, 1378 01:10:04.079 --> 01:10:06.439 and then we just kind of like, you know, get in, 1379 01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:09.479 get out, do twenty four come home. 1380 01:10:10.279 --> 01:10:12.279 Did you ever have that one fire? There was an 1381 01:10:12.279 --> 01:10:14.199 no ship moment, like you thought you were done. 1382 01:10:16.279 --> 01:10:19.479 Yeah, it was not, you know what, not really when 1383 01:10:19.520 --> 01:10:21.680 I got behind the seat there, it was like, you know, 1384 01:10:22.159 --> 01:10:23.520 do the old ship and I hope the guy we 1385 01:10:23.680 --> 01:10:27.439 get enough water on it. It was the under guys, 1386 01:10:27.479 --> 01:10:30.239 you know, tell the story. Oh yeah, we're going down 1387 01:10:30.279 --> 01:10:31.960 the hallway and we knocked down. 1388 01:10:34.720 --> 01:10:38.640 Me. Did you have a favorite rig that you drove 1389 01:10:39.399 --> 01:10:40.840 out of the ones you're driven. 1390 01:10:40.680 --> 01:10:42.600 Yeah, the new one they gave us, a ninety four 1391 01:10:43.960 --> 01:10:46.880 Sea Grave. That was the first one that we got, 1392 01:10:47.039 --> 01:10:50.079 which turned out really to be a ship. I mean, 1393 01:10:50.439 --> 01:10:53.199 you couldn't control it in the snow. I'd be driving 1394 01:10:53.239 --> 01:10:54.880 and then all of a sudden, the thing would skid 1395 01:10:54.880 --> 01:10:57.479 and the steel wheel would go to the left, go 1396 01:10:57.560 --> 01:10:59.359 to the right, and I'm like, oh my god, this 1397 01:10:59.479 --> 01:11:01.920 is crazy. There was no traction on that front end 1398 01:11:01.960 --> 01:11:04.960 at all. And the fact was even worse. Even without chains, 1399 01:11:05.279 --> 01:11:08.560 you know, you could at least get there. But it 1400 01:11:08.680 --> 01:11:11.359 was kind of like it's tough. I'll give you a 1401 01:11:11.399 --> 01:11:13.079 story of it. I had to go to the shops 1402 01:11:13.119 --> 01:11:16.520 with the rig, the ninety four rig. They were going 1403 01:11:16.600 --> 01:11:18.560 to try and fix the trainny. So I go to 1404 01:11:18.640 --> 01:11:21.319 the you know, the shops. I'm on the tripe bridge. 1405 01:11:21.319 --> 01:11:25.239 They give me an old eighty mac. This thing looked 1406 01:11:25.279 --> 01:11:28.680 like it was through the war. So I'm coming back. 1407 01:11:28.720 --> 01:11:30.840 I'm driving over the triborough Bridge and I'm looking in 1408 01:11:30.840 --> 01:11:33.159 the mirror and they see cars doing one of these. 1409 01:11:33.199 --> 01:11:35.079 I'm like, what the hell, what the hell's going on? 1410 01:11:35.840 --> 01:11:36.079 Next? 1411 01:11:36.079 --> 01:11:40.199 Again, I got an empty fuel tank. The tank fell 1412 01:11:40.239 --> 01:11:42.039 off the rig and landed in the middle. 1413 01:11:46.640 --> 01:11:49.640 How do you explain about right? 1414 01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:52.760 You know, you know, you you know. Could you call 1415 01:11:52.880 --> 01:11:55.880 Battalian fourteen and tell him I'm stuck on the bridge? 1416 01:11:55.479 --> 01:11:59.880 Is it was body of the beef? Yeah, what's the matter? 1417 01:11:59.880 --> 01:12:05.479 I go, I lost my fuel tank. Silence, You mean 1418 01:12:05.520 --> 01:12:07.039 you lost the fuel Yeah, it's in the middle of 1419 01:12:07.079 --> 01:12:10.520 the triborough Bridge. By the way, we need Hasthma here too, 1420 01:12:10.720 --> 01:12:20.439 because there's full fifty Catholics for four hours and turn 1421 01:12:20.520 --> 01:12:22.199 around in the middle of the bridge and go back 1422 01:12:22.199 --> 01:12:24.279 the other way. I'm like, and I'm sitting in the 1423 01:12:24.279 --> 01:12:26.800 tow truck. Are you gonna give me another piece of ship? 1424 01:12:27.359 --> 01:12:30.640 I don't need that. We needed a rig six. He's 1425 01:12:30.680 --> 01:12:32.800 at the shots. This thing is shot. 1426 01:12:34.239 --> 01:12:34.279 Me. 1427 01:12:34.319 --> 01:12:36.279 How many times did you go get a spare? And 1428 01:12:36.319 --> 01:12:38.119 it was like you couldn't even believe you were going 1429 01:12:38.199 --> 01:12:39.359 to drive away with that thing. 1430 01:12:41.640 --> 01:12:42.239 Piece of ship. 1431 01:12:43.960 --> 01:12:47.520 The cabinets closed, right, I mean the fucking you know person. 1432 01:12:47.560 --> 01:12:50.199 Nail nail and it wouldn't even close. You had to 1433 01:12:50.199 --> 01:12:51.520 put a nail in the cabin. 1434 01:12:52.119 --> 01:12:54.119 You know, rolling down the street as you make it 1435 01:12:54.119 --> 01:12:55.560 a turn. It was like horrendous. 1436 01:12:55.840 --> 01:12:58.600 We had to bring our America la France to the 1437 01:12:58.640 --> 01:13:01.840 shops for the trany shot. So we get it there 1438 01:13:02.439 --> 01:13:04.520 and I says, ah, it'd be about a week, all right. 1439 01:13:04.600 --> 01:13:07.640 So the other choulver's driving it back, the other rig. 1440 01:13:08.159 --> 01:13:10.520 So I go back. He says, the rig's ready. I 1441 01:13:10.600 --> 01:13:13.199 go there. All the wood slats are taking out of 1442 01:13:13.199 --> 01:13:17.359 the hose bed. I'm like, what is this? He goes, well, 1443 01:13:17.399 --> 01:13:19.439 they you know, they we didn't have any extras, so 1444 01:13:19.479 --> 01:13:21.920 some of the guys took it. What am I supposed 1445 01:13:21.960 --> 01:13:22.239 to do? 1446 01:13:22.760 --> 01:13:23.199 I got way? 1447 01:13:23.239 --> 01:13:26.399 Am I gonna put the hose. So now I'm looking 1448 01:13:26.439 --> 01:13:28.920 at it. Says, all right, that's it. I'm done. I 1449 01:13:28.960 --> 01:13:31.560 started walking the hall. You know the shop it's huge, right, ye, 1450 01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:35.920 another America of France. No hose in the bed, I says, 1451 01:13:35.960 --> 01:13:39.840 I want a screwdriver and a set of sockets. He goes, 1452 01:13:39.840 --> 01:13:42.479 what are you gonna do? You take my I'm taking his. 1453 01:13:43.159 --> 01:13:45.960 So we took all the wood out. We put it 1454 01:13:45.960 --> 01:13:49.520 back in the hose bed. Tighten it down, says see you. 1455 01:13:50.680 --> 01:13:53.359 Oh the calls have got Oh my god, the chief 1456 01:13:53.439 --> 01:13:55.880 is waiting for me on the ramp. What did you do? 1457 01:13:57.039 --> 01:13:59.159 He took my hose bed away? What am I supposed 1458 01:13:59.159 --> 01:14:01.159 to do? Bring it back? We're gonna put the hounds 1459 01:14:01.319 --> 01:14:02.159 on top of the cab. 1460 01:14:04.840 --> 01:14:07.359 How did you like that pro pressure governor as opposed 1461 01:14:07.399 --> 01:14:08.880 to that the ross relief valve? 