WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:01.919 Disclaimer. 2 00:00:02.080 --> 00:00:04.080 We'd like to know before the start of this interview 3 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:06.559 that the opinions about to be expressed by the guest 4 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:09.480 of tonight's Getting Salty Experience Podcast are that of the 5 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:12.800 guest and do not directly or necessarily reflect the views 6 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:29.679 of the host of the Getting Salty Experience Podcast. 7 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:34.000 You're listening to the Getting Salty Experience podcast. 8 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:42.640 Hello in a world. 9 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:47.920 We go, Welcome back to the Insalty Experience podcast. This 10 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:50.679 is the only one that brings the fire house, kitchen 11 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:53.880 table and everything that comes with the fire service to you. 12 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:56.880 All right, we're including ems because that's an important job. 13 00:00:57.439 --> 00:00:58.320 Earn money, sleeping. 14 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:01.479 That's the way it goes. Old school ms, old screen money, 15 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:05.239 not you know, like rubber gloves. Not the rubber gloves, uh, 16 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:07.799 you know, wear your mask type of ms. We're talking 17 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:08.239 old school. 18 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:10.480 We're talking about down and there. Maybe when they were 19 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:13.319 even given mouth to mouth. I don't know what. 20 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:20.840 Mouth blind fingers, sweet blind. 21 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:23.719 That's old school. I think that's old school. 22 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:29.519 I don't know the blood what his old lady did 23 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:39.719 to him last night? Blind fingers sweep out of nowhere? Bro, 24 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:41.000 what's that sweet? 25 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:42.280 Was helping it? 26 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:42.879 You forget? 27 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:45.519 I'm not that it's not that quick. He had that 28 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:46.040 written down. 29 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:52.079 You know you're a paramedic. Yes, really, you can. 30 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:58.319 Push hard, push fast, pressure up. 31 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:00.920 Yeah right. 32 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:06.120 What was that guy's name, Jim Bondello Love Dub Love Dub, Yeah, Jim. 33 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:07.280 Yeah. 34 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:10.159 Let's see. Somebody's lighting me up right where we got 35 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:12.719 somebody's like yeah, no, no, no, okay. 36 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:15.199 Well listen, I'm gonna swallow my pride now and tay. 37 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:17.919 Congratulations to the Yankees, all right, making it to the 38 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:20.159 World Series. Yes, yes, I want to be the bigger man, 39 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:23.319 even in my mets. That is a great season make. 40 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:30.039 But sorry, I just had to try to humble. 41 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.439 He appreciate it, man, I appreciate I love you. I 42 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:32.960 love you. 43 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:34.199 Yeah. 44 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:36.960 Let's play some commercials quick, let's play, you know, play first, 45 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:40.199 Let's play our new Salty White commercial. I'm gonna beat 46 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:41.080 you over the head with that. 47 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:55.560 Here we go. 48 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:56.960 I'm neither amuse you or. 49 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:59.360 Something with clown. 50 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:03.199 I'm running the fun out of. 51 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:07.680 A burning building. Just your apartment is underneath. 52 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:16.039 I'm in the two minute Morning ordered a couple of 53 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:18.520 firemen into a flat above a fire. 54 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:45.360 I smell the smoke, catchy music, Get over there. Nine 55 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:48.719 to ninety five a month. W w W dot salty 56 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:51.199 wire dot com. We just did a you know, we're 57 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:53.080 gonna give you a little teasing next week because we're 58 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:55.560 not having a show on Halloween. 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He worked before Birds to 98 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:25.759 the Ft and y and we're gonna share. 99 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:28.199 I might find the patch the current patch too. 100 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:29.600 You might have something. 101 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:31.319 I think I have a movie quote from him too. 102 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:33.120 I think if you guys may have heard of his movie. 103 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:37.160 Quote ten grand, there's a horse called Longest Day, the 104 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:39.439 number two horse running. 105 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:40.040 In the second race. 106 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:42.480 Put the ten grand on the. 107 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.800 Number two horse to win into second race. That actually 108 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:51.399 be coo complicated you. 109 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:50.240 Where is that from? 110 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:51.480 You don't know that movie? 111 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:53.240 What is that from? 112 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:59.959 Wise guys with Danny DeVito and Frankie that whole in there? 113 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:02.240 So that's all right, don't if I remember that one? 114 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:04.800 Netflix it or something? 