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<v Speaker 1>Disclaimer. We'd like to know before the start of this

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<v Speaker 1>interview that the opinions about to be expressed by the

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<v Speaker 1>guest of tonight's Getting Salty Experience Podcast are that of

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<v Speaker 1>the guest and do not directly or necessarily reflect the

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<v Speaker 1>views of the host of the Getting Salty Experience Podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>You're listening to the Getting Salty Experience Podcast.

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<v Speaker 3>Hello, Hello, roofies out there worries by a shout out

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<v Speaker 3>hello to the Marianna Half Show.

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<v Speaker 4>We can tell when you show show them that share.

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<v Speaker 4>Let me see that chair.

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<v Speaker 5>Ship about it?

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<v Speaker 6>Maybe Jesus room you go through. You gotta give about it.

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<v Speaker 5>He already had my You know what I had? You

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<v Speaker 5>have pasta and saucer, Jimmy pul macaroni.

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<v Speaker 6>Model's all right, man? What did you have the cookies afterwards?

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<v Speaker 4>Too?

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<v Speaker 5>No, I had a necktarready.

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<v Speaker 6>Well listen, we finally tracked this guy down. Bro, you

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<v Speaker 6>want a storytelling. We got a guy who remember ship

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<v Speaker 6>that happened forty years ago. I don't remember what I

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<v Speaker 6>have a breakfast, but he remembers stories from forty years ago.

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<v Speaker 7>If I had a nickel for every time we had

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<v Speaker 7>to tell him, don't tell them.

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<v Speaker 6>Basically, yeah, we have.

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<v Speaker 5>A lot of nickels.

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<v Speaker 6>You guy's got more stories than rookies, got the dead

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<v Speaker 6>things hanging on his walls, got a lot of story.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, we will definitely not get to them all tonight,

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<v Speaker 4>that's for sure.

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<v Speaker 6>So let's sen I don't think we're the young guys,

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<v Speaker 6>keep the trap shut and listen to a guy probably

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<v Speaker 6>maybe one of the most premier trucks on the job

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<v Speaker 6>right in the seventies and eighties doing it.

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<v Speaker 4>Maybe a little bit before.

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<v Speaker 5>I've mentioned it all in the shows.

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<v Speaker 6>No, no, that name never comes up.

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<v Speaker 4>No, no nuthouse, nor Bobby.

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<v Speaker 6>No, and not the guy from the eighteen b A

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<v Speaker 6>eight fool rackets.

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<v Speaker 5>Got a sad card, Now, yeah, that's what it is.

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<v Speaker 4>A big, big time movie guy, big shot, big shot

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<v Speaker 4>should get us on. Guess A said card.

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<v Speaker 5>Let's go.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I'll tell you what movies that he's in. Just

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<v Speaker 6>don't get up to go to the bathroom because you

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<v Speaker 6>might miss him. He's in. He's like the mother if

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<v Speaker 6>I came.

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<v Speaker 5>On the show his head back.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, that peppered me up. I waited for this, and yeah,

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<v Speaker 6>we got a lot of shout outs, and I too. Unfortunately,

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<v Speaker 6>a couple of guys do that towards the end of

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<v Speaker 6>the show. But let's jump into the commercials really quick,

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, all right, let's jump into the uh because I

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<v Speaker 6>And there you go. So I went to Rob Brown

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<v Speaker 6>So I'm practicing what I'm preaching. Get out there, don't

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<v Speaker 6>there's plenty of states around the country that do it too,

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<v Speaker 6>so follow up on it. He's the part I didn't

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<v Speaker 6>tell Roofie. I talked to Rob Brown, and he's gonna

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<v Speaker 6>be at the hockey game, the fire Police hockey game,

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<v Speaker 6>and we're gonna do his tiny little interview that they're

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<v Speaker 6>gonna put on the jumbo tron in Madison Square Garden.

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<v Speaker 6>The boss interviewing him about what he does six minutes minutes.

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<v Speaker 4>That's not a shorty thing. Man got a nice script.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, well he's in there. I'm on the treadmill with

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<v Speaker 6>no shirt and he's filling me. I'm like, what are

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<v Speaker 6>you doing with this for? He's like, well, I gotta

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<v Speaker 6>put this on the jumbo tron. I'm like, really, I

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<v Speaker 6>don't have enough guys breaking my balls that you're gonna

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<v Speaker 6>put He's got me doing it too. Blah blah blah

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<v Speaker 6>blah blah. Bro all right, Ruffie, let's bring this guy in.

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<v Speaker 6>He he was on, he was off, he was on,

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<v Speaker 6>he was off. He's up. Now we got him. He

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<v Speaker 6>can't and he was almost off, and he was almost

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<v Speaker 6>off as of yesterday. I have to talk some sensitive

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<v Speaker 6>him and I told him the podcast at night, you

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<v Speaker 6>got a furnace of delivery coming, like you got a

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<v Speaker 6>what is levit still deliver at night?

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<v Speaker 5>What's PC? Richards?

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<v Speaker 6>All right, he's a funny guy. I'm ready, you're right, my.

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<v Speaker 7>Fate, my face hurts already coming to the stage. Here

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<v Speaker 7>he is on Legend one eleven b A Bobby Austin.

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<v Speaker 8>I want to know there he goes, thank you, gentlemen.

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<v Speaker 5>Thanks, looking forward to it play.

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<v Speaker 8>Before we ask any questions, A couple of things I

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<v Speaker 5>First losing it ready.

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<v Speaker 8>First, I want to mention the passing of UH fireman

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<v Speaker 8>Edgar Edward J. Stephens mentioned two fourteen the other they

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<v Speaker 8>spent forty two years in the backstep. Eddie was actually

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<v Speaker 8>on the job, got drafted, went in the military, came

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<v Speaker 8>back to the job. One of the best nozzlemen UH

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<v Speaker 8>that I've ever known. Im insight Taylor, right up there

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<v Speaker 8>with George day Hard if I feel from two eighty three.

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<v Speaker 8>So may he read in peace? Yeah, A good friend

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<v Speaker 8>of mine. Second, I want to go on the record

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<v Speaker 8>to say I was very lucky to come on a

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<v Speaker 8>job when I did October fourteen, nineteen seventy eight. Worked

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<v Speaker 8>where I worked engine Company two three to zero and

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<v Speaker 8>a lot of Company one to eleven. And the most

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<v Speaker 8>important part was working with the people I worked with.

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<v Speaker 8>I had a tremendous privilege to work with probably not

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<v Speaker 8>only some of the best fiemen in New York City,

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<v Speaker 8>but probably the best fireman in the world. And if

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<v Speaker 8>I had the time to mention each one by name,

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<v Speaker 8>it would use up this whole time. So I've been

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<v Speaker 8>very privileged to be a part of something to me

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<v Speaker 8>that is still very huge. So thank you.

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<v Speaker 6>Let's thanks patriotic really quick, forget it. The pledge.

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<v Speaker 5>Here we go.

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<v Speaker 2>I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States

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<v Speaker 2>of America and to the Republic, for which it stands,

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<v Speaker 2>One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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<v Speaker 6>God bless the ftmy, That's what I say, bro Amen

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<v Speaker 6>to that. All right, So we already told us he

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<v Speaker 6>got on in the early seventies. What wait, give us

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<v Speaker 6>a little early background to ba, I mean the late

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<v Speaker 6>seventies to a little early background. Where did you grow up?

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<v Speaker 8>I grew up in town, Long Island. Yeah. Yeah, we

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<v Speaker 8>have a town of White Kettle, you know, basically Irish Italians.

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<v Speaker 8>Uh Levet House. My dad was the second owner. My

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<v Speaker 8>dad was Korea level. Town was built for World War

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<v Speaker 8>Two veterans and we moved from Queen's when I was

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<v Speaker 8>born in Cambria Heights. Lived there until I think it

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<v Speaker 8>was three or four. Still remember the ID just won

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<v Speaker 8>eighteen forty eight to twenty seventh Street, so we went

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<v Speaker 8>back every weekend, you know, moved a let of town

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<v Speaker 8>grew up in eleve of Town. I went to school

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<v Speaker 8>there and my high schools Lovetown's Division, which was a

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<v Speaker 8>rough school. It was seven to twelfth grade in one school.

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<v Speaker 8>So I got there in sixty seven. So you are

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<v Speaker 8>a twelfth grader mixed in with guys that are eighteen

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<v Speaker 8>years old, you know, who could drink, and we're going

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<v Speaker 8>to Vietnam. So they didn't give a fly fuck hard

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<v Speaker 8>to believe, but I was in honors classes. It was

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<v Speaker 8>for what after high school? Actually, my mother got rest

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<v Speaker 8>of the soul. She wanted me to be a vent aaran.

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<v Speaker 8>That was the role. And she didn't realize it's ought

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<v Speaker 8>to be an event here and that I had a

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<v Speaker 8>goal doctor, but she wanted me to me to be

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<v Speaker 8>event here.

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<v Speaker 7>And and.

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<v Speaker 8>After two years of pretty mad, I realized I'm not

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<v Speaker 8>going to be event areing. Maybe a nurse, but I

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<v Speaker 8>wanted to. My senior in high school nineteen seventy three,

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<v Speaker 8>I was in a I could have graduate lived grade,

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<v Speaker 8>but I was in a special program called integrated Studies,

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<v Speaker 8>and it was you know, for seniors that really did

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<v Speaker 8>have to be there. And we had gotten an assignment

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<v Speaker 8>that you had to do a paper about a career.

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<v Speaker 8>So my father was a printed for New York Post

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<v Speaker 8>and he had been there for many years. I'm not

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<v Speaker 8>gonna write about it from dinner, but my dad had

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<v Speaker 8>a very good friend. His name was Jerry Stell, who

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<v Speaker 8>was like an uncle, one of those uncles. You know

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<v Speaker 8>you call him uncle, but I really don't do. And

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<v Speaker 8>he was in New York City fireman and I knew

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<v Speaker 8>that about the FDN so and he was a New

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<v Speaker 8>York City fireman in a latter one nineteen So my

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<v Speaker 8>dad said, why you got tact Jerry, maybe you can

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<v Speaker 8>go back him. So I called him and he said, yeah,

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<v Speaker 8>we'll bring you into the fireas one night. And that's

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<v Speaker 8>what I did, so I'll never forget to day. It

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<v Speaker 8>was October seventeenth, nineteen seventy three, and he brought me

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<v Speaker 8>into the fires for a night to it. And I

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<v Speaker 8>remember most of the guy's names that worked that night,

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<v Speaker 8>and they they went with to eleven and back then

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<v Speaker 8>I remember Lieutenan's name was Lieutenant Who's Tony Dio was

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<v Speaker 8>I spent the night there and uh that named Jack Tide,

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<v Speaker 8>which I'm sure you heard about. He was in the

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<v Speaker 8>truck he cooked and winning white clamss. I spent a

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<v Speaker 8>one job of one fire about four in the morning,

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<v Speaker 8>and that was it, and my uncle drove me back home.

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<v Speaker 8>I walked into my house and I told my mommy

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<v Speaker 8>passed awaymn here and my parents were like, horrifight. I said, no,

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<v Speaker 8>Yes. And the funny thing is, five years later, almost

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<v Speaker 8>to the day, I was sworn into the job on

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<v Speaker 8>October fourteenth, nineteen seventy eight. Wow. Probably one of the

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<v Speaker 8>greatest days of my life. So I went on a job.

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<v Speaker 6>Well, we got a picture of you waiting to get

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<v Speaker 8>Yeah, yeah, that you know. So what happened was I

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<v Speaker 8>went to college for two years. Boom, yeah. Danny Potter

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<v Speaker 8>that's Danny Potter right in the middle.

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<v Speaker 6>Where in the middle of what it's like eighteen thousand

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<v Speaker 6>guys did what were you looking?

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<v Speaker 5>Guy looking with the hat.

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<v Speaker 8>The striped shirt, Well, that's me. I ran next to him,

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<v Speaker 8>was Danny Potter then and I go back a long ways.

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<v Speaker 8>So we worked in the ambulance service, many bus so

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<v Speaker 8>I decided to be in New York City fireman. But

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<v Speaker 8>let me tell you, nineteen seventy five things for great.

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<v Speaker 8>They had the layoffs since seventy five. So I was

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<v Speaker 8>at six and it just wasn't high enough. So I

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<v Speaker 8>but anyway, full ride, but then they would have men. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 8>Eventually Finmanus test came up, and uh but I was

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<v Speaker 8>going to del Hay's. You know back then he went

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<v Speaker 8>to Delany's. I was taking That's why I met Danny Potter.

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<v Speaker 8>I was a volunteer fireman and Brentwood and I had

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<v Speaker 8>an uncle, My uncle John Colligan was the chief of

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<v Speaker 8>brekn So we finally had some common ground and and

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<v Speaker 8>then uh, I was taking the New York City course.

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<v Speaker 8>You go in to city so so, but in Intrim,

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<v Speaker 8>I took the Niarssau County Police Department test. I took

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<v Speaker 8>that on October thirty first of nineteen seventy seven. He

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<v Speaker 8>two thousand guys. Thirty thousand guys took the test. And

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<v Speaker 8>then I took the Fireman's Exam on December third and

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<v Speaker 8>nineteen seventy seven, and I wrote the same grade on

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<v Speaker 8>both tests. Ninety seven. I took my physical agility on

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<v Speaker 8>March twelfth of nineteen seventy eight. The FDNY eighty six

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<v Speaker 8>point six ninety seven are written and my list when

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<v Speaker 8>my list number came out in May of seventy eight,

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<v Speaker 8>I was forty one on the firemans, but I wasn't

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<v Speaker 8>a veteran, so guys took their veterans credits. So the

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<v Speaker 8>amended list I dropped it two twenty three wow. So

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<v Speaker 8>I was investigated for the first class. So so that

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<v Speaker 8>January I went on the fire patrol. Fire patrol too.

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<v Speaker 8>I had taken Tesla three years earlier, and I got

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<v Speaker 8>cold in January seventy eight, and I went on a

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<v Speaker 8>fire patrol too on West Third between Thompson and sull

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<v Speaker 8>great experience. It was only at ten months, but I

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<v Speaker 8>worked with great guys Jimmy, Crispeck, Taylor, Mannie Riley. I

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<v Speaker 8>stayed in touch with Jimmy, Uh, Lieutenant Pearl Line, Sergeant Ostader,

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<v Speaker 8>and I spent ten months there and I wondered too,

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<v Speaker 8>right uh beef he was there, Yeah, fireman u Eve

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<v Speaker 8>and sergeant later on Tommy O'Kaine, if you remember Tommy

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<v Speaker 8>o'caine Cocaine Okaine. But you know great guy. Yeah, uh great,

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<v Speaker 8>Uh Tommy, but Tommy great man so and Colrade and

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<v Speaker 8>Patty Brown, uh, who was in probably school at that time.

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<v Speaker 8>He he hung out a lot number two. He was

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<v Speaker 8>from number one. Patty Brown went to Vietnam. He was

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<v Speaker 8>in number one. Went to Vietnam, came back. I think

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<v Speaker 8>Patty did two tours and he came back and worked

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<v Speaker 8>in five patrol one until he got called for the FDN.

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<v Speaker 8>Y and uh. He used to stay in the firehouse

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<v Speaker 8>a lot and uh number two, and we got to

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<v Speaker 8>be very good friends. And Patty and I were very close,

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<v Speaker 8>and losing him, uh was a little rough. But Patty,

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<v Speaker 8>you know, you know the certain guys. As you guys

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<v Speaker 8>know that, you know from day one there's gonna be something,

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<v Speaker 8>you know, which I'll get into in private school.

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<v Speaker 5>So Bobby said it all the time, Yes, all the time.

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<v Speaker 8>So I go on a job less than ten months

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<v Speaker 8>later from the day I take the written jam take

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<v Speaker 8>the written his zam December third. I'm on a job

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<v Speaker 8>October fourteenth, seventy eight. You will never see that again, No, never.

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<v Speaker 8>I'm in the second I gotta investigated first class, but

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<v Speaker 8>I go into second class. Okay, a lot of big

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<v Speaker 8>So the funny thing is most of the guys in

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<v Speaker 8>that class with veterans. They used their veterans points. So

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<v Speaker 8>there's only twenty of us that weren't veterans, which was

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<v Speaker 8>a little tough because the marching old shit. But that class. Sorry,

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<v Speaker 8>Tommy Galvin was in that class. Well, I just saw

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<v Speaker 8>the other day.

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<v Speaker 5>He didn't do much.

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<v Speaker 8>Yeah, I saw Tommy, Yeah, I saw Tommy. Captain Steve

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<v Speaker 8>b Rui's Black dedication the other day. Paul Harshaggen another.

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<v Speaker 4>Y never heard of that.

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<v Speaker 8>I never heard of it, walk, Mike Poos, Dannis Gordon,

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<v Speaker 8>Bobby West so.

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<v Speaker 5>Me.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, it's like the stars right there man who knew.

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<v Speaker 8>They were going to move up. I was in the

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<v Speaker 8>second plume, first squad, number thirteen. My my squad believer

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<v Speaker 8>was kept was Carl Evans thirty four, great man, the

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<v Speaker 8>man who was oh god, lieutenant. Uh let's see his

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<v Speaker 8>face now, yes, the end of his son a job.

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<v Speaker 8>It'll come to me from Harlem anyway, So go to

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<v Speaker 8>Probate school six weeks and a way could and uh

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<v Speaker 8>the instructors, I look back with terrific sobi school.

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<v Speaker 6>Then Bobby how many weeks?

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<v Speaker 8>Six weeks? Six weeks and they basically told this. Remember

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<v Speaker 8>this is the year after the blackout. Black Guy was

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<v Speaker 8>seventy seven. They they hired guys off the old list.

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<v Speaker 5>You know.

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<v Speaker 8>It was good. When I got to thirty, it was

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<v Speaker 8>guys in their thirties. Uh, they had the mercy hiring

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<v Speaker 8>off the old list. They hired like eight hundred guys

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<v Speaker 8>and they dropped Promam school for six weeks. So when

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<v Speaker 8>I got there in second class, yeah, first last like

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<v Speaker 8>guys like Bobby Turner. Actually, Bobby Turner was a great

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<v Speaker 8>friend of mine.

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<v Speaker 5>Uh that was slacker.

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<v Speaker 8>Bobby Turner was number one on the list. He wrote

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<v Speaker 8>the highest written. He had a very high written grace,

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<v Speaker 8>but he had the highest physical jilly if you remember

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<v Speaker 8>that was the physical agility to test that. All the

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<v Speaker 8>women sailed.

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<v Speaker 6>They allote the poll had to hanging pull off the

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<v Speaker 6>wall of the legs.

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<v Speaker 8>The yeah, the bent arm hang uh wrecked a lot

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<v Speaker 8>of guys. I remember to take the we get attesting you.

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<v Speaker 8>I wigh ae hundred about fifty pounds, and the bent

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<v Speaker 8>arm hang eliminated a lot of guys. Where you started,

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<v Speaker 8>you had a butt and it was until you were

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<v Speaker 8>fully extended, you're out. And you had all these guys

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<v Speaker 8>like juiced up and ship and they jumping said down.

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<v Speaker 6>The guys make me.

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<v Speaker 8>One hundred and fifty pounds were hanging like a fucking bat.

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<v Speaker 8>You know, you had to do a minute. If you

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<v Speaker 8>didn't do a minute, you're out. You get a zero.

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<v Speaker 6>Wait.

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<v Speaker 8>So and it was the first thing was the uh.

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<v Speaker 8>They had a dummy carried to carry a one hundred

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<v Speaker 8>twenty poundummy up and down the stairs and everything was tied.

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<v Speaker 8>And I still have the sheet actually uh got away carried.

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<v Speaker 8>And then you had h the bent arm hang uh.

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<v Speaker 8>The wall. That was another thing they made. The you

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<v Speaker 8>gotta go along walk eliminated a lot of girls the

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<v Speaker 8>ledge walk and eliminated a lot of women. Those of

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<v Speaker 8>the rest, you know, they couldn't get close to the ledge.

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<v Speaker 8>Women did a mask. He had the obstacle course and

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<v Speaker 8>what else do we have something else? I forget, but

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<v Speaker 8>it was tough. Oh you had you had a mile

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<v Speaker 8>running at the end, and I remember I ran four

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<v Speaker 8>point five minutes in the mile. I was running like

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<v Speaker 6>This was like you run like a motherfucker, and you

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<v Speaker 6>like a running like yeah, well whatever.

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<v Speaker 8>But and then I get my grade and there was

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<v Speaker 8>only one hundred guys that got over in ninety. When

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<v Speaker 8>I make the friends Greg mcconi, he got over ninety

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<v Speaker 8>old and I ended up in eighty six point six

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<v Speaker 8>with a ninety seven coming thing. I end up forty one,

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<v Speaker 8>eventually to twenty three list. So now I'm in Provably

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<v Speaker 8>school and I'll never get this. Well. I had gone

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<v Speaker 8>to my angel Swias a couple of times. So one

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<v Speaker 8>day I'm in Provably School and there was a little

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<v Speaker 8>tent name Deal Lieutenant Deal in a lot of winning team.

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<v Speaker 8>Who's an old school, tough guy. And you know he

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<v Speaker 8>knew me as a kid. When I came to my

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<v Speaker 8>angle Swas and I'm sitting I'm sitting at the table

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<v Speaker 8>one day for lunch, I said, well, Bucky Bobby Wedstead

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<v Speaker 8>of scoring the old guys, and Lieutenant Deal walks in.

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<v Speaker 8>This guy's an old school guy from twenty six truck

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<v Speaker 8>nineteen and they were doing the safety honesty, the old

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<v Speaker 8>safety honesty. And he sits down next to me. He

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<v Speaker 8>sees me and he says to me, this job. He

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<v Speaker 8>had this rough on this job. That's great.

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<v Speaker 9>The bi him in a fucking barrel. And my friend

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<v Speaker 9>just got up and left and I'm sitting there and

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<v Speaker 9>he took my hand, goes good for you. So so

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<v Speaker 9>that's it.

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<v Speaker 8>So I'm there about a week before graduation and they

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<v Speaker 8>had a promotion ceremony up there. So when I was

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<v Speaker 8>taking the city courses, there was a lieutenant teaching it

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<v Speaker 8>in Manhattan. His name was Lieutenant Paranelo and he was

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<v Speaker 8>a lieutenant engine sixty five. So I was going to

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<v Speaker 8>the courses once a week and I took the train

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<v Speaker 8>home a couple of times, and uh, we kind of

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<v Speaker 8>hit it off. You know, you could tell how I

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<v Speaker 8>was into the job and I was it. So while

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<v Speaker 8>I'm in Provy school, they have a promotion and same

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<v Speaker 8>thing them at lunch one day and they promoted lieutenants

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<v Speaker 8>and captains, and Paranelo seized me and he walks over

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<v Speaker 8>to me and he says, remember me, you believe and

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<v Speaker 8>he shakes my hand. He says, congratulations. I knew you

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<v Speaker 8>would get on this job. Now. I did have a

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<v Speaker 8>little juice. I was good friends with Louis Garcia. I

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<v Speaker 8>don't know if you ever heard of Louis came to

423
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<v Speaker 8>mar Yeah, well, Mois started two eleven, laid off seventy five,

424
00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:25.920
<v Speaker 8>and he went to Hountital and I knew him as

425
00:26:25.920 --> 00:26:28.839
<v Speaker 8>a kid, and he was going to be my juice.

426
00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:32.319
<v Speaker 8>So he says to me. Paranl says to me, I'll

427
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<v Speaker 8>never forget this. He goes, you know, I'm going to

428
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<v Speaker 8>be the captain Avengine two Para Neal never covered a day.

429
00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:40.720
<v Speaker 8>I'm going to be the captain of Engine two thuty,

430
00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:43.839
<v Speaker 8>which I knew about, being the fire patrol and it.

431
00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:47.599
<v Speaker 8>He goes, if you want this unit, I'll bring it in.

432
00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:51.039
<v Speaker 8>So I said, thanks, cat, but I'm going to World two.

433
00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:57.680
<v Speaker 8>I'm in fucking probably school and going to World two.

434
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<v Speaker 8>You know, Okay, that's it.

435
00:27:01.640 --> 00:27:07.880
<v Speaker 6>So but later thanks cap Yeah.

436
00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:12.160
<v Speaker 8>Plus graduating, and I get a letter to the bag

437
00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:16.839
<v Speaker 8>in Prova School from Captain Parallelo and he says, if

438
00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:20.240
<v Speaker 8>you want this unit, I'll still get you one of

439
00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:23.680
<v Speaker 8>everybody's going and everybody's going to engines. Remember the first

440
00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:26.799
<v Speaker 8>couple of classes went to EUS engines that were doing

441
00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:31.079
<v Speaker 8>over four thousand runs a year. Now like two ninety

442
00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:34.519
<v Speaker 8>one oh three, they were doing eight nine eighty two

443
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<v Speaker 8>thirty one. And that's when any change and full schedule.

444
00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:43.440
<v Speaker 8>So he says to me, nobody's going to trucks. Okay,

445
00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:47.160
<v Speaker 8>I want to go to hunt to Nobody's going to trucks,

446
00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:49.160
<v Speaker 8>all right, So I want to go to Tour nine.

447
00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:52.119
<v Speaker 8>Tour nine was the four minut engine. That's why I've

448
00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:55.480
<v Speaker 8>been trump make a long story short orter comes down.

449
00:27:56.000 --> 00:28:02.240
<v Speaker 8>I got an engine two thirty, and the day day

450
00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:04.559
<v Speaker 8>order came down two and I went to a five

451
00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:07.920
<v Speaker 8>minute engine. So Tommy Donald and Kevin Rice out of

452
00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:10.400
<v Speaker 8>my pro school went there. I go to two thirty,

453
00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:15.880
<v Speaker 8>the great houset man. Believe me, I got lucky. I've

454
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:18.839
<v Speaker 8>always said I was lucky to get on a job

455
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:22.359
<v Speaker 8>when I did. In October fourteen, ninety seventy eight, worked

456
00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:25.079
<v Speaker 8>where I worked engine two three to zero and latter

457
00:28:25.079 --> 00:28:28.440
<v Speaker 8>one eleven and worked with the guys I worked with,

458
00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:30.720
<v Speaker 8>and that was the most important thing. So I go

459
00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:36.519
<v Speaker 8>to two thirty and Arthur J. Parmeranello whose daughter works

460
00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:43.680
<v Speaker 8>in the Comack nine to eleven place. He's my captain.

461
00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:52.400
<v Speaker 8>So I get there as a probably and Lorett the

462
00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:57.559
<v Speaker 8>cams groups and he was tough, very tough captain. But

463
00:28:57.960 --> 00:29:02.480
<v Speaker 8>I looked back years later a great captain. So you

464
00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:07.119
<v Speaker 8>got to so guys. When I got to two thirty,

465
00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:09.680
<v Speaker 8>the day to was we had bells and the voice low.

466
00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:13.200
<v Speaker 8>Fortunately I was better at counting the bells. Yeah, there

467
00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:16.720
<v Speaker 8>it is because in control too we had the bells

468
00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:20.279
<v Speaker 8>voicel in Manhattan, so I got pretty good counting the bells.

469
00:29:20.680 --> 00:29:23.359
<v Speaker 8>So you sat assist in the house watch and it

470
00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:27.200
<v Speaker 8>was write a book with him, you know, and you drilled.

471
00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:31.279
<v Speaker 8>But he was he was tough, but he was very fair.

472
00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:34.400
<v Speaker 8>So when I first came to the fire, when I

473
00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:38.640
<v Speaker 8>got to two thirty in nineteen seventy, I got there

474
00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:45.519
<v Speaker 8>in November. Other than the guys from the seventy seven list,

475
00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:48.599
<v Speaker 8>they hadn't gotten a probium in years, so I was

476
00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:51.240
<v Speaker 8>the youngest guy it was twenty two to get to

477
00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:53.359
<v Speaker 8>to thirty in fifteen years.

478
00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:54.559
<v Speaker 5>You were kid.

479
00:29:54.839 --> 00:29:57.839
<v Speaker 8>Oh yeah, And I worked with two guys that fought

480
00:29:57.880 --> 00:29:58.559
<v Speaker 8>in World War Two.

481
00:29:59.319 --> 00:29:59.799
<v Speaker 5>Wow.

482
00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:05.000
<v Speaker 8>Frank Chucchio was the chauffeur. He survived the first wave

483
00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:11.720
<v Speaker 8>of Regima as a marine. Joe Russo chauffeur. They both

484
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:16.599
<v Speaker 8>came on in nineteen fifty five. Joe was drove Sandy

485
00:30:16.599 --> 00:30:20.240
<v Speaker 8>Magioe great as he was in the Navy, survived the

486
00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:23.200
<v Speaker 8>Battle of Midway, and then a bunch of Vietnam guys,

487
00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:28.880
<v Speaker 8>you know they Fletcher, Uh, Bobby Lawrence got the rest

488
00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:33.000
<v Speaker 8>of the soul other guys.

489
00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:35.079
<v Speaker 7>To be careful with those guys, Bob. They're always panicking

490
00:30:35.079 --> 00:30:39.200
<v Speaker 7>at the drop of a hat. You know, yeah right, yeah,

491
00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:40.559
<v Speaker 7>so awesome.

492
00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:42.799
<v Speaker 6>You gotta be wrong. You wake up with a bowie

493
00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:43.599
<v Speaker 6>knife at your night.

494
00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:50.920
<v Speaker 8>Solid, solid guys, I remember, Billy Ah just last awake

495
00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:55.000
<v Speaker 8>of your own suspenders. Dennis wa Cola, Bobby Larrence, Phil

496
00:30:55.079 --> 00:31:00.400
<v Speaker 8>boyco H, Jimmy Jones, Uh, Harry Harry Gumm and maybe

497
00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:06.559
<v Speaker 8>the tich That's what Yeah, I was broken by. I

498
00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:09.119
<v Speaker 8>was broken in by Bobby Lawrence got a rest of

499
00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:12.440
<v Speaker 8>the salt diideline to do the eighty five. That is

500
00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:16.240
<v Speaker 8>what I called it. Bill aarn and Ormond Samuel's one

501
00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:18.640
<v Speaker 8>of the showers. Uh. And I was the other thing.

502
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:20.599
<v Speaker 8>You know in probably school, they're gonna go to fire,

503
00:31:20.680 --> 00:31:25.480
<v Speaker 8>We're gonna break your balls. Didn't break my balls. They

504
00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:29.799
<v Speaker 8>were terrific because they hadn't gotten new blood in a

505
00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:31.680
<v Speaker 8>long time. But I remember the day I had a

506
00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:35.480
<v Speaker 8>report there. You had to get your ship. I go

507
00:31:35.559 --> 00:31:39.480
<v Speaker 8>to two thirty. I walk in the door and I

508
00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:42.319
<v Speaker 8>get met. I get met by Nicky Rocco. I don't

509
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:43.640
<v Speaker 8>know if you ever heard about Nicky Rock.

510
00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:48.839
<v Speaker 5>Nicky Rocco, he lives to judge his check book lived in.

511
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:56.640
<v Speaker 8>The basement of two thirty. It's almost showing there. And

512
00:31:56.799 --> 00:31:59.920
<v Speaker 8>I go in the back in the kitchen and were

513
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:04.039
<v Speaker 8>and the lieutenant was a guy named Eddie Collaboro who

514
00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:08.440
<v Speaker 8>had like one hundred thousand years on the job. And

515
00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:12.759
<v Speaker 8>I walk in. I say, you know, well my folder.

516
00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:15.960
<v Speaker 8>I walk and I go, you know, profession fireman houstin

517
00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:21.000
<v Speaker 8>reform of duty, sir so Collaboro. He's got his tie on,

518
00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:26.480
<v Speaker 8>which is not tied. He got his stab, fixs his

519
00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:28.720
<v Speaker 8>glass up. He goes give me a folded kid. So

520
00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:31.119
<v Speaker 8>he goes through the fold and he goes, oh, wow,

521
00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:34.400
<v Speaker 8>that's impressive. He graduated high in your provary class. So

522
00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:36.680
<v Speaker 8>I'm like, yes, sir, I was. I was number twenty

523
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:39.000
<v Speaker 8>two and one hundred and twenty five. And he folds that.

524
00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:41.079
<v Speaker 8>He throws across the room and he goes, that don't

525
00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:42.160
<v Speaker 8>mean fucking ship done.

526
00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:46.559
<v Speaker 4>He goes, I knew that was coming.

527
00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:53.960
<v Speaker 8>Oh yeah, I'm and trooky air and all these billy

528
00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:58.599
<v Speaker 8>hang u that's what. And I'm like, fuck, and you

529
00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:03.920
<v Speaker 8>like to eat? And so they had lunch while I

530
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:07.799
<v Speaker 8>was there for about two hours. They had about twelve runs.

531
00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:10.160
<v Speaker 8>Oh my, I didn't go out on the runs. They

532
00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:15.759
<v Speaker 8>wouldn't let me ride. Uh yeah, they went mostly false alarms,

533
00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:18.640
<v Speaker 8>you know. And that was it. And I went home

534
00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:23.240
<v Speaker 8>to my parents and I felt like I died and

535
00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:27.680
<v Speaker 8>went to Avon and uh worked with great guys, just

536
00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:29.400
<v Speaker 8>terrific firement over there.

537
00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:31.720
<v Speaker 7>Bob, How long are you take you to catch your

538
00:33:31.720 --> 00:33:34.119
<v Speaker 7>first joble.

539
00:33:33.119 --> 00:33:38.759
<v Speaker 8>My thunder my first night to I think it was

540
00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:44.000
<v Speaker 8>actually my first run. We relocated to eighty. They had

541
00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:48.640
<v Speaker 8>all hands. We got back my first night too. We

542
00:33:48.640 --> 00:33:51.720
<v Speaker 8>had two old hands. Now we didn't wear a mask.

543
00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:57.640
<v Speaker 8>Back then my first night tour, captain put me on

544
00:33:57.680 --> 00:34:01.119
<v Speaker 8>the mask maybe the mask man, but two guys rod

545
00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:03.480
<v Speaker 8>in the back step and I was in the back

546
00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:06.880
<v Speaker 8>of man and mass man rode behind new officer and

547
00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:12.159
<v Speaker 8>hook them in, rode behind the chauffeur and actually, when

548
00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:14.440
<v Speaker 8>I was thirty, he had a phone on for a fire.

549
00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:18.679
<v Speaker 8>They stretched a line to the front door, just automatically.

550
00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:22.039
<v Speaker 8>So yeah, my first night we had two old hands.