1462 01:14:09.000 --> 01:14:11.600 Remember it was like oh yeah, I remember, yeah, I 1463 01:14:11.600 --> 01:14:14.199 remember that. Yeah, the Murder of France had it. 1464 01:14:14.199 --> 01:14:16.279 It was a lot easier, right, the prop pressure governor. 1465 01:14:16.359 --> 01:14:18.319 You just hit that move you done it? 1466 01:14:18.319 --> 01:14:20.920 It's good? Yeah, yeah, it was. It was good. 1467 01:14:21.079 --> 01:14:26.239 The adjustment was fire proof. 1468 01:14:27.079 --> 01:14:30.520 The two stags pump was nice, ye, Murder of France, 1469 01:14:30.520 --> 01:14:34.239 because you had or pressure yeah, right, you know the 1470 01:14:34.279 --> 01:14:37.119 truck and we're working in Harlem. One day, they're up there, 1471 01:14:37.479 --> 01:14:39.359 they're doing you know, you can see that. I'm giving 1472 01:14:39.439 --> 01:14:42.960 them two hundred pounds, and so I altered. I tell 1473 01:14:43.119 --> 01:14:45.680 I asked her the lit up there. You want to 1474 01:14:45.720 --> 01:14:47.399 knock the bricks down, and you want to put out 1475 01:14:47.399 --> 01:14:50.199 the fire? He goes, I want to knock the bricks down. 1476 01:14:50.960 --> 01:14:53.159 Put it in volume, And I cranked that baby. After 1477 01:14:53.199 --> 01:14:55.840 three pounds. It looked like a laser beam going into 1478 01:14:55.920 --> 01:15:00.279 the building. Yeah, that's good. You can see the We're 1479 01:15:00.319 --> 01:15:02.319 flying everywhere in the chiefs and they go, what are 1480 01:15:02.359 --> 01:15:05.159 you doing? They wanted they wanted pressure. I gave it 1481 01:15:05.199 --> 01:15:07.680 to him. They had a good fire, and leave it, 1482 01:15:07.760 --> 01:15:09.359 you know, leave it in pressure and just give them 1483 01:15:09.359 --> 01:15:12.119 what they got. Yeah, two hundred and fifty pounds for 1484 01:15:12.159 --> 01:15:12.920 the towel ladder. 1485 01:15:15.119 --> 01:15:18.840 Hey, guys, somebody somebody in the chat was asking, uh, 1486 01:15:19.000 --> 01:15:21.800 did you weld the office's door shut? 1487 01:15:24.199 --> 01:15:24.720 Yeah? 1488 01:15:24.880 --> 01:15:27.600 Somebody out there dropping some bombs, I mean, some some information. 1489 01:15:27.920 --> 01:15:32.720 Mister John Giblin and uh that was his name, Kelly, Yeah, 1490 01:15:33.119 --> 01:15:36.039 and Lieutenant Well, it was Lieutenant En. They were in 1491 01:15:36.079 --> 01:15:39.000 the office and they were arguing and screaming, and the 1492 01:15:39.159 --> 01:15:41.439 guys are like, that was going on in there? I go, 1493 01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:44.319 I don't know. They're fighting around and I hear a 1494 01:15:44.439 --> 01:15:47.199 chair get wrong. What the hell's going on? Had a 1495 01:15:47.199 --> 01:15:49.600 piece of flat bar put it up against the door. 1496 01:15:49.760 --> 01:15:55.439 Well did it shut? We get a run. The guys 1497 01:15:55.439 --> 01:15:58.560 are going, where is everybody? No worry, They're good. Let's 1498 01:15:58.560 --> 01:16:01.560 go see jumps in the you know in the office. 1499 01:16:01.600 --> 01:16:02.720 Seat off we went. 1500 01:16:02.960 --> 01:16:03.439 Come on. 1501 01:16:04.159 --> 01:16:06.439 What they had they had They had a scale, the 1502 01:16:06.479 --> 01:16:09.640 whole scale, you know your movie at the bar. Yeah, 1503 01:16:09.680 --> 01:16:15.279 boom boom, break the door going. I'm gonna get expended 1504 01:16:15.319 --> 01:16:18.039 for this, so I gotta I got to cut the 1505 01:16:18.079 --> 01:16:20.720 torch and I just cut the world right. They opened 1506 01:16:20.760 --> 01:16:24.039 the door and we were like, they're sweaty there. It's like, 1507 01:16:24.560 --> 01:16:27.119 what you do? I didn't do anything. We went on 1508 01:16:27.159 --> 01:16:32.720 the run. You guys heard, wasn't me. They knew all 1509 01:16:32.760 --> 01:16:34.800 the fighting they were doing that. We're afraid you've got 1510 01:16:34.800 --> 01:16:37.119 a fist the company there. But it was funny because 1511 01:16:37.199 --> 01:16:42.520 that that later that night, uh uh Joe Kelly, Yeah, yeah, 1512 01:16:42.520 --> 01:16:45.520 there was Joe Kelly and something goes You're a pistol. 1513 01:16:45.840 --> 01:16:48.640 I thought that was the best thing that ever happened. 1514 01:16:49.680 --> 01:16:52.319 All right, we won't do. 1515 01:16:52.279 --> 01:16:57.800 It anymore today you get charges. 1516 01:16:57.319 --> 01:16:57.880 On the streets. 1517 01:16:58.439 --> 01:16:58.680 Shure. 1518 01:17:00.560 --> 01:17:03.680 Yeah, we had everything. We had an incident one night. 1519 01:17:03.680 --> 01:17:06.640 We come back from a run and all the locker 1520 01:17:06.680 --> 01:17:08.600 doors you had, the old wooden lockers on the floor, 1521 01:17:10.279 --> 01:17:13.479 the insert you know, all the doors are open. I'm 1522 01:17:13.479 --> 01:17:17.199 like one of the windows in the bunk rooves, there's 1523 01:17:17.199 --> 01:17:22.079 a there's a rope hanging down. The guy grappled from 1524 01:17:22.119 --> 01:17:26.880 the building next door, grabbed the rope, climbed in. I 1525 01:17:26.880 --> 01:17:30.680 don't know how many hundreds of dollars. So I'm sitting 1526 01:17:30.680 --> 01:17:35.079 there going, oh God. So I had broken my my 1527 01:17:35.119 --> 01:17:38.159 wrist on a little incident at home, so I was 1528 01:17:38.239 --> 01:17:40.079 I was going on like duty. So they told me. 1529 01:17:40.079 --> 01:17:42.399 He got down to the got down to the you know, 1530 01:17:42.479 --> 01:17:45.279 the chief. You know, see what like duty you'll give you. 1531 01:17:45.760 --> 01:17:47.680 So get down there, and the chief I knew from 1532 01:17:47.760 --> 01:17:51.039 I guess the rocket time. He goes, ah, mister Schneider, 1533 01:17:51.079 --> 01:17:53.000 how are you, And they're going I'm good, I said, 1534 01:17:53.119 --> 01:17:54.560 I mean for light duty. Where do you want to 1535 01:17:54.600 --> 01:17:56.680 put me? I heard you had a robbery in the 1536 01:17:56.680 --> 01:17:57.479 old firehouse. 