115 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:07.959 All right? You bring your buddy in. This is the 116 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:10.040 buddy of lose back from the old neighborhood. You know 117 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:15.319 what I'm saying, By the old neighborhood green, what your 118 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:18.120 grandmother's on? Withers? What was he on with us? 119 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:20.240 He was just a couple of a couple of houses 120 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:21.519 up on the opposite side of the street. 121 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:23.160 Look at that. You had to walk a far a 122 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:26.000 long way to see him, huh. I bring it, frank 123 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:27.560 your fixer bro old school MS. 124 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:30.439 Guy, I love it coming to the stage. You ready, Gods, 125 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.279 I am coming to the stage. F D N y 126 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:43.519 E M S. Captain Frank Domatto, whoa, it looks good. 127 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:47.360 That always had the baby face man always he looks. 128 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:51.399 I think he's like Benjamin Buttons. I don't know what. 129 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:53.759 You got the best laugh in forever. 130 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.600 Before we leap off, we gotta get patriotic. Yes, yes, 131 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:01.240 we are that type of show. 132 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:01.879 There we go. 133 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:08.879 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States 134 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:13.399 of America and to the Republic, for which it stands, 135 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:21.519 one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. 136 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:33.440 Excellent. Before we jump off, I did want to say 137 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:36.799 something because we had on that Salty Wire commercial, we 138 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:41.039 had Chief Vincent Dunn and he said that he's in 139 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:42.919 the two minute warning right. So anyway, I booked him 140 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:44.639 for another show he wants to do. He's looking forward 141 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:47.000 to doing Q and A. So if you have questions 142 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:49.440 for the Legend Vincent Dunn, send him over the Coops 143 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:54.080 Podcast at gmail dot com. All right, thank you the fixer. 144 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:57.639 Let's go back. Let's go back to the old neighborhood 145 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:02.639 you know all started where you and Louis became bombas 146 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:03.039 you know. 147 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:06.440 Oh, thanks for having me, guys. It's a it's an 148 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:09.080 honor to be which is so when did it all start? 149 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:14.440 Wingers Burg, Brooklyn? Uh with the street Louis. Uh grandmother 150 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:18.200 was across the streets from me, and uh him and 151 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:21.080 his cousin Louis grew up together and uh a lot 152 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:21.559 of good. 153 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:23.879 Times, a lot of gob of goal over there, a 154 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:24.159 lot of. 155 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:29.039 Ball. 156 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:35.559 Everything everything on roller skates. We played hockey, hockey, football, football, 157 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:37.519 Everything was on roller skates back in the day. 158 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:39.639 Not too many smiles though from the other little right. 159 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:44.639 He didn't smile that often back then day smiling guy. 160 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:47.039 Like if he liked he liked Frankie. He liked Frankie. 161 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:48.159 He would smile with frank. 162 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:49.159 We got to get him on the show and he 163 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:51.559 would tells, I'm going to get a smile out of 164 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:52.320 him if I got him. 165 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:54.720 There was there was like there was like six of 166 00:09:54.759 --> 00:10:01.279 those guys. There was uh uh Missoulo. You had Svadi, Yeah, Matone. 167 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:04.919 There was like Anthony Anthony Matone. 168 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:08.480 I didn't know that. We went to college with him. 169 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:12.720 Right rough, Yeah, we went to with Frankie too. Frankie, 170 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:14.440 you went to Barok didn't you for a little bit. 171 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:16.960 About three weeks? 172 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:20.399 Yeah, I think everybody left. It was like hilarious. Everybody. 173 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:22.600 I think what's his name was the dom was the 174 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:23.879 only one who finished, right, I. 175 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:27.200 Think finish right Frans Easy? 176 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:32.080 Yeah, yes, right, so everybody, no Irish guys, old Italian 177 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:38.120 guys over there, no Irish old time. 178 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:39.440 High school. 179 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:42.559 He went to a knife Catholic school right LaSalle Academy. 180 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:45.200 All the guys the east side. 181 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:49.039 Uh yeah it was. It was a great experience old 182 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:53.039 boy high school. But uh it was tough. You know, 183 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:56.480 a lot of little groups from different parts of Brooklyn. 184 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:59.600 But uh, it was nice. It was a good experience. 185 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:02.919 How is that going to old boys school? Jones in 186 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.440 high school? It's like I have to get something, you 187 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:05.720 know what? 188 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:08.679 They always had sister schools, right, Like they had a 189 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:10.879 sister school that they would have dances with and ship right. 