551
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:30.960
<v Speaker 8>Uh second do them both? Uh? I remember? I remember

552
00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:33.639
<v Speaker 8>I got off in the morning, I went home. I

553
00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:36.840
<v Speaker 8>was little. My parents up most of the night and

554
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:38.519
<v Speaker 8>my dad worked for the New York clost You know,

555
00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:42.159
<v Speaker 8>I got home, my dad was up, and you know,

556
00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:44.679
<v Speaker 8>I had just got my locker, and I went home

557
00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:48.760
<v Speaker 8>and worked close and my dad sitting and I was

558
00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:51.440
<v Speaker 8>kind of dirty still, and my dad was like, how

559
00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:54.519
<v Speaker 8>was your first night? I go, I made a big

560
00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:57.519
<v Speaker 8>mistake coming on this job. You know, I thought, like

561
00:34:57.599 --> 00:34:59.199
<v Speaker 8>you went to the fire people came out and gave

562
00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:03.440
<v Speaker 8>you a cour fee the ship at us, I said,

563
00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:05.880
<v Speaker 8>I made a big mistake coming on his shot, and

564
00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:10.400
<v Speaker 8>I gotta go back to tonight. And I went back,

565
00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:14.239
<v Speaker 8>and you know what it was. It was the greatest thing,

566
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:17.039
<v Speaker 8>and I talked to Dennis Murphy about this a lot.

567
00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:19.480
<v Speaker 8>His first ain't coming by the year after me. And

568
00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:21.480
<v Speaker 8>I remember the first time getting on a rig and

569
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:25.159
<v Speaker 8>going out the door saying, yeah, I'm here. I did

570
00:35:25.159 --> 00:35:29.599
<v Speaker 8>it and I'm here, and uh it was two thirty.

571
00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:34.360
<v Speaker 8>Was a great company, a great company, Lieutenanta Great Eddie Collaboro,

572
00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:39.320
<v Speaker 8>Sandi Maggio. He called him his immenseness, his immenseness, huge guy,

573
00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:44.360
<v Speaker 8>could move like a baby, Eddie Thomas. He was there

574
00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:47.519
<v Speaker 8>a short time. Uh, he was there a long time.

575
00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:51.679
<v Speaker 8>He transferred Atlanta one oh six, and then my lieutenant

576
00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:55.679
<v Speaker 8>got the rest of the soul, Cordy Simon, and there Lieutenant

577
00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:58.880
<v Speaker 8>Gordon Simon. Uh, one of the best firefs since I

578
00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:02.760
<v Speaker 8>ever worked. But and he came there and I worked

579
00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:08.800
<v Speaker 8>with him until I went to one eleven. Yeah, that's uh.

580
00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:12.920
<v Speaker 8>To the left, Greg Dacny, Bobby Bobby Kennedy, myself in

581
00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:16.000
<v Speaker 8>the middle, John Banbury, and Dennis walk Cole.

582
00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:19.119
<v Speaker 5>He always had that mustache.

583
00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:19.559
<v Speaker 4>Huh.

584
00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:22.039
<v Speaker 8>Oh. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if you

585
00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:26.440
<v Speaker 8>know the story about his brother Mike and Mike Well,

586
00:36:26.840 --> 00:36:29.519
<v Speaker 8>Dennis was a sign of ninety three Engine and Mike

587
00:36:29.639 --> 00:36:32.840
<v Speaker 8>was in two thirty and they actually did a mutual swap.

588
00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:36.119
<v Speaker 8>You could do that back then. And and Dennis came

589
00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:41.320
<v Speaker 8>to two thirty and on, and I worked with Dennis

590
00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:47.199
<v Speaker 8>in his groups, him and Bobby. Uh have we gone?

591
00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:50.840
<v Speaker 8>They were just great, a common Granado. And like I said,

592
00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:53.840
<v Speaker 8>when I got there's a probe, they treated me like

593
00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:57.559
<v Speaker 8>old They really cat mo stuff. Take quick story about

594
00:36:57.559 --> 00:37:02.639
<v Speaker 8>paranlettle bit Uh. Dennis his brother Mike Walkol. So this

595
00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:07.079
<v Speaker 8>Mike made lieutenant and he went to five trucks and

596
00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:11.400
<v Speaker 8>he was working. He worked the Monday four nine to eleven,

597
00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:14.519
<v Speaker 8>and it was the last tour in the job. He

598
00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:21.000
<v Speaker 8>was retiring at a nine hundred September eleventh. So he

599
00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:25.159
<v Speaker 8>had his party this thing, and I guess the box

600
00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:29.800
<v Speaker 8>came in about way a fifty something was five truck.

601
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:33.320
<v Speaker 8>He goes to get on the rig his release and

602
00:37:33.320 --> 00:37:35.920
<v Speaker 8>and lieutenant says, Mike, what are you crazy? You know

603
00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:39.199
<v Speaker 8>you're done. He goes, fuck it, man, my last job

604
00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:41.320
<v Speaker 8>is going to be the best, you know, not knowing

605
00:37:41.679 --> 00:37:44.840
<v Speaker 8>and he was killed. Oh my god, yeah he was killed.

606
00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:46.880
<v Speaker 5>I don't think I ever heard that story.

607
00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:54.880
<v Speaker 8>Yeah either, Yes, he died. He died anyway, let's make

608
00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:59.679
<v Speaker 8>true toplot. So yeah, I worked with Dennis great nozle Man.

609
00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:02.599
<v Speaker 8>But as I said, these guys in war Mass Billy Ahern,

610
00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:06.039
<v Speaker 8>who wants suspended. He just passed away a couple of

611
00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:10.079
<v Speaker 8>years ago. His father was Harry Aharan from twenty six truck.

612
00:38:10.440 --> 00:38:13.920
<v Speaker 8>But just great, great people.

613
00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:17.280
<v Speaker 5>So hey, Bob, just one one quick thing I wanted

614
00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:17.719
<v Speaker 5>to take sure.

615
00:38:18.800 --> 00:38:21.000
<v Speaker 7>You know what amazes me, Like you just said they

616
00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:23.360
<v Speaker 7>had sixteen runs or whatever they had in a couple

617
00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:26.039
<v Speaker 7>of hours there right, Like when you look at that

618
00:38:26.199 --> 00:38:30.119
<v Speaker 7>area like two thirty to all those single engines in

619
00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:34.280
<v Speaker 7>the area, right, it's around one eleven, how much work

620
00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:37.159
<v Speaker 7>like all of those companies there right to twenty seven.

621
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:39.840
<v Speaker 5>Like, it's just incredible how much those guys were doing.

622
00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:41.920
<v Speaker 8>You know the good thing you know, one thing is single.

623
00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:46.760
<v Speaker 8>I can tell you some about two seventeen. One thing,

624
00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:51.079
<v Speaker 8>especially one eleven. Uh, we ran to within a majority

625
00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:52.039
<v Speaker 8>of single engines.

626
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:55.079
<v Speaker 5>So you got a lot of work that way, man.

627
00:38:55.360 --> 00:38:59.559
<v Speaker 8>Oh yeah, but we went got to the job because

628
00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:04.360
<v Speaker 8>I guess those engines to thirty two seventeen they stretch

629
00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:06.599
<v Speaker 8>the line for a phone alongn for fire even not

630
00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:08.920
<v Speaker 8>was showing they stretch a line to the front door,

631
00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:12.480
<v Speaker 8>which sounds ridiculous, said to take it off, but that's

632
00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:16.880
<v Speaker 8>what they did, and we rolled in and most of

633
00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:19.840
<v Speaker 8>the time, you know, they already had the line in place,

634
00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:23.360
<v Speaker 8>and uh, they just wait first to pop the door.

635
00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:26.559
<v Speaker 8>But if they were able open the door, you know,

636
00:39:26.639 --> 00:39:32.519
<v Speaker 8>they make it moves. Uh. Seventeen with Sister Engines, we

637
00:39:32.559 --> 00:39:35.119
<v Speaker 8>did our company party with them, We did our company

638
00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:39.280
<v Speaker 8>picnic with them, the shawtball team with them. We were

639
00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:44.320
<v Speaker 8>in the five seven together and we had ninety four boxes.

640
00:39:44.440 --> 00:39:45.000
<v Speaker 8>That was it.

641
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:47.360
<v Speaker 5>First, it's such a small area.

642
00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:52.079
<v Speaker 8>It's Chris second and Reserve, you know, Reserve Engine. I

643
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:55.960
<v Speaker 8>think TO seventeen had about sixty and they were doing

644
00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:58.320
<v Speaker 8>like five thousand runs a year, you know, and we

645
00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:01.559
<v Speaker 8>were doing such we were on the schedule inter change

646
00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:05.119
<v Speaker 8>every third night. We went to two twenty four and uh.

647
00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:13.719
<v Speaker 8>But TO seventeen had a manual door. We had well

648
00:40:14.119 --> 00:40:16.639
<v Speaker 8>see back then in seventy eight, Louisue there was a

649
00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:20.039
<v Speaker 8>lot of work. So we we had a button so

650
00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.719
<v Speaker 8>that we went out the door, hit the button that

651
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:25.599
<v Speaker 8>shut the door. TO seventeen had to go out and

652
00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:26.320
<v Speaker 8>roll the door down.

653
00:40:26.679 --> 00:40:27.320
<v Speaker 5>Crazy.

654
00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:32.519
<v Speaker 8>Certain boxes like six nine oh too Blasky. I've got

655
00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:35.559
<v Speaker 8>six ninety one. Uh uh, Dick Calvin Summon.

656
00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:38.000
<v Speaker 5>He still remember the boxes because they came.

657
00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:41.400
<v Speaker 8>In a thousand times a day. So we were rolling

658
00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:43.960
<v Speaker 8>in and this could be a job. We'd be rolling in,

659
00:40:44.039 --> 00:40:47.400
<v Speaker 8>you'd see a job. If we saw to seventeen coming,

660
00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:51.320
<v Speaker 8>rights were bouncing, we would give them the fire. We

661
00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:54.639
<v Speaker 8>don't wearing cowards, but it was they were first too gentlemen,

662
00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:57.679
<v Speaker 8>because you know what, we're gonna have our one later,

663
00:40:58.199 --> 00:41:01.639
<v Speaker 8>and we would and they would stretch, and then naturally

664
00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:04.800
<v Speaker 8>we'd stretch off there were and we got along grave

665
00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:05.199
<v Speaker 8>with them.

666
00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:08.360
<v Speaker 5>Was Derek Allen there, Bob at that time? That Eric Allen?

667
00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:09.000
<v Speaker 5>Was he there?

668
00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:09.599
<v Speaker 8>Or yeah?

669
00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:11.159
<v Speaker 5>He came way later, Yeah later.

670
00:41:11.360 --> 00:41:14.320
<v Speaker 8>I was in one eleven when he got to seventeen.

671
00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:19.840
<v Speaker 8>But weren't you to seventeen? Getting detailed? You either work,

672
00:41:20.039 --> 00:41:23.159
<v Speaker 8>Sarah's the other thing. You stayed within your battalion, you

673
00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:27.679
<v Speaker 8>worked over the time, or or got detailed in your battalion.

674
00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:32.360
<v Speaker 8>And I remember, like, you're like, you don't really you're

675
00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:35.559
<v Speaker 8>like spoiled. You don't realize there's all other job out there, right?

676
00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:39.880
<v Speaker 8>Was it until he started doing DIVISIONI details or borrow

677
00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:43.760
<v Speaker 8>details or citywide details. You realize that, whoa man, it's

678
00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:47.880
<v Speaker 8>all different world. Yeah, when we detail that worked over time,

679
00:41:48.039 --> 00:41:50.480
<v Speaker 8>it was always in five to seven. So you either

680
00:41:50.519 --> 00:41:53.639
<v Speaker 8>went to two thirty five to seventeen, one eleven or

681
00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:59.639
<v Speaker 8>two fourteen and yeah, excuse me, and you know that's

682
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:03.159
<v Speaker 8>what you dealt with. And work were great guys, you know,

683
00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:07.079
<v Speaker 8>but the engines down there and the area we worked in,

684
00:42:08.360 --> 00:42:13.400
<v Speaker 8>you know, Brownstone small frames, if you remember, they're engine jobs.

685
00:42:14.079 --> 00:42:19.199
<v Speaker 8>They're mostly engine jobs, you know, the truck, especially with

686
00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:22.480
<v Speaker 8>an engine pulling the first two the fires at the door.

687
00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:25.239
<v Speaker 8>You're not you're not doing much, you know, you go

688
00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:28.159
<v Speaker 8>move with the line. Maybe the ov is gonna make

689
00:42:28.199 --> 00:42:31.760
<v Speaker 8>a moving But yeah, a lot of engine jobs, a lot,

690
00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:37.199
<v Speaker 8>say with Bushwick, uh two thirty head, a fair amount

691
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:43.199
<v Speaker 8>of vacants. We didn't. I remember when I first got there,

692
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:47.599
<v Speaker 8>Oman SAMUELSSS. It was the show for there two thirty four,

693
00:42:47.800 --> 00:42:50.840
<v Speaker 8>two ninety and one day we we went the troop

694
00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:54.920
<v Speaker 8>and bought with He said bring a camera in one day,

695
00:42:55.639 --> 00:42:58.280
<v Speaker 8>Hey kid, bring a camera. So I bought a camera,

696
00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:01.960
<v Speaker 8>you know, a little puzzled, and we stood on the

697
00:43:01.960 --> 00:43:05.039
<v Speaker 8>corner troop and bought. There's a lot of buildings, you know, vacance.

698
00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:08.239
<v Speaker 8>And he said take a picture. And he said, when

699
00:43:08.320 --> 00:43:12.719
<v Speaker 8>you leave here or you retire, take the same picture

700
00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:13.519
<v Speaker 8>in the same spot.

701
00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:16.079
<v Speaker 6>That's a great idea.

702
00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:16.400
<v Speaker 5>Man.

703
00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:22.079
<v Speaker 8>Four years later, I'm going to one eleven, which is

704
00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:24.960
<v Speaker 8>all nother story. Uh, And I go to the same

705
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:26.440
<v Speaker 8>spot and take the picture.

706
00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:29.320
<v Speaker 5>Before left.

707
00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:36.119
<v Speaker 8>Nothing left like fucking rice patties in Vietnam. There was

708
00:43:36.239 --> 00:43:40.440
<v Speaker 8>no buildings left and we were good, no shot. Everything

709
00:43:40.599 --> 00:43:44.320
<v Speaker 8>was gone, all burned down. So and that was it.

710
00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:49.480
<v Speaker 8>So I I it was in two thirty love the place.

711
00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:52.960
<v Speaker 8>But you know, you start, you start to get the

712
00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:56.519
<v Speaker 8>itch to go to the truck. And the reason why

713
00:43:56.559 --> 00:43:58.280
<v Speaker 8>I went to the truck, well the reasons like I

714
00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:02.199
<v Speaker 8>didn't like the truck. Later, when you're an engine, you know,

715
00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:05.599
<v Speaker 8>you get a run but nothing happened. You know, you

716
00:44:05.719 --> 00:44:07.880
<v Speaker 8>pull up to take a hydriene. The truck guys always

717
00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:10.199
<v Speaker 8>get off the rig and do something right cast league,

718
00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:13.679
<v Speaker 8>quarter league. So when you're a young guy, you want

719
00:44:13.719 --> 00:44:16.639
<v Speaker 8>to do something years let you go, fuck this, I

720
00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:25.519
<v Speaker 8>should project for sending. So I decided I want to go.

721
00:44:25.960 --> 00:44:29.679
<v Speaker 8>Oh so you couldn't go to a truck until you

722
00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:32.199
<v Speaker 8>had a year on a job when I went on

723
00:44:32.360 --> 00:44:34.880
<v Speaker 8>a job, so after year you were allowed to go

724
00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:38.800
<v Speaker 8>to truck. So I was on a job a little

725
00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:41.039
<v Speaker 8>over here and I get a call one day and

726
00:44:41.079 --> 00:44:44.239
<v Speaker 8>two tari from a guy named George Lee who was

727
00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:47.599
<v Speaker 8>a lieutenant won seventy five. Now my dad wasn't on

728
00:44:47.679 --> 00:44:50.039
<v Speaker 8>a job, but he was a friend of my dad

729
00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:53.239
<v Speaker 8>through the Mason's and he was a lieutenant one seventy

730
00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:57.480
<v Speaker 8>known guy worked and rescue two Now one seventy five

731
00:44:57.599 --> 00:44:58.639
<v Speaker 8>was on New Jersey Avenue.

732
00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:01.360
<v Speaker 6>Back then, yeah, by themselves in the one on.

733
00:45:01.480 --> 00:45:05.000
<v Speaker 8>Seven's old quarters and tell her by themselves with all

734
00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:07.960
<v Speaker 8>senior guys. And it was the endity at the borrow.

735
00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:10.199
<v Speaker 8>You remember everybody was driving in that. You know it

736
00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:13.239
<v Speaker 8>was popule, And no twenty fourths. Nobody worked twenty fours.

737
00:45:13.639 --> 00:45:15.480
<v Speaker 8>You know you work twenty four when you got overtime

738
00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:18.079
<v Speaker 8>twenty four hours. And back then you can go to

739
00:45:18.159 --> 00:45:22.360
<v Speaker 8>five old hands. So you know twenty four is blood money.

740
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:24.320
<v Speaker 8>And I told you get a hundred fifty bucks. I

741
00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:26.079
<v Speaker 8>used to bought them make a hundred seventy five. I

742
00:45:26.119 --> 00:45:29.400
<v Speaker 8>wouldn't work night to us. So he calls me one

743
00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:33.199
<v Speaker 8>day in two thirty schools. He goes, Bob, it's George Lee.

744
00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:39.280
<v Speaker 8>Oh how you doing, mister Lee? He goes, listen, would

745
00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:41.519
<v Speaker 8>you like to come to one seventy five? And I

746
00:45:41.639 --> 00:45:44.519
<v Speaker 8>really know much about the place. And I said, well,

747
00:45:44.800 --> 00:45:47.920
<v Speaker 8>I don't know. You know here three years and he goes,

748
00:45:48.280 --> 00:45:50.159
<v Speaker 8>I'm here a year, you know. Just why don't you

749
00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:54.440
<v Speaker 8>stop by for lunch? Okay, So in between my night tours,

750
00:45:54.800 --> 00:45:58.079
<v Speaker 8>I take it right over there to a single truck

751
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:06.079
<v Speaker 8>at the end of Hint to borrow with all senior guys. Fuck, no,

752
00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:12.320
<v Speaker 8>how do I get this? I get there. The guys

753
00:46:12.360 --> 00:46:15.239
<v Speaker 8>were great. I had launched them, went on a couple

754
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:18.360
<v Speaker 8>of runs with them, and that was it. And I

755
00:46:18.440 --> 00:46:21.719
<v Speaker 8>went back to two thirty for the night tour. And uh.

756
00:46:21.920 --> 00:46:25.320
<v Speaker 8>I called him a couple of days later and I said, uh, mister,

757
00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:28.559
<v Speaker 8>you know, mister Lee. He says, call me George. I

758
00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:31.000
<v Speaker 8>should have call him low And he says, I said, look,

759
00:46:32.360 --> 00:46:35.719
<v Speaker 8>I'm not really ready to leave engine two thirty. He said, well,

760
00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:39.440
<v Speaker 8>anytime you want to come here, I'll have you. Yeah. Well,

761
00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:42.119
<v Speaker 8>they had the old. They had the old, you know,

762
00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:46.280
<v Speaker 8>they had the they had the flywood over the over

763
00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:48.039
<v Speaker 8>the camp. You know, like one hundred and eight had

764
00:46:48.039 --> 00:46:51.400
<v Speaker 8>an open cab, you know, and uh he said give

765
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:56.239
<v Speaker 8>me a call. But I stayed there, and uh stayed

766
00:46:56.280 --> 00:47:03.719
<v Speaker 8>there for almost four years. So I'm starting to not

767
00:47:03.880 --> 00:47:06.239
<v Speaker 8>that I want to leave to oh so go back

768
00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:11.079
<v Speaker 8>to Parallel. I remember. So when I came on a job,

769
00:47:11.519 --> 00:47:15.480
<v Speaker 8>we had a two year on probation. One year. The

770
00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:19.519
<v Speaker 8>guys in the seventy seven list, Roger Richie's, Greg Samin Eira,

771
00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:21.760
<v Speaker 8>you know, all those guys who came right before me,

772
00:47:23.079 --> 00:47:27.280
<v Speaker 8>they did six months probation and then turned fourth grade firemen.

773
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:30.320
<v Speaker 8>So after six months they got their front piece, two

774
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:32.920
<v Speaker 8>thirty front piece. So when I first came to the

775
00:47:32.960 --> 00:47:37.239
<v Speaker 8>fireas first night, Joe Russo comes over to me and

776
00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:40.280
<v Speaker 8>he goes, give me two dollars. I'll give him two dollars.

777
00:47:40.599 --> 00:47:43.400
<v Speaker 8>Commissary with two bucks and a dollar for the third

778
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:45.440
<v Speaker 8>of lampuol, I give him two dollars. He gives him

779
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:48.119
<v Speaker 8>my two thirty front piece. Let's put it in your

780
00:47:48.159 --> 00:47:53.599
<v Speaker 8>locker until you get a probation. Okay. So working there,

781
00:47:54.159 --> 00:47:58.519
<v Speaker 8>we had guys six months come by and the guy's like,

782
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:03.840
<v Speaker 8>hey kid, he gone. The Aaron was, hey kid, you

783
00:48:03.880 --> 00:48:06.760
<v Speaker 8>can take your prov shield off. Now you know it's

784
00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:09.320
<v Speaker 8>six months. So I'm like, well, I don't know if

785
00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:11.960
<v Speaker 8>I should. You know, I was in the captain school. No,

786
00:48:12.079 --> 00:48:14.280
<v Speaker 8>it was a it was a gordious schools. When the

787
00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:16.880
<v Speaker 8>captain came in between. You know, I don't know you know,

788
00:48:16.880 --> 00:48:19.400
<v Speaker 8>blah blah blah. You know now, no kid, you can

789
00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:21.960
<v Speaker 8>you could take your proper shield off, So okay, take

790
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:23.440
<v Speaker 8>it off. You see you guys tell you to take

791
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:29.440
<v Speaker 8>it off. So I'm working. Noidently, gotten parallel comes in

792
00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:32.079
<v Speaker 8>for night to it sees my helvet on the back

793
00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:35.519
<v Speaker 8>and the hosband. You know I was bad year back,

794
00:48:35.960 --> 00:48:38.320
<v Speaker 8>you know, run the back step now, asked have my

795
00:48:38.440 --> 00:48:41.440
<v Speaker 8>boots and he goes in the kitchen get a cup

796
00:48:41.480 --> 00:48:43.679
<v Speaker 8>of coffee. Comes back, sees me and he goes. He

797
00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:47.960
<v Speaker 8>points to the thing. He goes, what's this ship? I said, well, Cap,

798
00:48:48.360 --> 00:48:51.599
<v Speaker 8>the guys told me I can take my proper shield off.

799
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:55.320
<v Speaker 8>He says to me, the guys don't tell you what

800
00:48:55.440 --> 00:48:58.440
<v Speaker 8>to do. I'm the captain. I tell you what to do.

801
00:48:59.199 --> 00:49:01.400
<v Speaker 8>I tell you when he proba shield because you got

802
00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:05.239
<v Speaker 8>a value it between every three months. I said, okay, Cap,

803
00:49:05.719 --> 00:49:07.920
<v Speaker 8>because I'll tell you what I'm gonna ask you one

804
00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:10.920
<v Speaker 8>question about the rigs, and if you get it right,

805
00:49:11.320 --> 00:49:14.239
<v Speaker 8>you can keep your pubble shoe on. Now, guys, I

806
00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:17.480
<v Speaker 8>knew this fucking rig inside out. I should tell you.

807
00:49:18.079 --> 00:49:22.760
<v Speaker 8>I could tell you that the butts were made. I said,

808
00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:28.400
<v Speaker 8>guy had cap. Sure exactly, He says to me, go

809
00:49:28.599 --> 00:49:31.519
<v Speaker 8>get the boost of line, span of wrege. I didn't

810
00:49:31.519 --> 00:49:41.280
<v Speaker 8>even know we had one. I just want. I just

811
00:49:41.400 --> 00:49:43.519
<v Speaker 8>went upstairs, took the prob.

812
00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:49.559
<v Speaker 6>Shield off, took the public shield back on, and.

813
00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:51.960
<v Speaker 8>He showed me where it was. It was under the

814
00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:55.440
<v Speaker 8>show to see in this big thing with all this fittings,

815
00:49:55.480 --> 00:49:57.880
<v Speaker 8>you know, and it's this little tiny wrench and the

816
00:49:57.960 --> 00:50:02.360
<v Speaker 8>boat boost line was hand hand crack, wasn't. I just

817
00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:05.719
<v Speaker 8>put my thing on and that was waiting.

818
00:50:05.719 --> 00:50:06.920
<v Speaker 6>Another six months.

819
00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:12.119
<v Speaker 8>Six months later, right with Gordy Simon. Six months later,

820
00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:16.519
<v Speaker 8>go for my fourth grade medical combatment October fourteenth, nineteen,

821
00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:20.480
<v Speaker 8>and I had got my first one of citation, believe

822
00:50:20.480 --> 00:50:23.760
<v Speaker 8>it or not. Uh with the learning those guys. About

823
00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:26.760
<v Speaker 8>three months before I went information with another story, but

824
00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:30.840
<v Speaker 8>a great fire with great guys, and we got a unit.

825
00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:35.719
<v Speaker 8>I get a use citation. Where's the prob? So six

826
00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:40.239
<v Speaker 8>months later, Hey, kid, you can take the pro shield off.

827
00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:43.199
<v Speaker 8>You know you better take it off. You know, I

828
00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:45.920
<v Speaker 8>don't know. Captain like man, I kid, don't worry about

829
00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:53.000
<v Speaker 8>it again a lot put the two thirty thing on.

830
00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:56.360
<v Speaker 8>Who comes in that night, Captain Arthur j P. I

831
00:50:56.400 --> 00:50:59.119
<v Speaker 8>have this conversation already, and here's my helmet.

832
00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:00.320
<v Speaker 5>I was.

833
00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:03.320
<v Speaker 8>Then you're in the back my boots. He goes in

834
00:51:03.400 --> 00:51:07.119
<v Speaker 8>the kitchen, comes there, e sees me. He goes, what's

835
00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:07.599
<v Speaker 8>this ship?

836
00:51:08.480 --> 00:51:10.400
<v Speaker 4>I said, did you get them the span wrench? At

837
00:51:10.440 --> 00:51:10.960
<v Speaker 4>least this time.

838
00:51:11.360 --> 00:51:13.719
<v Speaker 8>It's the greatest part. It shows you how he was.

839
00:51:14.360 --> 00:51:18.519
<v Speaker 8>It was tough and fair. So he goes, Bob, the

840
00:51:18.639 --> 00:51:20.719
<v Speaker 8>guys don't tell you what to do. I'm no one

841
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:22.480
<v Speaker 8>who tells you what to do. I'm the one who

842
00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:24.880
<v Speaker 8>grants you ten here. But he says, I'm going to

843
00:51:24.920 --> 00:51:28.320
<v Speaker 8>ask you one question and if you get it right. No,

844
00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:31.079
<v Speaker 8>you can keep your boot. You can keep your two

845
00:51:31.199 --> 00:51:34.199
<v Speaker 8>thirty shield on. I said, god cap. He goes, go

846
00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:38.400
<v Speaker 8>get me the boost line spanner. Ah, if there was

847
00:51:38.519 --> 00:51:41.079
<v Speaker 8>one fucking thing on that rig, I didn't know to yet.

848
00:51:41.880 --> 00:51:46.559
<v Speaker 8>I got shook my hand and said, you're off probation.

849
00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:50.320
<v Speaker 8>Welcome to engine two thirty and I'll never forget that.

850
00:51:50.840 --> 00:51:52.880
<v Speaker 6>Wow, it was a tough story man.

851
00:51:53.079 --> 00:51:57.079
<v Speaker 8>Yeah, it was tough. It was tough. But I look

852
00:51:57.199 --> 00:52:01.239
<v Speaker 8>back forty some years later and when I see Gina,

853
00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:02.960
<v Speaker 8>his daughter with the Night of the thing, you know,

854
00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:06.039
<v Speaker 8>at the medicals, I always telling uh, and I don't

855
00:52:06.119 --> 00:52:08.639
<v Speaker 8>he made deputy chief. I always ask her, how's the

856
00:52:08.719 --> 00:52:14.800
<v Speaker 8>captain doing? Oh, and be honest with you. I look

857
00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:19.360
<v Speaker 8>back and it was a great experience to have him

858
00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:23.480
<v Speaker 8>as my captain. Is he still around, Yes, he's he's

859
00:52:23.599 --> 00:52:27.679
<v Speaker 8>retired deputy. Oh God, I mean I'm going to be

860
00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:32.639
<v Speaker 8>sixty nine in July. He's got to be. I asked

861
00:52:32.679 --> 00:52:34.679
<v Speaker 8>you to lately. I think he's eighty one, eighty two.

862
00:52:35.360 --> 00:52:37.840
<v Speaker 8>You'll make captain very young. Here's from one twelve as

863
00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:45.880
<v Speaker 8>the flyman, but tough but fair. And he showed you

864
00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:49.639
<v Speaker 8>the way and and you know, things are different. You

865
00:52:49.719 --> 00:52:52.639
<v Speaker 8>know back then you sat assistant house watch. Everything done

866
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:55.599
<v Speaker 8>in the book was a certain way. But anyway, So

867
00:52:57.320 --> 00:52:58.719
<v Speaker 8>I start to get the age to go to the

868
00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:03.760
<v Speaker 8>truck and by then Greg Laconey had come there, and

869
00:53:03.800 --> 00:53:05.920
<v Speaker 8>Greg Pacconey is one of my best friends in the job.

870
00:53:06.360 --> 00:53:11.000
<v Speaker 8>Louis Paccone's son from one away and he gets there

871
00:53:11.159 --> 00:53:14.679
<v Speaker 8>and we right away two young guys. I got there

872
00:53:14.679 --> 00:53:18.440
<v Speaker 8>about a year before you did, and two young single guys,

873
00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:21.880
<v Speaker 8>and we hit it off right away, and we are

874
00:53:23.559 --> 00:53:28.519
<v Speaker 8>two fucking assholets and we get nicknamed. I'm Kid Rat

875
00:53:28.760 --> 00:53:32.440
<v Speaker 8>and he's kid Snake, and we cut doing everything together.

876
00:53:33.079 --> 00:53:34.920
<v Speaker 8>So we would just talk about this the other day.

877
00:53:35.639 --> 00:53:40.559
<v Speaker 8>So our first Patty's Day, I had just gotten my

878
00:53:40.760 --> 00:53:44.000
<v Speaker 8>first unit citation and it shows you out when you're

879
00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:47.679
<v Speaker 8>a young guy. So Gordon Simon, uh was a lieutenant

880
00:53:47.679 --> 00:53:49.880
<v Speaker 8>where and it was Patty's Day and we were having

881
00:53:49.920 --> 00:53:52.840
<v Speaker 8>breakfast in a fi ass well in uniform class and

882
00:53:52.920 --> 00:53:54.880
<v Speaker 8>I remember, God, he sidon come over to me and

883
00:53:55.039 --> 00:53:58.719
<v Speaker 8>give and gives. You know. Now you're like, oh shit,

884
00:53:58.800 --> 00:54:00.920
<v Speaker 8>I but that's the way it was. And I'm like,

885
00:54:01.039 --> 00:54:04.079
<v Speaker 8>you know, I'm off the charts now. So you know,

886
00:54:04.159 --> 00:54:07.800
<v Speaker 8>we go to city, do what thing. I look back,

887
00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:10.920
<v Speaker 8>I'm like twenty five years old, twenty four right, He's like,

888
00:54:12.519 --> 00:54:17.519
<v Speaker 8>and we do the gamut and nice all night out.

889
00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:18.599
<v Speaker 5>Can't fiel my face.

890
00:54:20.760 --> 00:54:24.039
<v Speaker 8>So now we take the brain. Yeah, we took the

891
00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:29.000
<v Speaker 8>train in and we take the train back to two thirties.

892
00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:32.840
<v Speaker 8>Quarters take the jay. We get off at Broadway and

893
00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:38.480
<v Speaker 8>Gates at one o'clock in the morning, in beeavastives and

894
00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:42.840
<v Speaker 8>in uniform, trunks monkeys, and we're walking arm in arm

895
00:54:43.239 --> 00:54:47.360
<v Speaker 8>and we are cursing everybody out in the street. How

896
00:54:47.400 --> 00:54:50.920
<v Speaker 8>we didn't get shot, I don't know. So why don't

897
00:54:50.920 --> 00:54:55.960
<v Speaker 8>we get to the fires We walk in and the

898
00:54:56.079 --> 00:54:59.800
<v Speaker 8>Captain's got his car parked cat parallels there. He's in uniform.

899
00:55:00.199 --> 00:55:02.119
<v Speaker 8>He must have watched and like maybe it was eleven

900
00:55:02.119 --> 00:55:04.320
<v Speaker 8>o'clock or twelve, I don't know. So we walk and

901
00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:07.679
<v Speaker 8>John Bambury, capt Bury was covering the spot.

902
00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:07.880
<v Speaker 3>Well.

903
00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:11.559
<v Speaker 8>We eventually got to touch great man, great guy. So

904
00:55:11.679 --> 00:55:15.840
<v Speaker 8>we walk in arm in arm with two years on

905
00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:20.679
<v Speaker 8>a job hammade, and we salute Captain Bambury. How you doing? Cap?

906
00:55:21.360 --> 00:55:23.519
<v Speaker 8>He goes, good boys, and we look at the captain

907
00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:31.800
<v Speaker 8>Taraneoua and go hey, author, hey author, and his face.

908
00:55:32.519 --> 00:55:34.599
<v Speaker 8>So he had his car parking in the fire ass

909
00:55:34.679 --> 00:55:39.400
<v Speaker 8>and he didn't let anybody park us. So Cony says.

910
00:55:41.039 --> 00:55:44.800
<v Speaker 8>He says, hey, author, watch it. And he was supposed

911
00:55:44.800 --> 00:55:47.199
<v Speaker 8>to transfer to one nineteen. He was going to one thing.

912
00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:50.559
<v Speaker 8>He goes, hey, are why are you parking the fire ass,

913
00:55:50.840 --> 00:55:54.360
<v Speaker 8>so says somebody. I didn't want anybody screw with it,

914
00:55:54.880 --> 00:55:57.679
<v Speaker 8>So I said, well, author go parking on Hoopah Street.