1537 01:17:57.520 --> 01:18:01.479 I said, yeah, no fire house, said journey. Yeah. 1538 01:18:01.600 --> 01:18:03.880 He goes, yeah, you're going there for light duty, and 1539 01:18:04.000 --> 01:18:07.199 are you gonna do any welding? Yeah? Probably, He goes, alight, 1540 01:18:07.239 --> 01:18:09.520 I'll be over there and check it later on. Okay, 1541 01:18:10.239 --> 01:18:13.119 went back to sixties. John Ray and I went out 1542 01:18:13.159 --> 01:18:15.079 to the We had a steel mill down the block 1543 01:18:15.159 --> 01:18:17.960 from eighty three, so we got all the angle lion, 1544 01:18:18.079 --> 01:18:20.960 we got reebar, we got flat bar. We must spend 1545 01:18:21.359 --> 01:18:24.640 four hundred dollars on you know windows that I was 1546 01:18:24.680 --> 01:18:29.600 gonna bar up. So it worked. We it took me 1547 01:18:29.680 --> 01:18:31.960 a couple of you know, a couple of days to 1548 01:18:32.000 --> 01:18:33.640 get it one, and we put one set in. We 1549 01:18:33.760 --> 01:18:38.239 used the concrete Molly's bolted everything right into the brick wall. 1550 01:18:38.640 --> 01:18:41.399 So now you ain't getting in there anymore unless you 1551 01:18:41.479 --> 01:18:43.239 go to the third flom. By that time you might 1552 01:18:43.239 --> 01:18:46.239 as well give up. So the bars are still there today, 1553 01:18:46.520 --> 01:18:48.239 really there today. 1554 01:18:48.359 --> 01:18:49.760 Where did you learn the welding. 1555 01:18:50.399 --> 01:18:54.079 There was a welding, steel mill, a steel I guess 1556 01:18:54.079 --> 01:18:57.239 a shop down on I'm trying to think now, hundred 1557 01:18:57.239 --> 01:19:00.199 and forty first Street, all the way down to the river. Sure, 1558 01:19:01.079 --> 01:19:03.960 going past eighty three and twenty nine, you just keep 1559 01:19:03.960 --> 01:19:07.399 going and there's this big, huge building. Unfortunately hold the 1560 01:19:07.439 --> 01:19:09.560 steer was made in Canada because they made sure they 1561 01:19:09.560 --> 01:19:12.520 put Canada on everything there, and so we did. We 1562 01:19:12.800 --> 01:19:15.079 loaded up the engine ring. 1563 01:19:16.319 --> 01:19:17.720 Where did you learn how to weld? 1564 01:19:18.000 --> 01:19:21.680 Oh? I was welder in the navy. Oh when I 1565 01:19:21.680 --> 01:19:24.560 got in, I wanted to be a damaged controlman. But 1566 01:19:24.600 --> 01:19:27.760 they combined the ship for the rates and the damaged 1567 01:19:27.800 --> 01:19:31.520 control rate into a hull technician. So they did that 1568 01:19:31.560 --> 01:19:33.399 while I was in boot camp. So I had to 1569 01:19:33.439 --> 01:19:36.920 go to two different schools. So welding, you know, meg, tig, 1570 01:19:37.039 --> 01:19:40.920 you name it, stick, We did everything. So what I 1571 01:19:40.960 --> 01:19:43.119 did in the firehouse most of the time. 1572 01:19:43.159 --> 01:19:46.159 That's a great build man. There aren't enough welders there today. 1573 01:19:46.560 --> 01:19:49.680 Now. How do you know what they got into shops anymore? 1574 01:19:50.800 --> 01:19:55.239 We had guys come in with you know, mailbox, broken 1575 01:19:55.239 --> 01:19:57.800 mailbox four by fours. They come in with like a 1576 01:19:57.840 --> 01:20:01.880 two inch you know, square doc of steel. Can you 1577 01:20:02.000 --> 01:20:04.720 you make a plate? Put the mailbox? Like, yeah, that's 1578 01:20:04.800 --> 01:20:07.560 no problem, make up something the next morning, it's done. 1579 01:20:09.000 --> 01:20:10.840 But I had it. I had the shop in the 1580 01:20:10.880 --> 01:20:16.039 basement and we had we had an old two thousand 1581 01:20:16.119 --> 01:20:20.880 gallon gas tank gas that was never used, sitting in 1582 01:20:20.880 --> 01:20:24.199 the basement right down the bottom of the stairs. So 1583 01:20:24.399 --> 01:20:25.960 you know, it was sitting there and I'm going, you 1584 01:20:26.000 --> 01:20:27.399 got to get rid of this thing. It's in the way. 1585 01:20:27.520 --> 01:20:29.000 In fact, they had to climb over it to get 1586 01:20:29.000 --> 01:20:31.199 to the rest of the basement. So I had Tom 1587 01:20:31.279 --> 01:20:34.479 Robi as my captain at the time. He comes in, 1588 01:20:34.560 --> 01:20:37.520 he goes, what can you do? I'll cut it up 1589 01:20:37.560 --> 01:20:38.800 and we can figure out what you want to do 1590 01:20:38.880 --> 01:20:41.279 with it later. It took me two hours to cut 1591 01:20:41.319 --> 01:20:44.479 this thing up. The last piece I had it was 1592 01:20:44.520 --> 01:20:49.159 actually on detention. Well it exploded, knocked me on my ass. 1593 01:20:49.640 --> 01:20:51.840 Everybody was eating dinner here they all come down the 1594 01:20:51.840 --> 01:20:56.439 stairs is black smoke everywhere. I got t splunt in half. 1595 01:20:57.039 --> 01:20:59.760 So and you know, Robie goes, are you are riosis? Yeah? 1596 01:20:59.800 --> 01:21:02.079 That was really interesting. I never had that happen to me. 1597 01:21:02.840 --> 01:21:05.159 What're you gonna do with the pieces? So everybody's going, 1598 01:21:05.359 --> 01:21:08.399 let's make a stove, Like, oh my god, a stove. 1599 01:21:08.760 --> 01:21:09.920 We're gonna put it in the parking. 1600 01:21:10.279 --> 01:21:11.399 I'll do something with it. 1601 01:21:12.079 --> 01:21:16.319 This thing looked like Apollo eleven by the time it's 1602 01:21:16.960 --> 01:21:19.479 high fur on it that you could you know, it 1603 01:21:19.479 --> 01:21:21.399 could trap somebody in there and then we'll get out 1604 01:21:21.640 --> 01:21:23.880 put the legs on it. We had it in pieces. 