WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:01.280 Disclaimer. 2 00:00:01.439 --> 00:00:03.439 We'd like to know before the start of this interview 3 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:05.919 that the opinions about to be expressed by the guest 4 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:08.839 of tonight's Getting Salty Experience Podcast are that of the 5 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:12.160 guest and do not directly or necessarily reflect the views 6 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:29.079 of the host of the Getting Salty Experience Podcast. 7 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:33.359 You're listening to the Getting Salty Experience Podcast. 8 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:47.840 Hello, Hello, Rouffie Referano, Oh, where oh, where is my 9 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:49.039 body tonight? 10 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:52.840 It's not him sitting there. He's a good looking guy, 11 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:56.439 but that's not Ruffie, as you know, is Senior dude, 12 00:00:56.479 --> 00:01:01.119 Hank Muley filling it for my boy Ruffy Mikey Cologne 13 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:04.840 on the wheels of steel, filling in for Gonzo, who's 14 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:07.640 on another cruise. That guy does more cruising. I've never 15 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:09.640 seen somebody more cruises than this night, Hank. 16 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:11.239 That's that Chief's money. 17 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:15.480 That's oh, he's a big chief. I forgot right, dice 18 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:18.239 for filling in last minute, Senior dude. Appreciate your pleasure. 19 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:21.280 Hello, Hello, all my buddies out in leather head Nation 20 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:24.560 and basically Coolause all you did was you replaced one 21 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:27.159 old guinea with an older good point. 22 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:37.239 Yeah, we waped swats, but Yeah, that's it. Yeah, we 23 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:41.280 got a univerishment on tonight though. Man, yeah salty. You 24 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:44.159 know you say the word getting salty. What do you think, 25 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:47.680 Hank in a pre show? This guy is salty, right absolutely. 26 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:48.879 I don't want to tell him he got on the 27 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:50.799 year that I was born. I'll save that until he 28 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:53.920 comes in here. But guy's been just a bit. I 29 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:55.799 think this is the first time we had a from 30 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:57.719 like one of the original Squad Squad five. 31 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:03.000 He's has a great career, which everybody's gonna hear between 32 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:04.239 all the things he's done. 33 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:08.360 And I think he's gone to a fire or two. 34 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:09.840 I'll go out there and say I go on a 35 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:14.520 limb and say that yep, educating. Yeah. AnyWho, let's keep 36 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:17.319 Roofy in our press. And he had a little you 37 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:19.120 had a little brush. I don't want to see with 38 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:21.080 the Grim Reaper. But I kept telling him to stay 39 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:23.360 away from the light, little buddy, don't go to the light, 40 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:26.840 stay away from the light. He Uh, he had a 41 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:28.439 boobo belly. I don't know if you guys remember the 42 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:32.080 last show with Vinnie Dunn and then the next day, Uh, 43 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:33.960 I think he said he got up in the middle 44 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:36.479 of the night and he passed out. He puked and 45 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:39.000 he was bleeding internally. It was a big mess. And 46 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:42.680 they're still trying to figure out what's exactly going on 47 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:44.599 with my boys. So we wish him all the best. 48 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:47.400 I was clutching my beads the other night, saying, the 49 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:49.639 whole rosary firm hank a couple of times in a row, 50 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:54.680 my buddy, I mean, yes, that's that's uh, Louis, we 51 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:55.560 got you in our thoughts. 52 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:58.560 I'm sure whatever this is, you'll pick it down the 53 00:02:58.639 --> 00:02:59.479 road A little bit. 54 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:04.000 Back, said you know, I mean we're friends forty almost 55 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:06.280 forty three years with buddies. Now, man, that's a long 56 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:08.240 time to be friends with. Somebody can't he can't go 57 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:10.800 no way yet, keep on a while. 58 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:12.879 You sound like you're giving him one foot in the 59 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:15.560 grave already. Get he's going to be flying. 60 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:17.879 I told him, I said, good things. His daughter just 61 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:19.960 got accepted to a really good college. And you're not 62 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:22.520 taking a dirt nap, I said, So, I mean you 63 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:23.919 got everything go for us, right. 64 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:26.159 This is what happens when you get when you retired, 65 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:29.919 things happen, and it's just from one doctor's appointment to 66 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:33.280 the next doctor's appointment, right, and you play golf in between. 