915
00:55:58.199 --> 00:56:01.719
<v Speaker 8>We don't watch him anymore, and we leave and we

916
00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:03.920
<v Speaker 8>go to college for him and hang out, and I

917
00:56:04.039 --> 00:56:06.920
<v Speaker 8>ended up seeing over his parents' house and we live

918
00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:09.480
<v Speaker 8>bubbles of So three days later I come in for

919
00:56:09.559 --> 00:56:15.440
<v Speaker 8>my day tours and well, no, no, worse, it's not

920
00:56:15.639 --> 00:56:18.519
<v Speaker 8>on the desk. So I walk in. I'm in the

921
00:56:18.559 --> 00:56:21.760
<v Speaker 8>bathroom and Patoni comes out of the bunk room and

922
00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:25.199
<v Speaker 8>he is as white as a sheep. I thought he

923
00:56:25.400 --> 00:56:28.599
<v Speaker 8>was going to pass out. And he comes in. He goes,

924
00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:31.719
<v Speaker 8>I go, what's the matter with you? He goes, He's

925
00:56:31.760 --> 00:56:35.559
<v Speaker 8>still here? What are you talking about? He's still here?

926
00:56:35.920 --> 00:56:37.920
<v Speaker 8>I said, what the fuck are you doing? He's still here.

927
00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:41.960
<v Speaker 8>He didn't transfer transfer water came down. Captain wasn't on it.

928
00:56:43.400 --> 00:56:48.480
<v Speaker 8>Wah wah'd I'm dead.

929
00:56:49.159 --> 00:56:51.239
<v Speaker 5>I'm dead, you know what.

930
00:56:53.199 --> 00:56:57.039
<v Speaker 8>He never said anything, he didn't do anything. We both

931
00:56:57.400 --> 00:57:01.960
<v Speaker 8>we both figured I would been better transfer thinking, I

932
00:57:02.119 --> 00:57:05.559
<v Speaker 8>figured he was. He was terrific. He took it as

933
00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:08.440
<v Speaker 8>a joke, so M.

934
00:57:10.119 --> 00:57:12.559
<v Speaker 5>A little while later over indulged.

935
00:57:12.880 --> 00:57:18.119
<v Speaker 8>Oh you know what well, you know he was he

936
00:57:18.199 --> 00:57:21.719
<v Speaker 8>loved his Proby's When when we all turned grade, we

937
00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:23.840
<v Speaker 8>had a big party at Dave Johnson's house. You know

938
00:57:24.280 --> 00:57:27.599
<v Speaker 8>remember two thirty, nineteen seventy. I got there with Mike Thompson,

939
00:57:27.639 --> 00:57:31.239
<v Speaker 8>who actually texted me today about this. Uh. You guys

940
00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:33.320
<v Speaker 8>advertised that I got a million calls in the least

941
00:57:33.360 --> 00:57:37.079
<v Speaker 8>couple of days. Uh. We came together and every every

942
00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:40.119
<v Speaker 8>six weeks we got a probably in two thirty and uh,

943
00:57:41.039 --> 00:57:44.559
<v Speaker 8>I remember when we all turned first grade, we had

944
00:57:44.559 --> 00:57:47.119
<v Speaker 8>a big party at Dave Johnson's house at East and

945
00:57:47.400 --> 00:57:50.920
<v Speaker 8>cant Paranila came out. He was already a chief and

946
00:57:51.079 --> 00:57:54.000
<v Speaker 8>he brought a big sheet cake with all our names

947
00:57:54.079 --> 00:57:57.679
<v Speaker 8>on it the dates that we came on a job.

948
00:57:57.800 --> 00:58:00.679
<v Speaker 8>Oh yeah, Uh we were his boy. You know. He

949
00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:04.920
<v Speaker 8>was proud of his probablys and uh he was tough,

950
00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:06.000
<v Speaker 8>but he was fair.

951
00:58:08.159 --> 00:58:11.239
<v Speaker 5>But uh, sometimes you have to look back at those things.

952
00:58:11.119 --> 00:58:11.440
<v Speaker 6>Right.

953
00:58:14.599 --> 00:58:17.519
<v Speaker 8>And a little in my career when I was breaking

954
00:58:17.599 --> 00:58:22.599
<v Speaker 8>guys in, you know, I always tell people in the job,

955
00:58:23.239 --> 00:58:25.639
<v Speaker 8>you will break guys in the way you were broken.

956
00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:28.760
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, some of those broke the balls.

957
00:58:29.239 --> 00:58:32.360
<v Speaker 8>And we're broke your balls and did stupid ship to you.

958
00:58:32.760 --> 00:58:36.039
<v Speaker 8>But you're gonna do that to younger guys. If the

959
00:58:36.119 --> 00:58:39.840
<v Speaker 8>guys show you the way you know and help you out,

960
00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:42.440
<v Speaker 8>I mean, it's tough on you. That's the way you're

961
00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:47.119
<v Speaker 8>gonna teach your kids. You guys learned and that's you know.

962
00:58:47.599 --> 00:58:53.039
<v Speaker 8>And let's face it, you know of this job his experience.

963
00:58:54.800 --> 00:58:58.320
<v Speaker 8>Like I said, when I went to probably school six weeks,

964
00:58:58.360 --> 00:59:00.400
<v Speaker 8>they basically told us, look, we're we're not going to

965
00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:02.679
<v Speaker 8>teach you much here. You know, you're gonna learn the

966
00:59:02.719 --> 00:59:05.599
<v Speaker 8>basics when you go to the field. You'll learn the

967
00:59:05.719 --> 00:59:09.039
<v Speaker 8>job one day. And probably Schill never get this. We were.

968
00:59:09.480 --> 00:59:12.360
<v Speaker 8>They tell us, one day, bring your lunch tomorrow because

969
00:59:12.400 --> 00:59:14.679
<v Speaker 8>you can buy lunch in all right. So the next

970
00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:18.880
<v Speaker 8>day get there. They put us on these school buses

971
00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:22.320
<v Speaker 8>and they bring us up to the South Bronx nineteen

972
00:59:22.360 --> 00:59:26.199
<v Speaker 8>seventy eight up by eighty two and thirty one, which

973
00:59:26.239 --> 00:59:27.000
<v Speaker 8>I knew nothing about.

974
00:59:27.119 --> 00:59:28.360
<v Speaker 5>The Bronx is burning.

975
00:59:28.760 --> 00:59:31.840
<v Speaker 8>We get up there and we had put tools in

976
00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:35.360
<v Speaker 8>the rig in the bus. We get up there and

977
00:59:35.480 --> 00:59:37.400
<v Speaker 8>grew up and live in town. Even though it's looking

978
00:59:37.679 --> 00:59:40.199
<v Speaker 8>from Long Island. I get off the bus, like a

979
00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:43.199
<v Speaker 8>lot of us are it looked like Europe. It looked

980
00:59:43.239 --> 00:59:48.119
<v Speaker 8>like in nineteen thirty four, like holy shit. And we

981
00:59:48.239 --> 00:59:50.599
<v Speaker 8>took the tools and we went into these vacant buildings

982
00:59:51.159 --> 00:59:53.360
<v Speaker 8>and they taught us how to pull ceilings, how to

983
00:59:53.599 --> 00:59:57.519
<v Speaker 8>uh kind of rose windows, yeah, trimming windows. I mean

984
00:59:57.840 --> 01:00:00.760
<v Speaker 8>Mike Bradley is from rescue. One was when he lieutenant,

985
01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:04.719
<v Speaker 8>when he struck this great guy. They nailed doors shut.

986
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:10.679
<v Speaker 8>Remember one day that day we were forcing the door

987
01:00:11.199 --> 01:00:14.239
<v Speaker 8>and he heard noise. Turns out there was dogs in

988
01:00:14.320 --> 01:00:17.800
<v Speaker 8>the room. You know, vacant buildings. You always said these

989
01:00:17.840 --> 01:00:20.360
<v Speaker 8>dogs around. He wouldn't listen there because the dogs would

990
01:00:20.360 --> 01:00:23.519
<v Speaker 8>attach you. But you learned how to pull. That was

991
01:00:23.559 --> 01:00:26.159
<v Speaker 8>a great experience. But we got up there. I was

992
01:00:26.239 --> 01:00:30.239
<v Speaker 8>like there was blocks and blocks of vacd tenements and

993
01:00:30.440 --> 01:00:34.440
<v Speaker 8>I was like, holy ship. But uh, you learned a lot.

994
01:00:34.599 --> 01:00:41.280
<v Speaker 8>But as I said, going back, so, uh, I'm ready

995
01:00:41.320 --> 01:00:45.079
<v Speaker 8>to go to chuck and up and hunt the mountain skiing.

996
01:00:45.760 --> 01:00:47.119
<v Speaker 8>You know, I had eleven years on the job and

997
01:00:47.199 --> 01:00:49.840
<v Speaker 8>to get married. So at the ski house, at the

998
01:00:50.440 --> 01:00:55.079
<v Speaker 8>house and Hampton's, I Boar attended tonight's I'm living life.

999
01:00:55.239 --> 01:00:58.360
<v Speaker 8>You know, I've got to show you guys something I

1000
01:00:58.480 --> 01:01:03.239
<v Speaker 8>went through some ship and I found my first paste up.

1001
01:01:05.079 --> 01:01:06.400
<v Speaker 8>I don't know if you'll be able to see it.

1002
01:01:06.480 --> 01:01:07.719
<v Speaker 5>I'll spend it all once fun.

1003
01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:10.239
<v Speaker 8>Yeah, I don't know if you can see.

1004
01:01:10.079 --> 01:01:14.840
<v Speaker 5>It, Come on, you pick it up up. Yeah.

1005
01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:21.800
<v Speaker 8>I took home three hundred, three hundred, nineteen dollars and

1006
01:01:21.920 --> 01:01:23.519
<v Speaker 8>seventy eight cents every two weeks.

1007
01:01:25.519 --> 01:01:29.079
<v Speaker 6>That ship three hundred dollars every two weeks, you know.

1008
01:01:29.519 --> 01:01:35.159
<v Speaker 8>And I was living at large. No really, Uh, I

1009
01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:37.400
<v Speaker 8>found it the other day. I didn't looking for pictures

1010
01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:37.880
<v Speaker 8>like you know.

1011
01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:38.920
<v Speaker 4>Uh.

1012
01:01:39.440 --> 01:01:41.480
<v Speaker 8>Anyways, bought then. So I'm living a life, you know.

1013
01:01:42.519 --> 01:01:45.880
<v Speaker 8>But anyway, So up at Hunter Mountain with Greg Paconi

1014
01:01:46.639 --> 01:01:53.639
<v Speaker 8>and uh Audie work, I worked in five patrol with Artie. Yeah,

1015
01:01:53.639 --> 01:01:57.639
<v Speaker 8>it's gonna be a long show, Lartie, how do you

1016
01:01:57.679 --> 01:02:00.760
<v Speaker 8>ask me to mention nine things? Now? Break my So

1017
01:02:01.519 --> 01:02:05.599
<v Speaker 8>we're up at Hunt Mountain and with skiing with Joe

1018
01:02:05.679 --> 01:02:08.440
<v Speaker 8>brus O Captain Bruz Kampa one thirty two. Who is

1019
01:02:08.480 --> 01:02:14.880
<v Speaker 8>Greg Pecconi's godfather, his dad Luis Paconi legend? And Joe

1020
01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:17.480
<v Speaker 8>says to me and Greg, would you guys like to

1021
01:02:17.519 --> 01:02:20.079
<v Speaker 8>come to one thirty two? Now, I didn't know much

1022
01:02:20.079 --> 01:02:24.519
<v Speaker 8>about one thirty two, But would you like to come

1023
01:02:24.519 --> 01:02:26.960
<v Speaker 8>at one thirty two. I'll have you here. Yeah, there

1024
01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:30.159
<v Speaker 8>we are, Me and Greg. He said, I'll have you

1025
01:02:30.280 --> 01:02:35.440
<v Speaker 8>here next week. Wow, okay, okay, yeah, let's do it.

1026
01:02:37.199 --> 01:02:40.239
<v Speaker 8>A couple of days later, Greg Peconi was stretching for

1027
01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:44.559
<v Speaker 8>a job in the projects, the forty projects. He I

1028
01:02:44.639 --> 01:02:47.880
<v Speaker 8>got an ozly he comes off the backstep full Safferson

1029
01:02:48.159 --> 01:02:51.639
<v Speaker 8>blows his knee out. That's it, he's fucked up. Put

1030
01:02:51.679 --> 01:02:56.199
<v Speaker 8>the fire out, it's it boomed. He ends up. You know,

1031
01:02:56.480 --> 01:03:01.280
<v Speaker 8>six months, get surgery. The Ashley came back to the job,

1032
01:03:01.320 --> 01:03:05.079
<v Speaker 8>which very odd, but in the intrum, I figure he's

1033
01:03:05.159 --> 01:03:08.559
<v Speaker 8>not coming back. I'm ready to go to truck. I

1034
01:03:08.679 --> 01:03:11.800
<v Speaker 8>want to go to hunt and too. I always want

1035
01:03:11.800 --> 01:03:12.079
<v Speaker 8>to go on.

1036
01:03:12.719 --> 01:03:15.119
<v Speaker 4>Still over that company, I still haven't figured it out.

1037
01:03:15.519 --> 01:03:17.840
<v Speaker 8>I want to go on. And the big thing on

1038
01:03:17.960 --> 01:03:20.719
<v Speaker 8>hand and two is at that time the kind of

1039
01:03:20.800 --> 01:03:24.679
<v Speaker 8>had to have as a sponsor. So Captain was Harry Rodgers,

1040
01:03:25.719 --> 01:03:29.559
<v Speaker 8>Jerry Barber was a Lieutenant rest of soult Lieutenant do

1041
01:03:29.639 --> 01:03:35.679
<v Speaker 8>Letto and Lieutenant Dennis Cross rest of And you need

1042
01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:40.639
<v Speaker 8>a sponsor, so Jerry Lambert, Frankie Robos Dave Island. Those

1043
01:03:40.679 --> 01:03:44.639
<v Speaker 8>guys they like. So I make the move. I go

1044
01:03:44.679 --> 01:03:48.119
<v Speaker 8>over there in Class a's see Captain Rodgers. You go

1045
01:03:48.239 --> 01:03:52.000
<v Speaker 8>over in Class a's go in, make the phone call

1046
01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:55.400
<v Speaker 8>Mind and Bob and I come in, sit down with

1047
01:03:55.519 --> 01:04:02.239
<v Speaker 8>Captain Rodgers and tell him what I want. He says, okay, great,

1048
01:04:02.639 --> 01:04:07.159
<v Speaker 8>put your paper in, we'll bring out. Thank you. That's it.

1049
01:04:08.719 --> 01:04:08.760
<v Speaker 5>So.

1050
01:04:09.960 --> 01:04:11.800
<v Speaker 8>Oh the other thing is the Batian command was the

1051
01:04:12.039 --> 01:04:15.320
<v Speaker 8>chief name Jim Jim Duffy, if you ever heard of him.

1052
01:04:16.360 --> 01:04:18.480
<v Speaker 8>I worked with his son in the fire patrol. Billy

1053
01:04:18.920 --> 01:04:21.800
<v Speaker 8>and Chief Tuffy knew me when I was young guy.

1054
01:04:23.000 --> 01:04:26.519
<v Speaker 8>So about two weeks after I put the CD thirty in,

1055
01:04:27.400 --> 01:04:30.679
<v Speaker 8>Chief Tuffy comes to the fires so roll call come

1056
01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:33.760
<v Speaker 8>out and he comes over to me. He says, he

1057
01:04:33.800 --> 01:04:36.119
<v Speaker 8>hands me to CD thirty. I put World two in

1058
01:04:36.639 --> 01:04:40.280
<v Speaker 8>and ext all the other boxes out right. He comes on.

1059
01:04:40.519 --> 01:04:42.039
<v Speaker 8>He says, what's this ship?

1060
01:04:42.679 --> 01:04:44.320
<v Speaker 5>You gotta put more, you gotta put everyone.

1061
01:04:44.559 --> 01:04:48.400
<v Speaker 8>I put it for one hundred and two. Chief he goes,

1062
01:04:48.440 --> 01:04:51.039
<v Speaker 8>you're not going on hundred two. It's not happening. So

1063
01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:54.519
<v Speaker 8>I went to see Captain Rodgers and he goes, you can't.

1064
01:04:54.679 --> 01:04:57.679
<v Speaker 8>You got to put other companies in. Okay, so I

1065
01:04:57.760 --> 01:05:00.639
<v Speaker 8>put companies in. I put companies in. I'm never gonna

1066
01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:06.920
<v Speaker 8>go to rescue two, rescue three, rescue four, you know, one,

1067
01:05:07.639 --> 01:05:11.599
<v Speaker 8>and my last choice is one eleven. Come on, nobody's

1068
01:05:11.639 --> 01:05:14.199
<v Speaker 8>going to one eleven. Guys, who's on the sixty day

1069
01:05:14.280 --> 01:05:17.840
<v Speaker 8>detail from Nobody's going to one eleven. You know. At

1070
01:05:17.880 --> 01:05:20.719
<v Speaker 8>that time, the count was Tom Brown, and nobody's going

1071
01:05:20.719 --> 01:05:23.119
<v Speaker 8>to put one eleven. I give it to him. That's

1072
01:05:23.159 --> 01:05:29.840
<v Speaker 8>it here, it is Chief. Two weeks later, go to

1073
01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:33.519
<v Speaker 8>so I'm working on lificant. I'm working over time in

1074
01:05:33.639 --> 01:05:36.559
<v Speaker 8>engine two thirty five, and the chief was Ray Brown.

1075
01:05:36.920 --> 01:05:40.199
<v Speaker 8>If you ever heard of Ray Brown, I grew up

1076
01:05:40.239 --> 01:05:42.039
<v Speaker 8>with his son Ray. He's from eleven Town. So I

1077
01:05:42.079 --> 01:05:46.159
<v Speaker 8>grew up in Ray junior lieutenant one to thirteen. You know,

1078
01:05:46.239 --> 01:05:49.000
<v Speaker 8>I'm sure you heard it, Ray Rescue one. His two brothers,

1079
01:05:49.079 --> 01:05:51.920
<v Speaker 8>Tommy was in twenty six and the youngest kid, Brian.

1080
01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:54.840
<v Speaker 8>He became a cat. But anyway, so I'm working hoteam

1081
01:05:55.119 --> 01:05:58.840
<v Speaker 8>two thirty five and it's like ten o'clock at night

1082
01:05:59.519 --> 01:06:03.519
<v Speaker 8>and he comes down. He goes Bobby, Chief wants to

1083
01:06:03.519 --> 01:06:08.079
<v Speaker 8>see upstairs. Okay, I didn't do anything wrong he's up

1084
01:06:08.119 --> 01:06:11.519
<v Speaker 8>in your office. Jef Brown, who when he got the

1085
01:06:11.559 --> 01:06:14.559
<v Speaker 8>Spotify seven I actually called me at home said anything

1086
01:06:14.599 --> 01:06:16.599
<v Speaker 8>you need, I'll be the five seven. You know, because

1087
01:06:16.639 --> 01:06:18.159
<v Speaker 8>I grew up, I knew HI when I was a kid.

1088
01:06:19.119 --> 01:06:21.920
<v Speaker 8>So I walked in the office. I said, old Chief.

1089
01:06:21.960 --> 01:06:24.960
<v Speaker 8>He goes, you get something, congratulately. He goes, congratulations, you're

1090
01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:28.960
<v Speaker 8>going to ladder one eleven. So I'm like what. He goes,

1091
01:06:29.320 --> 01:06:32.800
<v Speaker 8>You're going to one eleven. I go, no, Chief, I'm

1092
01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:34.920
<v Speaker 8>not going to one eleven. I'm going hundred to two.

1093
01:06:35.599 --> 01:06:38.679
<v Speaker 8>So he says to me, well, according to Department Order

1094
01:06:38.840 --> 01:06:46.719
<v Speaker 8>one eleven whole nine hundred hours Thursday, August sixth you

1095
01:06:46.840 --> 01:06:50.679
<v Speaker 8>were assigned to Ladder one eleven truck. I can't go that.

1096
01:06:50.880 --> 01:06:56.920
<v Speaker 8>Those guys are nuts, buddy, that's where you're going. Congratulations.

1097
01:06:57.519 --> 01:07:02.159
<v Speaker 8>So now I'm like, shit, I don't know. I'm thinking

1098
01:07:02.199 --> 01:07:05.039
<v Speaker 8>about it right my regulator Friday at the last minute,

1099
01:07:05.159 --> 01:07:11.440
<v Speaker 8>you know, party uh all one eleven. Get Lieutenant Peter

1100
01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:14.039
<v Speaker 8>Rice on the phone at the time. Oh yeah, you're

1101
01:07:14.039 --> 01:07:16.159
<v Speaker 8>going to group. So so you know what, So you

1102
01:07:16.320 --> 01:07:19.920
<v Speaker 8>come in Tuesday. All right, they gave me like ninety six. Okay, great,

1103
01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:23.719
<v Speaker 8>I feel I'll bring my gear over and that's it. Okay,

1104
01:07:23.760 --> 01:07:28.079
<v Speaker 8>I'm going to one eleven. Uh, I'm like, I can't

1105
01:07:28.079 --> 01:07:31.519
<v Speaker 8>believe I'm going to one eleven. So that's it. So

1106
01:07:33.679 --> 01:07:36.119
<v Speaker 8>I was bought, you know, So that's Sunday.

1107
01:07:36.639 --> 01:07:38.880
<v Speaker 5>Oh on, Bob, did what happened with the Captain of

1108
01:07:38.920 --> 01:07:40.480
<v Speaker 5>World two? Did he say anything? Like?

1109
01:07:40.719 --> 01:07:42.159
<v Speaker 8>Did he Harry Rogers?

1110
01:07:42.480 --> 01:07:42.519
<v Speaker 5>No?

1111
01:07:42.719 --> 01:07:43.360
<v Speaker 8>It came down.

1112
01:07:43.960 --> 01:07:44.119
<v Speaker 10>Uh.

1113
01:07:45.760 --> 01:07:47.760
<v Speaker 8>You know, I'm seeing guys in the street, you know,

1114
01:07:48.239 --> 01:07:49.960
<v Speaker 8>I had one more tour left in two thirty, and

1115
01:07:50.039 --> 01:07:52.679
<v Speaker 8>they're like, you like, what happened?

1116
01:07:52.960 --> 01:07:53.119
<v Speaker 5>I go?

1117
01:07:53.280 --> 01:07:55.599
<v Speaker 8>I don't know. And it took me years to find

1118
01:07:55.639 --> 01:07:58.639
<v Speaker 8>out why I went to one eleven. Uh, well I

1119
01:07:58.760 --> 01:08:02.280
<v Speaker 8>was put there. I didn't. I didn't put it. Well,

1120
01:08:02.320 --> 01:08:03.800
<v Speaker 8>I did with zummies, but I didn't want to go

1121
01:08:03.960 --> 01:08:11.199
<v Speaker 8>there because those guys were nuts. They were great fireman

1122
01:08:11.239 --> 01:08:12.960
<v Speaker 8>don't and you know when I was in two thirty,

1123
01:08:12.960 --> 01:08:15.000
<v Speaker 8>we didn't run in with that much. You know, we

1124
01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:17.279
<v Speaker 8>didn't go down south that far. We ran a hundred

1125
01:08:17.319 --> 01:08:21.119
<v Speaker 8>two eight one once in one one night team and

1126
01:08:21.199 --> 01:08:24.159
<v Speaker 8>they were great companies, you know, hundred two great companies.

1127
01:08:24.319 --> 01:08:27.600
<v Speaker 8>I mean, yeah, I believe a little fireman there. Uh,

1128
01:08:28.800 --> 01:08:30.079
<v Speaker 8>I could probably mention every guy in.

1129
01:08:30.439 --> 01:08:33.279
<v Speaker 5>Oh, you can mention every guy you know.

1130
01:08:33.560 --> 01:08:35.439
<v Speaker 8>I mean when I gave to Charlie Dmaza was still

1131
01:08:35.479 --> 01:08:40.199
<v Speaker 8>the chauffeur and had the open cav rig, you know. Yeah,

1132
01:08:40.640 --> 01:08:44.239
<v Speaker 8>and Pokie Sullivan was They used to sometimes they came

1133
01:08:44.319 --> 01:08:47.359
<v Speaker 8>down Broadway to Park Avenue and that tiller was not straight.

1134
01:08:47.520 --> 01:08:52.560
<v Speaker 8>But anyway, I worked to day they had the accident, uh,

1135
01:08:52.920 --> 01:08:56.720
<v Speaker 8>which put Soki out of the job. But anyway, so yeah,

1136
01:08:57.520 --> 01:09:04.279
<v Speaker 8>so one eleven and I forget I was bought tenner.

1137
01:09:04.520 --> 01:09:08.800
<v Speaker 8>So that's Sunday. Sunday, I get the water comes down

1138
01:09:08.840 --> 01:09:12.800
<v Speaker 8>to six. I'm doing on a Tuesday. So the Sunday

1139
01:09:12.840 --> 01:09:15.479
<v Speaker 8>I'm bought tenner and I wears one. So my manager

1140
01:09:16.159 --> 01:09:19.720
<v Speaker 8>from the bar worked in was getting married and they

1141
01:09:19.760 --> 01:09:21.760
<v Speaker 8>had a been going to the wedding. He was marrying

1142
01:09:21.840 --> 01:09:24.960
<v Speaker 8>the daughter of the guy who owns Helme and Cold

1143
01:09:25.039 --> 01:09:29.760
<v Speaker 8>and Eyeglasses. So it's in King's point in his unbelievable mansion.

1144
01:09:30.279 --> 01:09:36.159
<v Speaker 8>So make Alom's so short. I party a lot with

1145
01:09:36.239 --> 01:09:42.439
<v Speaker 8>the guys. We go out and I end up getting

1146
01:09:42.479 --> 01:09:45.560
<v Speaker 8>back to my apartment about five thirty in the morning

1147
01:09:46.319 --> 01:09:49.920
<v Speaker 8>in my three piece suit and I fall asleep. Oh, no,

1148
01:09:51.039 --> 01:09:54.239
<v Speaker 8>and then nine thirty the phone rings. Oh no, I

1149
01:09:54.319 --> 01:09:59.119
<v Speaker 8>get a phonego hello, Oh yeah, is this fireman Western? Yeah?

1150
01:09:59.159 --> 01:10:01.800
<v Speaker 8>Who the fuck is this? He goes, that's your new captain,

1151
01:10:01.840 --> 01:10:09.960
<v Speaker 8>Tom Brandon speaking cap we're gonna do. He goes, well, Son,

1152
01:10:10.359 --> 01:10:12.600
<v Speaker 8>I don't know where you came from, but we started

1153
01:10:12.600 --> 01:10:25.319
<v Speaker 8>at nine o'clock on handtocky and I had a new Camaro.

1154
01:10:25.560 --> 01:10:28.239
<v Speaker 8>Ye know, I'm telling you I'm living a life passed.

1155
01:10:28.439 --> 01:10:31.680
<v Speaker 8>I'm in my suit. He says, take your time. So

1156
01:10:31.760 --> 01:10:34.760
<v Speaker 8>I dropped my car and I tried to the fire ass.

1157
01:10:35.880 --> 01:10:38.840
<v Speaker 8>I pull up my Camaro and I get a standing

1158
01:10:38.880 --> 01:10:41.680
<v Speaker 8>ovation from all the guys lined up in front of

1159
01:10:41.760 --> 01:10:45.720
<v Speaker 8>fire Ass. Sometimes you know, I to rest his soul.

1160
01:10:45.920 --> 01:10:49.800
<v Speaker 8>Kenny Connolly, Bobby Johnson, mister Jay, and I get a

1161
01:10:49.800 --> 01:10:52.840
<v Speaker 8>standing ovation, and I'm in a three piece suit with

1162
01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:57.119
<v Speaker 8>no fig fire gear, and I come out the first thing.

1163
01:10:57.239 --> 01:11:01.159
<v Speaker 8>Johnson comes over. Mister Janey goes, listen, kid, before you

1164
01:11:01.239 --> 01:11:04.279
<v Speaker 8>see the captain, you got to go around the corner there.

1165
01:11:04.319 --> 01:11:06.359
<v Speaker 8>You gotta cross the street and see that Jewish guy,

1166
01:11:06.840 --> 01:11:09.199
<v Speaker 8>and you got to pick up something. So he tells

1167
01:11:09.239 --> 01:11:12.000
<v Speaker 8>me what to pick up, one on one one for

1168
01:11:12.119 --> 01:11:15.000
<v Speaker 8>your first day and when for being late. That's it.

1169
01:11:15.520 --> 01:11:19.600
<v Speaker 8>Now we're talking. Now it's like eleven o'clock. I haven't

1170
01:11:19.640 --> 01:11:23.479
<v Speaker 8>seen the captain. So I get back, and I said,

1171
01:11:23.880 --> 01:11:26.880
<v Speaker 8>and he walked me get mister Jake. He held my

1172
01:11:27.000 --> 01:11:29.960
<v Speaker 8>hand and walked me to the corner. He said, this

1173
01:11:30.159 --> 01:11:33.560
<v Speaker 8>is as far as I go. Come back. I go,

1174
01:11:34.000 --> 01:11:37.199
<v Speaker 8>mister Jay, Well, I knew these guys. You know guys

1175
01:11:37.920 --> 01:11:38.399
<v Speaker 8>an Arab.

1176
01:11:38.479 --> 01:11:40.760
<v Speaker 11>He's Jewish, he said, the list on my head to

1177
01:11:40.800 --> 01:11:43.560
<v Speaker 11>go there, kid, he was Jewish. You bet there was

1178
01:11:43.560 --> 01:11:45.560
<v Speaker 11>a jew there. You better go up and see the captain.

1179
01:11:46.239 --> 01:11:50.239
<v Speaker 11>So now I go upstairs, knock on the door, come

1180
01:11:50.279 --> 01:11:50.520
<v Speaker 11>on in.

1181
01:11:51.560 --> 01:11:55.359
<v Speaker 8>I walk in. I'm in a three piece suit, still hungover,

1182
01:11:56.199 --> 01:11:59.800
<v Speaker 8>and an hour, almost two hours late to meet Tom Brennan.

1183
01:12:01.079 --> 01:12:03.560
<v Speaker 8>And he gets up, shakes my hand. He goes, how

1184
01:12:03.640 --> 01:12:07.319
<v Speaker 8>you doing, Tom Brennan. I came in fire a roster,

1185
01:12:07.399 --> 01:12:10.520
<v Speaker 8>report of duty. He gets, shakes my hand. How you doing, kid,

1186
01:12:10.680 --> 01:12:15.039
<v Speaker 8>Tom Brennan. He says, listen, three things. Uh. Number one,

1187
01:12:15.600 --> 01:12:18.079
<v Speaker 8>senior guys are not going to talk to you. Number two,

1188
01:12:18.560 --> 01:12:21.159
<v Speaker 8>we don't wear masks in his company. And number three,

1189
01:12:21.479 --> 01:12:25.119
<v Speaker 8>we don't cough on the fire floor. Coughing on the

1190
01:12:25.199 --> 01:12:29.800
<v Speaker 8>fire floor, you'll be out of here. Get the that's it,

1191
01:12:30.680 --> 01:12:32.159
<v Speaker 8>Get the fuck out of my office.

1192
01:12:33.479 --> 01:12:36.720
<v Speaker 6>We don't call for the fire floor. That sounds like

1193
01:12:36.760 --> 01:12:39.800
<v Speaker 6>a shirt, bro, Dude, that does sound like a shirt.

1194
01:12:40.119 --> 01:12:43.760
<v Speaker 8>That sounds like a shirt, and that picture what's classic

1195
01:12:43.840 --> 01:12:49.039
<v Speaker 8>about that? So I work in his group with Kenny Conwley,

1196
01:12:49.199 --> 01:12:56.760
<v Speaker 8>Dougie Simes, unbelievable fire me and I'm a lunatic. I'm

1197
01:12:56.880 --> 01:13:00.479
<v Speaker 8>just a funny guy. I guess, I don't know. And

1198
01:13:02.000 --> 01:13:04.760
<v Speaker 8>I remember we had two jobs that day. I had

1199
01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:08.720
<v Speaker 8>the can, I borrowed cloak work, I borrowed turnout here

1200
01:13:08.960 --> 01:13:11.720
<v Speaker 8>I'm in a three piece. Oh so what happens is yeah,

1201
01:13:11.880 --> 01:13:15.439
<v Speaker 8>so we get done with that. So now it's like

1202
01:13:15.560 --> 01:13:19.840
<v Speaker 8>twelve o'clock the lunch, and now guys like, come to

1203
01:13:19.920 --> 01:13:21.800
<v Speaker 8>the yard, let's go hang out in the art. Kid,

1204
01:13:22.399 --> 01:13:24.560
<v Speaker 8>I don't know. I come on in the yard, you know,

1205
01:13:25.159 --> 01:13:27.600
<v Speaker 8>some in the yard doing what we did in the yard.

1206
01:13:28.079 --> 01:13:30.039
<v Speaker 8>And the old man comes down. He walks in the

1207
01:13:30.079 --> 01:13:32.760
<v Speaker 8>back yard and sees me with the dude Mike leave

1208
01:13:32.800 --> 01:13:37.039
<v Speaker 8>me and he says, what are you doing with this?

1209
01:13:41.319 --> 01:13:43.479
<v Speaker 8>They give you right up and the dudes like, O,

1210
01:13:43.720 --> 01:13:47.880
<v Speaker 8>no cap this palking kad. You know he's with me,

1211
01:13:48.319 --> 01:13:54.800
<v Speaker 8>Michelive he said, so, so, hey, hey, Bobby, I heard you.

1212
01:13:55.319 --> 01:13:56.439
<v Speaker 8>You don't want to come, and you want to go

1213
01:13:56.520 --> 01:14:01.399
<v Speaker 8>on the do you know now I'm back, I'm feeling

1214
01:14:01.640 --> 01:14:03.600
<v Speaker 8>I go. No, I don't want I said, I put

1215
01:14:03.640 --> 01:14:05.399
<v Speaker 8>in for an engine and wanted to her in the

1216
01:14:05.439 --> 01:14:10.239
<v Speaker 8>truck of the East Meadow. And Brennan's over the table

1217
01:14:10.319 --> 01:14:14.479
<v Speaker 8>to kill me. And that was it, and and uh

1218
01:14:16.000 --> 01:14:22.319
<v Speaker 8>and somehow so we went and I stayed right with him,

1219
01:14:22.560 --> 01:14:25.239
<v Speaker 8>and I can tell you and my first toe was

1220
01:14:25.319 --> 01:14:27.840
<v Speaker 8>with him, my second toe with Jim Basil, And I

1221
01:14:27.880 --> 01:14:31.600
<v Speaker 8>can tell you right now and again I could tell

1222
01:14:31.600 --> 01:14:35.920
<v Speaker 8>you the serial number on the heel of their fucking boots,

1223
01:14:36.279 --> 01:14:39.039
<v Speaker 8>you know, their their shoes, because that's all I saw.