1605 01:21:23.960 --> 01:21:26.800 We got it up to the apparatus floor, welded it up, 1606 01:21:27.399 --> 01:21:29.760 put it out here you go. You can burn wood 1607 01:21:29.840 --> 01:21:34.079 now in the parking lot. They it worked still there. No, 1608 01:21:34.399 --> 01:21:37.640 they had they had a problem. I don't know. See, 1609 01:21:37.680 --> 01:21:39.520 you got all new guys in there. Now they had 1610 01:21:39.520 --> 01:21:42.239 one kid that knew how to weld more or less. 1611 01:21:42.800 --> 01:21:44.720 But uh, you know, they had to get rid of 1612 01:21:44.760 --> 01:21:47.680 all that stuff because when they replaced the floor, everything 1613 01:21:47.760 --> 01:21:50.119 had to go. So the parking lot was all packed up. 1614 01:21:50.319 --> 01:21:52.039 I think the tower ladder was in there and the 1615 01:21:52.119 --> 01:21:56.840 gate gated the fence, so everything spent. The other thing 1616 01:21:56.920 --> 01:21:58.880 left is that engine sixty Maltie crossed. 1617 01:21:58.880 --> 01:22:00.720 Where did sixty go? And then did the floor over? 1618 01:22:01.000 --> 01:22:02.560 You were at eighty three. They were in the parking 1619 01:22:02.600 --> 01:22:03.399 lot in eighty three. 1620 01:22:05.479 --> 01:22:07.680 Guys, we got a couple more pictures, don't we We 1621 01:22:07.760 --> 01:22:09.520 have one show. 1622 01:22:10.800 --> 01:22:14.520 There's the flags, all right, give you the story. The 1623 01:22:14.600 --> 01:22:18.319 old guys, the senior men used to go golfing a lot. 1624 01:22:18.960 --> 01:22:22.560 So I come in one morning and there's, I said, 1625 01:22:22.600 --> 01:22:25.039 the seventeenth hole. I guess they called it a pin 1626 01:22:25.920 --> 01:22:29.359 was a pin was screwed onto the side of the 1627 01:22:29.439 --> 01:22:32.359 rig and I'm going, what are you kidding me? You 1628 01:22:32.399 --> 01:22:34.279 guys got a flag and get me one? Why didn't 1629 01:22:34.279 --> 01:22:35.640 you get one with six on it? I could have 1630 01:22:35.680 --> 01:22:38.640 put a zero on it. So anyway, they got the flag, 1631 01:22:41.000 --> 01:22:43.920 so I that's the green one. I had one made up. 1632 01:22:44.239 --> 01:22:49.359 You can see it wow on the driver's side. I 1633 01:22:49.439 --> 01:22:51.439 went through six of those flags while I was there, 1634 01:22:53.359 --> 01:22:55.600 So down the truck is all pistol because their flag 1635 01:22:55.680 --> 01:22:58.840 is smaller than our flag. So they wanted me to 1636 01:22:58.840 --> 01:23:01.680 go get seventeen. And then the guys voted no in 1637 01:23:01.760 --> 01:23:05.479 the truck, so I kept going with the flags. It worked. 1638 01:23:06.279 --> 01:23:09.640 It worked there you go, what's that? 1639 01:23:10.319 --> 01:23:11.760 Do they still have one that's on? Now? 1640 01:23:12.760 --> 01:23:16.600 My left everything? Everything got lost? Good car with the 1641 01:23:16.680 --> 01:23:19.880 third alarm in Harlem? The flag is up there. When 1642 01:23:19.920 --> 01:23:21.920 I used to get up to you know any do, 1643 01:23:22.399 --> 01:23:24.119 I used to always go to the first two engine, 1644 01:23:24.119 --> 01:23:26.439 make sure they're all right, you got everything you need help? 1645 01:23:26.720 --> 01:23:30.560 That was my act. I come back. There's some local 1646 01:23:31.239 --> 01:23:36.159 white guy. He's trying to take the plastic straps off 1647 01:23:36.199 --> 01:23:38.760 the Pole's standing on top of the cab trying to 1648 01:23:38.760 --> 01:23:41.840 get the flag. I'm like, I'm looking at him. Who 1649 01:23:41.920 --> 01:23:44.159 cops are standing behind the rig. Yo, guys, I see 1650 01:23:44.159 --> 01:23:46.840 you a minute, he says. See what he's doing. He says, yeah, 1651 01:23:46.880 --> 01:23:48.720 what's that? He says, it's the flag for the engine. 1652 01:23:48.720 --> 01:23:53.479 It's fire department property. Okay, So the one cop said 1653 01:23:53.520 --> 01:23:56.119 one was a sergeant goes, excuse me, Sarah, what are 1654 01:23:56.119 --> 01:23:58.239 you doing. Well, I'm taking the flag. I can use 1655 01:23:58.239 --> 01:24:01.079 this as a souvenir. I'm gonna give you a souvenir. 1656 01:24:01.119 --> 01:24:02.920 And he pulls out the handcuffs and wings them in 1657 01:24:02.960 --> 01:24:11.399 the air. Will you arrest me? Yep. They put the 1658 01:24:11.399 --> 01:24:13.800 cuffs on them and they walk them back. So I'm 1659 01:24:13.800 --> 01:24:15.760 sitting there, going now, I got to sit there, make sure. 1660 01:24:15.800 --> 01:24:19.600 If I lose the flag, that's it. I'm done that. 1661 01:24:19.600 --> 01:24:24.199 That was the one flag story. But a lot of 1662 01:24:24.239 --> 01:24:29.520 fun for sure. That something always happened. 1663 01:24:29.520 --> 01:24:30.479 What makes you pack it? 1664 01:24:30.600 --> 01:24:36.159 And four well trade center. I couldn't pass my physical Ah, 1665 01:24:36.279 --> 01:24:39.520 the lungs asthma. I got to sinus signs. I have 1666 01:24:39.600 --> 01:24:43.520 no sinuses left. Three operations on my nose. Not a 1667 01:24:43.640 --> 01:24:47.439 nice thing. You know. Everything's starting to go now, so. 1668 01:24:47.920 --> 01:24:51.119 Wow, that's like Louis, everything's time to go. 1669 01:24:51.560 --> 01:24:53.039 How old are you guy? How old are you. 1670 01:24:53.199 --> 01:24:58.479 I'm seventy two. Now, Wow, great, that's. 1671 01:24:58.319 --> 01:24:58.760 What I'm. 1672 01:25:00.319 --> 01:25:02.960 Are You still are still doing stuff in the volleys? 1673 01:25:03.399 --> 01:25:03.439 No? 1674 01:25:03.640 --> 01:25:06.199 I gave up on that once I hit a certain age. 1675 01:25:06.199 --> 01:25:08.880 I said, you know what am I doing? You know? So? 1676 01:25:08.960 --> 01:25:10.720 What did you have a did you? Did you move 1677 01:25:10.760 --> 01:25:12.359 up in the ranks in the volleys too or no? 1678 01:25:12.439 --> 01:25:15.119 Yeah? I was a captain in my company in Bablin Village. 1679 01:25:15.920 --> 01:25:17.680 Then I got married and I had to move because 1680 01:25:17.680 --> 01:25:21.640 the wife worked at Manorville and I worked at Babbling. 1681 01:25:21.720 --> 01:25:24.840 We figure we find a place in the middle, so 1682 01:25:25.159 --> 01:25:28.920 we moved to Holtzville right off the expressway, and she 1683 01:25:29.039 --> 01:25:31.680 did hunting. I did mind. It lasted about two years 1684 01:25:32.039 --> 01:25:34.520 and then we found this house that I'm in now. 1685 01:25:35.199 --> 01:25:36.800 So we've been here for twenty four years. 