190 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:14.600 I don't know, you know, we were on the lower 191 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:17.840 east Side. You had what Xavier High School was another 192 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:21.960 old boys school not too far on fourteenth Street or something. Yeah, 193 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:24.440 we didn't we didn't do any dances or nothing like that. 194 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:28.039 Because like Malloy had what like the mint marriage, so 195 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:30.759 I'll say whatever it is. Yeah, they always had a 196 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:32.799 sister school that they would have dances at. 197 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:33.639 Yeah. 198 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:38.320 No, so you had dances with sisters with brothers. I'm 199 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:39.519 not judging here, frank you know. 200 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:42.720 You sister brothers. 201 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:43.480 Yeah. 202 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:49.679 Yeah, So you graduated eighty six. You go from the 203 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.759 root with us for about three weeks and then, uh, 204 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:55.519 what happened? You took the test? Ye had that happen? 205 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:58.679 So I came out. I wanted to do some computer 206 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:02.720 sign says, go to BARUK and they're telling me I 207 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:05.159 can't take any computer classes for three years. And I'm like, 208 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:07.960 forget about it. I'm out of here. So I'm out 209 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:11.120 of school, don't know what to do. So I get 210 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:15.200 a job down at the Fulton Fish Market. That's where 211 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:16.799 Frankie the Fish was born. 212 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:21.720 Was born fish scaling. 213 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:24.919 We were unloading trucks from ten o'clock at night to 214 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:29.240 six in the morning, right and the shoulders, you know, 215 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:34.039 rubber galoshes pulling. We we don't load about twenty tractor 216 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:37.519 trailers a night. I didn't know so much fish existed 217 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:38.000 in the world. 218 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:39.159 That's I worked out there. 219 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.879 I mean trucks of trucks of everything. It's just unbelievable, 220 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:48.159 and uh, I was down there and then Juliani wound 221 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:50.200 up throwing a lot of people out down there, you 222 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:54.480 know what I mean. And uh so my father at 223 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.720 the time at the time past now, but uh my 224 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:02.080 father was always into the volunteer ambulance cause. And he 225 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:07.919 actually started the first e m T class instruct the 226 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:11.480 class in New York State and he was giving EMT 227 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:14.720 courses at the time. I think it was green Point 228 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:18.519 Hospital that's not around anymore, and he was like, oh, 229 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:21.519 take the EMT class, take the MT class, see what happens. 230 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:24.759 So I started taking an EMT class with him. And 231 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:28.200 at the time EMS started a big hiring to get 232 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:32.399 onto EMS. In the old days, you already had to 233 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:36.440 be an EMT to apply for EMS. I was not 234 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:41.279 an EMT. EMS was looking for a big hiring, so 235 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:45.279 they started a cadet program. And what the cadet program was. 236 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:49.519 You came in off the street. EMS taught taught you 237 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:51.720 how to become an e m T. I don't know 238 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:56.320 if it was like eight week or a twelve week program. 239 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:58.679 So you got your e m T. Once you passed 240 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:02.000 your em T, then you started the EMS academy. So 241 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:04.879 it was like a little segue. And I remember my 242 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:06.919 father said, oh, they're starting this now. You could be 243 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:10.000 in the first class, Cadet one and it was like 244 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:12.559 a three to eleven shift. I said, I don't want 245 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:14.279 to go up to Queen's three to eleven. I said, oh, 246 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:17.559 wait for the day shift the next one. So Cadet 247 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:21.679 two started and you know, I got into the class, 248 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:25.799 and you know, it was an eye opener, you know, 249 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:29.039 going through the em T program. We're really good instructors. 250 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:33.679 Always had good instructors up at four time and up 251 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:39.120 the bayside and did the EMT session and everything worked out. 252 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:42.320 And you were like eighteen when this was going on, 253 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:43.360 Frank right, I mean. 254 00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:47.879 Eighteen just turning nineteen. Yeah, so yeah, I got it, 255 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:50.279 got into a young you know, and my father was like, 256 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:52.600 I try for a few years, see what happens. You know, 257 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:55.279 what happens with that, right, twenty three years later, that's 258 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:55.759 the story. 259 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:57.159 It's funny how that happened. 