1224
01:14:39.720 --> 01:14:43.560
<v Speaker 8>You were just grabbed on to their foot and you

1225
01:14:43.680 --> 01:14:48.159
<v Speaker 8>went with them. Uh. But great teachers and and Brennan

1226
01:14:48.159 --> 01:14:53.720
<v Speaker 8>and I we ended up becoming. He loved me for

1227
01:14:53.880 --> 01:14:56.920
<v Speaker 8>some reason, he just him and the Duke Kenny Connolly

1228
01:14:57.039 --> 01:14:59.399
<v Speaker 8>loved me. He was one of the biggest ball breaks

1229
01:14:59.439 --> 01:15:02.399
<v Speaker 8>in the fire house and for some reason he just

1230
01:15:02.439 --> 01:15:04.520
<v Speaker 8>took me under his wing. He taught me a lot.

1231
01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:06.840
<v Speaker 8>But so.

1232
01:15:09.199 --> 01:15:13.079
<v Speaker 6>Duke Bobby, he was the duke you know the firefloor.

1233
01:15:13.680 --> 01:15:19.159
<v Speaker 8>Yeah, this guy won in his career. He won the

1234
01:15:19.479 --> 01:15:23.640
<v Speaker 8>the the Bennett Medal, the Cane Medal. Uh. In another

1235
01:15:23.680 --> 01:15:25.880
<v Speaker 8>class street he won the what's the one you get

1236
01:15:25.880 --> 01:15:28.680
<v Speaker 8>every three years metal?

1237
01:15:29.159 --> 01:15:29.279
<v Speaker 9>Uh.

1238
01:15:29.920 --> 01:15:34.800
<v Speaker 8>He was just an amazing fireman. Uh, traumatics could take it.

1239
01:15:35.920 --> 01:15:38.359
<v Speaker 8>There's three types of guys in this job. There's a

1240
01:15:38.399 --> 01:15:40.840
<v Speaker 8>guy who can take the beating and he gets respect.

1241
01:15:41.039 --> 01:15:45.119
<v Speaker 8>Take the fucking beat. Uh. That is goodn't make a moves,

1242
01:15:45.159 --> 01:15:47.920
<v Speaker 8>but take a beat. Then you have another guy that's

1243
01:15:48.399 --> 01:15:50.720
<v Speaker 8>can't take a beaten like the other guys, but he

1244
01:15:50.840 --> 01:15:52.840
<v Speaker 8>knows his moves. You know, he's smart, you know what

1245
01:15:52.880 --> 01:15:55.800
<v Speaker 8>I'm saying. Then you get the guy that can take

1246
01:15:55.840 --> 01:15:59.680
<v Speaker 8>his beating the moves. So those are the Bobby Chasers.

1247
01:16:00.119 --> 01:16:03.720
<v Speaker 8>Those are the Kenny Connollys, the Dennis Conways, you know, uh,

1248
01:16:03.920 --> 01:16:05.920
<v Speaker 8>the Tommy Craig. These are the guys.

1249
01:16:06.159 --> 01:16:08.119
<v Speaker 5>Eric seemed to always be in the right spot.

1250
01:16:08.199 --> 01:16:11.399
<v Speaker 8>Dude. Eric is another well Eric had Eric had a

1251
01:16:11.439 --> 01:16:15.359
<v Speaker 8>lot of instinct and he you know, let's face it, though,

1252
01:16:15.720 --> 01:16:18.199
<v Speaker 8>you know, I made a million searches. I mean he

1253
01:16:18.239 --> 01:16:21.079
<v Speaker 8>pulled some people out, But you make a million searches,

1254
01:16:21.159 --> 01:16:23.079
<v Speaker 8>take a beat and never pull anybody out.

1255
01:16:23.680 --> 01:16:26.479
<v Speaker 5>I got somebody like that guy was always in the right.

1256
01:16:26.399 --> 01:16:31.039
<v Speaker 8>Spot man, Yeah yeah, and pulled Eric out a couple

1257
01:16:31.079 --> 01:16:36.680
<v Speaker 8>of times. Oh yeah, Well he'll tell you.

1258
01:16:39.439 --> 01:16:41.600
<v Speaker 5>I mean, how many legendary guys were in that place.

1259
01:16:42.039 --> 01:16:42.199
<v Speaker 5>You know.

1260
01:16:42.319 --> 01:16:44.880
<v Speaker 8>The other thing, Louis is, and I've always said this too,

1261
01:16:45.920 --> 01:16:49.399
<v Speaker 8>there's guys that the whole job knows their name. The

1262
01:16:49.560 --> 01:16:57.279
<v Speaker 8>Tom Leary's all right, the Jack Pritches, Patty Brown's, Larry Fitzpatrick,

1263
01:16:57.359 --> 01:17:02.439
<v Speaker 8>god rest, the whole job. But the whole job knows

1264
01:17:02.479 --> 01:17:06.159
<v Speaker 8>their names. But then there's a ton of guys that

1265
01:17:06.359 --> 01:17:09.000
<v Speaker 8>nobody knows their name out of the battalion, and they're

1266
01:17:09.079 --> 01:17:12.680
<v Speaker 8>great fireman, you know. Like I said, Tommy Craik, Billy

1267
01:17:12.800 --> 01:17:15.880
<v Speaker 8>ches need to work in the place. I can mention

1268
01:17:18.000 --> 01:17:20.560
<v Speaker 8>Charlie Williams. I mean the guys that I worked with

1269
01:17:21.000 --> 01:17:25.159
<v Speaker 8>that were phenomenal firemen, but outside of the battalion, nobody

1270
01:17:25.199 --> 01:17:29.279
<v Speaker 8>knew them. And and that's how the job is, you know.

1271
01:17:31.720 --> 01:17:34.880
<v Speaker 8>And not only that, you know, you never hear about

1272
01:17:34.960 --> 01:17:39.880
<v Speaker 8>great engine. You know, everybody in the truck. You know.

1273
01:17:40.039 --> 01:17:43.600
<v Speaker 8>I work with George Day uh right now, he's two

1274
01:17:43.680 --> 01:17:46.479
<v Speaker 8>thirds he's one of the guys that broke I'll never

1275
01:17:46.560 --> 01:17:48.880
<v Speaker 8>get When I first got to two third, George Day

1276
01:17:48.960 --> 01:17:51.279
<v Speaker 8>laid it right out. He says, hey, kid, here's how

1277
01:17:51.279 --> 01:17:55.439
<v Speaker 8>it works, all right, this is easy chopping. Well, we

1278
01:17:55.560 --> 01:17:57.920
<v Speaker 8>get a run, you jump on the back of the pump.

1279
01:17:58.600 --> 01:18:00.560
<v Speaker 8>You don't have to know where you're going. You know,

1280
01:18:00.680 --> 01:18:04.119
<v Speaker 8>you guys know where he's going. We got when we

1281
01:18:04.239 --> 01:18:06.840
<v Speaker 8>get there, and we got a job. See them big

1282
01:18:06.920 --> 01:18:10.359
<v Speaker 8>guys over there in the truck. They get there, they

1283
01:18:10.720 --> 01:18:13.760
<v Speaker 8>break the door, they break the windows, they go in,

1284
01:18:13.920 --> 01:18:16.560
<v Speaker 8>they find the fire, They get the people out. When

1285
01:18:16.600 --> 01:18:18.640
<v Speaker 8>they find the fire, they call us up. We go

1286
01:18:18.760 --> 01:18:21.000
<v Speaker 8>with the hose, We hit the red shit. When the

1287
01:18:21.039 --> 01:18:23.720
<v Speaker 8>red shit goes out, we put those back in the rig.

1288
01:18:23.960 --> 01:18:26.199
<v Speaker 8>We go back to the firehouse and wet lunch. And

1289
01:18:26.319 --> 01:18:28.159
<v Speaker 8>he said, that's in New York City. Fire uponent And

1290
01:18:28.239 --> 01:18:28.760
<v Speaker 8>he was right.

1291
01:18:29.199 --> 01:18:30.800
<v Speaker 6>It's very simple, you know.

1292
01:18:33.079 --> 01:18:35.359
<v Speaker 8>And George was another legend in the job.

1293
01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:35.600
<v Speaker 5>You know.

1294
01:18:37.680 --> 01:18:39.880
<v Speaker 8>One of my first fires with him. Uh, we had

1295
01:18:39.920 --> 01:18:43.239
<v Speaker 8>a job at one hundred and eight road frames. I

1296
01:18:43.560 --> 01:18:45.479
<v Speaker 8>didn't know what the row frame was. I think it

1297
01:18:45.560 --> 01:18:49.079
<v Speaker 8>was my second tour they tour. Uh, didn't know what

1298
01:18:49.159 --> 01:18:51.640
<v Speaker 8>the row frame was. Didn't know where exposure was. So

1299
01:18:52.199 --> 01:18:55.239
<v Speaker 8>we go there's the reserve engine kept there. It's like

1300
01:18:55.279 --> 01:18:58.319
<v Speaker 8>two sixteen and two eighteen. So so we pull up

1301
01:18:59.119 --> 01:19:03.479
<v Speaker 8>and his fires blown at his building and he tells

1302
01:19:03.560 --> 01:19:06.359
<v Speaker 8>the stretch of line into the building exposure for it.

1303
01:19:06.720 --> 01:19:08.159
<v Speaker 8>I don't know what it was, stretch a line in

1304
01:19:08.159 --> 01:19:10.239
<v Speaker 8>the building next door. So we stretch the line. We

1305
01:19:10.279 --> 01:19:13.000
<v Speaker 8>get the top floor and there's a truck up there.

1306
01:19:13.039 --> 01:19:14.840
<v Speaker 8>I think it was one forty. I think it's we're

1307
01:19:14.920 --> 01:19:17.000
<v Speaker 8>up there. You know, we got no masks, you know,

1308
01:19:17.960 --> 01:19:20.079
<v Speaker 8>uh you know, now's the man back of them in

1309
01:19:20.199 --> 01:19:22.760
<v Speaker 8>don't wear a mask. Third man has a mask, mask man.

1310
01:19:23.600 --> 01:19:25.760
<v Speaker 8>So we're up there and George got a cigarette now,

1311
01:19:26.279 --> 01:19:29.359
<v Speaker 8>and you know, it's like a little hazy and shit.

1312
01:19:30.039 --> 01:19:33.319
<v Speaker 8>So now he started pulling the ceilings and the fires burning,

1313
01:19:34.399 --> 01:19:36.920
<v Speaker 8>but it's not bad. So he says, hey, kid, get down.

1314
01:19:37.000 --> 01:19:39.399
<v Speaker 8>You gotta get down. So I'm like, mom, okay, George.

1315
01:19:39.560 --> 01:19:43.399
<v Speaker 8>You know this is my third day and two thirty.

1316
01:19:43.560 --> 01:19:46.439
<v Speaker 8>I'm okay, George, Now, kid, get down, get down in

1317
01:19:46.600 --> 01:19:49.760
<v Speaker 8>Delbi not judge. I'm okay, all right kid. He opens

1318
01:19:49.800 --> 01:19:55.479
<v Speaker 8>that lineup, it's like fucking lights out. I hit the

1319
01:19:55.640 --> 01:19:59.159
<v Speaker 8>tack and I am calfing my balls off. He's on

1320
01:19:59.319 --> 01:20:03.039
<v Speaker 8>his haunches, you know, knocking fire down and he puts

1321
01:20:03.079 --> 01:20:05.079
<v Speaker 8>it out pretty quick. But it is I'm on my

1322
01:20:05.239 --> 01:20:08.399
<v Speaker 8>belly half in my ass off and he lets me

1323
01:20:08.640 --> 01:20:10.479
<v Speaker 8>wash down and he turns around. He goes say, kid,

1324
01:20:10.520 --> 01:20:15.079
<v Speaker 8>I said, don't worry about it. What have you whatever?

1325
01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:19.079
<v Speaker 8>You know, but another kind of legendary guy.

1326
01:20:19.239 --> 01:20:20.920
<v Speaker 5>You know, who is the guy that you felt like

1327
01:20:20.960 --> 01:20:21.640
<v Speaker 5>you latched onto?

1328
01:20:22.960 --> 01:20:23.199
<v Speaker 8>Sorry?

1329
01:20:23.840 --> 01:20:26.039
<v Speaker 5>Who is the guy you latched on to in one eleven?

1330
01:20:26.119 --> 01:20:27.520
<v Speaker 5>Right away? Like? Who did you finish?

1331
01:20:28.800 --> 01:20:34.640
<v Speaker 8>I you know, I didn't really latch onto everybody.

1332
01:20:34.680 --> 01:20:35.000
<v Speaker 12>I just.

1333
01:20:36.680 --> 01:20:40.319
<v Speaker 8>I just followed what they told me to do. Like

1334
01:20:40.439 --> 01:20:42.680
<v Speaker 8>I said, Kenny Connley took a big liking to me

1335
01:20:42.760 --> 01:20:47.279
<v Speaker 8>from the beginning. Brandon, I can tell you me, Brandon.

1336
01:20:47.520 --> 01:20:49.640
<v Speaker 8>Uh you've heard of Tom Brandon. I mean, you know,

1337
01:20:50.359 --> 01:20:53.399
<v Speaker 8>so every day two o'clock I had to take the

1338
01:20:53.520 --> 01:20:56.840
<v Speaker 8>rick to take the bucket up and practice with the bump,

1339
01:20:57.520 --> 01:20:59.159
<v Speaker 8>even though I'm probably not going to see the all

1340
01:20:59.239 --> 01:21:01.279
<v Speaker 8>the years, but.

1341
01:21:04.199 --> 01:21:04.800
<v Speaker 6>Up in the bucket.

1342
01:21:05.119 --> 01:21:07.880
<v Speaker 8>So I'd be up in the bucket. So I would

1343
01:21:07.960 --> 01:21:12.239
<v Speaker 8>come in the yard and dub Simes's I know from

1344
01:21:12.239 --> 01:21:15.159
<v Speaker 8>eleven time? Great? Uh, you gotta pull. So they pulled

1345
01:21:15.159 --> 01:21:16.640
<v Speaker 8>a rig out, you know, and I'd be up there

1346
01:21:17.720 --> 01:21:20.479
<v Speaker 8>and uh later on. One of the ways I trained

1347
01:21:20.479 --> 01:21:22.840
<v Speaker 8>my problems with the bucket was I used to get

1348
01:21:22.880 --> 01:21:25.960
<v Speaker 8>a broom and tie the broom to the basket, and

1349
01:21:26.920 --> 01:21:29.439
<v Speaker 8>they had to keep the broom on the on the building.

1350
01:21:29.560 --> 01:21:31.800
<v Speaker 8>That was like my idea. But anyway, so I'd be

1351
01:21:31.840 --> 01:21:34.239
<v Speaker 8>out there doing what I had to do, and there

1352
01:21:34.319 --> 01:21:37.680
<v Speaker 8>was certain things you had to learn. So I had

1353
01:21:37.720 --> 01:21:40.439
<v Speaker 8>to be there at two o'clock. And so one day

1354
01:21:41.399 --> 01:21:44.760
<v Speaker 8>two o'clock comes and hey guy, you know, Duke's in

1355
01:21:44.800 --> 01:21:47.720
<v Speaker 8>the back and hey, Ken, could you put the rig

1356
01:21:47.800 --> 01:21:50.960
<v Speaker 8>out a puck bad asshole. We're not doing that today.

1357
01:21:50.960 --> 01:21:52.520
<v Speaker 8>You know, don't worry about it. You don't have to

1358
01:21:52.600 --> 01:21:54.800
<v Speaker 8>do that. Look, I gotta be out there, you know.

1359
01:21:54.880 --> 01:21:57.600
<v Speaker 8>If the captain, you know, don't worry about a kid,

1360
01:21:57.680 --> 01:22:01.079
<v Speaker 8>sit down, have a dreak, you know, I gotta be

1361
01:22:01.159 --> 01:22:04.199
<v Speaker 8>out there. So, you know, two minutes after two, he

1362
01:22:04.239 --> 01:22:07.039
<v Speaker 8>don't need a bucket. He comes into the back squad

1363
01:22:07.800 --> 01:22:11.039
<v Speaker 8>and he's like, what are you doing? And I'm like,

1364
01:22:11.560 --> 01:22:13.920
<v Speaker 8>and of course they're like, yeah, cop, we don't know

1365
01:22:14.000 --> 01:22:15.960
<v Speaker 8>what the deal is with this kid. We can't.

1366
01:22:18.960 --> 01:22:19.479
<v Speaker 6>Hang it out.

1367
01:22:20.680 --> 01:22:22.319
<v Speaker 8>You know, they give you up right away.

1368
01:22:22.680 --> 01:22:27.560
<v Speaker 6>Right under the right, under the bucket, I swear to christ.

1369
01:22:27.920 --> 01:22:32.199
<v Speaker 8>So one day, not a time, I'm doing things that

1370
01:22:32.279 --> 01:22:35.760
<v Speaker 8>if I but I always I didn't cough with Brent,

1371
01:22:35.920 --> 01:22:36.800
<v Speaker 8>you know, I mean I did.

1372
01:22:38.439 --> 01:22:38.800
<v Speaker 6>And Uh.

1373
01:22:38.960 --> 01:22:41.000
<v Speaker 8>One day I'm up in the bucket with Rudy Winler.

1374
01:22:41.239 --> 01:22:43.800
<v Speaker 8>I don't know if you ever heard a Rudi Uh.

1375
01:22:44.920 --> 01:22:47.359
<v Speaker 8>And we're practicing. You know, I always want my radio

1376
01:22:47.439 --> 01:22:50.520
<v Speaker 8>that was in this way. So we're practicing the bucket

1377
01:22:51.520 --> 01:22:53.920
<v Speaker 8>and I take the you know, bucket up to the

1378
01:22:54.000 --> 01:22:56.439
<v Speaker 8>window and just keep the bucket below the window and

1379
01:22:56.439 --> 01:22:59.199
<v Speaker 8>all the ship. And Brennan's in the office and he's

1380
01:22:59.239 --> 01:23:02.520
<v Speaker 8>on the phone with his back to me. So I

1381
01:23:02.840 --> 01:23:06.399
<v Speaker 8>come into the window and I crawled and I ran

1382
01:23:06.479 --> 01:23:08.079
<v Speaker 8>him by the collar and I pulled him off his

1383
01:23:08.279 --> 01:23:11.840
<v Speaker 8>chair and I get in the radio and I called really,

1384
01:23:11.920 --> 01:23:14.920
<v Speaker 8>I said, one eleven o feet what eleven? I need

1385
01:23:15.000 --> 01:23:18.720
<v Speaker 8>help with me. I got a big fan funk. I'm

1386
01:23:18.800 --> 01:23:20.880
<v Speaker 8>pulling bread and and he's trying to hit me with

1387
01:23:21.039 --> 01:23:23.720
<v Speaker 8>the phone receiver. The phone gets pulled out of the

1388
01:23:23.800 --> 01:23:26.840
<v Speaker 8>wall and I dragged him to the window. And you

1389
01:23:26.920 --> 01:23:30.640
<v Speaker 8>know what, he loved it. He just he loved it.

1390
01:23:30.760 --> 01:23:33.319
<v Speaker 8>But I did that was that was kind of crazy.

1391
01:23:34.359 --> 01:23:37.720
<v Speaker 6>Find a picture of what eleven and two foot a picture.

1392
01:23:37.399 --> 01:23:41.079
<v Speaker 8>Of Brennan and me. Brennan had a broken finger. Yeah,

1393
01:23:41.640 --> 01:23:44.319
<v Speaker 8>so his finger was broken, so it was always point

1394
01:23:45.159 --> 01:23:48.920
<v Speaker 8>So when I would worked on bending my finger like

1395
01:23:49.079 --> 01:23:51.800
<v Speaker 8>him and I got it to work. So he would.

1396
01:23:52.680 --> 01:23:55.520
<v Speaker 8>He always had a drill right after fire and he would.

1397
01:23:55.720 --> 01:23:57.760
<v Speaker 8>One day he was pissed off at me about something

1398
01:23:58.119 --> 01:24:01.239
<v Speaker 8>and he's pointing at me and he gets I go, hey, Cap,

1399
01:24:01.399 --> 01:24:05.600
<v Speaker 8>you're talking to me or murphy, because now you pointing

1400
01:24:05.680 --> 01:24:07.560
<v Speaker 8>me a murphy And he just put his hands up

1401
01:24:07.560 --> 01:24:10.680
<v Speaker 8>and walked away. Yeah, look at you.

1402
01:24:10.760 --> 01:24:12.079
<v Speaker 6>You're looking down at his finger.

1403
01:24:12.159 --> 01:24:16.520
<v Speaker 8>Bens oh, one of the I worked with great fire officers.

1404
01:24:16.600 --> 01:24:23.880
<v Speaker 8>But he was But so another thing with him, I

1405
01:24:24.079 --> 01:24:28.880
<v Speaker 8>was habitually late. I would guess when I worked with him.

1406
01:24:29.199 --> 01:24:33.960
<v Speaker 8>So I was late. And then one day he tells me,

1407
01:24:34.439 --> 01:24:36.479
<v Speaker 8>if you're late one more time, I'm going to kill you,

1408
01:24:36.960 --> 01:24:40.199
<v Speaker 8>all right. So one day we're working. We had a

1409
01:24:40.279 --> 01:24:42.840
<v Speaker 8>couple of jobs, so he's getting off from inn yard

1410
01:24:42.920 --> 01:24:45.960
<v Speaker 8>with Kenny. We're getting off duties. So the Cap comes

1411
01:24:46.000 --> 01:24:49.279
<v Speaker 8>in the backyard. He says, what are you doing now?

1412
01:24:49.520 --> 01:24:52.119
<v Speaker 8>And I had a date that night and he says,

1413
01:24:52.159 --> 01:24:54.319
<v Speaker 8>what are you doing now? I says, well, I have

1414
01:24:54.399 --> 01:24:56.239
<v Speaker 8>a date tonight. Cap. He says, well, you know what,

1415
01:24:57.439 --> 01:25:00.560
<v Speaker 8>you're coming with me. My brother Billy, who's the retired

1416
01:25:00.600 --> 01:25:04.119
<v Speaker 8>first grade detective, is bartendant. I know he is a

1417
01:25:04.159 --> 01:25:06.560
<v Speaker 8>big name bartender. So we're going to white Stone. You're

1418
01:25:06.560 --> 01:25:08.880
<v Speaker 8>gonna meet my brother Billy, I said, CAP. I get

1419
01:25:08.960 --> 01:25:12.479
<v Speaker 8>a take. So the duke, they could a Parker Captain both.

1420
01:25:12.560 --> 01:25:15.000
<v Speaker 8>You gotta go to drink and you go with him? Okay, No,

1421
01:25:15.399 --> 01:25:20.279
<v Speaker 8>we go to white Stone and his brothers told cops.

1422
01:25:20.319 --> 01:25:22.600
<v Speaker 8>So make a long story short. We're drinking the whole

1423
01:25:22.640 --> 01:25:25.720
<v Speaker 8>night's going on. So I'm calling him Cap all night

1424
01:25:26.359 --> 01:25:29.119
<v Speaker 8>and he says to me, hey, kid, you don't have

1425
01:25:29.159 --> 01:25:32.199
<v Speaker 8>to call me Cap. You call me Tommy. All right,

1426
01:25:32.720 --> 01:25:35.720
<v Speaker 8>he's you call me Tommy now, Cat, I can't do it.

1427
01:25:36.239 --> 01:25:38.680
<v Speaker 8>You call me Tommy from now on, all right, CAP.

1428
01:25:39.119 --> 01:25:41.279
<v Speaker 8>So that's it. So we leave it like three in

1429
01:25:41.319 --> 01:25:44.319
<v Speaker 8>the morning. We're both working. Next day. He drives to

1430
01:25:44.399 --> 01:25:47.439
<v Speaker 8>the fire Asse. Not me, like an idiot. I drive

1431
01:25:47.520 --> 01:25:51.159
<v Speaker 8>back to Leventown. That's it. Go to sleep, get a

1432
01:25:51.239 --> 01:25:55.319
<v Speaker 8>call about quarter quarter to ten. It's the Duke hey

1433
01:25:55.439 --> 01:25:58.399
<v Speaker 8>kid out with the Parker Capitol last night and he's

1434
01:25:58.479 --> 01:26:04.000
<v Speaker 8>here and you're night. He's going to kill you. You're not.

1435
01:26:04.680 --> 01:26:07.840
<v Speaker 8>You're not he's going to kill you. So I drive

1436
01:26:07.960 --> 01:26:11.800
<v Speaker 8>it and I pull up. He's on the apron and

1437
01:26:11.880 --> 01:26:13.720
<v Speaker 8>I used to do a great brand and imitation. You

1438
01:26:13.760 --> 01:26:18.239
<v Speaker 8>get his then, sperver they're hiding behind a rig. Rudy

1439
01:26:18.279 --> 01:26:21.760
<v Speaker 8>Windler and Kenny Connley a behind the rig looking because

1440
01:26:21.800 --> 01:26:24.720
<v Speaker 8>they think he's gonna kill me. I walk up to him,

1441
01:26:24.760 --> 01:26:27.000
<v Speaker 8>I grab him and I kiss him on the cheek

1442
01:26:27.039 --> 01:26:33.840
<v Speaker 8>and I go, hey, Tommy, I had he just went

1443
01:26:33.960 --> 01:26:38.159
<v Speaker 8>upstairs and that was it. And I don't balk. I

1444
01:26:38.239 --> 01:26:39.840
<v Speaker 8>believe it, and I got away with it.

1445
01:26:40.439 --> 01:26:42.600
<v Speaker 7>You gotta have like a special to be an officer

1446
01:26:42.680 --> 01:26:46.680
<v Speaker 7>in a place like that. You gotta really it's you know,

1447
01:26:46.800 --> 01:26:49.039
<v Speaker 7>the guys love you and they respect you, but they

1448
01:26:49.119 --> 01:26:50.399
<v Speaker 7>do crazy things.

1449
01:26:50.199 --> 01:26:56.560
<v Speaker 8>Right well, you know, Uh, the reason why we got

1450
01:26:56.640 --> 01:26:59.640
<v Speaker 8>away with what we got away with, and I'm not

1451
01:26:59.720 --> 01:27:03.840
<v Speaker 8>saying is because uh they did We did our job

1452
01:27:04.640 --> 01:27:10.279
<v Speaker 8>and uh and uh the chiefs. I remember Alco my

1453
01:27:10.439 --> 01:27:14.800
<v Speaker 8>computer one time saying, uh, you know when we went there,

1454
01:27:14.840 --> 01:27:17.279
<v Speaker 8>three seven. He says, you know, you guys are painting

1455
01:27:17.319 --> 01:27:20.079
<v Speaker 8>my ass, but I love it when you turn the corner.

1456
01:27:20.319 --> 01:27:22.439
<v Speaker 8>You know, the guys, they were profound, They were good

1457
01:27:23.079 --> 01:27:26.560
<v Speaker 8>and a tremendous lineman. You know, I always tell people

1458
01:27:26.720 --> 01:27:29.960
<v Speaker 8>I went to work every day, UH, trying to be

1459
01:27:30.159 --> 01:27:33.279
<v Speaker 8>like those guys, knowing that I never will be there.

1460
01:27:33.319 --> 01:27:34.880
<v Speaker 8>He is, there's Dennis.

1461
01:27:35.680 --> 01:27:37.359
<v Speaker 5>So I don't know if you notice Bob, but that's

1462
01:27:37.560 --> 01:27:39.680
<v Speaker 5>that's Coobs and I that's that's our guy.

1463
01:27:40.520 --> 01:27:41.199
<v Speaker 8>Dennis Murphy.

1464
01:27:41.600 --> 01:27:43.079
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, he was the one who taught us a lot

1465
01:27:43.119 --> 01:27:43.479
<v Speaker 5>of stuff.

1466
01:27:44.159 --> 01:27:47.960
<v Speaker 8>Dennis Murphy is one of the greatest firemen I've ever

1467
01:27:48.039 --> 01:27:48.359
<v Speaker 8>worked with.

1468
01:27:48.960 --> 01:27:49.079
<v Speaker 12>Uh.

1469
01:27:49.199 --> 01:27:53.680
<v Speaker 8>We became great friends in Hancock Street. We had house

1470
01:27:53.720 --> 01:27:59.880
<v Speaker 8>and Hampton's together, ski houses. Great firemen. UH worked with Dennis,

1471
01:28:02.199 --> 01:28:06.479
<v Speaker 8>and you knew that Dennis was going to be somebody

1472
01:28:06.520 --> 01:28:09.039
<v Speaker 8>in the job. And I remember when he was talking

1473
01:28:09.039 --> 01:28:12.640
<v Speaker 8>about going to rescue too, and he had asked me

1474
01:28:12.680 --> 01:28:15.119
<v Speaker 8>and Dennis Conway about it. And I remember one day

1475
01:28:15.119 --> 01:28:16.600
<v Speaker 8>he grabbed me and he says, you know, I'm thinking

1476
01:28:16.640 --> 01:28:19.439
<v Speaker 8>of going to rescue too. What do you think? And

1477
01:28:19.560 --> 01:28:21.319
<v Speaker 8>you know there's three ways you leave one to eleven,

1478
01:28:23.000 --> 01:28:26.600
<v Speaker 8>you retire, you die, where you get promoted. That's the

1479
01:28:26.680 --> 01:28:29.840
<v Speaker 8>only three ways. That's what Jimmy Basel said. He wanted

1480
01:28:29.880 --> 01:28:31.399
<v Speaker 8>to go to rescue too. What do you think I

1481
01:28:31.439 --> 01:28:34.600
<v Speaker 8>should do? And I said, you know what, Dennis, absolutely

1482
01:28:35.399 --> 01:28:37.840
<v Speaker 8>your career path. You're going to move up in this job.

1483
01:28:38.520 --> 01:28:45.319
<v Speaker 8>And believe me, say he went there. Had he not

1484
01:28:45.479 --> 01:28:50.039
<v Speaker 8>failed the Battalion Chiefs test, I think he would ended

1485
01:28:50.119 --> 01:28:53.760
<v Speaker 8>up taking over, like right down his job or whatever.

1486
01:28:53.880 --> 01:28:57.279
<v Speaker 8>He would have been in charge of rescue services. I

1487
01:28:57.399 --> 01:29:02.039
<v Speaker 8>mean to eighty eight. As you know, Kevin Pete Cans

1488
01:29:02.159 --> 01:29:06.279
<v Speaker 8>he told him he's going to eighty eight. And in fact,

1489
01:29:06.319 --> 01:29:12.760
<v Speaker 8>Vinnie and Garrow, well I broke Vinnie in. Yeah, Vinnie

1490
01:29:14.279 --> 01:29:18.560
<v Speaker 8>one day when well what happens? So we're in the

1491
01:29:18.600 --> 01:29:21.600
<v Speaker 8>yard one day, you know, doing that thing, and Vinnie

1492
01:29:21.640 --> 01:29:24.479
<v Speaker 8>comes in he work with He goes, yeah, you know,

1493
01:29:24.720 --> 01:29:27.600
<v Speaker 8>can we go over the roof? Roll like Vinnie, it's

1494
01:29:27.800 --> 01:29:28.640
<v Speaker 8>it's three o'clock.

1495
01:29:28.800 --> 01:29:28.960
<v Speaker 9>You know.

1496
01:29:29.159 --> 01:29:32.319
<v Speaker 8>It's because I want to go over with you because

1497
01:29:32.720 --> 01:29:36.479
<v Speaker 8>I used to talk teach my guys to tie it blindfold,

1498
01:29:37.600 --> 01:29:41.479
<v Speaker 8>and I could tie a blindfold. So all right, go

1499
01:29:41.600 --> 01:29:43.840
<v Speaker 8>get the fucking ropes. So we go through the evolution

1500
01:29:44.000 --> 01:29:46.279
<v Speaker 8>does a great job. All right, you can pack it,

1501
01:29:46.399 --> 01:29:48.359
<v Speaker 8>you know time and that's it. Two days later it

1502
01:29:48.399 --> 01:29:52.880
<v Speaker 8>makes your roof for a rescue unbelievable. Uh I didn't

1503
01:29:52.880 --> 01:29:55.920
<v Speaker 8>know Giro made Oh yeah, not only.

1504
01:29:55.840 --> 01:29:57.520
<v Speaker 5>What he hould him back up?

1505
01:29:58.119 --> 01:30:01.800
<v Speaker 8>Uh yeah, allegedly, Well no they did. I mean he

1506
01:30:01.880 --> 01:30:04.119
<v Speaker 8>broke the rules because after the first questionon he pulled out.

1507
01:30:04.199 --> 01:30:06.399
<v Speaker 8>He used the same roplan shits in the finn and said,

1508
01:30:07.119 --> 01:30:10.640
<v Speaker 8>but yeah. So when that was I studied with Vinnie,

1509
01:30:11.520 --> 01:30:17.720
<v Speaker 8>my first time studying full lieutenant, and the guys thought

1510
01:30:17.760 --> 01:30:19.000
<v Speaker 8>I was going to do well in the tests. And

1511
01:30:19.399 --> 01:30:21.039
<v Speaker 8>a week before the test came, I said, you know what,

1512
01:30:21.720 --> 01:30:23.199
<v Speaker 8>I'm not taking the test and I wanted to be

1513
01:30:23.279 --> 01:30:26.239
<v Speaker 8>a lieutenant. I worked the other time. People were shocked.

1514
01:30:26.359 --> 01:30:27.319
<v Speaker 5>I worked the overtime.

1515
01:30:28.680 --> 01:30:32.199
<v Speaker 8>I didn't want it. And then I started again, and

1516
01:30:32.439 --> 01:30:36.239
<v Speaker 8>at that time it was serious and Basil said, if

1517
01:30:36.279 --> 01:30:38.760
<v Speaker 8>you make lieutenant, you got my tenants. Pause, but you

1518
01:30:38.840 --> 01:30:43.560
<v Speaker 8>never wore. And I took the the highly protested test

1519
01:30:44.159 --> 01:30:46.640
<v Speaker 8>and I wrote a sixty eight. For twenty one years

1520
01:30:46.720 --> 01:30:48.560
<v Speaker 8>on the job, I'm in a couple of medals. So

1521
01:30:48.680 --> 01:30:51.159
<v Speaker 8>all he had to do is pass. Passing was turned

1522
01:30:51.199 --> 01:30:53.760
<v Speaker 8>out seventy. I got a sixty eight and I had

1523
01:30:53.760 --> 01:30:56.039
<v Speaker 8>a sixteen answer changes I didn't.

1524
01:30:55.800 --> 01:30:56.800
<v Speaker 5>Get one, get one of them.

1525
01:30:57.159 --> 01:30:59.640
<v Speaker 8>Ellen McNair got all sixteen. But I'm not going up.