67 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:35.039 And know when you hang out with your friend, you're 68 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:37.400 talking about everything that hurts you. Oh yeah, this is 69 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:37.879 killing me. 70 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:41.919 Oh ship, yeah, you got a good Yeah, you know 71 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:44.240 that's what I go to the retired meetings down here. 72 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:46.439 By the end of up meeting, it's hey, you got 73 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:48.919 a good doctor for the eyes. I got a lump 74 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:51.479 over here and I got to get chucked down. I 75 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:54.039 gotta get my knee replaced. Who's had that done? You 76 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:56.360 know that's what it is. That's me that's coming up soon, 77 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:02.960 miss the show. I'll do it. Yeah, whatever works. 78 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:03.560 Bro from the hospital. 79 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:06.960 Band baby, I'll do it from the hospital. But when 80 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:08.719 you get your knees done, you may be two or 81 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:12.680 three inches taller. I'm hoping, God, that would be great, 82 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:18.000 wasn't it? Wow? You know I hope that happens. Came 83 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:20.720 over a two week ride on a horse like definitely. 84 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:22.920 From people who see me in person, it looks like 85 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:25.319 one need's going this way, one need's going this way. 86 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:28.560 What's the best. Hey, let's get to all commercials because 87 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:30.720 I'm excited to get the lieutenant and Garrity in here. 88 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:33.639 All right, word first from our friends over at New 89 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:34.279 Jersey Fire. 90 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:39.480 Established in nineteen thirty and under the current ownership since 91 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:43.399 nineteen eighty seven, the New Jersey Fire Equipment Company handles 92 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:47.680 a complete line of fire department equipment and supplies. 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Yeah, yeah, 154 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:35.120 I was gonna ask Gay Fox about that, but he 155 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:39.200 wouldn't know anything about the jym Oh shot fired on 156 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:41.960 Gay Fox. All right, let's get him in here. Let's 157 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:44.159 get him to coming to the stage. This is my say. 158 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:46.000 I'm getting over clumped here. This is Louis Pott. I 159 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:48.519 get all choked up with my boys not here coming 160 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:58.440 to the stage. We got Lieutenant Egg get it. That 161 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:01.000 must that's our guy, that mustache. You see that. I 162 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.440 don't know what my thing is. That's that's our logo, 163 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:09.120 that mustache. All right, Oh it was right behind me there. 164 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:12.000 It is to welcome to the show. Lieutenant. 165 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:13.960 Thank you. 166 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:16.919 Guys, sit back, get your shopping up, your pencils, and 167 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.399 listen to this magas you want to talk about fire duty. 168 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:23.600 This man has seen some fire duty, but let's start 169 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:25.799 the way back. Let's go back a little bit to 170 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:28.159 the early days of Lieutenant and Garrett. He grew up 171 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:33.720 in Queens and says here right, oh, time out, Mike, 172 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:36.879 thank you. I gotta I gotta put a pause on here. 173 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:40.559 We gotta get patriotic. I'm very sorry. I am remissed. Sorry. 174 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:41.759 You do what, Mike. 175 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:49.240 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States 176 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:53.840 of America and to the Republic, for which it stands, 177 00:09:54.639 --> 00:10:01.600 one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice. 178 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:14.840 For all wonderful, best country in the whole wide world. 179 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:18.159 Now we can get into it. Little let's go back 180 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:21.080 to Queens. Let's turn back the way back machine. How 181 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:22.000 far are we going back? 182 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:25.679 Well, at the beginning Long Island City is they quit 183 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:29.039 the projects, the Queen's Bridge projects. That's where I actually 184 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:32.399 grew up until I moved to Astoria. 185 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:35.039 A tough neighborhood, Queen's bridg projects. 186 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:37.440 Back in the day. It's it was, it was. It 187 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:39.639 was a crazy place there. It was starting to get 188 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:41.639 real crazy there, but it. 189 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:44.039 Were still with projects, big family. 190 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:47.639 Uh yeah. Then we moved to uh to uh story 191 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:51.720 around off dit Mars thirty first Street, with the l 192 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:56.799 ended down in department houses there, and uh, it was 193 00:10:56.840 --> 00:10:59.279 great neighborhood to grow up, and a lot. 194 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:02.320 Of grits back the well they came in afterwards. 195 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:06.399 Now afterwards, and now it's very it's international, and it's 196 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:09.720 all it's all young kids there today today who can 197 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:11.039 afford it? It's so expensive. 198 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:13.519 Yeah, it's right outside the city there, so it's an 199 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:14.840 easy commute right to Manhattan. 