260 00:14:57.399 --> 00:15:00.519 You get pushed into something, you know, just mention and 261 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:04.799 now you know it's yeah life, you know, like right, that. 262 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:06.679 Was before the merger, so they were run by what 263 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:08.720 Health and Hospital, right. 264 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:10.159 We were healthing Hospitals Corporation. 265 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:11.799 It was it a mullet. 266 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:15.200 Bounce a while while bro it definitely was eighty five. 267 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:20.240 Yeah you're looking at it. Oh yeah, so yeah that's 268 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:24.039 uh that's a Woodhole hospital. That's we guess enough the 269 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:27.559 truck there. But uh yeah. So we graduate and we 270 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:30.320 get our assignments and they tell me you go in 271 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:33.919 to Cumberland Station thirty six. I was like thirty six 272 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:36.240 and everybody's looking at me like I did something wrong. 273 00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:39.200 Thirty six Cumberland. That was like the place where like 274 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:41.799 I don't know, they made it like old. All the 275 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:44.440 bad guys went over there, and I was like, oh jeez, 276 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:46.559 where am I going. I was all upset. I want 277 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:48.360 to go there. I want to go to I wanted 278 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:51.000 to go to Woodholls, right down great Avenue for me 279 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:54.000 living in Williamsburg. And I tell you I got there 280 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:56.399 and I fell in love with the people. You know, 281 00:15:57.039 --> 00:16:00.200 great partners. Uh you know, I'll just throw a few 282 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:04.759 names out there, Eddie Petrie, Eddie Rissotto, Kevin Saclair and 283 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:09.240 Gary Ridderlrii Roche Todd Fullman, Pete Angelo, just just people 284 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:13.440 that you know, you never forget. Ivan Resto, We had 285 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:24.960 a captain, Christine Calucci and o'neils Neils and I got 286 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:27.759 a bus right away assigned to me thirty six either 287 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:32.320 Tour two. We worked nine to five and uh, you 288 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:34.879 know a normal day was, you know, we get out 289 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:37.519 on the road. The first thing we would do was 290 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:40.679 go to our dispatch area where we were signed. My 291 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:44.639 area was down on Court Street in third Place, so 292 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:49.840 we'd stopped at the seventh seven seven six precinct over there, 293 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:53.080 and we'd always sign out a police portable. So we 294 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:55.799 were listening to EMS radio and we're also listening to 295 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:59.399 the police portable because you know, we want you know, 296 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:04.359 we we we would do ten twelve jobs in an 297 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:07.200 eight hour shift. I mean we were running from warning 298 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:09.759 from the beginning of shift to the end of the shift. 299 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:12.680 You know, we'd come out of the emergency room you 300 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.640 have to drop them off, the patient and the dispatcher 301 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:18.400 would just be holding calls and holding calls. I mean 302 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:21.640 you couldn't get a break, and you know, it was 303 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:26.279 just crazy stuff. And you know, nobody wanted to do 304 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:29.920 the elderly, you know, difficulty breathing calls. Everybody wanted the 305 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:32.720 trauma stuff right and back then there was no GPS 306 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:36.160 in the ambulance. You nobody knew where you are. You know, 307 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:38.839 everybody was not the honest love it, I love it, 308 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:41.519 you know. So you know, you know, you get a call, 309 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:43.880 you listen it to the police radio and the shooting 310 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:48.680 comes over and cop shot, cop shot, you know whatever, stabbing, 311 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:51.079 you know this and that, and you know you always 312 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:53.119 jumped under on the radio, no matter where you were, 313 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:56.599 no matter where you were, You're always no. I got 314 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:58.480 a two minute BTA, too minute. Everybody had a too 315 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:01.039 minute BTA. 316 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:04.240 And then you know it was the same as and. 317 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:06.759 The dispatcher's trying to cancel units, and you know who's 318 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:09.839 keeing the radio episode he can't get through, and uh, 319 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:13.920 I tell a funny story one time. I don't know 320 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:16.079 where it was, what hospital was coming out of, but 321 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:19.079 it came over the radio. A cop was shot on 322 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:23.279 Atlantic Avenue in Buffalo. And I don't know if we 323 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:26.440 had just came out of the mens shelter on uh 324 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:30.640 DECALB wherever it was. Anyway, I said, oh, we got 325 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:33.279 to go to an accident thirty six sided were two 326 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:37.000 minutes out and they had already assigned unit and I 327 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:41.079 was driving, and you know barreling down Atlantic Avenue and 328 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:43.759 we pull up to the corner. Copp A shot inside 329 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:46.400 the car. He went to move his gun belt and 330 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:49.319 