1526
01:31:01.000 --> 01:31:05.319
<v Speaker 7>I'm sitting here thinking, who how many guys I know?

1527
01:31:06.359 --> 01:31:06.600
<v Speaker 5>I got?

1528
01:31:06.760 --> 01:31:10.000
<v Speaker 7>You got Donnie had you got, you got Jimmy Ellison,

1529
01:31:10.079 --> 01:31:14.600
<v Speaker 7>you got Rayed Strong, Jakomovic. I mean, I can't even

1530
01:31:14.640 --> 01:31:17.000
<v Speaker 7>think about how many guys that came out of that.

1531
01:31:17.439 --> 01:31:20.439
<v Speaker 8>Then, Oh, Chris Iza my problem.

1532
01:31:20.560 --> 01:31:22.600
<v Speaker 5>Welcome Malcolm.

1533
01:31:23.119 --> 01:31:26.159
<v Speaker 8>But anyway, so I'm glad I didn't make Lieutenant was

1534
01:31:27.359 --> 01:31:30.520
<v Speaker 8>you know, for one reason. I can never be a hypocrite.

1535
01:31:30.560 --> 01:31:33.680
<v Speaker 8>I would I wouldn't stand for the guy. When I

1536
01:31:33.760 --> 01:31:37.159
<v Speaker 8>was a boss, things I did, uh, But I didn't

1537
01:31:37.199 --> 01:31:40.279
<v Speaker 8>really have a desire. But I told them my problems

1538
01:31:40.479 --> 01:31:45.439
<v Speaker 8>to study. And I used to tell them like, after,

1539
01:31:46.279 --> 01:31:47.800
<v Speaker 8>here's what I said to do, would be a job.

1540
01:31:48.199 --> 01:31:52.279
<v Speaker 8>You know, Kevin prophet with p cancy prolific right right right? Yeah,

1541
01:31:54.279 --> 01:31:58.119
<v Speaker 8>Scottie civid Chrissa story about that with his father.

1542
01:31:59.000 --> 01:32:00.000
<v Speaker 6>So I.

1543
01:32:02.079 --> 01:32:04.680
<v Speaker 8>Used to add, the fires knockdown and they'd be pulling

1544
01:32:04.760 --> 01:32:08.359
<v Speaker 8>ceilings and I tell them take a break a minute. Now.

1545
01:32:08.720 --> 01:32:11.119
<v Speaker 8>I want to show you something. See them two tenants

1546
01:32:11.159 --> 01:32:14.439
<v Speaker 8>over there, what are they doing? They're bullshitting about how

1547
01:32:14.479 --> 01:32:17.159
<v Speaker 8>they got sucked out of an overtime. And then what

1548
01:32:17.239 --> 01:32:19.439
<v Speaker 8>did they do is they take the flashlight and they

1549
01:32:19.479 --> 01:32:20.920
<v Speaker 8>point to a spot and tell you to put a

1550
01:32:21.000 --> 01:32:24.560
<v Speaker 8>hole there, and then you go back and then more

1551
01:32:25.279 --> 01:32:27.680
<v Speaker 8>and the only do starry flashlight. So it was just

1552
01:32:27.800 --> 01:32:30.760
<v Speaker 8>what you want to do. And you know, the young guys,

1553
01:32:30.800 --> 01:32:32.479
<v Speaker 8>they don't want to be the senior man, you know.

1554
01:32:33.159 --> 01:32:34.560
<v Speaker 8>And I used to tell I was a senior man

1555
01:32:34.560 --> 01:32:37.760
<v Speaker 8>in one of eleven almost seven years and I didn't drive,

1556
01:32:37.960 --> 01:32:38.720
<v Speaker 8>but and.

1557
01:32:38.960 --> 01:32:42.199
<v Speaker 4>I used to tell, as you were rough, well that

1558
01:32:42.399 --> 01:32:42.880
<v Speaker 4>was I was on.

1559
01:32:43.800 --> 01:32:45.560
<v Speaker 8>I was at the job. Then I was coming home

1560
01:32:45.600 --> 01:32:51.680
<v Speaker 8>from from rehearsal because I worked as after now and

1561
01:32:51.760 --> 01:32:54.560
<v Speaker 8>I was coming from rehearsal and Manhattan. But I used

1562
01:32:54.600 --> 01:32:56.720
<v Speaker 8>to tell the guys, you know, you become a senior man,

1563
01:32:57.439 --> 01:33:02.720
<v Speaker 8>I said. Everybody leaves. They do like they either retire

1564
01:33:03.199 --> 01:33:05.479
<v Speaker 8>or they die or they get promoted. You know. It's

1565
01:33:05.520 --> 01:33:07.880
<v Speaker 8>not like they take you downtown and go you know,

1566
01:33:08.399 --> 01:33:10.199
<v Speaker 8>Santa puts the sorda in your shoulders, go, oh, you've

1567
01:33:10.199 --> 01:33:14.560
<v Speaker 8>to senior man now, so study and and they all did.

1568
01:33:15.319 --> 01:33:22.600
<v Speaker 8>And Pekancy's the captain, Kevin's Chris Isa when he was

1569
01:33:22.680 --> 01:33:27.079
<v Speaker 8>at remember right right fires terrific are.

1570
01:33:27.000 --> 01:33:28.840
<v Speaker 5>Still doing it. He's seventy years old.

1571
01:33:29.000 --> 01:33:37.520
<v Speaker 8>Yeah, just you know, all all my officers, nine of

1572
01:33:37.600 --> 01:33:40.760
<v Speaker 8>them were terrific. You know, I was in Basis group

1573
01:33:40.800 --> 01:33:45.479
<v Speaker 8>for eleven years. Uh, Jimmy, Uh that's a whole nother man,

1574
01:33:45.720 --> 01:33:51.840
<v Speaker 8>a whole nother story. Uh. Oh god, you know he was.

1575
01:33:52.039 --> 01:33:57.279
<v Speaker 8>He was a marine and surviving frozen, frozen, chosen hunter

1576
01:33:57.399 --> 01:33:59.640
<v Speaker 8>two truck you know, never wear masks.

1577
01:34:00.279 --> 01:34:00.399
<v Speaker 5>Uh.

1578
01:34:00.680 --> 01:34:04.000
<v Speaker 8>Just a tough guy. But yeah, all our officers, Eddie

1579
01:34:04.039 --> 01:34:08.680
<v Speaker 8>kill Duff came there for about a year. Oh yeah,

1580
01:34:08.800 --> 01:34:16.119
<v Speaker 8>chief killed Uff, but I forgot who left. Oh Chris,

1581
01:34:16.359 --> 01:34:20.680
<v Speaker 8>Chris Lehanna got out, So they killed Duff camp and

1582
01:34:20.800 --> 01:34:22.880
<v Speaker 8>he was a young guy. I mean he came on

1583
01:34:22.920 --> 01:34:25.479
<v Speaker 8>a job right before I did. But he he came

1584
01:34:25.520 --> 01:34:29.479
<v Speaker 8>on and I think December seventy seventh, Uh yeah, and

1585
01:34:29.600 --> 01:34:32.760
<v Speaker 8>I came and follow So he came to one eleven

1586
01:34:34.279 --> 01:34:39.399
<v Speaker 8>covered U foll and Uh, young guy but great guy.

1587
01:34:40.920 --> 01:34:43.920
<v Speaker 8>Oh great fire. I worked and went through a lot

1588
01:34:43.960 --> 01:34:44.680
<v Speaker 8>of fires with him.

1589
01:34:45.079 --> 01:34:45.199
<v Speaker 5>Uh.

1590
01:34:45.760 --> 01:34:49.399
<v Speaker 8>Just a tremendous fire officer. Great and you know he

1591
01:34:49.560 --> 01:34:55.279
<v Speaker 8>learned a lot and uh but what happened is he

1592
01:34:55.439 --> 01:35:02.039
<v Speaker 8>got bumped ah by another guy, Kaylish Storman Norman. Kaylish

1593
01:35:03.920 --> 01:35:07.479
<v Speaker 8>a legend. And as much as we loved Daddy could

1594
01:35:07.520 --> 01:35:11.600
<v Speaker 8>love that Storman. Uh. You know, Eddie probably had about

1595
01:35:12.000 --> 01:35:15.439
<v Speaker 8>forty points and Storman probably Stormy Norman probably had about

1596
01:35:15.479 --> 01:35:20.000
<v Speaker 8>five thousand. Uh Like Eddie ended up only twelve, you know.

1597
01:35:20.479 --> 01:35:22.079
<v Speaker 8>And then he went to the Three Edits. Betan you

1598
01:35:22.359 --> 01:35:27.239
<v Speaker 8>so just a great uh great dig grade fire officer

1599
01:35:27.680 --> 01:35:30.399
<v Speaker 8>and it was a real pleasure to work with him.

1600
01:35:30.560 --> 01:35:34.760
<v Speaker 8>But we had terrific courses over there that came to

1601
01:35:34.920 --> 01:35:39.039
<v Speaker 8>the ranks. Uh, great teachers. You know. You guys a

1602
01:35:39.079 --> 01:35:43.920
<v Speaker 8>lot there right Uh yeah, you know, informal drills kind

1603
01:35:43.920 --> 01:35:46.000
<v Speaker 8>of like you know, you came back from a job

1604
01:35:46.119 --> 01:35:49.319
<v Speaker 8>and you always talked about it, you know. Uh. Brandan

1605
01:35:49.439 --> 01:35:51.399
<v Speaker 8>was big, like in the street, asking you a questions

1606
01:35:51.479 --> 01:35:53.239
<v Speaker 8>right away, what do you do? What you do there?

1607
01:35:53.680 --> 01:35:57.760
<v Speaker 8>Famous my radio. We caught a job in Kingsboro Walk

1608
01:35:58.600 --> 01:36:00.720
<v Speaker 8>and I had the old day. I'll tell you two

1609
01:36:00.760 --> 01:36:04.560
<v Speaker 8>great over stories. So get there and report of a

1610
01:36:04.600 --> 01:36:07.359
<v Speaker 8>guy trapped on the fourth floor or whatever. So I

1611
01:36:07.880 --> 01:36:10.319
<v Speaker 8>jump in the bucket, take off, take the window, and

1612
01:36:10.600 --> 01:36:13.039
<v Speaker 8>it's like the kitchen in the bedroom going and the

1613
01:36:13.079 --> 01:36:15.960
<v Speaker 8>guy's laying right there. So they're banging on the door

1614
01:36:16.760 --> 01:36:19.279
<v Speaker 8>and they're not getting burning was offtually and they're having

1615
01:36:19.319 --> 01:36:21.960
<v Speaker 8>trouble getting in. So I pulled a guy out through

1616
01:36:22.000 --> 01:36:25.600
<v Speaker 8>him in the bucket, you know, drap, and I actually

1617
01:36:25.640 --> 01:36:27.760
<v Speaker 8>crawled open the door for them. It wasn't that bad,

1618
01:36:28.159 --> 01:36:31.680
<v Speaker 8>So dropped the guy open the door. Hey, you know,

1619
01:36:35.720 --> 01:36:38.039
<v Speaker 8>I'll tell you what happens. So we get to it's

1620
01:36:38.039 --> 01:36:44.239
<v Speaker 8>all we get the street. So bred little drill sore said, hey, uh,

1621
01:36:44.920 --> 01:36:46.880
<v Speaker 8>I was calling you on the radio that we couldn't

1622
01:36:46.880 --> 01:36:50.079
<v Speaker 8>get in. Why the fucking answer, I go, I left

1623
01:36:50.159 --> 01:36:55.760
<v Speaker 8>my radio back of course, cap what you know? I said, Well,

1624
01:36:55.800 --> 01:36:57.880
<v Speaker 8>I pulled. I couldn't. I couldn't give you ten for

1625
01:36:58.960 --> 01:37:01.319
<v Speaker 8>I said, I let my radio back into FLA asks

1626
01:37:01.600 --> 01:37:03.760
<v Speaker 8>you were a weigh your radio every day till you die.

1627
01:37:04.560 --> 01:37:08.760
<v Speaker 8>I did I read it? When you ask anybody, I

1628
01:37:09.000 --> 01:37:12.520
<v Speaker 8>never took my radio off to that day. Oh this

1629
01:37:12.680 --> 01:37:18.840
<v Speaker 8>picture this somebody sent me this years ago. I don't

1630
01:37:18.880 --> 01:37:21.119
<v Speaker 8>remember the street. I think it was Hot Street, but

1631
01:37:21.199 --> 01:37:22.760
<v Speaker 8>I'll tell you exactly what happened here.

1632
01:37:26.560 --> 01:37:27.000
<v Speaker 5>We had it.

1633
01:37:28.159 --> 01:37:32.000
<v Speaker 8>It was the top floor. I went in the window

1634
01:37:32.119 --> 01:37:35.800
<v Speaker 8>from the bucket and there was hot street and you know,

1635
01:37:36.119 --> 01:37:39.960
<v Speaker 8>making my move, and it started to get soured real quick.

1636
01:37:40.720 --> 01:37:43.760
<v Speaker 8>So naturally, you know, you guys know what the towel letter.

1637
01:37:43.800 --> 01:37:46.840
<v Speaker 8>You get chased out a lot, and it was gonna light.

1638
01:37:47.000 --> 01:37:49.399
<v Speaker 8>You know, your clock is going in your head, all right.

1639
01:37:49.439 --> 01:37:51.720
<v Speaker 8>I got fifteen seconds up and I went out the

1640
01:37:51.760 --> 01:37:55.800
<v Speaker 8>window winter the bucket and I blow the window and

1641
01:37:56.159 --> 01:37:58.199
<v Speaker 8>I pulled the bucket away and it just lit up.

1642
01:37:59.079 --> 01:38:04.640
<v Speaker 8>And the first time that happened to me. We caught

1643
01:38:04.680 --> 01:38:08.319
<v Speaker 8>a job on I forgot where it was down by

1644
01:38:08.359 --> 01:38:12.079
<v Speaker 8>Reida Avenue and Kenny Connley was driving. So they teach

1645
01:38:12.159 --> 01:38:15.319
<v Speaker 8>you to keep the bucket below the window right so

1646
01:38:15.479 --> 01:38:20.359
<v Speaker 8>that if you find somebody load and plus you stay low.

1647
01:38:21.439 --> 01:38:24.439
<v Speaker 8>So we caught this my first time in the over

1648
01:38:24.479 --> 01:38:27.680
<v Speaker 8>eight we caught this job. It was in a four

1649
01:38:27.720 --> 01:38:30.000
<v Speaker 8>story tenement. If I was on the third floor, never

1650
01:38:30.039 --> 01:38:33.359
<v Speaker 8>forget it on exposure two side at full sight. So

1651
01:38:33.479 --> 01:38:35.640
<v Speaker 8>I jump in the barking take off. I'm on my

1652
01:38:35.760 --> 01:38:38.960
<v Speaker 8>way up to the third floor and five blows out

1653
01:38:39.000 --> 01:38:40.920
<v Speaker 8>the windows. All right, So where do you go? Now?

1654
01:38:41.479 --> 01:38:44.479
<v Speaker 8>You know your job's done? You know, guys don't understand

1655
01:38:44.520 --> 01:38:47.319
<v Speaker 8>the OVM is real main job is the vent uh

1656
01:38:47.880 --> 01:38:50.000
<v Speaker 8>So where do I go? Should I go above the fight? Well,

1657
01:38:50.199 --> 01:38:53.079
<v Speaker 8>it's blown out the window, so I go to join

1658
01:38:53.560 --> 01:38:57.359
<v Speaker 8>top floor apartment. I go crawl back and you go

1659
01:38:57.399 --> 01:39:02.039
<v Speaker 8>on the top floor and it's I'm in there and

1660
01:39:02.159 --> 01:39:05.000
<v Speaker 8>I left my hook by by the bucket, but I

1661
01:39:05.079 --> 01:39:07.000
<v Speaker 8>didn't have the bucket blow the window enough. It was

1662
01:39:07.079 --> 01:39:11.720
<v Speaker 8>up about a foot and it's starting to get bad

1663
01:39:12.199 --> 01:39:15.479
<v Speaker 8>and I gotta go. And I ended up going out

1664
01:39:15.560 --> 01:39:18.000
<v Speaker 8>the window and Jimmy Peppy was driving. He said the

1665
01:39:18.079 --> 01:39:20.520
<v Speaker 8>flames were at your feet. So I land in the

1666
01:39:20.560 --> 01:39:23.159
<v Speaker 8>bucket back then the stick was straight up. I had

1667
01:39:23.199 --> 01:39:25.920
<v Speaker 8>no gloves on. Sweeny wear gloves and I'm trying to

1668
01:39:26.000 --> 01:39:28.399
<v Speaker 8>reach the choice thing to get me out of here.

1669
01:39:28.760 --> 01:39:31.359
<v Speaker 8>Said cause burn the ship. And I'm trying and I'm

1670
01:39:31.399 --> 01:39:33.960
<v Speaker 8>on the bitch bock going due Teddy was dry. Don't

1671
01:39:34.000 --> 01:39:34.720
<v Speaker 8>get me out of here.

1672
01:39:34.880 --> 01:39:35.479
<v Speaker 10>You know I'm burning.

1673
01:39:35.520 --> 01:39:39.359
<v Speaker 8>He goes park your let us all the bucket ball window.

1674
01:39:40.800 --> 01:39:42.960
<v Speaker 10>And leaves me up there for like two minutes and

1675
01:39:43.000 --> 01:39:45.399
<v Speaker 10>I'm playing on my hands on my head like and

1676
01:39:45.520 --> 01:39:47.760
<v Speaker 10>then I got to the street and he goes, yeah,

1677
01:39:47.880 --> 01:39:51.840
<v Speaker 10>and true story that was that was my first time

1678
01:39:51.880 --> 01:39:52.399
<v Speaker 10>in the OVIM.

1679
01:39:53.359 --> 01:39:53.479
<v Speaker 4>Uh.

1680
01:39:54.000 --> 01:39:55.800
<v Speaker 8>That's a tough position to learn, you don't.

1681
01:39:55.880 --> 01:39:57.960
<v Speaker 7>You know what I remember one eleven when I when

1682
01:39:57.960 --> 01:40:00.119
<v Speaker 7>I first got on the job, when I still sit

1683
01:40:00.199 --> 01:40:00.960
<v Speaker 7>to Brooklyn was.

1684
01:40:03.119 --> 01:40:06.039
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it could be a fire in Coney Island, and

1685
01:40:06.119 --> 01:40:07.520
<v Speaker 5>I would hear Warren.

1686
01:40:07.319 --> 01:40:10.560
<v Speaker 7>Say, yeah, we haven't take that, and UH like, yeah,

1687
01:40:10.640 --> 01:40:13.800
<v Speaker 7>well I would send you to every fire.

1688
01:40:14.039 --> 01:40:17.079
<v Speaker 8>George. Yeah, George Bunch and I have great friends because

1689
01:40:17.079 --> 01:40:19.720
<v Speaker 8>we're in five patrol together. Uh one if you and

1690
01:40:19.760 --> 01:40:22.720
<v Speaker 8>George Bunch probably the two best fire ump dispatches in

1691
01:40:22.800 --> 01:40:26.479
<v Speaker 8>the city's history, you know, just great guys. Just knew

1692
01:40:26.520 --> 01:40:29.359
<v Speaker 8>the job, you know. I think they both, between the

1693
01:40:29.399 --> 01:40:31.520
<v Speaker 8>two of them knew. Ever, your long box number.

1694
01:40:31.319 --> 01:40:33.439
<v Speaker 7>Four, My god, he would take you off boxes, like

1695
01:40:33.479 --> 01:40:35.279
<v Speaker 7>if you would go somewhere, he would take you all.

1696
01:40:35.399 --> 01:40:38.560
<v Speaker 5>You got a job coming in the wan, Yeah, one

1697
01:40:38.600 --> 01:40:39.600
<v Speaker 5>of three State Service.

1698
01:40:39.640 --> 01:40:45.720
<v Speaker 8>You're like guys, so back in ninety nine, I got

1699
01:40:45.800 --> 01:40:49.640
<v Speaker 8>detailed in three seven time for a year. Uh, Gene

1700
01:40:49.760 --> 01:40:52.079
<v Speaker 8>think it was the time Commander Bobby Gleason is in

1701
01:40:52.159 --> 01:40:53.800
<v Speaker 8>front of mine who was up there, and they wanted

1702
01:40:53.840 --> 01:40:58.000
<v Speaker 8>a senior guy up there for for a year. I said,

1703
01:40:58.039 --> 01:41:00.119
<v Speaker 8>you know what, I'll take it sounds like a lot

1704
01:41:00.119 --> 01:41:03.199
<v Speaker 8>of fun, and it was. I had a great time

1705
01:41:03.680 --> 01:41:08.880
<v Speaker 8>so well. One of the I've had two famous radio

1706
01:41:08.960 --> 01:41:11.800
<v Speaker 8>transmissions in my life. I was working the Night of

1707
01:41:11.840 --> 01:41:15.840
<v Speaker 8>the Millennium in the three seven and the three seven

1708
01:41:15.920 --> 01:41:20.279
<v Speaker 8>had the last old hands of the twentieth century and

1709
01:41:21.239 --> 01:41:24.800
<v Speaker 8>the first second alarm of the twenty first century. So

1710
01:41:25.560 --> 01:41:28.239
<v Speaker 8>I was driving that night. Jizink he was the officer,

1711
01:41:28.760 --> 01:41:33.439
<v Speaker 8>and we catch a job first too, and I'm giving

1712
01:41:33.479 --> 01:41:37.439
<v Speaker 8>a size up on the radio, you know. And it

1713
01:41:37.560 --> 01:41:40.399
<v Speaker 8>turns midnight and George Bunch, a friend of mine, he's

1714
01:41:40.439 --> 01:41:43.199
<v Speaker 8>on a radio saying, this is now the year two thousand?

1715
01:41:43.880 --> 01:41:47.319
<v Speaker 8>Is it? And jazink it gives me to this transmitted second,

1716
01:41:47.399 --> 01:41:49.960
<v Speaker 8>I get a radio, go three seven time of Brooke,

1717
01:41:49.960 --> 01:41:53.520
<v Speaker 8>an urgent goes go ahead. I go at box six

1718
01:41:53.520 --> 01:41:59.000
<v Speaker 8>Sat five transmitted second ALMP. Happy New Year, George. You

1719
01:41:59.119 --> 01:42:03.279
<v Speaker 8>got only down town and they were they would peak.

1720
01:42:03.319 --> 01:42:06.600
<v Speaker 8>Antsy was the chief and they heard about it Manhattan.

1721
01:42:06.640 --> 01:42:10.000
<v Speaker 8>I threw was getting in trouble and uh but uh

1722
01:42:10.479 --> 01:42:12.880
<v Speaker 8>so I did a year there, came back and then

1723
01:42:13.319 --> 01:42:18.119
<v Speaker 8>when I got hurt uh in the job, uh a

1724
01:42:18.319 --> 01:42:21.960
<v Speaker 8>school bus woo who red lighted fifty miles an hour.

1725
01:42:21.960 --> 01:42:24.239
<v Speaker 8>I had the old I never drove. Uh.

1726
01:42:24.840 --> 01:42:25.960
<v Speaker 6>I was gonna ask you what why not?

1727
01:42:26.159 --> 01:42:30.159
<v Speaker 8>What you want to What happened was back in nineteen

1728
01:42:30.199 --> 01:42:34.399
<v Speaker 8>eighty five. Uh, they started this company qualified thing because

1729
01:42:34.439 --> 01:42:36.159
<v Speaker 8>Chauffe's had a tough time making mutuals.

1730
01:42:36.199 --> 01:42:36.319
<v Speaker 4>You know.

1731
01:42:36.560 --> 01:42:38.840
<v Speaker 8>Of course the city looked that opinion over so they

1732
01:42:39.159 --> 01:42:43.119
<v Speaker 8>you could become company qualifying. So you had to drive

1733
01:42:43.199 --> 01:42:46.039
<v Speaker 8>five hours with do so and we had a stand in,

1734
01:42:46.640 --> 01:42:51.359
<v Speaker 8>uh standard shift. So Cat Brennan, you know, Uh, I

1735
01:42:51.520 --> 01:42:54.960
<v Speaker 8>drive the rig five times makes everybody company quali, right,

1736
01:42:55.479 --> 01:43:00.159
<v Speaker 8>that's it. So I come into work one day. They

1737
01:43:00.239 --> 01:43:02.600
<v Speaker 8>to her and how even asking how the rest of

1738
01:43:02.600 --> 01:43:08.279
<v Speaker 8>his soul? Great fires? Uh great comman. He says, you're

1739
01:43:08.319 --> 01:43:12.680
<v Speaker 8>driving today? Okay, I knew how to you know? So

1740
01:43:13.239 --> 01:43:17.079
<v Speaker 8>all right? So I had my Camaro and I was

1741
01:43:17.159 --> 01:43:20.279
<v Speaker 8>parking front Quarters by the hydrot There was a parking spot.

1742
01:43:20.439 --> 01:43:23.199
<v Speaker 8>We always parked there. You know where this is going now, right?

1743
01:43:23.800 --> 01:43:28.239
<v Speaker 8>So this the show has always told me, when you

1744
01:43:28.359 --> 01:43:31.239
<v Speaker 8>make a left out of Quarters, always watch the bucket

1745
01:43:31.279 --> 01:43:33.880
<v Speaker 8>because it tracks, you know, and you get the wall.

1746
01:43:34.520 --> 01:43:38.039
<v Speaker 8>So we get a run ten minutes after nine, I

1747
01:43:38.159 --> 01:43:40.600
<v Speaker 8>jump in the rigs started up, put the second gear,

1748
01:43:41.439 --> 01:43:45.439
<v Speaker 8>come out. I'm I'm looking to the right, make sure

1749
01:43:45.479 --> 01:43:49.399
<v Speaker 8>the bucket clears, and bam, I hit something and I

1750
01:43:49.479 --> 01:43:51.800
<v Speaker 8>stole the rig. I looked down. I hit my own car.

1751
01:43:54.520 --> 01:43:57.000
<v Speaker 8>So when ask he goes, what the funck was that?

1752
01:43:57.239 --> 01:44:00.159
<v Speaker 8>I go, and I go, It's okay, lo, I hit

1753
01:44:00.199 --> 01:44:00.680
<v Speaker 8>my own car.

1754
01:44:06.079 --> 01:44:07.079
<v Speaker 6>We'll do that later.

1755
01:44:07.880 --> 01:44:10.039
<v Speaker 8>This is the best. So I start the rig up again.

1756
01:44:10.600 --> 01:44:12.760
<v Speaker 8>The Netsky reaches open to his hand on my chest.

1757
01:44:12.840 --> 01:44:19.039
<v Speaker 8>He goes, Austin, you're out, maloney, next man up, And

1758
01:44:19.159 --> 01:44:22.840
<v Speaker 8>I never drove again. So every time. Oh so that

1759
01:44:23.159 --> 01:44:29.479
<v Speaker 8>night I'm working hot that night and Greg Evans, great fireman.

1760
01:44:29.720 --> 01:44:33.479
<v Speaker 8>Uh he didn't have a driver's license because we didn't

1761
01:44:33.479 --> 01:44:35.760
<v Speaker 8>get in seventy seven, and they made him come in

1762
01:44:35.800 --> 01:44:40.520
<v Speaker 8>to qualify the engine. Jimmy Basil, So I moved my car.

1763
01:44:40.920 --> 01:44:43.760
<v Speaker 8>Jimmy Basil had bought a brand new car. Jimmy Bazil

1764
01:44:43.880 --> 01:44:46.119
<v Speaker 8>used to come to work with the worst looking cause

1765
01:44:46.159 --> 01:44:48.039
<v Speaker 8>you have seen your life. I mean one time he

1766
01:44:48.119 --> 01:44:50.960
<v Speaker 8>had a pipe holding the back of his driver's seat.

1767
01:44:51.479 --> 01:44:54.000
<v Speaker 8>So he buys this new car. I don't know what

1768
01:44:54.079 --> 01:44:57.840
<v Speaker 8>it was. So he's parking spoty works, the engine gets

1769
01:44:57.840 --> 01:45:00.479
<v Speaker 8>in the RS box and out the door to go

1770
01:45:01.000 --> 01:45:04.479
<v Speaker 8>and and boom we here an explosion all in the yard.

1771
01:45:04.560 --> 01:45:08.439
<v Speaker 8>We all go running out and two fourteen ran over

1772
01:45:08.479 --> 01:45:14.199
<v Speaker 8>the front of his car and it hold it. But

1773
01:45:14.560 --> 01:45:16.159
<v Speaker 8>Jimmy was a million. They took care of it. So

1774
01:45:16.319 --> 01:45:21.479
<v Speaker 8>the next morning I'm in the bathroom and Bobby Shaffer walks.

1775
01:45:21.800 --> 01:45:25.119
<v Speaker 8>Now you've heard about Bobby Shaef who said three words

1776
01:45:25.159 --> 01:45:28.239
<v Speaker 8>to me in three years. He walks in, shuts the

1777
01:45:28.319 --> 01:45:32.760
<v Speaker 8>bathroom door. He says, they kid, I heard you were

1778
01:45:32.840 --> 01:45:36.800
<v Speaker 8>driving yesterday and your fucking car. I said yeah, And

1779
01:45:36.880 --> 01:45:39.359
<v Speaker 8>he goes the kidney engine pulls out. Of course it's

1780
01:45:39.439 --> 01:45:41.720
<v Speaker 8>Jimmy's car and takes you off the hook. That's what

1781
01:45:41.880 --> 01:45:43.520
<v Speaker 8>he called this place, the fucking nuthouse.

1782
01:45:43.720 --> 01:45:46.199
<v Speaker 6>And he walked and I was like, holy shit.

1783
01:45:47.920 --> 01:45:53.079
<v Speaker 8>So I had about eleven or twelve captains. And every

1784
01:45:53.079 --> 01:45:54.880
<v Speaker 8>time I get a new captain, especially when the time

1785
01:45:54.920 --> 01:45:59.079
<v Speaker 8>of a job, listen, uh, you want to send a

1786
01:45:59.159 --> 01:46:01.119
<v Speaker 8>show for school now. I don't want to go to

1787
01:46:01.159 --> 01:46:04.199
<v Speaker 8>show school. Captain, Now, we're gonna send you now. And

1788
01:46:04.279 --> 01:46:07.159
<v Speaker 8>I'd say, cap, let me tell you a story. And

1789
01:46:07.239 --> 01:46:08.800
<v Speaker 8>I would tell them what happened. He goes, all right,

1790
01:46:08.800 --> 01:46:15.000
<v Speaker 8>who's after you? But the fine thing was, Bruby, you're

1791
01:46:15.079 --> 01:46:18.159
<v Speaker 8>just who can't do it as a captain. I remember

1792
01:46:18.159 --> 01:46:21.359
<v Speaker 8>when he's a probe two twenty two. Great guy. So

1793
01:46:22.119 --> 01:46:24.239
<v Speaker 8>you know, I had twenty nine years on the job

1794
01:46:24.319 --> 01:46:26.800
<v Speaker 8>on the back step. And not that I was getting

1795
01:46:26.840 --> 01:46:29.720
<v Speaker 8>tired or not that I was thinking of my duties,

1796
01:46:29.800 --> 01:46:32.479
<v Speaker 8>but you know the guys once you drive, so Scotti

1797
01:46:32.520 --> 01:46:34.000
<v Speaker 8>see it was, you know, one of my probies. You

1798
01:46:34.720 --> 01:46:36.239
<v Speaker 8>So I thought, you know what, maybe I will So

1799
01:46:36.359 --> 01:46:42.760
<v Speaker 8>I spoke the captain Bruby, Uh one day and UH said,

1800
01:46:42.760 --> 01:46:45.079
<v Speaker 8>you know, I'd be interested in going to show school

1801
01:46:45.720 --> 01:46:48.039
<v Speaker 8>and the guys will give me. He was absolutely, Bobby,

1802
01:46:48.079 --> 01:46:50.640
<v Speaker 8>we'll get you in next clix. So two nights later,

1803
01:46:50.680 --> 01:46:53.159
<v Speaker 8>I'm working and I had stopped cooking, and I cooked

1804
01:46:53.199 --> 01:46:55.399
<v Speaker 8>a little time, but went young guys cook said that

1805
01:46:55.520 --> 01:46:57.960
<v Speaker 8>night I had a cook who's no talent. Eric was working,

1806
01:46:59.399 --> 01:47:04.079
<v Speaker 8>Oh can you can boil water? And Uh, we're working,

1807
01:47:04.239 --> 01:47:13.600
<v Speaker 8>and uh, I guess it was about six thirty morning,

1808
01:47:14.359 --> 01:47:17.239
<v Speaker 8>and uh we had two jobs or a job, and

1809
01:47:17.319 --> 01:47:19.560
<v Speaker 8>we get a round about six thirty in the morning,

1810
01:47:20.239 --> 01:47:22.600
<v Speaker 8>and we go out the door and and I forget.

1811
01:47:22.640 --> 01:47:24.319
<v Speaker 8>We made a right out of the quarters. I little

1812
01:47:24.359 --> 01:47:26.359
<v Speaker 8>figure it up and go where are we going? And

1813
01:47:26.479 --> 01:47:28.880
<v Speaker 8>they had the over and they said smoking the church

1814
01:47:28.960 --> 01:47:32.000
<v Speaker 8>on Troop Avenel. I said, hey, holy smoke, and we're

1815
01:47:32.039 --> 01:47:33.920
<v Speaker 8>in the corner summer and Hancock and I looked to

1816
01:47:33.920 --> 01:47:37.560
<v Speaker 8>the right and bam his school bust de bonbus and

1817
01:47:38.680 --> 01:47:42.560
<v Speaker 8>that was it. And I went to Uh it took

1818
01:47:42.560 --> 01:47:46.000
<v Speaker 8>me to Bellevue and uh that was it. It was

1819
01:47:46.000 --> 01:47:49.760
<v Speaker 8>on my minutes later. So I never made it to Shouffa.

1820
01:47:51.920 --> 01:47:55.720
<v Speaker 6>A couple of questions in here. Somebody, I'm sorry, somebody

1821
01:47:55.920 --> 01:48:00.119
<v Speaker 6>asked if who brought the alligator in the captain if

1822
01:48:00.159 --> 01:48:00.960
<v Speaker 6>you mentioned.

1823
01:48:02.560 --> 01:48:04.119
<v Speaker 8>It's an alligator into one eleven.

1824
01:48:04.520 --> 01:48:06.479
<v Speaker 6>No, I think he was talking about one seventy six.

1825
01:48:07.560 --> 01:48:08.399
<v Speaker 8>An alligator.

1826
01:48:08.640 --> 01:48:10.880
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I had a lot of animals over there.

1827
01:48:11.119 --> 01:48:11.520
<v Speaker 8>Yeah.