200 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:19.919 Story is, it's a great place there. And and again 201 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:27.039 that's where I was appointed in sixty eight. Well, I 202 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:29.879 got a pointed a job in November thirty at sixty eight, 203 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:36.559 but we got a assigned to Angine two sixty. 204 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:38.159 Three, which is right in your neighborhood. 205 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:43.120 And it really was at the time because I stayed 206 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:45.240 I got married, I still stayed in the neighborhood there. 207 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:48.600 I was literally walking to work there, you know. 208 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:51.039 But you worked with Connet before that, right. 209 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:56.559 Yeah, before what year you get to content sixty one? Maybe, uh, 210 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:02.440 nineteen sixty, nineteen sixty and then uh, all you said, 211 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:05.159 I got that phone call that in the office. Dad, 212 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:07.559 he called me up and the guy says, you want 213 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.639 the job, kid? And then what job was he talking about? 214 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:15.480 Because at that time. They were given a fire department. 215 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:19.120 They given police department, examed every Saturday. They needed so 216 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:21.960 many guys. They didn't charge it at all. You just 217 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:24.720 walk into any of these places, take the test, and 218 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:27.279 you'd be hiding no time at all. So I thought 219 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:29.799 it was good. It was that, but it was for 220 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:34.440 the fire department. So again he says, sure it sounds good. 221 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:38.559 Went down to Robert o' lowry's office that day and 222 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:40.600 got sworn in and went back to work and told 223 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:42.919 them I'm leaving, you know. And that's the same day 224 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:47.240 they went on strike. Cardy went on strike on November thirtieth. 225 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:49.000 Oh, good, good timing. 226 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:51.879 Yes, it was very good timing for that. 227 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:53.879 Would you have taken the p D if it was 228 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:54.240 p D? 229 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:59.679 I think I would have. Then. You know what I was. 230 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:01.320 I was too short. You had to be five eight? 231 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:06.360 How dare they? I would have made it either you 232 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:08.200 had to be five eight. They didn't change that till 233 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:10.080 uh many years later. 234 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:11.639 Really do we did we? 235 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:11.840 Hat? 236 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:14.480 Did we ever have a height requirement in the five part? 237 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:15.840 I think they did. 238 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:20.679 I'm pretty sure I don't think they they did. 239 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:25.320 Well, not even back in the day I thought I 240 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:27.480 thought they did have it might it might have been 241 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:29.120 five six or something, but maybe not you. 242 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:33.679 Maybe maybe it was. Yeah, there was a well we 243 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:36.360 went to Provy School in Welfare Island. 244 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:38.440 So it wasn't even at the Rocket. It was Welfare. 245 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:41.879 It wasn't the Rocket. It was it was Welfare Island. 246 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:46.639 And I don't remember too much doing too much isand 247 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:48.879 it was only like four weeks maybe nothing. 248 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:53.159 So so look back Welfare Island was was it was 249 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:55.240 that the tip of it was about the island or 250 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:56.480 was the whole island back then? 251 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:59.200 No, it was, it was it was this separate island there, 252 00:13:59.240 --> 00:13:59.440 you know. 253 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.480 And but then you have to take to take the 254 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:03.960 bridge to get onto fifteen. 255 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:04.320 Uh. 256 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:08.919 I had to ask somebody that make a phone call 257 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:11.919 the other day that you came in through Queen's I 258 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:12.879 believe through. 259 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:17.679 Twenty first Avenue there or something and you right, yeah. 260 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:21.879 Right past the engine two sixty right and then rove 261 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:25.679 over the bridge there I believe, so far back I 262 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:26.799 don't even remember it. 263 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:28.519 But that was still close to you too, I mean 264 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:30.320 for Welfare, I was close to a storeia. 265 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:34.759 Yeah that was you. I don't hear anybody commute. Nobody 266 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.799 really commuted that far. It seemed at the time, you know, 267 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:39.360 everybody lived local. 268 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:41.559 Right, what made you want to take the test? You 269 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:43.360 said you had no family on the job. Right. 