1686 01:25:36.800 --> 01:25:37.039 Now. 1687 01:25:37.399 --> 01:25:39.439 Do you have any any sons? 1688 01:25:39.800 --> 01:25:42.479 Yep, three, two in the navy, one of the Marines. 1689 01:25:43.399 --> 01:25:45.479 Good for you. None of them want to be on 1690 01:25:45.520 --> 01:25:45.880 the job. 1691 01:25:46.720 --> 01:25:47.039 What's that? 1692 01:25:47.319 --> 01:25:48.439 None of them want to be fineman. 1693 01:25:48.680 --> 01:25:51.159 My son's going in for his interview for the Fire Department. 1694 01:25:51.279 --> 01:25:54.840 Good for you, tomorrow morning. He's going in tomorrow morning. 1695 01:25:55.159 --> 01:25:57.800 He also applied for the PD. So we'll see what 1696 01:25:57.880 --> 01:25:59.840 comes from I don't even know what that place is. 1697 01:26:00.039 --> 01:26:04.960 He did he I'm assuming he's gonna be fix the engine. 1698 01:26:06.520 --> 01:26:08.479 I know, somebody get you know, is. 1699 01:26:08.439 --> 01:26:10.319 He gonna go to sixty engine if he gets in? 1700 01:26:11.560 --> 01:26:20.920 Oh no, that's everybody. Everybody knew, My my youngest son, Garrett, 1701 01:26:21.279 --> 01:26:23.359 you know, because but uh, it was funny one that 1702 01:26:23.479 --> 01:26:26.239 I had two of my sons said all right, let's 1703 01:26:26.279 --> 01:26:28.479 go get up there and use my rack and you 1704 01:26:28.479 --> 01:26:31.920 know the extra rack. We got a third alarm in Harlem. 1705 01:26:32.239 --> 01:26:34.560 They slept right through the thing. I tried to wake 1706 01:26:34.600 --> 01:26:37.319 him up, you know, so we're out, we come back 1707 01:26:37.359 --> 01:26:41.000 three hours later, they're still sleeping. What I'm waking them up? 1708 01:26:43.439 --> 01:26:45.399 You're gonna be if you're gonna sleep to a run and. 1709 01:26:47.159 --> 01:26:51.560 A fire? No less you could have all right. 1710 01:26:51.399 --> 01:26:53.640 You ever sleep through a run? 1711 01:26:53.680 --> 01:26:58.439 Goddam No, I've gotten close though. Yeah, we can't run, 1712 01:26:58.520 --> 01:27:04.079 you know, we can't rolling heavy, miss somebody you get away. 1713 01:27:03.880 --> 01:27:06.199 With being that fifth man or you know you're in 1714 01:27:06.279 --> 01:27:07.079 ot and. 1715 01:27:07.439 --> 01:27:09.239 Yeah, they're rolling heavy as two guys. 1716 01:27:09.640 --> 01:27:12.239 Yeah, yeah, three guys are kind of the third guy. 1717 01:27:12.279 --> 01:27:15.319 You need him put that backup, gods that. 1718 01:27:17.319 --> 01:27:17.960 Yeah guy? 1719 01:27:18.159 --> 01:27:21.239 Yeah, asked you about his five ft wide broom for 1720 01:27:21.279 --> 01:27:21.880 the prob's. 1721 01:27:22.000 --> 01:27:23.560 Oh yeah, my welding days. 1722 01:27:24.479 --> 01:27:24.640 Oh. 1723 01:27:24.720 --> 01:27:28.399 Jonathan Maritz Murmurts is now is in fourteen truck. I 1724 01:27:28.439 --> 01:27:32.479 think he's a lieutenant anyway he gets uh, he comes 1725 01:27:32.479 --> 01:27:34.720 in as a prob. Very good friend of mine. I've 1726 01:27:34.720 --> 01:27:38.279 known him for years. And uh, guys who are complaining 1727 01:27:38.279 --> 01:27:40.239 that bruins would break and everything else. So I took 1728 01:27:40.279 --> 01:27:43.800 two of the the brooms, put a metal bar in 1729 01:27:43.840 --> 01:27:47.840 between and one pole. So now if you swept, you 1730 01:27:47.920 --> 01:27:50.439 had the two brooms doing the job, and then you 1731 01:27:50.439 --> 01:27:52.319 know you're getting stuck into the rig and they need 1732 01:27:52.319 --> 01:27:55.560 the tie. Guys, you know it worked. 1733 01:27:55.800 --> 01:27:58.800 It worked for a while, so you would have did 1734 01:27:58.840 --> 01:27:59.159 that thing. 1735 01:27:59.239 --> 01:28:06.479 Bro It was heavy. The handle two brooms welded together 1736 01:28:06.720 --> 01:28:07.960 and worked out real good. 1737 01:28:08.479 --> 01:28:12.159 Maybe you got anything else in that guy. 1738 01:28:12.279 --> 01:28:17.920 Before we get to the ollarpicks are gone. 1739 01:28:17.439 --> 01:28:23.840 No hold up before before that's my son. 1740 01:28:27.600 --> 01:28:28.479 He was scared of the light. 1741 01:28:28.520 --> 01:28:30.560 I mean scared of there because the lights are off. 1742 01:28:30.600 --> 01:28:32.520 We don't even you know it is that the guy 1743 01:28:32.560 --> 01:28:33.479 that's getting on the job. 1744 01:28:34.239 --> 01:28:38.399 Yeah, he's going for Why. 1745 01:28:38.760 --> 01:28:40.359 Try that when you're on the job, bro. 1746 01:28:41.760 --> 01:28:43.399 He just got out of the navy. He had eight 1747 01:28:43.479 --> 01:28:44.960 years there decided well. 1748 01:28:45.760 --> 01:28:49.640 You know, you know, you get it? 1749 01:28:49.840 --> 01:28:51.119 Yeah, you know. Yeah. 1750 01:28:51.640 --> 01:28:53.760 Hey, God, speaking of the navy, do you know what's long, 1751 01:28:53.840 --> 01:28:59.960 hard and full of seamen? Not answering this submarine? 1752 01:29:02.640 --> 01:29:05.800 Hey hey guy, are you are you teaching around the 1753 01:29:05.920 --> 01:29:06.720 Are you doing anything? 1754 01:29:07.039 --> 01:29:07.239 Yeah? 1755 01:29:08.840 --> 01:29:09.760 That are doing that? 1756 01:29:10.520 --> 01:29:10.880 What's that? 1757 01:29:11.479 --> 01:29:13.359 Why are you doing that? At one point or no? 1758 01:29:14.600 --> 01:29:17.720 Teaching writ inhouse here. 1759 01:29:17.640 --> 01:29:20.920 In middle Place. You know, I taught the guys you know, 1760 01:29:20.960 --> 01:29:25.079 how to drive, you know, drills and everything else. You know, 1761 01:29:25.079 --> 01:29:26.479 it's a lot of stuff in the city. 1762 01:29:27.920 --> 01:29:31.119 I got you drive it like you stole it. 1763 01:29:31.720 --> 01:29:34.199 Yes, that's the way I do it. You know. 1764 01:29:34.479 --> 01:29:36.279 I like this guy. I knew I like this guy. 1765 01:29:36.439 --> 01:29:38.039 You're gonna have one arm out the window because that's 1766 01:29:38.039 --> 01:29:38.600 what I used to do. 1767 01:29:38.680 --> 01:29:39.800 And you fast you go. 1768 01:29:42.279 --> 01:29:46.840 We had rainy day. Truck was coming down one hundred 