1828
01:48:13.199 --> 01:48:16.880
<v Speaker 6>Over there, Yeah there's another one. Does Bobby have any

1829
01:48:16.960 --> 01:48:19.199
<v Speaker 6>good Patty Concannon stories?

1830
01:48:20.000 --> 01:48:29.720
<v Speaker 8>Yeah? No, uh yeah One seventy six had. I'm an

1831
01:48:29.800 --> 01:48:33.399
<v Speaker 8>are Yeah they were. You know. That was the other thing, like,

1832
01:48:35.560 --> 01:48:37.560
<v Speaker 8>especially when I went to one eleven years ago, there

1833
01:48:37.640 --> 01:48:42.920
<v Speaker 8>was no competition between companies. You know, everybody did their job.

1834
01:48:43.079 --> 01:48:45.920
<v Speaker 8>Nobody was trying to beat people in. Everybody went to

1835
01:48:45.960 --> 01:48:48.800
<v Speaker 8>whit It's supposed to be. One thing about one eleven.

1836
01:48:48.840 --> 01:48:51.560
<v Speaker 8>I will say one eleven was always a position truck.

1837
01:48:52.279 --> 01:48:55.000
<v Speaker 8>Uh you got to be in a position. You know

1838
01:48:55.000 --> 01:48:59.680
<v Speaker 8>what I'm saying. Sign you know, and you know, I

1839
01:48:59.760 --> 01:49:07.560
<v Speaker 8>mean sometimes things would happen. But uh oh So another

1840
01:49:07.600 --> 01:49:11.560
<v Speaker 8>thing I remember, I had just gotten one eleven and

1841
01:49:11.760 --> 01:49:14.079
<v Speaker 8>one night this is a lesson I taught my probes.

1842
01:49:14.960 --> 01:49:16.880
<v Speaker 8>I had just gotten there and it was like my

1843
01:49:17.000 --> 01:49:19.399
<v Speaker 8>third tour and they had to give me the roof

1844
01:49:19.880 --> 01:49:22.960
<v Speaker 8>that night because we had two details from whatever. So

1845
01:49:23.039 --> 01:49:26.760
<v Speaker 8>I get the roof. So Doug Simes and Kenny Connolly

1846
01:49:28.039 --> 01:49:30.560
<v Speaker 8>and Stella to give me the roof. Trail you know,

1847
01:49:30.680 --> 01:49:33.560
<v Speaker 8>eight seconds, I kid, here's what you do. You pull up.

1848
01:49:33.880 --> 01:49:35.880
<v Speaker 8>If you can't use that, you know, pull up, You

1849
01:49:36.000 --> 01:49:37.680
<v Speaker 8>use your joining building. If you can't use your join

1850
01:49:37.760 --> 01:49:39.720
<v Speaker 8>the building, use the bucket. If you take your joining

1851
01:49:39.760 --> 01:49:41.920
<v Speaker 8>building course in the front, not in the rear. Blah

1852
01:49:41.920 --> 01:49:44.239
<v Speaker 8>blah blah, do this. Okay, that's it. You got it.

1853
01:49:44.439 --> 01:49:47.600
<v Speaker 8>Two minutes after, you know, two minutes later, boom six

1854
01:49:47.720 --> 01:49:51.079
<v Speaker 8>seventy six box comes in Washington Pulasky fire on the

1855
01:49:51.119 --> 01:49:54.760
<v Speaker 8>top floor. People trapped. Okay, we jump and we take off.

1856
01:49:55.520 --> 01:49:59.319
<v Speaker 8>We get there and I see a hundred two aerial

1857
01:49:59.439 --> 01:50:02.760
<v Speaker 8>to the top for I get off the ring. I

1858
01:50:02.920 --> 01:50:06.319
<v Speaker 8>take the adjoining building. I had a hook, had the

1859
01:50:06.359 --> 01:50:09.640
<v Speaker 8>hook and hawlgan my right hand. I take the adjoining building.

1860
01:50:10.359 --> 01:50:12.359
<v Speaker 8>Get up there, come out of the scuttle and the

1861
01:50:12.439 --> 01:50:15.279
<v Speaker 8>fire is blown out the bulkhead. I've never seen this,

1862
01:50:15.479 --> 01:50:17.920
<v Speaker 8>you know, being an engine hook. And I'm so messment.

1863
01:50:18.039 --> 01:50:21.039
<v Speaker 8>I run across the rear and I fall in a

1864
01:50:21.079 --> 01:50:23.239
<v Speaker 8>four story chaft. Did you do that?

1865
01:50:24.720 --> 01:50:24.760
<v Speaker 5>What?

1866
01:50:25.079 --> 01:50:29.640
<v Speaker 8>My left hand caught the parapet, my right hand hit

1867
01:50:29.720 --> 01:50:31.880
<v Speaker 8>the wall. Who had the tools? I broke my finger

1868
01:50:32.159 --> 01:50:36.880
<v Speaker 8>and now I'm hanging four stories up but not warm.

1869
01:50:37.640 --> 01:50:39.439
<v Speaker 8>You know, remember when you did the eight foot wall

1870
01:50:39.520 --> 01:50:41.319
<v Speaker 8>and probably you know when you were taking a test.

1871
01:50:41.800 --> 01:50:45.000
<v Speaker 8>I walked up that wall and rolled over onto the

1872
01:50:45.119 --> 01:50:49.000
<v Speaker 8>roof and I'm laying there like holy shit. So I

1873
01:50:49.199 --> 01:50:51.720
<v Speaker 8>had the fire and there's nobody on the roof. I'm

1874
01:50:51.760 --> 01:50:54.920
<v Speaker 8>the first guy. So the fire has blown out the

1875
01:50:54.960 --> 01:50:58.119
<v Speaker 8>window at the folk door. So oh, I take the

1876
01:50:58.159 --> 01:51:01.039
<v Speaker 8>skylight but I'm sure, and the bucket comes up with

1877
01:51:01.159 --> 01:51:04.399
<v Speaker 8>the dou You got the sword and I must have.

1878
01:51:04.920 --> 01:51:07.680
<v Speaker 8>I found out later. I'm just standing there shaken, and

1879
01:51:07.800 --> 01:51:09.640
<v Speaker 8>the dude comes over and he goes, well, the pucks

1880
01:51:09.640 --> 01:51:12.119
<v Speaker 8>no matter, you ass, Oh what are you doing? And

1881
01:51:12.199 --> 01:51:14.760
<v Speaker 8>I pointed to the shaft and he said to me,

1882
01:51:15.079 --> 01:51:17.439
<v Speaker 8>we'll talk to you later. And after the fire was out,

1883
01:51:17.600 --> 01:51:19.279
<v Speaker 8>we cut a hole and we got back to the

1884
01:51:19.359 --> 01:51:23.920
<v Speaker 8>firehouse and Doug Sims and Kenny Connolly and Side Taylor

1885
01:51:24.199 --> 01:51:26.960
<v Speaker 8>ripped me a major who ass They really did, to

1886
01:51:27.079 --> 01:51:29.000
<v Speaker 8>the point of they said, you know, if you fell

1887
01:51:29.079 --> 01:51:31.199
<v Speaker 8>in that shaft and you were dad, we would have

1888
01:51:31.279 --> 01:51:31.960
<v Speaker 8>just left you there.

1889
01:51:34.279 --> 01:51:35.520
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, very nice.

1890
01:51:36.199 --> 01:51:40.239
<v Speaker 8>Serious, there's no sympathy half. But that was one of

1891
01:51:40.319 --> 01:51:42.359
<v Speaker 8>the points I would teach the young guys. You know,

1892
01:51:42.840 --> 01:51:45.640
<v Speaker 8>cross in the front, standing belly, U's your hook. But

1893
01:51:45.800 --> 01:51:48.960
<v Speaker 8>you know I was young, I was new, and you

1894
01:51:49.039 --> 01:51:52.279
<v Speaker 8>know you get mesmarly ship, you know. But that was

1895
01:51:52.319 --> 01:51:52.960
<v Speaker 8>another lesson.

1896
01:51:53.039 --> 01:51:55.760
<v Speaker 5>I where did they come up with the peanut bob?

1897
01:51:57.640 --> 01:52:02.239
<v Speaker 8>What I heard was, uh came up from back in

1898
01:52:02.279 --> 01:52:04.199
<v Speaker 8>the day to well, when I got there, they ate

1899
01:52:04.239 --> 01:52:09.560
<v Speaker 8>a lot of peanuts. And our original patch was designed

1900
01:52:09.560 --> 01:52:14.279
<v Speaker 8>by Lieutenant Willy Malone's daughter Mary Uh and the job

1901
01:52:14.399 --> 01:52:17.079
<v Speaker 8>turned it down because there was a hole. It was

1902
01:52:17.119 --> 01:52:22.279
<v Speaker 8>supposed to be two crazy guys. Oh god, what would

1903
01:52:22.279 --> 01:52:25.319
<v Speaker 8>be the names? When I Kim and the job turned

1904
01:52:25.359 --> 01:52:27.520
<v Speaker 8>it down because there was a hole in the boot.

1905
01:52:27.960 --> 01:52:32.079
<v Speaker 8>So yeah, so see the hole in the boot. They

1906
01:52:32.199 --> 01:52:35.159
<v Speaker 8>turned it down because of that. Oh god, yeah, well

1907
01:52:35.760 --> 01:52:39.960
<v Speaker 8>who were crazy guys back then? Napoleon? The one eleven

1908
01:52:40.000 --> 01:52:43.000
<v Speaker 8>guy was Napoleon, I forget. So the job turned it down,

1909
01:52:43.640 --> 01:52:48.640
<v Speaker 8>so the it was Dennis Conway. Ashley said let's do

1910
01:52:48.760 --> 01:52:52.880
<v Speaker 8>the peanut man, and uh yeah, and that was perfect.

1911
01:52:53.600 --> 01:52:56.560
<v Speaker 8>You know. By the way, Dennis Conway, you're a great

1912
01:52:56.600 --> 01:53:00.920
<v Speaker 8>friend of mine, great fireman. He's in hospice. Yeah, I

1913
01:53:01.039 --> 01:53:02.600
<v Speaker 8>go to see him. We all go to see him

1914
01:53:02.640 --> 01:53:06.399
<v Speaker 8>quite often. Great fireman. Tell another story with Dennis. A

1915
01:53:07.000 --> 01:53:12.520
<v Speaker 8>tough guy, very tough. One night I was new there.

1916
01:53:13.560 --> 01:53:15.159
<v Speaker 8>I hope I'm not taking too much time? Up?

1917
01:53:15.760 --> 01:53:16.279
<v Speaker 5>Are you good?

1918
01:53:16.600 --> 01:53:20.039
<v Speaker 8>We interchanged every third night. I remember when I retired

1919
01:53:20.279 --> 01:53:23.680
<v Speaker 8>in South Asanto in front of mine retired my badge

1920
01:53:23.840 --> 01:53:26.760
<v Speaker 8>and I didn't have quite thirty years. If you have

1921
01:53:26.840 --> 01:53:30.640
<v Speaker 8>thirty years, your bed can be retired automatically. But if

1922
01:53:30.680 --> 01:53:32.680
<v Speaker 8>you have under thirty years, the only chief department can

1923
01:53:32.760 --> 01:53:35.439
<v Speaker 8>retire it. So today I was getting out there's any thing.

1924
01:53:35.479 --> 01:53:41.119
<v Speaker 8>It was called up anyway, so he retired my bed.

1925
01:53:41.520 --> 01:53:44.840
<v Speaker 8>But so and he said to me, you know, you

1926
01:53:45.000 --> 01:53:47.359
<v Speaker 8>realize that you're probably the last guy to leave this

1927
01:53:47.600 --> 01:53:52.079
<v Speaker 8>job that worked on the last two scheduled interchange companies.

1928
01:53:52.920 --> 01:53:55.159
<v Speaker 8>When I got to two thirty in nineteen seventy eight,

1929
01:53:55.479 --> 01:53:59.479
<v Speaker 8>we were on scheduled interchange. We interchange when Injine two

1930
01:53:59.520 --> 01:54:04.079
<v Speaker 8>twenty four, so every night that every third night we interchange.

1931
01:54:04.159 --> 01:54:07.000
<v Speaker 8>We had to leave the guy back because twenty four

1932
01:54:07.079 --> 01:54:09.079
<v Speaker 8>is a form an engine. And then we went to

1933
01:54:09.159 --> 01:54:11.760
<v Speaker 8>two twenty fourth quarters and then there was a little incident,

1934
01:54:12.319 --> 01:54:14.760
<v Speaker 8>uh I guess that happened, and then we ended up

1935
01:54:14.920 --> 01:54:17.479
<v Speaker 8>started sentence to two well six, which you know was

1936
01:54:17.600 --> 01:54:19.800
<v Speaker 8>way out no way, you couldn't get any trouble. And

1937
01:54:19.880 --> 01:54:22.399
<v Speaker 8>then when I went to one eleven, you're on schedule

1938
01:54:22.399 --> 01:54:26.399
<v Speaker 8>interchange with latter one fifty nine every third night. So

1939
01:54:28.000 --> 01:54:34.119
<v Speaker 8>uh so one night we were on interchange in latter

1940
01:54:34.199 --> 01:54:38.319
<v Speaker 8>one fifty nine. So when you interchange, you're that unit.

1941
01:54:38.960 --> 01:54:41.960
<v Speaker 8>It's not like you relocate. You're not one eleven acting

1942
01:54:42.039 --> 01:54:46.640
<v Speaker 8>one fifty nine. You're one fifty nine, and one fifty

1943
01:54:46.760 --> 01:54:50.000
<v Speaker 8>nine is not acting one eleven. They were one eleven,

1944
01:54:50.520 --> 01:54:54.560
<v Speaker 8>so we relocate. Then we're back, I mean we go there,

1945
01:54:54.600 --> 01:54:56.960
<v Speaker 8>we get there about we're there about an hour, and

1946
01:54:57.079 --> 01:55:02.720
<v Speaker 8>we get sent back to relocate to one eleven. Well

1947
01:55:03.520 --> 01:55:06.279
<v Speaker 8>one twenty was the night time, he and uh, I

1948
01:55:06.359 --> 01:55:11.359
<v Speaker 8>forget uh, I'm not sure. No, they sent us back

1949
01:55:11.439 --> 01:55:16.079
<v Speaker 8>because there was one twenty a quarter in one seventy

1950
01:55:16.119 --> 01:55:18.840
<v Speaker 8>five quarter, a really hairy fire in Bushwick and there

1951
01:55:18.920 --> 01:55:21.319
<v Speaker 8>was metal you know, guys made rescues, It's crazy, and

1952
01:55:21.439 --> 01:55:23.800
<v Speaker 8>it was another job on Hancock Street going so the

1953
01:55:23.880 --> 01:55:26.960
<v Speaker 8>interchange company won fifty nine went there, so they sent

1954
01:55:27.039 --> 01:55:31.039
<v Speaker 8>it us back to one eleven. So we're about easton

1955
01:55:31.119 --> 01:55:34.039
<v Speaker 8>Parkway and just one.

1956
01:55:33.960 --> 01:55:37.119
<v Speaker 7>Eleven acting one eleven, well acting one fifty nine, who's

1957
01:55:37.119 --> 01:55:37.880
<v Speaker 7>acting one eleven?

1958
01:55:38.119 --> 01:55:42.359
<v Speaker 8>But we're not at we're one fifty nine, so we're

1959
01:55:42.399 --> 01:55:45.880
<v Speaker 8>not one eleven. So the dispatcher, it might have been George,

1960
01:55:46.159 --> 01:55:48.920
<v Speaker 8>or it might have been on He Jimmy was, Basil's

1961
01:55:48.960 --> 01:55:53.039
<v Speaker 8>the officer, and Conway's working, you know, Doug signs and

1962
01:55:53.760 --> 01:55:55.880
<v Speaker 8>Dennis head the hat, the ions, I'm the camp man,

1963
01:55:58.319 --> 01:56:01.159
<v Speaker 8>you know, broken the ladder one fifty nine. What's your location?

1964
01:56:01.680 --> 01:56:04.159
<v Speaker 8>So Jimmy says, we just crossed Easton Parkley. All right,

1965
01:56:04.239 --> 01:56:06.720
<v Speaker 8>go in eight three to zero box. Uh, first to

1966
01:56:06.880 --> 01:56:09.520
<v Speaker 8>a three old browery. Can hear your first two truck?

1967
01:56:09.960 --> 01:56:11.399
<v Speaker 5>We yeah, take it in.

1968
01:56:12.119 --> 01:56:15.199
<v Speaker 8>Well, no, we were legit at Easton Parker. But there's

1969
01:56:15.439 --> 01:56:17.920
<v Speaker 8>so many, so much working. So we roll into this

1970
01:56:18.039 --> 01:56:20.720
<v Speaker 8>thing and this place is going it's a frame. So

1971
01:56:21.800 --> 01:56:24.840
<v Speaker 8>two fourteen ended a first do there. So I got

1972
01:56:24.880 --> 01:56:29.000
<v Speaker 8>the can. I run for Dennis Conway and I'm jacked

1973
01:56:29.039 --> 01:56:32.079
<v Speaker 8>up and were masks, you know, And we get up

1974
01:56:32.119 --> 01:56:34.920
<v Speaker 8>to the five floor and it's burnt through the door

1975
01:56:34.960 --> 01:56:37.319
<v Speaker 8>a little bit, and I started with a can. So

1976
01:56:37.399 --> 01:56:39.199
<v Speaker 8>I'm like, you know, come on, Dennis, let's go. Let's go.

1977
01:56:39.319 --> 01:56:40.800
<v Speaker 8>Come on, I'm ready to go. He goes, you want

1978
01:56:40.800 --> 01:56:42.319
<v Speaker 8>to go in there? Kid? I go yeah. He opens

1979
01:56:42.359 --> 01:56:46.159
<v Speaker 8>the door, fire blots out our friends. Look, he shut

1980
01:56:46.199 --> 01:56:46.920
<v Speaker 8>to do you want to go in there?

1981
01:56:46.960 --> 01:56:47.079
<v Speaker 4>And go?

1982
01:56:47.159 --> 01:56:47.199
<v Speaker 5>No?

1983
01:56:47.239 --> 01:56:49.640
<v Speaker 8>No, our wait for me. But he knew what he

1984
01:56:49.760 --> 01:56:50.079
<v Speaker 8>was doing.

1985
01:56:50.880 --> 01:56:51.000
<v Speaker 5>Uh.

1986
01:56:51.159 --> 01:56:53.920
<v Speaker 8>But yeah, so we were so as we're going through

1987
01:56:53.960 --> 01:56:58.319
<v Speaker 8>the fire, the job on Hancock, the handy talkies, I mean,

1988
01:56:58.640 --> 01:57:01.680
<v Speaker 8>so we're here in the basils any talkie three seven

1989
01:57:01.720 --> 01:57:06.319
<v Speaker 8>and one eleven, So Jimmy answers it eleven he goes, yeah, uh,

1990
01:57:06.680 --> 01:57:08.880
<v Speaker 8>one eleven, you might want to help. Uh, there's a

1991
01:57:08.960 --> 01:57:12.399
<v Speaker 8>job around the corner, you know, but we're basinss is, no,

1992
01:57:12.520 --> 01:57:15.640
<v Speaker 8>we're here ready. It was just crazy that night. But

1993
01:57:15.720 --> 01:57:18.239
<v Speaker 8>I'll never forget Dennis opening that door of me, and

1994
01:57:18.479 --> 01:57:22.039
<v Speaker 8>uh you really he was, he was. They were all tough,

1995
01:57:22.119 --> 01:57:24.960
<v Speaker 8>Bobby shape, they were all tough guys. Like I said,

1996
01:57:24.960 --> 01:57:26.439
<v Speaker 8>you went to work every day trying to be like

1997
01:57:26.560 --> 01:57:28.800
<v Speaker 8>them and knowing you never will be.

1998
01:57:29.119 --> 01:57:30.239
<v Speaker 5>That's the best line ever.

1999
01:57:30.800 --> 01:57:34.920
<v Speaker 8>Yeah never Uh. And as they said, guys got made

2000
01:57:34.920 --> 01:57:39.600
<v Speaker 8>out of there, you know, guys like myrph uh. You know,

2001
01:57:39.840 --> 01:57:42.239
<v Speaker 8>just I was very lucky to work with these guys,

2002
01:57:42.319 --> 01:57:48.359
<v Speaker 8>I really was. You learn a lot from them, and

2003
01:57:48.560 --> 01:57:51.560
<v Speaker 8>you you pass it on, you know what I'm saying,

2004
01:57:52.399 --> 01:57:55.800
<v Speaker 8>Like the young guys, you're supposed to do yeah when

2005
01:57:55.840 --> 01:57:58.760
<v Speaker 8>you're Yeah, when you're a senor guy, they look up

2006
01:57:58.800 --> 01:58:02.159
<v Speaker 8>to you. And I used to tell them, you know,

2007
01:58:03.000 --> 01:58:03.600
<v Speaker 8>show them stuff.

2008
01:58:03.600 --> 01:58:03.760
<v Speaker 5>I go.

2009
01:58:03.880 --> 01:58:06.439
<v Speaker 8>I didn't make this up. I just learned from the

2010
01:58:06.520 --> 01:58:08.840
<v Speaker 8>older guys that showed me. I'm not a genius there.

2011
01:58:09.479 --> 01:58:12.640
<v Speaker 8>This is what I was taught to do and how

2012
01:58:12.680 --> 01:58:14.319
<v Speaker 8>to do this and how to do that. And I

2013
01:58:14.319 --> 01:58:16.560
<v Speaker 8>always like they told me, and like I told me,

2014
01:58:16.600 --> 01:58:21.000
<v Speaker 8>young guys, if you make a mistake, it's okay, it's

2015
01:58:21.000 --> 01:58:24.159
<v Speaker 8>gonna happen. Just don't make the same mistake twice, you know,

2016
01:58:25.039 --> 01:58:28.159
<v Speaker 8>and always remember that. You know, you have guys that

2017
01:58:28.279 --> 01:58:31.520
<v Speaker 8>depend on you. Just do your job, and you know,

2018
01:58:32.439 --> 01:58:35.880
<v Speaker 8>I mean that's how it is. The job, like you said,

2019
01:58:35.960 --> 01:58:40.000
<v Speaker 8>is ninety percent experience and ten percent knowledge.

2020
01:58:40.359 --> 01:58:42.279
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, we say a lot like on the show that

2021
01:58:42.560 --> 01:58:46.399
<v Speaker 7>you know, especially guys like yourself. You know, you can

2022
01:58:46.439 --> 01:58:50.199
<v Speaker 7>make a mistake at you know, eight o'clock in the morning,

2023
01:58:50.279 --> 01:58:52.039
<v Speaker 7>and by nine thirty you could be.

2024
01:58:52.600 --> 01:58:56.159
<v Speaker 8>I've always said that, You're right, Louis. I say, when

2025
01:58:56.199 --> 01:59:00.520
<v Speaker 8>I first got there, you can screw up at eighteen

2026
01:59:00.600 --> 01:59:05.079
<v Speaker 8>hundred hours, but then twenty hundred hours, you know, eight

2027
01:59:05.079 --> 01:59:07.680
<v Speaker 8>o'clock you could do better because you had the next job,

2028
01:59:08.000 --> 01:59:10.319
<v Speaker 8>and six in the morning you got even better because

2029
01:59:11.359 --> 01:59:17.640
<v Speaker 8>you know, another story I can think of. I don't

2030
01:59:17.640 --> 01:59:19.560
<v Speaker 8>know if you guys ever heard of Bobby Grayber Jethrow

2031
01:59:19.680 --> 01:59:23.520
<v Speaker 8>or whatever, you know, Jetro. Every time Jethro worked in

2032
01:59:23.560 --> 01:59:24.880
<v Speaker 8>the truck, we got a rasts kick.

2033
01:59:25.359 --> 01:59:29.399
<v Speaker 5>So actually I was one guy he was in the

2034
01:59:29.600 --> 01:59:30.359
<v Speaker 5>he was an engine guy.

2035
01:59:30.560 --> 01:59:34.239
<v Speaker 8>Always stayed in the engine. But when he get detail

2036
01:59:34.239 --> 01:59:37.000
<v Speaker 8>work outing in the truck and I worked with mine,

2037
01:59:37.359 --> 01:59:39.840
<v Speaker 8>I wanted to go home, you know. I would tell

2038
01:59:39.880 --> 01:59:41.520
<v Speaker 8>you also, I'm going home. I don't want to work

2039
01:59:41.560 --> 01:59:45.079
<v Speaker 8>when this kid's working, We're gonna get killed. So I

2040
01:59:45.199 --> 01:59:48.359
<v Speaker 8>actually was at the promotions area a couple of weeks

2041
01:59:48.399 --> 01:59:53.680
<v Speaker 8>ago and UH and the Chief department Uh esposito his

2042
01:59:53.760 --> 01:59:57.079
<v Speaker 8>first thing, Yeah, Joe right. So I went over to

2043
01:59:57.159 --> 01:59:59.399
<v Speaker 8>shake his hand. I said hey, chief, and he goes,

2044
01:59:59.560 --> 02:00:02.960
<v Speaker 8>you're be right met those kind of life, yes, sir,

2045
02:00:03.399 --> 02:00:05.880
<v Speaker 8>And he says, I remember you when I was in

2046
02:00:05.960 --> 02:00:09.199
<v Speaker 8>the battalion covern and they had this fire and it

2047
02:00:09.359 --> 02:00:11.520
<v Speaker 8>was so smoky and nobody could see and you direct

2048
02:00:11.560 --> 02:00:13.760
<v Speaker 8>the rigging. And I said it was on Brooklyn Avenue

2049
02:00:13.760 --> 02:00:15.960
<v Speaker 8>and he goes, yeah, And I'll never forget that fire.

2050
02:00:16.319 --> 02:00:19.039
<v Speaker 8>So we had a job of Brooklyn Avenue and Bill

2051
02:00:19.159 --> 02:00:23.520
<v Speaker 8>Chesney was the irons guy, and Gregory was cam in

2052
02:00:23.800 --> 02:00:26.359
<v Speaker 8>and Dennis was driving, and I had the OVA and

2053
02:00:26.479 --> 02:00:29.159
<v Speaker 8>I had just started agetting the OVA and we pull up.

2054
02:00:29.399 --> 02:00:32.800
<v Speaker 8>You can't see the building. Cannot see the building, there's

2055
02:00:32.840 --> 02:00:36.720
<v Speaker 8>so much smoke. So but I didn't know they had

2056
02:00:36.760 --> 02:00:39.079
<v Speaker 8>taught me like, line up, because I got to go

2057
02:00:39.119 --> 02:00:41.319
<v Speaker 8>in the windows, and I got to go on the

2058
02:00:41.359 --> 02:00:42.840
<v Speaker 8>top floor. You go in the top floor, you know,

2059
02:00:43.960 --> 02:00:46.680
<v Speaker 8>and I'm lining the windows. So I get in the bucket,

2060
02:00:46.720 --> 02:00:49.560
<v Speaker 8>I take off. I can't see the build, can't see shit.

2061
02:00:50.039 --> 02:00:52.680
<v Speaker 8>I go up. Bam, I hit the building. I got

2062
02:00:52.720 --> 02:00:55.079
<v Speaker 8>it back off and I got to the window. So

2063
02:00:55.159 --> 02:00:57.840
<v Speaker 8>I take the window, clear it out. I go in

2064
02:00:58.079 --> 02:01:03.439
<v Speaker 8>as clear as about up there. Clear's about my tough isiness.

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<v Speaker 5>You know.

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<v Speaker 8>Well eleven over on the one eleven and how even

2067
02:01:07.399 --> 02:01:10.239
<v Speaker 8>excuse you off? And he's caught in his bulls over here?

2068
02:01:11.520 --> 02:01:13.920
<v Speaker 8>All right, I go listen, I'm on the top floor. Uh,

2069
02:01:14.239 --> 02:01:16.640
<v Speaker 8>primary is negative. This is no smoke up here. Tommy

2070
02:01:16.720 --> 02:01:20.000
<v Speaker 8>gets in the radio. Yeah that's great. I'm getting the fire, bove.

2071
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<v Speaker 5>You.

2072
02:01:24.399 --> 02:01:26.920
<v Speaker 8>I swing over and now we're going to the top floor.

2073
02:01:27.000 --> 02:01:29.239
<v Speaker 8>No man ask, you know. And I'm like, oh, this sucks.

2074
02:01:29.840 --> 02:01:33.600
<v Speaker 8>So after the fire is out, cut down the street

2075
02:01:34.119 --> 02:01:37.000
<v Speaker 8>and Dennis, you know, comes over and he puts his

2076
02:01:37.119 --> 02:01:39.039
<v Speaker 8>arm around. He works me away from he goes is

2077
02:01:39.079 --> 02:01:42.119
<v Speaker 8>some kid, it's okay to fuck up. It is, but

2078
02:01:42.239 --> 02:01:50.880
<v Speaker 8>when you do, don't tell the fucking world that you Yeah,

2079
02:01:51.640 --> 02:01:56.600
<v Speaker 8>but Uh. But yeah, you know, you learn a lot.

2080
02:01:56.920 --> 02:01:58.840
<v Speaker 8>You know, I missed the job. You know, seventeen years

2081
02:01:58.880 --> 02:01:59.199
<v Speaker 8>I'm out.

2082
02:01:59.359 --> 02:02:01.439
<v Speaker 7>Did you ever take like what would have happened if

2083
02:02:01.520 --> 02:02:02.800
<v Speaker 7>you went to one O two instead?

2084
02:02:03.439 --> 02:02:08.560
<v Speaker 8>Uh? I you know, I don't know the area on

2085
02:02:08.640 --> 02:02:12.039
<v Speaker 8>had two change. Oh yeah, I finally found out how

2086
02:02:12.079 --> 02:02:17.279
<v Speaker 8>I ended up at one eleven years and years ago.

2087
02:02:17.319 --> 02:02:20.079
<v Speaker 8>I don't know if you remember Chief Duffy, Jim Duffy,

2088
02:02:20.840 --> 02:02:23.800
<v Speaker 8>he became the first Chief of Rescue Services. He was

2089
02:02:24.880 --> 02:02:27.159
<v Speaker 8>Tom Brand's captain actually wonder for he was a legend

2090
02:02:27.199 --> 02:02:29.119
<v Speaker 8>of the job. And I worked with his son Billy

2091
02:02:29.159 --> 02:02:31.199
<v Speaker 8>in the five Patrol and he knew me when I

2092
02:02:31.279 --> 02:02:34.279
<v Speaker 8>was a young guy. And so he's the guy I

2093
02:02:34.399 --> 02:02:36.920
<v Speaker 8>told you when I put my paper in and he said,

2094
02:02:37.000 --> 02:02:44.920
<v Speaker 8>you know what's this? And uh so, uh, I'm at

2095
02:02:45.800 --> 02:02:49.520
<v Speaker 8>his retirement. He was retiring. And I went there with

2096
02:02:49.600 --> 02:02:51.960
<v Speaker 8>Jimmy Bazil and Dennis Cross and all these guys and

2097
02:02:52.640 --> 02:02:57.039
<v Speaker 8>and I Chief Fuffy was there, and uh finally, you know,

2098
02:02:57.239 --> 02:02:58.479
<v Speaker 8>at the end of the night, I went over to

2099
02:02:58.560 --> 02:03:01.760
<v Speaker 8>him and I said, Chief, I gotta ask you, how

2100
02:03:01.800 --> 02:03:04.199
<v Speaker 8>do I end up at one eleven? And he said,

2101
02:03:04.199 --> 02:03:06.319
<v Speaker 8>I put you there? I was the guy who put

2102
02:03:06.359 --> 02:03:10.560
<v Speaker 8>you there. I said what he said, because one O two,

2103
02:03:10.880 --> 02:03:13.880
<v Speaker 8>as great a company is, the area was going to change.

2104
02:03:14.399 --> 02:03:17.600
<v Speaker 8>I said, in one eleven it'll always be the same.

2105
02:03:18.000 --> 02:03:19.520
<v Speaker 8>And I found out he's the one who put me

2106
02:03:19.600 --> 02:03:22.680
<v Speaker 8>in one eleven and he told me you got to

2107
02:03:22.720 --> 02:03:26.520
<v Speaker 8>do twenty years there. So when I had twenty years,

2108
02:03:27.399 --> 02:03:30.840
<v Speaker 8>I called him at home and then I got Missusduffy

2109
02:03:30.880 --> 02:03:32.359
<v Speaker 8>on the phone and said, can I speak to the chief.

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02:03:32.399 --> 02:03:33.960
<v Speaker 8>He gets on the phone to go, well, Chief, I

2111
02:03:34.039 --> 02:03:35.760
<v Speaker 8>got twenty years, now get me out of here. He goes,

2112
02:03:36.039 --> 02:03:37.159
<v Speaker 8>you got another ten to do it?

2113
02:03:37.159 --> 02:03:37.199
<v Speaker 12>What?

2114
02:03:37.239 --> 02:03:41.000
<v Speaker 8>He hug the phone, uppy. But yeah, that's how he

2115
02:03:41.079 --> 02:03:41.560
<v Speaker 8>put me there.

2116
02:03:42.159 --> 02:03:44.640
<v Speaker 5>How are you doing now? They still working there? The

2117
02:03:44.680 --> 02:03:45.880
<v Speaker 5>neighborhoods changing there too.

2118
02:03:46.560 --> 02:03:49.960
<v Speaker 8>Oh yeah, I saw it in the tail end of

2119
02:03:50.039 --> 02:03:53.199
<v Speaker 8>my time. I mean it used to be the drug

2120
02:03:53.279 --> 02:03:56.239
<v Speaker 8>dealer walking down Lewis Avenue with a rotwaller. And then

2121
02:03:56.279 --> 02:03:59.760
<v Speaker 8>you started seeing like the couple from Wisconsin. Yeah, I was.

2122
02:04:00.479 --> 02:04:02.600
<v Speaker 5>They love it. I don't understand it. They love it?

2123
02:04:03.279 --> 02:04:04.119
<v Speaker 8>Are you people lost?

2124
02:04:04.199 --> 02:04:04.239
<v Speaker 5>No?

2125
02:04:04.359 --> 02:04:07.640
<v Speaker 8>We live on mon Road Street. Yeah. But and you know,

2126
02:04:07.840 --> 02:04:10.079
<v Speaker 8>Charlie Williams got rested, so great, great guy he had

2127
02:04:10.119 --> 02:04:13.239
<v Speaker 8>bought a lot of buildings down there. That was another

2128
02:04:13.680 --> 02:04:17.119
<v Speaker 8>unknown guy throughout the job. Charlie Williams, Uh, great fireman.

2129
02:04:17.359 --> 02:04:25.560
<v Speaker 8>Uh Fort Vietnam. Uh yeah, Charlie, Yeah, I remember when

2130
02:04:25.640 --> 02:04:26.720
<v Speaker 8>Desert Storm happened.