he shot himself into Like. So we pull up. An 331 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:51.839 ambulance is already there. The back doors are open, the 332 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:54.880 stretchers out, so it's an empty ambulance and I'm like, 333 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:57.119 I said, I said I should get over to my pond. 334 00:18:57.119 --> 00:18:58.359 I said, you can get over there. I said, we're 335 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:00.559 taking this patient. And he looks at me. How are 336 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:02.240 we taking this patient? I saidn't worry about it. I 337 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:04.680 got it. I pulled the ambulance up alongside the other, 338 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:07.119 the other ambulance that had the open door. They had 339 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:09.920 their stretcher out at the pop car ready, So I 340 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:12.359 take my stretcher out. I put it in the back 341 00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:16.440 of their ambulance. Now they come running out with a 342 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:19.720 stretcher over and the door was shut and here's my 343 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:22.200 door wide open with no stretcher. And I said, come on, 344 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:25.319 let's go right in, right in, right in, and we 345 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:28.960 steal patients from each other. And uh, you know, cop shot, 346 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:31.680 you know that was always the best because uh uh 347 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:35.079 you know, we get escorts h Trauma Center. Right, So 348 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:39.839 we're going from Brooklyn to UH to Bellevue, Lower Manhattan 349 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:43.240 for trauma center. You know, us Brooklyn guys, we always 350 00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:45.359 want to get into Manhattan on the way back. We 351 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:48.519 could always stop in Chinatown for Chinese food, right, that 352 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:52.319 was always the big thing. But yeah, Cumberland was really really. 353 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:55.079 Like, yeah, it's like stealing a nozzle, bro stealing a patient. 354 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:01.440 But you think that's like that, I mean, I don't know, ems. 355 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:03.720 I mean you think it's like that where guys would 356 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:05.799 do that. You think guys get on the job now 357 00:20:05.839 --> 00:20:07.920 and they're they're kind of like like that. 358 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:11.119 When you first thought, yeah, you know, I don't you know. 359 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:14.960 I don't know, you know, because now with the GPS, 360 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:18.720 you know, you really can't uh. 361 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:22.440 You know, freelance freelance and they don't forget back. 362 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:25.799 Then you know, we had one lieutenant on duty and 363 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:29.599 they stood in the the ambulance station, so there was 364 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:33.039 no supervisors out. When we were out on patrol. UH 365 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:35.640 we had a flat tire or something, they would have 366 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:38.000 to close close the station down and that and that 367 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:40.799 station bulls would come out and bring you to spare 368 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:43.359 tire and a jack and everything. If we had to 369 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:45.519 wait for roadside to come you know, we'd be out 370 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:48.559 of service all day. So you know, when the supervisor 371 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:51.319 would leave the station, that's when everybody would go out 372 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:53.519 of service. Essentially, I got to go back to the 373 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:54.960 station when I need a long board, I got no 374 00:20:55.039 --> 00:20:57.759 long buds, and everybody standing at the lock station because 375 00:20:57.759 --> 00:20:58.920 they can't take any jobs. 376 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:02.640 So that was I know that Frank when he's telling 377 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:04.920 these stories like this because when I was a kid, 378 00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:07.799 he knows what he's already laughing. He used to bring 379 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:10.759 like on Sunday, Saturday Sunday when get my cousin and 380 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:13.319 I and you know, everybody was getting together. He would 381 00:21:13.519 --> 00:21:16.359 he had a book that you know again, now you 382 00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:17.839 have your phone, you could take a picture, you could 383 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:20.000 do all this stuff. But Frank, you know he'd be 384 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:21.759 on the trains. He'd be doing all this stuff. 385 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:24.359 You had the pictures. 386 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:26.000 I mean, they want to show an you that stuff tonight. 387 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:27.920 But he had a picture you know, like the head 388 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:31.720 going around or whatever. But that was like that was 389 00:21:31.759 --> 00:21:34.680 like the real Uh. But you guys would loving like 390 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:37.000 guys would loving to go to that stuff, right. 391 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:39.599 Well, yeah, the tromber was where it was at. You know, 392 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:42.440 it was just the gunshots, you know, you go wing 393 00:21:42.519 --> 00:21:45.720 into projects. You know, you got you got five hundred 394 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:48.759 people outside, and you know, you look at it. This guy, 395 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:51.640 he's definitely deceased. But you know you can't pronounce him 396 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:53.799 dead on the scene because they'll kill you. So you know, 397 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:55.680 you throwing him on the stretch of throwing the back 398 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:56.119 of the bus. 399 00:21:57.599 --> 00:21:59.200 Call those we call those show codes. 400 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:03.799 Show comes right right, just what you gotta do to 401 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:04.240