1769 01:29:46.840 --> 01:29:49.880 and thirty eighth. We're coming down Willis Avenue, and the 1770 01:29:49.920 --> 01:29:54.000 poor lieutenant was like, you gotta slow down. The truck's coming. Yeah, 1771 01:29:54.000 --> 01:29:56.159 they'll see, just don't worry about it. Well, the truck 1772 01:29:56.239 --> 01:29:59.199 hit the brakes. I hit the brakes, slid sideways, and 1773 01:29:59.239 --> 01:30:01.760 we pa some you know, with the front end, and 1774 01:30:01.800 --> 01:30:05.760 we're waving to the I got it back in again, 1775 01:30:05.800 --> 01:30:08.720 and we kiss go off the guys to show up 1776 01:30:08.720 --> 01:30:11.399 for the truck. I think I shopped my pants. We 1777 01:30:11.520 --> 01:30:13.720 get to the scene, it's like, damn it, I think 1778 01:30:13.760 --> 01:30:19.920 I did something. Rolled down. Yeah, yeah, I had to 1779 01:30:19.960 --> 01:30:20.279 do it. 1780 01:30:20.800 --> 01:30:21.920 I ain't no stranger to it. 1781 01:30:27.119 --> 01:30:29.840 A lot of fun driving, it's a lot more. 1782 01:30:30.319 --> 01:30:33.960 We've had a couple of moment I know, I've had 1783 01:30:34.000 --> 01:30:34.359 a couple. 1784 01:30:34.760 --> 01:30:37.600 Yeah, coming back from a run of something and I'll 1785 01:30:37.640 --> 01:30:41.800 be like, put those lights on, dude. 1786 01:30:40.520 --> 01:30:40.600 You. 1787 01:30:44.479 --> 01:30:46.000 Got something brewin, let's go. 1788 01:30:47.800 --> 01:30:49.520 I'm not gonna make it. Get on it. 1789 01:30:50.680 --> 01:30:53.079 So I'll give you a quick story. One day. Blaze 1790 01:30:53.399 --> 01:30:56.199 right a buddy, Blaze, all right. He's in the back 1791 01:30:56.199 --> 01:30:58.119 seat I'm driving. He's like, dude, you gotta hurry up. 1792 01:30:58.119 --> 01:31:01.079 I gotta take a ship. So now, previously hitting every 1793 01:31:01.159 --> 01:31:04.239 single light on the way back to the firehouse, we're 1794 01:31:04.279 --> 01:31:08.279 about four blocks firehouse, four blots and files. The door 1795 01:31:08.359 --> 01:31:12.720 swings open, flying running towards the firehouse. 1796 01:31:14.920 --> 01:31:18.560 Dude, unless you've been on the rig, like you know, dude, 1797 01:31:18.560 --> 01:31:20.319 it's been I've been like that at a job, you 1798 01:31:20.359 --> 01:31:21.880 know what I mean, Like you're in a job all 1799 01:31:21.920 --> 01:31:25.560 of a sudden something happened, right, oh yeah, we had some. 1800 01:31:26.159 --> 01:31:29.680 Good job old five story and we're sitting there, were 1801 01:31:29.720 --> 01:31:32.720 going down the hallway knocking down fire and all of 1802 01:31:32.760 --> 01:31:38.640 a sudden we hear was that? I going, what's going on? 1803 01:31:39.520 --> 01:31:41.920 We opened up the door. It's the bathroom. The battalion 1804 01:31:41.960 --> 01:31:49.439 ads sitting on the toilet. What are you doing? I 1805 01:31:49.479 --> 01:31:51.439 had to go on that. I had to go go. 1806 01:31:51.640 --> 01:31:59.359 My god, you gotta go, you gotta go. Everybody has 1807 01:31:59.359 --> 01:32:00.000 done something. 1808 01:32:01.520 --> 01:32:03.680 Poop stories are always funny. You never go roll with 1809 01:32:03.720 --> 01:32:06.399 poop stories, bro. Yeah, yep. 1810 01:32:06.840 --> 01:32:11.439 Anyway, we uh halfway into my U sixty edgine there 1811 01:32:12.000 --> 01:32:14.439 we decided a lot of guys. I used to I 1812 01:32:14.479 --> 01:32:17.880 still smoke cigars, don't ask me why we brought it. 1813 01:32:17.920 --> 01:32:20.000 And I used to buy your box and everybody, oh, heck, 1814 01:32:20.000 --> 01:32:22.239 can we have one? Yeah? Yeah, So my five cigars 1815 01:32:22.279 --> 01:32:25.039 are gone within an hour, So I go listen, guys, 1816 01:32:25.039 --> 01:32:27.279 everybody wants this gar Why don't we go out and 1817 01:32:27.319 --> 01:32:30.800 get a cigar box and we'll get I'll get the cigars. 1818 01:32:30.920 --> 01:32:34.399 Yeah right, that's great. They bought this four hundred dollars 1819 01:32:34.479 --> 01:32:38.079 cigar box. This thing was like, you know, two feet long. 1820 01:32:38.159 --> 01:32:40.960 By another foot and a half and I could put 1821 01:32:41.000 --> 01:32:43.640 three hundred cigars. He how much you'd think I'm gonna get? Oh, 1822 01:32:43.680 --> 01:32:46.039 we'll get your box. And they gave me three hundred dollars. 1823 01:32:46.319 --> 01:32:48.239 So I went out and I bought three hundred dollars 1824 01:32:48.279 --> 01:32:50.880 worth of cigars. They had different ones. Guys are different. 1825 01:32:51.880 --> 01:32:54.319 We got a new captain. I don't think I mentioned 1826 01:32:54.319 --> 01:32:56.600 his name right now. Anyway, he comes in and with 1827 01:32:56.600 --> 01:33:00.159 with you know, walking to the engine office, he goes, oh, oh, oh, 1828 01:33:00.239 --> 01:33:02.840 is that a cigar box? This is yeah, cap it's 1829 01:33:02.880 --> 01:33:04.560 you know, something that men have. It's the only place 1830 01:33:04.600 --> 01:33:06.760 that could put it. When I'm getting ripped off. I 1831 01:33:06.800 --> 01:33:10.199 hate cigars, I really do. Oh nice to know. Okay, well, 1832 01:33:10.199 --> 01:33:11.039 I'll make sure you know. 1833 01:33:12.880 --> 01:33:13.479 Let us know. 1834 01:33:14.399 --> 01:33:17.319 He goes out, goes home. The next night he comes 1835 01:33:17.319 --> 01:33:20.960 in his first night tour. Half hour before he gets there, 1836 01:33:21.520 --> 01:33:24.640 fourteen of us grab a cigar, close the engine door, 1837 01:33:24.800 --> 01:33:27.560 and we puffed. You couldn't see from your knees up 1838 01:33:29.359 --> 01:33:31.079 all right, you know, a sudden you know, we hear 1839 01:33:31.079 --> 01:33:34.479 a little fell and caps coming in. Let's go. We opened, 1840 01:33:34.520 --> 01:33:36.560 you know, we close the door. We go back in 1841 01:33:36.560 --> 01:33:39.239 the city cause away. So we didn't know we were smoking. 1842 01:33:39.680 --> 01:33:41.479 He comes in and goes, hey, guys, how you the 1843 01:33:41.479 --> 01:33:44.119 guy was I'd be a very nice guy. He comes in, 1844 01:33:44.159 --> 01:33:45.920 he goes, oh, how you going, guys, I'll be in 1845 01:33:45.920 --> 01:33:49.520 the engine office. We hear the door but and he goes, come. 1846 01:33:49.319 --> 01:33:56.119 On, guys, what's the what's the worst thing? He could 1847 01:33:56.119 --> 01:33:57.039 tell a bunch. 