2131
02:04:27.279 --> 02:04:27.439
<v Speaker 7>Uh.

2132
02:04:27.880 --> 02:04:32.159
<v Speaker 8>Charlie was in the reserve state in reserves and they

2133
02:04:32.199 --> 02:04:36.560
<v Speaker 8>were sending guys over and he got sent to sent

2134
02:04:36.640 --> 02:04:39.840
<v Speaker 8>to Fort Vietnam and he got sent over there. He

2135
02:04:40.000 --> 02:04:43.079
<v Speaker 8>was a mess sergeant. Yeah, for us Carster. So I'm

2136
02:04:43.159 --> 02:04:46.039
<v Speaker 8>driving to work one day and Scott Shannon and w

2137
02:04:46.239 --> 02:04:48.640
<v Speaker 8>P LG Is you know, telling people you can dedicate

2138
02:04:48.680 --> 02:04:52.039
<v Speaker 8>a song. So I get to the firehouse and I

2139
02:04:52.079 --> 02:04:53.840
<v Speaker 8>go to pay for and I start dialing a number

2140
02:04:54.039 --> 02:04:56.439
<v Speaker 8>and I get through. I couldn't believe it. And I

2141
02:04:56.479 --> 02:04:59.640
<v Speaker 8>get Scott channel and you're on a delay. So I said,

2142
02:05:00.039 --> 02:05:01.640
<v Speaker 8>he goes, what you like do? I said, listen, I

2143
02:05:01.720 --> 02:05:04.239
<v Speaker 8>want to dedicate in next swunk with my buddy Charlie Williams.

2144
02:05:04.880 --> 02:05:06.920
<v Speaker 8>He's in New York City, fireman here in bepist lives

2145
02:05:06.960 --> 02:05:09.520
<v Speaker 8>in the last twenty years. Uh. He fought in Vietnam

2146
02:05:09.760 --> 02:05:12.239
<v Speaker 8>sixty seven sixty eight. He's over in the rack right

2147
02:05:12.319 --> 02:05:14.760
<v Speaker 8>now as a cargo master. You know, and I want

2148
02:05:14.800 --> 02:05:17.520
<v Speaker 8>to dedicate it long as Scott Shannon said right on it.

2149
02:05:17.720 --> 02:05:19.960
<v Speaker 8>It wasn't I'm sure in here he goes holy shit,

2150
02:05:20.720 --> 02:05:22.960
<v Speaker 8>and uh yeah, I got to bring in the kitchen.

2151
02:05:23.560 --> 02:05:25.399
<v Speaker 8>It was up and we put it on and they

2152
02:05:25.520 --> 02:05:29.159
<v Speaker 8>mentioned his name. But when Charlie passed away, it was

2153
02:05:29.960 --> 02:05:31.600
<v Speaker 8>he died from who came here for nine to eleven?

2154
02:05:31.760 --> 02:05:35.239
<v Speaker 6>Uh Lieutenant forty one too, I think right.

2155
02:05:35.439 --> 02:05:38.920
<v Speaker 8>You know Charlie he was he was a show for

2156
02:05:39.000 --> 02:05:40.680
<v Speaker 8>one eleven. He's on the back a long time. He

2157
02:05:40.760 --> 02:05:43.159
<v Speaker 8>worked with Conway and Schaeffer. They broke and he went

2158
02:05:43.199 --> 02:05:45.439
<v Speaker 8>through a helmet the year he got on seventy seven

2159
02:05:46.479 --> 02:05:49.520
<v Speaker 8>tough fire. His his father, Willie Jackson, was a fireman

2160
02:05:49.600 --> 02:05:50.079
<v Speaker 8>one eleven.

2161
02:05:50.880 --> 02:05:50.920
<v Speaker 4>So.

2162
02:05:51.399 --> 02:05:55.720
<v Speaker 8>But Charlie, yeah, glass guy. Just just a great guy,

2163
02:05:55.920 --> 02:06:00.359
<v Speaker 8>A great fireman, a great teacher. You know, they old

2164
02:06:00.560 --> 02:06:04.000
<v Speaker 8>the older guys who are great teachers, you know they

2165
02:06:04.800 --> 02:06:07.399
<v Speaker 8>is the one thing I learned with certain guys, especially

2166
02:06:07.520 --> 02:06:10.720
<v Speaker 8>Tommy Craig, when he told you something, don't tell you

2167
02:06:11.000 --> 02:06:14.000
<v Speaker 8>tell him. I know that, Hey, you do this, Oh,

2168
02:06:14.039 --> 02:06:16.560
<v Speaker 8>I know that. Never say that because they'll never tell

2169
02:06:16.600 --> 02:06:16.960
<v Speaker 8>you again.

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02:06:18.079 --> 02:06:20.079
<v Speaker 6>We've had a couple of people say that, Yeah.

2171
02:06:20.199 --> 02:06:26.319
<v Speaker 8>But you know, uh, just you learned a lot from

2172
02:06:26.399 --> 02:06:28.439
<v Speaker 8>these guys. And like you said, Louis, you got to

2173
02:06:28.520 --> 02:06:31.520
<v Speaker 8>practice it. You know what I'm saying. You got to

2174
02:06:31.520 --> 02:06:32.079
<v Speaker 8>put your mouth.

2175
02:06:33.520 --> 02:06:36.000
<v Speaker 5>If you think about your time there, it had to

2176
02:06:36.079 --> 02:06:37.359
<v Speaker 5>be like the perfect.

2177
02:06:37.000 --> 02:06:40.920
<v Speaker 8>Time to be there, right h Like I said, very

2178
02:06:41.039 --> 02:06:43.439
<v Speaker 8>lucky to work there and work with the guys I

2179
02:06:43.560 --> 02:06:46.359
<v Speaker 8>worked with. And let me tell you something. You know,

2180
02:06:46.439 --> 02:06:48.920
<v Speaker 8>guys come and go. You know, you saw guys walk

2181
02:06:48.960 --> 02:06:51.960
<v Speaker 8>in the door theill, you know, and before you know what,

2182
02:06:52.039 --> 02:06:53.800
<v Speaker 8>they were gone. You know, if I it was a

2183
02:06:53.840 --> 02:06:56.640
<v Speaker 8>tough kitchen too, you know, or a tough backyard, you

2184
02:06:56.760 --> 02:07:00.880
<v Speaker 8>had a pretty thick skin. U. But overall all, uh,

2185
02:07:01.479 --> 02:07:05.039
<v Speaker 8>like I said, the senior men, Brendan was wrong. The

2186
02:07:05.119 --> 02:07:07.520
<v Speaker 8>senior men did talk to you, and they showed you

2187
02:07:07.640 --> 02:07:11.560
<v Speaker 8>the way as long as you had an interest. And

2188
02:07:11.840 --> 02:07:17.840
<v Speaker 8>as I said to my ProBiS, uh Chritsiza, I'm working

2189
02:07:17.880 --> 02:07:18.800
<v Speaker 8>with Tommy Burke.

2190
02:07:19.760 --> 02:07:21.560
<v Speaker 5>Oh my god, we forgot about Norton.

2191
02:07:22.319 --> 02:07:28.319
<v Speaker 8>About Norton, Tommy Burke was an amazing fireman. Uh. Tommy

2192
02:07:28.399 --> 02:07:32.640
<v Speaker 8>Burke and Kenny Ross with the two fastest roofman I've

2193
02:07:32.680 --> 02:07:35.760
<v Speaker 8>ever seen in my life. I really think that Burke

2194
02:07:35.960 --> 02:07:40.760
<v Speaker 8>had a cape and float. You know, he could get

2195
02:07:40.840 --> 02:07:43.319
<v Speaker 8>the roof up and do his thing. He's down to

2196
02:07:43.359 --> 02:07:47.199
<v Speaker 8>refresh game and pulling ceilings with the guys right away,

2197
02:07:47.680 --> 02:07:52.199
<v Speaker 8>you know. And uh, and Tommy and I had logs

2198
02:07:52.239 --> 02:07:55.520
<v Speaker 8>next day. But Tommy was always Tommy.

2199
02:07:56.119 --> 02:08:00.560
<v Speaker 5>And uh, well he's perfect in the lighthouse.

2200
02:08:02.000 --> 02:08:03.199
<v Speaker 8>You can write a book about him.

2201
02:08:03.439 --> 02:08:03.560
<v Speaker 3>Uh.

2202
02:08:04.359 --> 02:08:06.760
<v Speaker 8>I remember when you worked with Pampalone. I got put

2203
02:08:06.800 --> 02:08:10.560
<v Speaker 8>in the captain's groups. Uh, I'm gonna get into why.

2204
02:08:11.079 --> 02:08:14.920
<v Speaker 8>And uh, Tommy and I worked together, and Tommy would

2205
02:08:14.920 --> 02:08:17.359
<v Speaker 8>always get in trouble and the captain called the stairs

2206
02:08:17.399 --> 02:08:19.720
<v Speaker 8>the ripping when the ass and and then he would

2207
02:08:19.760 --> 02:08:21.640
<v Speaker 8>say something. I'm like, oh, you've got burke, I mean.

2208
02:08:22.039 --> 02:08:23.800
<v Speaker 8>And one day he told me, he said, this is

2209
02:08:23.800 --> 02:08:26.199
<v Speaker 8>the difference when you and Bark. Pamp Alone he's dead now.

2210
02:08:26.880 --> 02:08:30.079
<v Speaker 8>He says. Bark is like a knife one. It's like

2211
02:08:30.279 --> 02:08:33.520
<v Speaker 8>him sticking a knife in me. And the cane is temporary.

2212
02:08:33.720 --> 02:08:36.319
<v Speaker 8>He says, you are like a boil on my fucking collar,

2213
02:08:37.199 --> 02:08:41.119
<v Speaker 8>and you're just irritated all the time. And so Tommy

2214
02:08:41.119 --> 02:08:46.079
<v Speaker 8>and I Tommy to take me with uh. So one

2215
02:08:46.159 --> 02:08:48.000
<v Speaker 8>day we catch a job Tommy's went we called a

2216
02:08:48.039 --> 02:08:51.560
<v Speaker 8>job we go down a winners back eight and you know,

2217
02:08:51.680 --> 02:08:53.600
<v Speaker 8>Tommy and I were in the backyard drilling like he

2218
02:08:53.680 --> 02:08:56.479
<v Speaker 8>always do, you know. And uh we get there and

2219
02:08:56.760 --> 02:08:59.479
<v Speaker 8>we're liked their truck and really didn't have to do much.

2220
02:09:00.079 --> 02:09:02.680
<v Speaker 8>So we're hanging out and the aid comes over me.

2221
02:09:03.399 --> 02:09:05.520
<v Speaker 8>He said, BA, the chief wants to talk to you.

2222
02:09:06.039 --> 02:09:10.720
<v Speaker 8>I'm like, oh, shure. So I learned about social distancing

2223
02:09:10.880 --> 02:09:16.159
<v Speaker 8>way before. So it's George Isa. So I worked with him.

2224
02:09:16.279 --> 02:09:19.319
<v Speaker 8>You got a number, the three three offices in one twelve.

2225
02:09:19.800 --> 02:09:22.680
<v Speaker 8>I mean once when he four three lieutenants, Pete, Nancy,

2226
02:09:23.319 --> 02:09:26.119
<v Speaker 8>George Isa, and Jim Elson had three sons went to

2227
02:09:26.159 --> 02:09:29.399
<v Speaker 8>one eleven. So I walked up and said, yeah, what's up, Chief,

2228
02:09:29.439 --> 02:09:31.239
<v Speaker 8>And he goes, what's the ba. He goes, my son's

2229
02:09:31.239 --> 02:09:34.960
<v Speaker 8>a probably school. Oh great, he goes, uh, he's getting out.

2230
02:09:35.119 --> 02:09:37.199
<v Speaker 8>I'm putting them on eleven and you're going to break

2231
02:09:37.239 --> 02:09:40.159
<v Speaker 8>him in. I said, okay, Chief, anything else and he

2232
02:09:40.199 --> 02:09:42.399
<v Speaker 8>goes yeah, And I turned on Tommy. He said, let's

2233
02:09:42.479 --> 02:09:44.560
<v Speaker 8>make let's make like sheep and get the flock out

2234
02:09:44.600 --> 02:09:47.840
<v Speaker 8>of here. And the kid came there. He went to

2235
02:09:48.960 --> 02:09:50.960
<v Speaker 8>his first day. He caught a really good job and

2236
02:09:51.119 --> 02:09:54.279
<v Speaker 8>he did a great job. Somebody just said a thing

2237
02:09:54.319 --> 02:09:57.319
<v Speaker 8>about to mention two people. One was Bob Daily.

2238
02:09:58.199 --> 02:10:00.399
<v Speaker 6>Yeah yeah, and Danny Danny.

2239
02:10:01.800 --> 02:10:07.359
<v Speaker 8>Uh you talk about from eleven time you talk about

2240
02:10:07.399 --> 02:10:11.880
<v Speaker 8>a man that has no fear, Danny Perella, I mean

2241
02:10:12.279 --> 02:10:17.079
<v Speaker 8>absolutely no fear. When he would drive, I mean, great chauffeur.

2242
02:10:17.439 --> 02:10:19.279
<v Speaker 8>When we were coming back down by I don't know

2243
02:10:19.279 --> 02:10:21.600
<v Speaker 8>if you remember Louie, but you gotta to go to

2244
02:10:21.720 --> 02:10:24.800
<v Speaker 8>Louis Avenue. You gotta cut in under the L and

2245
02:10:24.880 --> 02:10:32.800
<v Speaker 8>then make time. He would make copeful speed you you know,

2246
02:10:32.880 --> 02:10:37.760
<v Speaker 8>when we were outside. Uh Bob Daily, which I wanted

2247
02:10:37.760 --> 02:10:43.840
<v Speaker 8>to mention another guy outside of the area, nobody would know.

2248
02:10:44.479 --> 02:10:48.319
<v Speaker 8>Bob Daily was one of the best toughest ov men

2249
02:10:48.479 --> 02:10:52.199
<v Speaker 8>I had ever seen in my life. Uh. Bob Daily

2250
02:10:52.520 --> 02:10:55.399
<v Speaker 8>started in one O three, two ten years, in one

2251
02:10:55.439 --> 02:10:58.520
<v Speaker 8>O three, two ten years and one seventy six, Wow,

2252
02:10:58.920 --> 02:11:01.479
<v Speaker 8>ten years and one eleven on the back step.

2253
02:11:02.720 --> 02:11:04.920
<v Speaker 5>Uh Bubba, he's still around.

2254
02:11:05.479 --> 02:11:07.039
<v Speaker 8>He passed away a couple of years ago.

2255
02:11:07.359 --> 02:11:07.479
<v Speaker 6>Uh.

2256
02:11:08.920 --> 02:11:11.760
<v Speaker 8>I learned a lot with him, So I always tell

2257
02:11:11.840 --> 02:11:18.079
<v Speaker 8>the story. One night, Wow, we were sitting there and uh,

2258
02:11:18.920 --> 02:11:22.600
<v Speaker 8>I'm like, hey, Buffalo were still in Buffalo, I said,

2259
02:11:22.680 --> 02:11:24.560
<v Speaker 8>man you know what are you gonna do?

2260
02:11:24.640 --> 02:11:24.760
<v Speaker 5>Man?

2261
02:11:24.800 --> 02:11:27.640
<v Speaker 8>How much he was sitting to watch, you know, uh Ga,

2262
02:11:27.960 --> 02:11:30.960
<v Speaker 8>they got strong. You know what are you gonna do?

2263
02:11:31.119 --> 02:11:31.239
<v Speaker 4>Man?

2264
02:11:31.359 --> 02:11:33.880
<v Speaker 8>I want you want, b A. I'm never gonna leave

2265
02:11:33.920 --> 02:11:37.520
<v Speaker 8>this job. Never. Well, we go to job on Bainbridge

2266
02:11:37.520 --> 02:11:41.279
<v Speaker 8>Street that night, uh or we have. I came and

2267
02:11:41.600 --> 02:11:43.920
<v Speaker 8>it was horrible, a really tough job I had. I

2268
02:11:44.000 --> 02:11:46.800
<v Speaker 8>had to camp Ruddie Richard at the Auions and Bubba

2269
02:11:46.920 --> 02:11:48.560
<v Speaker 8>had to go on the time. I remember we pulled

2270
02:11:48.640 --> 02:11:51.319
<v Speaker 8>up and the stuff's coming. The stuff was coming out

2271
02:11:51.319 --> 02:11:54.000
<v Speaker 8>of the top floor windows so bad. Not only did

2272
02:11:54.039 --> 02:11:56.159
<v Speaker 8>the edges on it. I always said it had to

2273
02:11:56.239 --> 02:12:01.479
<v Speaker 8>word Anderson backwards in the smoke's help and he's on

2274
02:12:01.640 --> 02:12:04.119
<v Speaker 8>his way up in the bucket. You know, we're we're

2275
02:12:04.159 --> 02:12:06.439
<v Speaker 8>forced to do with no mask and I'm telling you,

2276
02:12:06.479 --> 02:12:09.359
<v Speaker 8>I tell guys, it comes out even with the word

2277
02:12:09.439 --> 02:12:13.600
<v Speaker 8>Anderson backwards. And he went in that ship so and

2278
02:12:13.720 --> 02:12:15.399
<v Speaker 8>it was a screw up fire. We had a tough

2279
02:12:15.439 --> 02:12:18.319
<v Speaker 8>time with the guy to do that. And after the

2280
02:12:18.359 --> 02:12:21.039
<v Speaker 8>fire was out, we go back to quarters and he's

2281
02:12:21.079 --> 02:12:25.600
<v Speaker 8>sitting there in the kitchen and he's coughing and he says,

2282
02:12:25.640 --> 02:12:29.399
<v Speaker 8>b A, I'm done, and two weeks later he put

2283
02:12:29.439 --> 02:12:33.399
<v Speaker 8>his paper in really so oh yeah, so it was

2284
02:12:33.600 --> 02:12:36.840
<v Speaker 8>his last tour. Was New Year's Eve came out? What

2285
02:12:36.960 --> 02:12:40.199
<v Speaker 8>year was I was dating my wife at the time. Now,

2286
02:12:40.239 --> 02:12:42.439
<v Speaker 8>but I was dating my wife and we'd gone after

2287
02:12:42.479 --> 02:12:45.560
<v Speaker 8>New Year's Eve and I said, we weren't dating that long.

2288
02:12:45.600 --> 02:12:47.439
<v Speaker 8>And I said, listen, we have to go into the

2289
02:12:47.560 --> 02:12:50.760
<v Speaker 8>fire ass tonight, so you can come or out. She goes, why,

2290
02:12:50.800 --> 02:12:52.199
<v Speaker 8>I said, well, a very good friend of mine was

2291
02:12:52.279 --> 02:12:55.000
<v Speaker 8>retiring and I wanted to see him. So I went

2292
02:12:55.079 --> 02:12:58.279
<v Speaker 8>in to the fire ass and she came to see

2293
02:12:58.319 --> 02:13:01.000
<v Speaker 8>Bubba and gave a bottle of the Cardi doc rum,

2294
02:13:01.039 --> 02:13:04.960
<v Speaker 8>which he loved and to you know, push him lots

2295
02:13:04.960 --> 02:13:08.880
<v Speaker 8>of luck. And I loved him. And yeah, he passed

2296
02:13:08.880 --> 02:13:12.119
<v Speaker 8>away a couple of years ago. But another one of

2297
02:13:12.159 --> 02:13:15.760
<v Speaker 8>those guys nobody outside of the outside of the borrow,

2298
02:13:15.840 --> 02:13:18.000
<v Speaker 8>let's say, or outside of the mission. I didn't know

2299
02:13:18.079 --> 02:13:18.399
<v Speaker 8>his name.

2300
02:13:20.960 --> 02:13:23.279
<v Speaker 5>You imagine how many times tonight you've said.

2301
02:13:24.720 --> 02:13:28.399
<v Speaker 7>Incredible officer of tremendous fireman, Like how many if I

2302
02:13:28.439 --> 02:13:29.279
<v Speaker 7>had a nickel right.

2303
02:13:29.399 --> 02:13:35.399
<v Speaker 8>Like, I'll tell you what I mean. I was surrounded

2304
02:13:35.439 --> 02:13:40.039
<v Speaker 8>by great guys, you know, you know listen, ninety five

2305
02:13:40.079 --> 02:13:43.000
<v Speaker 8>percent of the guys on his job do their job,

2306
02:13:43.880 --> 02:13:46.800
<v Speaker 8>you know, five percent. I'm not going to get into it,

2307
02:13:46.960 --> 02:13:49.319
<v Speaker 8>but ninety five percent of the guys in his job

2308
02:13:49.960 --> 02:13:52.399
<v Speaker 8>they give their heart and souls into it. They love

2309
02:13:52.479 --> 02:13:54.840
<v Speaker 8>the job. Yeah, I always just I used to say,

2310
02:13:56.359 --> 02:13:58.319
<v Speaker 8>it's a couple of things the city hates about fireman.

2311
02:13:58.439 --> 02:14:00.600
<v Speaker 8>Number one, it's the only job in the city where

2312
02:14:00.600 --> 02:14:03.600
<v Speaker 8>you can actually get paid to sleep, you know, not

2313
02:14:03.760 --> 02:14:08.319
<v Speaker 8>that they do. Uh you o? The do is they

2314
02:14:08.640 --> 02:14:10.880
<v Speaker 8>they realize, well, the guys worked the second job, you know,

2315
02:14:11.560 --> 02:14:13.439
<v Speaker 8>and the third thing years your friends with your boss.

2316
02:14:14.279 --> 02:14:15.960
<v Speaker 8>You know, they don't like that, you know.

2317
02:14:16.039 --> 02:14:16.439
<v Speaker 6>The captain.

2318
02:14:16.600 --> 02:14:20.760
<v Speaker 8>Yeah, I'm having a barbecue in my house, but I

2319
02:14:20.880 --> 02:14:21.479
<v Speaker 8>don't like that.

2320
02:14:22.439 --> 02:14:22.920
<v Speaker 5>Didn't do that.

2321
02:14:23.560 --> 02:14:23.760
<v Speaker 4>Stop.

2322
02:14:23.920 --> 02:14:25.600
<v Speaker 6>They worked, and they're like.

2323
02:14:25.600 --> 02:14:29.960
<v Speaker 8>Their bosses suck, you know. So but yeah, I mean

2324
02:14:31.119 --> 02:14:34.239
<v Speaker 8>to work with the guys I worked with.

2325
02:14:34.920 --> 02:14:35.079
<v Speaker 5>You know.

2326
02:14:36.239 --> 02:14:40.600
<v Speaker 8>It's just, uh, do I owe my life? Did they

2327
02:14:40.680 --> 02:14:44.399
<v Speaker 8>keep me alive when I was young? You know? Uh,

2328
02:14:44.840 --> 02:14:47.600
<v Speaker 8>they looked over you and they taught you the way.

2329
02:14:48.720 --> 02:14:52.840
<v Speaker 8>And you know, Eddie Stephan's passing the other day was tough.

2330
02:14:53.560 --> 02:14:54.560
<v Speaker 8>Going to Captain Rubies.

2331
02:14:55.119 --> 02:14:57.159
<v Speaker 5>I knew Steve when I.

2332
02:14:57.199 --> 02:15:04.199
<v Speaker 8>Was twenty two. Ste Steve Steve I broke Steve Gaertty

2333
02:15:04.239 --> 02:15:06.800
<v Speaker 8>into one eleven and he went to my group's great

2334
02:15:06.840 --> 02:15:09.000
<v Speaker 8>got knew his ship. His brother Eddie was one of

2335
02:15:09.079 --> 02:15:12.920
<v Speaker 8>my best friends and heart to uh and uh that's

2336
02:15:12.960 --> 02:15:14.199
<v Speaker 8>why I want to go on hard to you know,

2337
02:15:14.239 --> 02:15:17.720
<v Speaker 8>work with Eddie. And when Steven came back to my captain. Uh,

2338
02:15:18.840 --> 02:15:23.119
<v Speaker 8>probably I've had good captains, h I always said Steve Garertty,

2339
02:15:23.760 --> 02:15:28.720
<v Speaker 8>which probably the next best captain I had since Tom Brenan. Wow.

2340
02:15:29.439 --> 02:15:33.920
<v Speaker 8>Oh yeah, Stephen. Funny story with Stephen. So his last

2341
02:15:34.000 --> 02:15:37.359
<v Speaker 8>night as a captain, he caught a job on Folk

2342
02:15:37.439 --> 02:15:41.399
<v Speaker 8>Street and uh, which leads him to other stuff. So

2343
02:15:42.239 --> 02:15:45.000
<v Speaker 8>he's getting made. He got made, but you know it

2344
02:15:45.119 --> 02:15:47.760
<v Speaker 8>takes effect. I guess what on the whatever. So he

2345
02:15:47.840 --> 02:15:50.520
<v Speaker 8>caught a job on Full Street, good fire. I had

2346
02:15:50.560 --> 02:15:52.760
<v Speaker 8>the lions, so we do the thing. So because he

2347
02:15:52.840 --> 02:15:55.760
<v Speaker 8>grubs a cigarette off me, because I have a picturemoke,

2348
02:15:56.680 --> 02:15:59.199
<v Speaker 8>I was sitting there smoking. So I turned around, look

2349
02:15:59.239 --> 02:16:01.800
<v Speaker 8>at my watch, and I go, well, cap had nine

2350
02:16:01.880 --> 02:16:07.079
<v Speaker 8>hundred dollars. You become an asshole. Who's standing right next

2351
02:16:07.119 --> 02:16:09.720
<v Speaker 8>to me? By me? Dave Jacobowski, you.

2352
02:16:09.720 --> 02:16:11.920
<v Speaker 5>Know he was coming in right after him, right. Oh.

2353
02:16:12.039 --> 02:16:15.880
<v Speaker 8>Him and I did not get along, which is ironic

2354
02:16:15.960 --> 02:16:19.880
<v Speaker 8>what happens. So I said, you become an asshole. So

2355
02:16:20.359 --> 02:16:21.880
<v Speaker 8>he said what I said, We're gonna be a chief

2356
02:16:22.399 --> 02:16:26.039
<v Speaker 8>most assholes. So Jackabowski comes around. He goes, hey, ba,

2357
02:16:27.079 --> 02:16:29.840
<v Speaker 8>you call me an asshole. I look him right hereys,

2358
02:16:29.880 --> 02:16:31.840
<v Speaker 8>I go, well you're a fucking chief, right. He goes yeah.

2359
02:16:31.920 --> 02:16:33.520
<v Speaker 8>I said, well you're a fucking asshole too, and I

2360
02:16:33.559 --> 02:16:38.959
<v Speaker 8>walk away. Ardy says to me, He goes, I can't

2361
02:16:39.000 --> 02:16:41.000
<v Speaker 8>believe I four hours left and I'm gonna have to

2362
02:16:41.079 --> 02:16:41.639
<v Speaker 8>hook you up.

2363
02:16:43.799 --> 02:16:43.840
<v Speaker 5>Like.

2364
02:16:44.000 --> 02:16:48.319
<v Speaker 8>The strange thing is when I went to the division

2365
02:16:48.399 --> 02:16:53.200
<v Speaker 8>light duty, and believe me, I got hurt March ninth

2366
02:16:53.280 --> 02:16:57.159
<v Speaker 8>of two thousand. I was at a job December seventeenth,

2367
02:16:57.200 --> 02:17:01.079
<v Speaker 8>in two thousand and seven, almost not just none than

2368
02:17:01.200 --> 02:17:03.760
<v Speaker 8>nine months. How how quick do you see guys get

2369
02:17:03.799 --> 02:17:07.280
<v Speaker 8>out that quick? So when I I was a medically

2370
02:17:07.360 --> 02:17:11.399
<v Speaker 8>for four months, I was pretty busted up. So they

2371
02:17:11.479 --> 02:17:14.280
<v Speaker 8>go like duty and I never had to go downtown.

2372
02:17:14.360 --> 02:17:17.600
<v Speaker 8>So Danny Butler, vision man, who Danny will come? He

2373
02:17:17.680 --> 02:17:20.280
<v Speaker 8>wanted me to come to the fifteenth Division. They wanted

2374
02:17:20.319 --> 02:17:23.040
<v Speaker 8>to see you guy, you know, to drive right to

2375
02:17:23.159 --> 02:17:25.559
<v Speaker 8>light do the job. So I went to fifteenth division.

2376
02:17:27.280 --> 02:17:30.680
<v Speaker 8>But that oh Wayne Cott, great guy. It was Wayne Cott, right,

2377
02:17:30.799 --> 02:17:35.639
<v Speaker 8>Danny Butler, Dave Jacobowski and Mike uh oh kid his

2378
02:17:35.760 --> 02:17:39.879
<v Speaker 8>kid was in one eleven four. Mike, it'll come to me.

2379
02:17:40.959 --> 02:17:46.159
<v Speaker 8>So they go to the fifteenth division. So Butler says,

2380
02:17:46.559 --> 02:17:50.799
<v Speaker 8>you're gonna be driving Jackobowski, I said, chief him and

2381
02:17:50.879 --> 02:17:53.120
<v Speaker 8>I do not get along. What do you mean he

2382
02:17:53.200 --> 02:17:57.520
<v Speaker 8>wants you to drive? Well, I said him, and I

2383
02:17:57.559 --> 02:17:59.760
<v Speaker 8>don't get along, I said, I called him an asshole,

2384
02:17:59.760 --> 02:18:02.040
<v Speaker 8>little fire. Once he goes well, he wants you to

2385
02:18:02.120 --> 02:18:06.879
<v Speaker 8>drive him, okay, whatever. So the first Tory work comes

2386
02:18:06.920 --> 02:18:09.600
<v Speaker 8>in working, you know you work twenty four was there

2387
02:18:10.280 --> 02:18:14.120
<v Speaker 8>and takes me to lunch, and uh we hit it

2388
02:18:14.159 --> 02:18:14.799
<v Speaker 8>off really well.

2389
02:18:15.159 --> 02:18:17.000
<v Speaker 5>I swear I tell you the truth. Nobody would believe

2390
02:18:17.040 --> 02:18:20.000
<v Speaker 5>it because he was just so weird or tough at

2391
02:18:20.040 --> 02:18:20.399
<v Speaker 5>the job.

2392
02:18:22.120 --> 02:18:23.559
<v Speaker 8>Louis, he was all in act.

2393
02:18:24.000 --> 02:18:24.680
<v Speaker 5>He was an actor.

2394
02:18:24.840 --> 02:18:28.239
<v Speaker 8>I know it. And the way you got them is

2395
02:18:28.319 --> 02:18:30.799
<v Speaker 8>go right back at him. One day you off for

2396
02:18:30.920 --> 02:18:33.639
<v Speaker 8>smoking and you weren't allowed to smoke, and your offers

2397
02:18:34.440 --> 02:18:37.600
<v Speaker 8>and he says to me, BA, what's our smoking policy

2398
02:18:37.680 --> 02:18:40.680
<v Speaker 8>up there? I said, the policy is with my time

2399
02:18:40.719 --> 02:18:42.079
<v Speaker 8>and the job, I need to do whatever the fuck

2400
02:18:42.120 --> 02:18:49.520
<v Speaker 8>I want. Listen, I went. I went to the division

2401
02:18:49.559 --> 02:18:51.799
<v Speaker 8>with twenty four hours of over time, and he was

2402
02:18:51.799 --> 02:18:54.239
<v Speaker 8>a drudgery over time and he was strict. I went

2403
02:18:54.319 --> 02:18:57.120
<v Speaker 8>out with four and seventy five months later for great

2404
02:18:57.159 --> 02:18:57.479
<v Speaker 8>care of me.

2405
02:18:58.559 --> 02:18:59.360
<v Speaker 6>Hit the brother up.

2406
02:18:59.799 --> 02:19:02.280
<v Speaker 8>He did, they did. They were great chiefs over there.

2407
02:19:03.959 --> 02:19:05.760
<v Speaker 8>I'm gonna tell you this one sort of a division.

2408
02:19:05.840 --> 02:19:09.760
<v Speaker 8>I might get choked up there. Ah So, my last night,

2409
02:19:12.360 --> 02:19:17.000
<v Speaker 8>my last night I was working, was the Thursday. It

2410
02:19:17.159 --> 02:19:20.120
<v Speaker 8>was it was a Thursday. I think it was around

2411
02:19:20.159 --> 02:19:24.680
<v Speaker 8>the fifteenth whatever. So, and the guys in two eighty

2412
02:19:24.760 --> 02:19:31.559
<v Speaker 8>three were tremendous, great guys. Uh Tommy Boyd, Tommy Boyd,

2413
02:19:31.639 --> 02:19:34.639
<v Speaker 8>who was the senior man. We got when I left,

2414
02:19:35.200 --> 02:19:37.399
<v Speaker 8>I got a note my locker was a letter from

2415
02:19:37.479 --> 02:19:41.000
<v Speaker 8>Tommy Boyd saying how I helped the younger. Just a

2416
02:19:41.159 --> 02:19:45.000
<v Speaker 8>great letter. I still have it somewhere. Uh So, Anyway,

2417
02:19:45.040 --> 02:19:48.360
<v Speaker 8>my last tour bringing me all in, you know, steaks,

2418
02:19:48.399 --> 02:19:55.799
<v Speaker 8>lots of tales, h Jacko's working, Wayne and Danny and

2419
02:19:56.520 --> 02:20:00.600
<v Speaker 8>Mike all coming from home. All three deputies come in

2420
02:20:00.680 --> 02:20:04.799
<v Speaker 8>from home for my last door and which to me

2421
02:20:05.040 --> 02:20:10.920
<v Speaker 8>was unbelievable. So cooking doing the thing, and we're just

2422
02:20:11.000 --> 02:20:17.159
<v Speaker 8>about to eat and voice lum comes out and says

2423
02:20:17.239 --> 02:20:20.319
<v Speaker 8>engine engine two, Wait three, Division one to five, and

2424
02:20:20.399 --> 02:20:22.319
<v Speaker 8>I'm like, you gotta be shipping. You've got to run here,

2425
02:20:23.559 --> 02:20:26.559
<v Speaker 8>and they say, stand by for a department message. Then

2426
02:20:26.600 --> 02:20:28.600
<v Speaker 8>they come back. All units in the bar of Brooklyn

2427
02:20:29.079 --> 02:20:32.600
<v Speaker 8>stand by for a department message. And they came on

2428
02:20:32.959 --> 02:20:38.719
<v Speaker 8>and the CEO UH congratulated me on my last tour

2429
02:20:39.639 --> 02:20:43.600
<v Speaker 8>in the FDNY. I congratulated and said, you know my career,

2430
02:20:44.440 --> 02:20:46.879
<v Speaker 8>you know, one to eleven and I had to acknowledge it.

2431
02:20:47.120 --> 02:20:49.600
<v Speaker 8>They said, you know, acknowledge and I was choked up

2432
02:20:49.680 --> 02:20:52.280
<v Speaker 8>when I got wilam. So that was it. So we

2433
02:20:52.360 --> 02:20:54.760
<v Speaker 8>had a meal, it was good night. We caught a

2434
02:20:54.799 --> 02:20:55.280
<v Speaker 8>little job.

2435
02:20:56.719 --> 02:20:56.840
<v Speaker 4>Uh.

2436
02:20:57.879 --> 02:20:59.520
<v Speaker 8>I can probably mention this now because I'm out of

2437
02:20:59.520 --> 02:21:01.680
<v Speaker 8>the job. So go to job at two thirty four,

2438
02:21:02.440 --> 02:21:05.399
<v Speaker 8>a little ship thing we're process of taking up in

2439
02:21:05.479 --> 02:21:07.680
<v Speaker 8>the Captain two thirty four whence mentioned his name, but

2440
02:21:07.760 --> 02:21:09.639
<v Speaker 8>you know it is, and he's out on the stoop

2441
02:21:10.559 --> 02:21:12.760
<v Speaker 8>and I'm walking by and he says, hey, cap When

2442
02:21:12.799 --> 02:21:14.719
<v Speaker 8>he goes, yeah, here you go. You know it's amazing

2443
02:21:14.760 --> 02:21:16.040
<v Speaker 8>all the years I've been down there, and you're still

2444
02:21:16.079 --> 02:21:17.840
<v Speaker 8>want to fucking stoop you don't go in the building,

2445
02:21:18.239 --> 02:21:23.520
<v Speaker 8>and and you know what it is. And yeah, Jacko

2446
02:21:23.639 --> 02:21:25.159
<v Speaker 8>turns around and looks at me. He goes, are you

2447
02:21:25.239 --> 02:21:29.639
<v Speaker 8>out of your fucking mind? I got twelve hours left.

2448
02:21:29.719 --> 02:21:32.280
<v Speaker 8>They can't get the charges in, so.

2449
02:21:34.159 --> 02:21:34.479
<v Speaker 1>That was it.

2450
02:21:34.680 --> 02:21:37.159
<v Speaker 8>So we couldn't. So about two o'clock in the morning,

2451
02:21:37.399 --> 02:21:43.600
<v Speaker 8>we get a run down by Flatbush and we're on

2452
02:21:43.680 --> 02:21:46.200
<v Speaker 8>our way in and we're a couple of blocks away

2453
02:21:46.319 --> 02:21:49.000
<v Speaker 8>and we any talking rate. They can't find the fire,

2454
02:21:49.520 --> 02:21:51.719
<v Speaker 8>have a lot of problems running out of the air

2455
02:21:51.799 --> 02:21:54.680
<v Speaker 8>all shit. Good companies, you know. So on the way in,

2456
02:21:54.799 --> 02:21:58.479
<v Speaker 8>he says to me, listen, uh he he would use him,

2457
02:21:58.520 --> 02:22:00.520
<v Speaker 8>let the battalion run the fire. But he's I'm out

2458
02:22:00.559 --> 02:22:03.360
<v Speaker 8>of Joe Callon Junior. I worked with his dad when

2459
02:22:03.399 --> 02:22:05.959
<v Speaker 8>he is he was the chief, great guy. But you

2460
02:22:06.040 --> 02:22:07.840
<v Speaker 8>know he was gonna help Joe. He says, do what

2461
02:22:07.920 --> 02:22:10.879
<v Speaker 8>you gotta do, all right, So we get there. I

2462
02:22:10.959 --> 02:22:13.559
<v Speaker 8>go out of the car. I got my helmet boarding.

2463
02:22:14.000 --> 02:22:16.440
<v Speaker 8>I go over there. It's a semi attached private dwelve

2464
02:22:16.440 --> 02:22:18.159
<v Speaker 8>and fives in the first one, but you can't find it.

2465
02:22:19.319 --> 02:22:21.959
<v Speaker 8>So I tell the aid take it. I go to

2466
02:22:22.040 --> 02:22:24.200
<v Speaker 8>the rear. There's nobody in the rear. I'm in the

2467
02:22:24.239 --> 02:22:26.600
<v Speaker 8>rear with a clipboard in the helmet and the window.

2468
02:22:29.840 --> 02:22:33.360
<v Speaker 8>I hit it with my helmet. And then now so

2469
02:22:33.600 --> 02:22:36.360
<v Speaker 8>I'm going out. The deputy's coming to the rear. Dave.

2470
02:22:36.479 --> 02:22:38.639
<v Speaker 8>I go, Dave. They got a piece of cake. He goes,

2471
02:22:38.719 --> 02:22:40.760
<v Speaker 8>transmit a second. All right, so we transmit a second.

2472
02:22:41.319 --> 02:22:43.559
<v Speaker 8>That's it. They put the fire out. Do the great job.

2473
02:22:45.120 --> 02:22:48.879
<v Speaker 8>So I'm getting ready to make We're gonna take up.

2474
02:22:49.760 --> 02:22:52.479
<v Speaker 8>So I get on the radio, get my final you know,

2475
02:22:53.200 --> 02:22:57.440
<v Speaker 8>had second limbox one say whatever uh in the process,

2476
02:22:57.639 --> 02:23:03.959
<v Speaker 8>let rescue two go and that, and I said, also, Brooklyn,

2477
02:23:04.000 --> 02:23:06.520
<v Speaker 8>I just want you to be advised. I just want

2478
02:23:06.559 --> 02:23:09.440
<v Speaker 8>to tell the brook And as I have the Pumber radio,

2479
02:23:09.959 --> 02:23:11.719
<v Speaker 8>I just want to thank the Brook brook And for

2480
02:23:11.799 --> 02:23:15.280
<v Speaker 8>that tremendous tribute. Give me a voice long. I love

2481
02:23:15.319 --> 02:23:20.559
<v Speaker 8>this job. It's the greatest job in the world. I

2482
02:23:20.600 --> 02:23:23.719
<v Speaker 8>will miss it tremendously. And they say there's life f

2483
02:23:23.799 --> 02:23:26.200
<v Speaker 8>T F T N Y, but mine will never be

2484
02:23:26.280 --> 02:23:29.600
<v Speaker 8>the same. Division one, five ten commander, And that was it.

2485
02:23:30.639 --> 02:23:35.360
<v Speaker 6>That was the end of my career and fabulous career

2486
02:23:35.399 --> 02:23:35.600
<v Speaker 6>it was.

2487
02:23:36.200 --> 02:23:37.639
<v Speaker 8>I got a lot of calls about that.

2488
02:23:38.120 --> 02:23:40.920
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, for sure, Well you get to teach, you get

2489
02:23:40.959 --> 02:23:44.200
<v Speaker 6>to teach one more time, all right, Yeah, I didn't

2490
02:23:44.799 --> 02:23:47.000
<v Speaker 6>all got a minute. We got to set you up.

2491
02:23:47.440 --> 02:23:48.559
<v Speaker 6>You know what time it is gone?

2492
02:23:49.079 --> 02:23:51.159
<v Speaker 4>No, I don't miss I do. Hold on one second.

2493
02:23:51.239 --> 02:23:55.680
<v Speaker 4>I got a little caught up here. Wait we went

2494
02:23:55.719 --> 02:23:56.399
<v Speaker 4>way to hell too long?

2495
02:23:56.440 --> 02:23:57.520
<v Speaker 5>But you know who cant. I'm just kidding.

2496
02:23:58.719 --> 02:24:00.600
<v Speaker 6>I'm just playing around.

2497
02:24:00.799 --> 02:24:02.920
<v Speaker 8>Ray Strong used to say, you know, b knows a

2498
02:24:02.959 --> 02:24:04.600
<v Speaker 8>lot of ship, but you've got to listen to him

2499
02:24:04.600 --> 02:24:10.920
<v Speaker 8>for another hour. Day in one eleven job on Bedford Atlantic,

2500
02:24:11.559 --> 02:24:14.000
<v Speaker 8>really bad fire and we're going down the block and

2501
02:24:14.079 --> 02:24:16.680
<v Speaker 8>I turned around the Ray and go walcome the beakmastives and.

2502
02:24:17.680 --> 02:24:19.000
<v Speaker 4>Somebody was asking if you work with him?

2503
02:24:19.040 --> 02:24:27.000
<v Speaker 6>So yeah, it's this time.

2504
02:24:27.440 --> 02:24:28.799
<v Speaker 4>All right, it's time for.

2505
02:24:31.600 --> 02:24:32.559
<v Speaker 6>The old school tip.

2506
02:24:35.120 --> 02:24:37.239
<v Speaker 8>Kay, okay, here you.

2507
02:24:37.280 --> 02:24:38.680
<v Speaker 4>Go, brother, bring me bring it right in.

2508
02:24:39.280 --> 02:24:39.639
<v Speaker 8>I will.

2509
02:24:39.920 --> 02:24:40.079
<v Speaker 5>Uh.

2510
02:24:40.760 --> 02:24:45.159
<v Speaker 8>What I taught my Proby's was remember and I don't

2511
02:24:45.360 --> 02:24:47.760
<v Speaker 8>get Bill and got the rest of He always said

2512
02:24:48.399 --> 02:24:52.440
<v Speaker 8>the whole job eventually will be mass coordinated. So I said,

2513
02:24:52.479 --> 02:24:56.760
<v Speaker 8>tell me, probs, God forbid if your mask runs out

2514
02:24:56.760 --> 02:24:59.879
<v Speaker 8>of air and you're in a bad spot, Cruel to

2515
02:24:59.879 --> 02:25:03.520
<v Speaker 8>the wall. Get your nose on the floor where the

2516
02:25:03.600 --> 02:25:06.840
<v Speaker 8>wall meets the floor, and they'll be aired there for

2517
02:25:06.920 --> 02:25:09.440
<v Speaker 8>you to breathe. It will be great because smoke rolls,

2518
02:25:10.280 --> 02:25:12.559
<v Speaker 8>it doesn't go square, and you'll be able to get

2519
02:25:12.680 --> 02:25:15.360
<v Speaker 8>enough air to keep crowing to the next window and

2520
02:25:15.399 --> 02:25:17.959
<v Speaker 8>then take the fucking window. So that's my tip of

2521
02:25:18.040 --> 02:25:18.280
<v Speaker 8>the day.

2522
02:25:19.760 --> 02:25:20.920
<v Speaker 5>Wow, I never heard that.

2523
02:25:21.760 --> 02:25:24.799
<v Speaker 8>Nobody ever heard that because I made it up. I heard.

2524
02:25:27.639 --> 02:25:30.479
<v Speaker 8>I kind of taught myself, but I taught my my

2525
02:25:30.639 --> 02:25:33.440
<v Speaker 8>probies that. And you know, you hear guys dying with

2526
02:25:33.520 --> 02:25:37.079
<v Speaker 8>masks on. I mean, I think if it says one

2527
02:25:37.159 --> 02:25:38.319
<v Speaker 8>guy's ass, it's weird.

2528
02:25:38.680 --> 02:25:38.840
<v Speaker 5>Yeah.

2529
02:25:40.079 --> 02:25:42.280
<v Speaker 6>Well, I gotta tell you, mister Austin, it was worth

2530
02:25:42.319 --> 02:25:44.159
<v Speaker 6>the wait. You are fine and fine, and.

2531
02:25:45.959 --> 02:25:47.799
<v Speaker 8>We waited. You know, I was about my career there

2532
02:25:47.799 --> 02:25:50.159
<v Speaker 8>for a while, and uh things are quiet and I

2533
02:25:50.360 --> 02:25:53.319
<v Speaker 8>just had the cancer and doing better though. But uh,

2534
02:25:53.520 --> 02:25:56.840
<v Speaker 8>Pat leaves like the flobblets. Yeah, but gentlemen, it was

2535
02:25:56.879 --> 02:26:00.879
<v Speaker 8>a pleasure. I appreciate you putting him on the show.

2536
02:26:01.159 --> 02:26:03.879
<v Speaker 8>I think you guys are doing a great job. Uh well,

2537
02:26:04.120 --> 02:26:07.000
<v Speaker 8>I do remember working with you many years ago. Kevin

2538
02:26:07.079 --> 02:26:08.840
<v Speaker 8>unfortunately never got a chance to work you. But if

2539
02:26:08.879 --> 02:26:12.159
<v Speaker 8>you were not squad And remember what the squad is,

2540
02:26:12.239 --> 02:26:14.120
<v Speaker 8>right you know what squad is right there, it comes

2541
02:26:15.520 --> 02:26:19.360
<v Speaker 8>an engine with a fucking root for rop. That's thank

2542
02:26:19.399 --> 02:26:23.120
<v Speaker 8>you very much. And I'll tell you quick, Vine and

2543
02:26:23.159 --> 02:26:26.920
<v Speaker 8>Garo what happened. They were him in a truck. He

2544
02:26:26.959 --> 02:26:28.520
<v Speaker 8>was supposed to get one seventy six. He came to

2545
02:26:28.600 --> 02:26:31.719
<v Speaker 8>fires one day all pissed off. I said, call Murph

2546
02:26:33.079 --> 02:26:34.680
<v Speaker 8>and Urt's going to be the catin two eighty eight.

2547
02:26:34.719 --> 02:26:37.360
<v Speaker 8>And that's how you got Vinnie was a great fireman.

2548
02:26:37.360 --> 02:26:40.680
<v Speaker 6>Great great old had great hair, too, good hair.

2549
02:26:40.879 --> 02:26:43.399
<v Speaker 8>Yeah, but the Duke used to blow smoke.

2550
02:26:46.200 --> 02:26:47.760
<v Speaker 6>Tang him. He's a good wrestler.

2551
02:26:47.879 --> 02:26:54.200
<v Speaker 5>He was a good grappler. Adam photographer. He always pictures all.

2552
02:26:54.159 --> 02:26:58.000
<v Speaker 8>Those guys, you know, Hancock Street. You know I can

2553
02:26:58.040 --> 02:26:58.959
<v Speaker 8>get into Mark Gregory.

2554
02:27:00.879 --> 02:27:03.360
<v Speaker 6>We didn't even talk about it watching it before.

2555
02:27:03.879 --> 02:27:07.479
<v Speaker 8>Yeah, yeah, stand by.

2556
02:27:07.559 --> 02:27:08.799
<v Speaker 6>We got to get through a couple of things and

2557
02:27:08.879 --> 02:27:09.680
<v Speaker 6>then we'll get back to it.

2558
02:27:09.840 --> 02:27:12.840
<v Speaker 5>I want to go first. I gotta shout out you.

2559
02:27:13.879 --> 02:27:19.840
<v Speaker 7>I want to mention uh, Deputy Chief the third Division Commander,

2560
02:27:20.360 --> 02:27:22.399
<v Speaker 7>Joe Causton, Chief call, but.

2561
02:27:23.959 --> 02:27:28.440
<v Speaker 5>He had a stroke. I think he's doing a little

2562
02:27:28.479 --> 02:27:30.520
<v Speaker 5>bit better. But he's he's fighting. He's got a lot

2563
02:27:30.559 --> 02:27:31.639
<v Speaker 5>of rehab ahead.

2564
02:27:31.959 --> 02:27:34.920
<v Speaker 8>Well, yeah, he was.

2565
02:27:35.399 --> 02:27:38.159
<v Speaker 5>He came on the boat ride with us. He follows

2566
02:27:38.200 --> 02:27:41.000
<v Speaker 5>the show, he loves he loves.

2567
02:27:40.879 --> 02:27:44.680
<v Speaker 8>Him to watch the show more often. I don't really

2568
02:27:45.120 --> 02:27:45.319
<v Speaker 8>do it.

2569
02:27:48.040 --> 02:27:51.639
<v Speaker 6>Chief, All right, gods, we got two shout outs?

2570
02:27:51.719 --> 02:27:54.440
<v Speaker 4>Right, we have three. Well we'll start with uh.

2571
02:27:55.440 --> 02:27:59.760
<v Speaker 6>Yes, from one fifty nine. The guy reaches out to

2572
02:27:59.799 --> 02:28:03.680
<v Speaker 6>be the Actually he's working covering in twenty seven tonight.

2573
02:28:04.399 --> 02:28:08.000
<v Speaker 6>They're all watching it. It's a Jeff Warmer seven. He's

2574
02:28:08.360 --> 02:28:11.639
<v Speaker 6>twenty seventh tonight. Remind you about retired five fighter Rob

2575
02:28:11.719 --> 02:28:16.639
<v Speaker 6>o'corn from Taolada. One fifty eight. What do you donate to?

2576
02:28:16.719 --> 02:28:17.959
<v Speaker 6>Where is wiscons can you.

2577
02:28:18.239 --> 02:28:19.959
<v Speaker 4>It's gonna be a QR code. You're gonna have to

2578
02:28:20.000 --> 02:28:21.000
<v Speaker 4>scan the QR code.

2579
02:28:21.360 --> 02:28:22.760
<v Speaker 6>I will put it in. We'll put it in the

2580
02:28:22.959 --> 02:28:24.920
<v Speaker 6>in the description, right, we can put the q code.

2581
02:28:25.319 --> 02:28:27.760
<v Speaker 6>It's tickets just to help. But it's a fundraiser. He

2582
02:28:27.799 --> 02:28:32.360
<v Speaker 6>has pancre out of cancer, I believe man. So let's

2583
02:28:32.760 --> 02:28:35.879
<v Speaker 6>show some supportive fifty to fifty riffles and prizes. Uh

2584
02:28:36.639 --> 02:28:40.399
<v Speaker 6>that thirty thirty two thirty two wir Old Avenue, mon Tony,

2585
02:28:40.559 --> 02:28:45.799
<v Speaker 6>York on May fifteenth, six thirty to ten thirty. Yeah,

2586
02:28:46.200 --> 02:28:47.959
<v Speaker 6>so let's try to get out there and support.

2587
02:28:48.559 --> 02:28:52.120
<v Speaker 4>I pull it up after the show and then we

2588
02:28:52.319 --> 02:28:57.120
<v Speaker 4>have uh a lot of duty death from Scranton, Pennsylvania.

2589
02:28:57.920 --> 02:29:00.440
<v Speaker 4>Let me pull his picture up. We'll say if you

2590
02:29:00.479 --> 02:29:02.159
<v Speaker 4>want to do the bells at the end, because.

2591
02:29:02.799 --> 02:29:04.600
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, we'll do up five.

2592
02:29:05.840 --> 02:29:09.760
<v Speaker 4>All right, this is Local six. Oh has announce something

2593
02:29:09.760 --> 02:29:13.600
<v Speaker 4>I wanted to do. The esophageal cancer Jesus Lt. Kelly

2594
02:29:14.239 --> 02:29:16.639
<v Speaker 4>Hoppy Hopkins is his name. He actually knows they know

2595
02:29:16.760 --> 02:29:21.079
<v Speaker 4>him as the battalion chief had passed away from Scranton, FD. No,

2596
02:29:21.319 --> 02:29:25.239
<v Speaker 4>you have your friend right, this is Scranton and uh

2597
02:29:25.520 --> 02:29:27.959
<v Speaker 4>for those of us that haven't heard, I do have

2598
02:29:28.079 --> 02:29:29.719
<v Speaker 4>a short little video that I don't know if you

2599
02:29:29.760 --> 02:29:30.959
<v Speaker 4>want to do it after the bells that.

2600
02:29:32.319 --> 02:29:34.399
<v Speaker 6>We'll do the bells last. You could throw it up ahead.

2601
02:29:34.639 --> 02:29:36.440
<v Speaker 4>It's only gonna be about a minute when I show up.

2602
02:29:36.479 --> 02:29:40.319
<v Speaker 4>But for those that haven't heard, Captain Bill Gustin from

2603
02:29:40.360 --> 02:29:44.239
<v Speaker 4>Miami Dade Fire passed away on Sunday, has the picture

2604
02:29:44.280 --> 02:29:46.280
<v Speaker 4>of the good old cap well known He's kind of

2605
02:29:46.319 --> 02:29:49.600
<v Speaker 4>like our comparable to a Vinnie Donner. The FDU y

2606
02:29:49.760 --> 02:29:53.879
<v Speaker 4>well known. He knows them, and one of the video

2607
02:29:53.959 --> 02:29:55.680
<v Speaker 4>will explain a lot too when I show you a

2608
02:29:55.719 --> 02:29:57.520
<v Speaker 4>little video for those that don't know him. This guy's

2609
02:29:57.520 --> 02:29:59.559
<v Speaker 4>a wealth of knowledge, a lot of stuff, fire engineering,

2610
02:30:01.040 --> 02:30:03.120
<v Speaker 4>so on and so forth. But he's gonna be missed.

2611
02:30:03.200 --> 02:30:05.920
<v Speaker 4>I do have permission from the Miami Date Fire Department

2612
02:30:06.000 --> 02:30:09.479
<v Speaker 4>to share this video because it is their video. Go ahead,

2613
02:30:10.079 --> 02:30:11.760
<v Speaker 4>So I'm just gonna play about a minute of them.

2614
02:30:11.799 --> 02:30:13.959
<v Speaker 4>When you see who it is, this gentleman was on

2615
02:30:14.079 --> 02:30:17.280
<v Speaker 4>our show once before, who also had recently passed away.

2616
02:30:19.399 --> 02:30:21.079
<v Speaker 4>Just listen to the kind word she says.

2617
02:30:24.200 --> 02:30:25.000
<v Speaker 8>Before I begin.

2618
02:30:25.120 --> 02:30:29.360
<v Speaker 12>There's two things comment on a I've never seen Bill

2619
02:30:29.479 --> 02:30:36.639
<v Speaker 12>so quiet. I've never seen him so closely shaved. In

2620
02:30:36.840 --> 02:30:40.360
<v Speaker 12>May of nineteen sixty two, then General of the Army

2621
02:30:40.440 --> 02:30:42.639
<v Speaker 12>Douglas MacArthur said the following.

2622
02:30:43.200 --> 02:30:45.920
<v Speaker 5>Duty honor country.

2623
02:30:46.760 --> 02:30:50.719
<v Speaker 12>These three hallowed words reverently dictate.

2624
02:30:50.959 --> 02:30:54.399
<v Speaker 4>What you ought to be, what you can be, and

2625
02:30:54.520 --> 02:30:55.399
<v Speaker 4>what you will be.

2626
02:30:56.280 --> 02:30:59.120
<v Speaker 12>It has been said that a vision is an acute

2627
02:30:59.200 --> 02:31:03.360
<v Speaker 12>sense of the possible. Today we have an opportunity to

2628
02:31:03.520 --> 02:31:06.879
<v Speaker 12>honor a man who not only had an acute sense

2629
02:31:07.319 --> 02:31:11.319
<v Speaker 12>a vision of what was possible, but became and shared

2630
02:31:11.399 --> 02:31:16.559
<v Speaker 12>that vision with literally hundreds of thousands of firefighters.

2631
02:31:18.719 --> 02:31:21.200
<v Speaker 4>I'll leave it at that, no way. I mean, it's

2632
02:31:21.200 --> 02:31:22.639
<v Speaker 4>a little bit longer. But as you guys know, we

2633
02:31:22.680 --> 02:31:24.639
<v Speaker 4>had Bobby Holton on the show, Chief Holding on the show,

2634
02:31:24.680 --> 02:31:28.440
<v Speaker 4>Big fd icy guy, and so this it's kind of

2635
02:31:28.440 --> 02:31:31.200
<v Speaker 4>a unique that two legendary guys kind of commencing there

2636
02:31:32.799 --> 02:31:33.559
<v Speaker 4>not too long ago.

2637
02:31:34.120 --> 02:31:36.200
<v Speaker 8>Guys, I tell young guys sometimes they go, you know,

2638
02:31:36.280 --> 02:31:38.760
<v Speaker 8>it's the greatest job in the world. You're gonna spend

2639
02:31:39.280 --> 02:31:42.479
<v Speaker 8>twenty thirty forty years on his job. Don't expect to

2640
02:31:42.559 --> 02:31:43.280
<v Speaker 8>make it to ninety.

2641
02:31:44.520 --> 02:31:47.440
<v Speaker 6>How it is, there's somebody else in the chat that

2642
02:31:47.559 --> 02:31:48.239
<v Speaker 6>was a line of due.

2643
02:31:48.479 --> 02:31:50.319
<v Speaker 8>Other thing I talked about too, is that when I

2644
02:31:50.399 --> 02:31:53.360
<v Speaker 8>got a job, we were firemen, not firefighters.

2645
02:31:56.239 --> 02:31:57.959
<v Speaker 5>There's another great.

2646
02:32:00.159 --> 02:32:02.760
<v Speaker 4>Don't forget Eddie Stevens, which we mentioned at the beginning

2647
02:32:02.799 --> 02:32:03.159
<v Speaker 4>of the show.

2648
02:32:03.959 --> 02:32:07.159
<v Speaker 6>Okay, that was that was actually okay, we're gonna give

2649
02:32:07.159 --> 02:32:09.040
<v Speaker 6>them the five bells now for all the brothers who've

2650
02:32:09.040 --> 02:32:22.639
<v Speaker 6>died in the line of duty. Rest in peace, brothers,

2651
02:32:23.040 --> 02:32:23.840
<v Speaker 6>Rest in peace, brothers.

2652
02:32:23.920 --> 02:32:24.520
<v Speaker 5>We got it from here.

2653
02:32:25.959 --> 02:32:28.959
<v Speaker 6>Don's lasting. Louis and I, we have to show us

2654
02:32:29.040 --> 02:32:31.840
<v Speaker 6>up there again the fifty third. Louis and I will

2655
02:32:31.920 --> 02:32:36.879
<v Speaker 6>be at Harrisburg for the fifty third annual Fire Expo,

2656
02:32:37.159 --> 02:32:41.280
<v Speaker 6>hosted by Lancaster County Fireman's Association. Fire Expo will showcase

2657
02:32:41.319 --> 02:32:45.280
<v Speaker 6>more than two hundred and fifty emergency service exhibits, featuring

2658
02:32:45.319 --> 02:32:49.239
<v Speaker 6>the world's leading manufacturer of fire, emergency, medical, service, rescue

2659
02:32:49.280 --> 02:32:52.479
<v Speaker 6>and public safety equipment. Plus you're truly getting salty hawkins

2660
02:32:52.559 --> 02:32:54.079
<v Speaker 6>and T shirts. You know how we do it. The

2661
02:32:54.159 --> 02:32:57.280
<v Speaker 6>Fire Expo not only has displays, exhibits, and live demonstrations,

2662
02:32:57.319 --> 02:33:02.719
<v Speaker 6>but also provides training from Cumberland Valley volunteers also provide

2663
02:33:04.440 --> 02:33:08.360
<v Speaker 6>let's just skip to this the Association penn State Hershey Lifeline,

2664
02:33:08.440 --> 02:33:12.799
<v Speaker 6>Critical Care Transport, Middle Creek Search and Rescue, PA Offices

2665
02:33:12.799 --> 02:33:16.360
<v Speaker 6>of State Fire Command. Full training descriptions and details available

2666
02:33:16.399 --> 02:33:22.559
<v Speaker 6>on our website Www. LCFA dot com. Backslash firesh Expo

2667
02:33:22.760 --> 02:33:26.000
<v Speaker 6>May sixteenth, seventeenth, nine am five and then nine am

2668
02:33:26.120 --> 02:33:29.920
<v Speaker 6>to four at the Pennsylvania Farm Showing Complex. So come

2669
02:33:29.959 --> 02:33:33.520
<v Speaker 6>down and see me. Louis twenty three hundred North Cameron

2670
02:33:33.639 --> 02:33:37.239
<v Speaker 6>Street and Harrisburg, PA. Come on down and see us.

2671
02:33:38.200 --> 02:33:41.600
<v Speaker 6>We'll be there along with those other ex exhibits. And

2672
02:33:41.840 --> 02:33:45.920
<v Speaker 6>one last thing. Captain Dennis Murphy's son just got over

2673
02:33:46.000 --> 02:33:47.120
<v Speaker 6>the squad two eighty eight.

2674
02:33:47.399 --> 02:33:48.000
<v Speaker 8>I heard about it.

2675
02:33:48.639 --> 02:33:51.200
<v Speaker 6>He already already caught a couple of good jobs.

2676
02:33:51.280 --> 02:33:52.920
<v Speaker 4>So how do he gets over?

2677
02:33:54.840 --> 02:33:55.479
<v Speaker 6>How he got there?

2678
02:33:59.040 --> 02:34:01.360
<v Speaker 8>If you know, Dennis doesn't get involved that the kid

2679
02:34:01.440 --> 02:34:04.559
<v Speaker 8>went over there on merit. I like it they went

2680
02:34:04.600 --> 02:34:05.280
<v Speaker 8>over there merit.

2681
02:34:05.639 --> 02:34:09.159
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I want to thank you again, mister Austin. It

2682
02:34:09.360 --> 02:34:12.000
<v Speaker 6>was worth the wait, your fire and fineman I love it.

2683
02:34:12.280 --> 02:34:15.000
<v Speaker 6>So I don't know, but I think your hell too.

2684
02:34:15.559 --> 02:34:18.079
<v Speaker 8>I always told people, Uh, I just went to work

2685
02:34:18.120 --> 02:34:20.959
<v Speaker 8>and did my job. You know, Uh, the ft m

2686
02:34:21.079 --> 02:34:22.959
<v Speaker 8>Y is not a job, it's a way of life.

2687
02:34:24.280 --> 02:34:26.840
<v Speaker 6>There's another T shirt this man.

2688
02:34:26.879 --> 02:34:28.000
<v Speaker 4>You better write that ship down.

2689
02:34:28.360 --> 02:34:30.399
<v Speaker 6>You got a lot of T shirt ideas. Yeah, I'm

2690
02:34:30.399 --> 02:34:30.959
<v Speaker 6>gonna go back.

2691
02:34:31.200 --> 02:34:34.040
<v Speaker 8>It's been a real pleasure and privilege to finally get

2692
02:34:34.040 --> 02:34:36.360
<v Speaker 8>ahold of you guys and talk to him. I appreciate it.

2693
02:34:36.440 --> 02:34:38.479
<v Speaker 8>Thank you very much. Well, thank you. We'll see you.

2694
02:34:39.680 --> 02:34:41.200
<v Speaker 6>We'll see you on a boat ride. Now we have

2695
02:34:41.280 --> 02:34:41.920
<v Speaker 6>a boat ride.

2696
02:34:43.360 --> 02:34:43.920
<v Speaker 5>You love that.

2697
02:34:45.920 --> 02:34:49.959
<v Speaker 6>It's on the hobby the hobby fire friend.

2698
02:34:51.159 --> 02:34:54.159
<v Speaker 8>You have to John your hobbyist, right, it's privately owned

2699
02:34:54.200 --> 02:34:57.159
<v Speaker 8>that the owner.

2700
02:34:57.479 --> 02:34:59.520
<v Speaker 6>And we go around the Statue of Liberty and around

2701
02:34:59.559 --> 02:35:02.280
<v Speaker 6>Manhattan drink off, faces off, eat off, faces off. We

2702
02:35:02.319 --> 02:35:04.040
<v Speaker 6>have all the guests from the past year. Come on,

2703
02:35:04.200 --> 02:35:07.079
<v Speaker 6>so now you gotta you have my number now, keV.

2704
02:35:07.440 --> 02:35:10.000
<v Speaker 6>Second week of August, always second weekend, so I'll send

2705
02:35:10.040 --> 02:35:11.799
<v Speaker 6>it to you. I have your email. We'll send it.

2706
02:35:11.879 --> 02:35:14.399
<v Speaker 6>The invitations go out like in May June.

2707
02:35:15.200 --> 02:35:19.440
<v Speaker 8>I bring the spouse or well the girlfriend, whatever you prefer. Brother,

2708
02:35:19.959 --> 02:35:21.479
<v Speaker 8>we'll see if I'm still witter. You never know.

2709
02:35:23.040 --> 02:35:24.600
<v Speaker 5>We got this to make shoes.

2710
02:35:28.959 --> 02:35:31.840
<v Speaker 8>Louis great sitting you again after all these years. Remember

2711
02:35:31.920 --> 02:35:32.600
<v Speaker 8>working with you over.

2712
02:35:32.520 --> 02:35:34.559
<v Speaker 5>There, and that's coming back to him.

2713
02:35:35.440 --> 02:35:37.319
<v Speaker 8>Guys, I played in the hockey team for them from

2714
02:35:37.440 --> 02:35:40.840
<v Speaker 8>you know, so you know Dickley leads, Russ Banks and

2715
02:35:41.760 --> 02:35:44.120
<v Speaker 8>oh god, Joe Koopro got the rest of the soul,

2716
02:35:44.479 --> 02:35:47.159
<v Speaker 8>Timmy Connell, all the good guys over there. You know.

2717
02:35:47.719 --> 02:35:51.079
<v Speaker 8>Hundred three was always two nights on three. They used

2718
02:35:51.079 --> 02:35:52.440
<v Speaker 8>to get a little bit of rap once a while,

2719
02:35:52.479 --> 02:35:53.479
<v Speaker 8>but they're very very.

2720
02:35:53.399 --> 02:36:01.319
<v Speaker 6>Good company, objective, all right, boys, So we'll see you

2721
02:36:01.479 --> 02:36:04.879
<v Speaker 6>next week, Bobby Steady, don't don't click you out. We're

2722
02:36:04.920 --> 02:36:07.840
<v Speaker 6>gonna sign off here. Roofie guns.

2723
02:36:08.479 --> 02:36:10.200
<v Speaker 8>You know what I say, Man, you don't want one

2724
02:36:10.280 --> 02:36:11.120
<v Speaker 8>to rest first.

2725
02:36:12.680 --> 02:36:14.280
<v Speaker 6>Baby three, two, multiple phone calls.

2726
02:36:14.319 --> 02:36:19.159
<v Speaker 5>Sounds like a job. How about that? Everybody? Thanks again, Bob.

2727
02:36:19.680 --> 02:36:22.959
<v Speaker 4>All right, guys, I was gonna say roll heavy, no problem,

2728
02:36:23.040 --> 02:36:25.079
<v Speaker 4>they're Bobby, but I was gonna say rolling heavy. But

2729
02:36:25.159 --> 02:36:26.799
<v Speaker 4>we're gonna roll a little like tonight in honor of.

2730
02:36:26.879 --> 02:36:27.680
<v Speaker 5>Captain Bill Gustin.

2731
02:36:27.840 --> 02:36:31.639
<v Speaker 4>So absolutely God bless everyone and have a great night

2732
02:36:32.120 --> 02:36:32.159
<v Speaker 4>you

2733
02:36:32.360 --> 02:36:34.399
<v Speaker 8>Too, gentlemen again mm hmm