1848 01:33:56.840 --> 01:34:01.560 Of men like, look, I don't like, I don't like. 1849 01:34:02.319 --> 01:34:05.239 All right now, probably we'll have every single time you work. 1850 01:34:06.039 --> 01:34:07.399 James, just call me Jimmy. 1851 01:34:07.560 --> 01:34:13.279 Yeah, all right, all right, we do again like that? Right? Oh, 1852 01:34:13.319 --> 01:34:16.359 actually it was the other way around. His name was James. 1853 01:34:16.359 --> 01:34:19.239 He wanted to be called James. Don't call him Jimmy, remember, 1854 01:34:19.840 --> 01:34:25.840 all right, all right Jimmy. All right, god, I think 1855 01:34:25.840 --> 01:34:27.840 it might be that time if we have the more pictures? 1856 01:34:28.439 --> 01:34:29.079 Is it that time? 1857 01:34:29.640 --> 01:34:33.319 Oh? First we gotta do uh, I will do it afterwards, 1858 01:34:33.319 --> 01:34:37.880 we'll do that. 1859 01:34:38.640 --> 01:34:40.399 Well, okay, we're gonna do it. It's time for. 1860 01:34:43.319 --> 01:34:50.079 Oh good, James, take it away, my friend. Okay, alright, 1861 01:34:50.079 --> 01:34:52.840 know you knew people coming into the fire apartment, male 1862 01:34:53.039 --> 01:34:59.199 and female. Always get and find out who the senior 1863 01:34:59.239 --> 01:35:02.399 man is. He's got to know more than all of 1864 01:35:02.439 --> 01:35:06.399 you put together. He knows what's going on. He will 1865 01:35:06.399 --> 01:35:09.640 help you. He will sit down with you and give 1866 01:35:09.680 --> 01:35:12.119 you the rules of the road and what the firehouse is. 1867 01:35:12.199 --> 01:35:15.760 You've got to do it. Don't ever back up and 1868 01:35:15.840 --> 01:35:18.640 say you know what you're talking about. He knows what 1869 01:35:18.720 --> 01:35:21.319 he's talking about. He could be in his cups and 1870 01:35:21.359 --> 01:35:25.359 he still knows what he's talking about. Yeah, believe you 1871 01:35:25.479 --> 01:35:28.079 got to know who we go to. There's plenty of 1872 01:35:28.199 --> 01:35:32.720 people out there that know all their stuff. They've been 1873 01:35:32.720 --> 01:35:35.279 two more fires and you'll ever probably see in your life. 1874 01:35:36.039 --> 01:35:37.199 That's my word of the day. 1875 01:35:37.800 --> 01:35:40.319 There, you go, right, very nice? 1876 01:35:42.000 --> 01:35:43.640 All right, you guys get I don't know if I'm 1877 01:35:43.800 --> 01:35:45.119 in my cups. 1878 01:35:47.119 --> 01:35:48.680 Some people don't know what that means. 1879 01:35:49.239 --> 01:35:49.640 Cops. 1880 01:35:50.279 --> 01:35:54.560 Oh my ye, I'm telling you he has some young 1881 01:35:54.600 --> 01:35:56.319 kids in there. Now, it's amazing. 1882 01:35:58.600 --> 01:36:02.119 I got those health and safety tip all right, here 1883 01:36:02.119 --> 01:36:02.279 we go. 1884 01:36:03.199 --> 01:36:05.560 The First Responder Center for Excellence is a not for 1885 01:36:05.640 --> 01:36:09.199 profit organization dedicated to protecting the lives and livelihoods of 1886 01:36:09.319 --> 01:36:12.880 first riskponders. Their education and research initiatives aim to bring 1887 01:36:12.960 --> 01:36:17.119 greater awareness and understanding the challenges to the health, safety, 1888 01:36:17.159 --> 01:36:20.359 and well being of firefighters, EMS, personnel, and other first 1889 01:36:20.399 --> 01:36:23.520 responders too. They are an affiliate of the National Falling 1890 01:36:23.680 --> 01:36:25.159 Firefighter Foundations. 1891 01:36:26.760 --> 01:36:29.359 All right, so I'm gonna read one off here that 1892 01:36:29.439 --> 01:36:31.279 we got from them, and I'm gonna say one. So 1893 01:36:31.319 --> 01:36:34.039 there are many simple Note Coast steps firefighters can take 1894 01:36:34.079 --> 01:36:37.319 to manage their risk of cancer, such as cleaning your helmet, 1895 01:36:37.439 --> 01:36:41.199 especially the inside liner. I'm gonna tell you another one 1896 01:36:41.199 --> 01:36:43.560 that I got for myself. My brother just called me today, 1897 01:36:44.199 --> 01:36:46.640 although he's not a fine and it will pertain to finement. 1898 01:36:47.199 --> 01:36:49.239 So he called me and he had gone for one 1899 01:36:49.239 --> 01:36:54.479 of those what are those calcium scores? I just went 1900 01:36:54.560 --> 01:36:58.800 for mine actually, so he gets it back and it's 1901 01:36:59.319 --> 01:37:01.439 not good. It's not it's not what was yours, Louis? 1902 01:37:01.560 --> 01:37:03.079 Was your your blockage was. 1903 01:37:03.000 --> 01:37:06.039 What one, one, seventy or something like that? 1904 01:37:06.199 --> 01:37:08.560 Yeah, block what percent blockage did you have when you 1905 01:37:08.600 --> 01:37:12.119 went for six or sixty? So his is up there 1906 01:37:12.119 --> 01:37:15.640 close to that. But the thing is, uh, you don't 1907 01:37:15.680 --> 01:37:18.159 have You didn't have any symptoms, right, you didn't feel 1908 01:37:18.319 --> 01:37:21.239 terrible at all? Right, neither, He's like, I feel fine. 1909 01:37:21.640 --> 01:37:25.079 So that's why it's so important to go get these tests, bro, 1910 01:37:25.159 --> 01:37:28.319 because if you don't know what's going on, you don't 1911 01:37:28.359 --> 01:37:30.279 know what's going on, and it might be too late. 1912 01:37:30.399 --> 01:37:32.720 You know, you might get a clog, or you might 1913 01:37:32.800 --> 01:37:35.319 get something and have a heart attack. So it doesn't 1914 01:37:35.359 --> 01:37:38.279 cost much. Go get the all the testing that you need, 1915 01:37:38.399 --> 01:37:40.720 especially to fight apartment, because they offer it for free. 1916 01:37:40.840 --> 01:37:42.760 My brother had to pay out of his pocket, but 1917 01:37:42.800 --> 01:37:44.399 for fire fighters that stuff is free. 1918 01:37:44.560 --> 01:37:46.520 Calcium scores is the key one. 1919 01:37:46.720 --> 01:37:50.279 Like all these other these other tests, like the stress 1920 01:37:50.399 --> 01:37:53.960 test and all this other stuff, it's good, but it's 1921 01:37:53.960 --> 01:37:56.920 not it's not giving you the true The calcium score 1922 01:37:56.960 --> 01:37:59.159 is the one you want to know, and that is 1923 01:37:59.199 --> 01:38:01.239 more expensive, and that's why they don't really do it. 1924 01:38:01.520 --> 01:38:04.960 Uh so, but they will do it every couple of years. 1925 01:38:05.640 --> 01:38:06.399 I gotta get on it. 1926 01:38:06.720 --> 01:38:08.920 You gotta get it done because you don't want to 1927 01:38:08.920 --> 01:38:10.039 get caught. You know. 1928 01:38:10.840 --> 01:38:14.720 The Will Trade Center annual usually does all blood. 1929 01:38:14.439 --> 01:38:18.600 Work correct, right right, but they don't do the calcium score. 1930 01:38:18.680 --> 01:38:21.079 You gotta do the calcium score. You got to check 1931 01:38:21.159 --> 01:38:23.560 the karate arterie. There's a whole bunch of other ones 1932 01:38:23.960 --> 01:38:26.359 because you may not feel you might feel great, but 1933 01:38:26.760 --> 01:38:28.720 you may have that clock like Louis had. You know, 1934 01:38:28.800 --> 01:38:31.239 he had he waited and not gone to Rob Brown, 1935 01:38:31.479 --> 01:38:33.960 who knows maybe he would have been had a bad 1936 01:38:34.039 --> 01:38:37.479 clam and a bad heart. Who knows especial. 1937 01:38:37.520 --> 01:38:39.520 Family history like me. I just went from mine, uh 1938 01:38:40.199 --> 01:38:42.880 came back loves were fourteen, but I still had it 1939 01:38:42.920 --> 01:38:46.640 done and it's uh pay attention to it now. 1940 01:38:46.920 --> 01:38:51.000 Yep. See do you have any mustache grooming tips? You 1941 01:38:51.000 --> 01:38:52.279 want to throw up all out. 1942 01:38:55.479 --> 01:39:01.319 Once a week? Yeah? Uh swallowing it is nothing grows 1943 01:39:01.359 --> 01:39:01.960 here anymore. 1944 01:39:02.560 --> 01:39:03.560 Tell me about it. Yeah. 1945 01:39:03.640 --> 01:39:07.520 Yeah, when you well, you get you get a little 1946 01:39:07.520 --> 01:39:09.439 extra like a hamp sandwich at the end of the week. 1947 01:39:10.479 --> 01:39:14.239 Everything that's catting it, having a beer or something like that, 1948 01:39:14.399 --> 01:39:18.680 it gets. 1949 01:39:19.279 --> 01:39:21.039 The whole thing is coming off tomorrow and that's it. 1950 01:39:21.079 --> 01:39:22.239 I'm going to the guy tomorrow. 1951 01:39:22.800 --> 01:39:24.239 What shaving it up? 1952 01:39:24.560 --> 01:39:26.000 Coming off? Baby? Fresh? 1953 01:39:27.000 --> 01:39:28.239 You're shaving yours off. 1954 01:39:29.680 --> 01:39:30.000 Record? 1955 01:39:30.640 --> 01:39:32.800 Oh, Gunzo, please pull up that one. Not I gotta 1956 01:39:32.840 --> 01:39:37.119 I gotta say that. It's in the Let me get it. 1957 01:39:38.039 --> 01:39:41.920 You have, I got it, Come see me and Louis 1958 01:39:42.199 --> 01:39:45.680 and will be there. There'll be a lot of great firefighters, 1959 01:39:45.720 --> 01:39:47.520 a lot of great f d n Y guys. The 1960 01:39:47.600 --> 01:39:51.680 twenty twenty five Long Island Metro Fire Expo. It's at 1961 01:39:51.680 --> 01:39:55.960 the Nassau Coliseum. We may or may not be drinking 1962 01:39:56.000 --> 01:39:59.760 in the booth. Probably may is a good bet. And 1963 01:39:59.800 --> 01:40:03.960 the also doing the what's the book that they came 1964 01:40:03.960 --> 01:40:06.399 out with any Potter and the other guy that we're 1965 01:40:06.399 --> 01:40:09.479 in uh in New York. They're gonna have a booth 1966 01:40:09.760 --> 01:40:12.520 so you could uh get if you purchased that book, 1967 01:40:12.960 --> 01:40:14.720 you can get it signed by the guys that will 1968 01:40:14.720 --> 01:40:16.439 be there. I think they're actually going to bring all 1969 01:40:16.479 --> 01:40:18.960 the guys from the book down there. So go on 1970 01:40:19.039 --> 01:40:21.680 down and see us and maybe guile join us. We 1971 01:40:21.800 --> 01:40:25.880 have a couple of shots with guys if you want, Yeah, 1972 01:40:25.960 --> 01:40:30.000 come on and see us. There you go, and that's it. Guy, 1973 01:40:30.079 --> 01:40:31.039 Thanks so much, man, I. 1974 01:40:31.000 --> 01:40:35.600 Really enjoyed you accepting me here. 1975 01:40:35.840 --> 01:40:38.279 Oh anytime, tell your son, man, come on, we don't 1976 01:40:38.279 --> 01:40:40.479 miss runs anymore. We don't do that. No, mom is 1977 01:40:40.520 --> 01:40:41.319 in run schnids. 1978 01:40:43.399 --> 01:40:44.319 No, it's too dark. 1979 01:40:45.760 --> 01:40:46.159 I don't know. 1980 01:40:46.600 --> 01:40:48.199 I don't know what we got next week, but we'll 1981 01:40:48.199 --> 01:40:50.760 have something. We got a lot of other good guests coming. 1982 01:40:50.600 --> 01:40:52.720 Up, so keep track of everybody. 1983 01:40:52.800 --> 01:40:57.439 So there you go, fella. Thank you for your service too. Man, 1984 01:40:57.479 --> 01:41:00.720 I appreciate your service, and your boys too, and the 1985 01:41:00.800 --> 01:41:05.960 boys the Marine the Navy. Guys, excellent stuff, Ganzo, thanks 1986 01:41:05.960 --> 01:41:08.720 for coming your head tonight. You look wonderful. Appreciate it. 1987 01:41:08.720 --> 01:41:10.600 We got a new shirt that's out. Rough right, what 1988 01:41:10.720 --> 01:41:14.680 is it? My fighting is like? How does it go again? Rough? 1989 01:41:15.000 --> 01:41:18.760 Riding a bike, riding your hair is on fire, everything, everything. 1990 01:41:20.319 --> 01:41:23.039 It's actually pretty funny. So we should have it on 1991 01:41:23.079 --> 01:41:25.279 the website tomorrow. We would definitely have it with us, 1992 01:41:25.720 --> 01:41:28.479 have it at the show. And that's all coliseem correct, 1993 01:41:29.319 --> 01:41:31.960 all right, guys. 1994 01:41:30.359 --> 01:41:33.439 All right, good enough, guys, thanks a lot, Thanks guys, 1995 01:41:33.479 --> 01:41:36.279 thank you very much. Thank you. 1996 01:41:36.520 --> 01:41:41.159 See you again. You know right, stay low and go guys. 1997 01:41:42.079 --> 01:41:43.800 All right, everybody, we'll see it the big one. Thank 1998 01:41:43.840 --> 01:41:44.720 you again. Guy. 1999 01:41:44.920 --> 01:41:47.239 All right, guys, see the top floor or maybe at 2000 01:41:47.279 --> 01:41:48.520 the command post. We'll see you