270 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:45.879 Of course one of the other guys had taken it. 271 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:48.600 You know, they grew up in the building there was 272 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:52.000 it was like ten buildings all attached. I mean, you 273 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:54.919 had like fifty guys there, you know, so a couple 274 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:59.159 of us took it. Everybody went every which way, you know, right, 275 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:01.600 It wasn't like you have private dwellings and you don't. 276 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:04.679 You don't know who the other people are and next 277 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:09.600 door to you. But when they finished Proby school, they 278 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:11.559 told you you have to go to your local firehouse 279 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:15.320 and find out where you're going. That's what they didn't 280 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.039 have the information. So he said, okay. So I went 281 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:20.879 to a store, knocked on the door, went in there, 282 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:24.120 and I told the guy were two of us, two 283 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:27.600 probe he's wanted to know, So we're going, He says, 284 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:30.679 you kidding me? He says, we're your elbows? How come 285 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:36.879 they're not hitting the door. I said, you have any beverages, coffee? 286 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:41.799 You got anything? No? He got? He says no. He says, 287 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:44.519 we'll get some. He says, I don't have any money 288 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:47.960 for it, not neither of us having any money, he says. 289 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:50.000 He still want to know where you're going? He says, yeah, 290 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:52.480 he says, go outside and look up and it was 291 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:55.840 two sixty three. Wow, that's where you're going right here, 292 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:58.080 he says. And he says, you didn't know that. I 293 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:00.759 says no. And you know who that got. I was 294 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:02.600 breaking our shoes. Bobby Beckworth. 295 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:04.600 Wow, you know. 296 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:10.279 And Becky was the guy with the president standing on 297 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:13.639 top of the car and wow. 298 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:16.080 Yeah. 299 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:18.720 So we were friends all through the years, you know, 300 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.039 just working with him and all that. And and he 301 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:24.080 couldn't it couldn't happened to a nicer guy. What happened 302 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:27.799 to him? He traveled all over the world as an 303 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:29.639 emissary for the fire department. 304 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:33.080 Did the other guy go to to sixty three? 305 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:37.360 Yeah, he went to sixty two. I believe the other 306 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:40.840 guy the road and uh, but that was beck With 307 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:46.120 That's so he only passed away a year ago. Maybe Yeah, 308 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:50.519 he's some he was some character. But so that's how 309 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:52.200 we became friendly with him, you know. 310 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.279 So that was one. Seventeen was the truck, Because. 311 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:56.440 When seventeen was the truck? 312 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:58.039 Were they did they have the wall there were they 313 00:16:58.080 --> 00:16:59.120 step back then. 314 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:03.120 They had the wall and all that, so we were 315 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:07.039 it's a great house. All guys are great. A lot 316 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:09.440 of old timers in the house. And then they started 317 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:13.559 the interchange where you were. Every third night we went 318 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:17.880 up to the Bronx, so the Cosa Kaka that's that's 319 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:24.559 what they called it. The guys, and uh, yeah, it's 320 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:27.680 sometimes you know, there's a lot of guys didn't Some 321 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:29.640 guys didn't want to go up there, you know, like 322 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:33.440 on a Saturday night. I remember putting a neutral on 323 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:35.720 the board there to get off on a Saturday night 324 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:38.519 and it was it was an interchange night, and they 325 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:42.200 were all laughing like nobody was going to Some many did, 326 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:46.039 of course, but so many all times there for thirty years, 327 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:48.799 they didn't particularly care for it up there because there 328 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:53.279 was a different world up there on a weekend and 329 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:57.839 uh in the summertime there's people everywhere, there's fires everywhere. 330 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:02.319 The truck was there, forty two trucks, Squad two seventy three, 331 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:08.319 and uh, it was it was just crazy crazy. 332 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:11.839 As a young guy on the job, did you did 333 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:13.960 you enjoy going up there because of because of the 334 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:14.680 fire duty. 335 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:15.720 Were you looking to do that. 336 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:18.400 Yeah, yeah, it just it was a different world. It 337 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:21.319 was a different world than we were used to. And 338 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:24.000 we had a couple of young guys that liked to 339 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:25.960 go up so, uh, you know we went up there 340 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:29.519 when we put in the mutual, we take a mutually 341 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:30.200 just to go up there. 342 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:31.680 You know, right, I was going to ask, did you 343 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:33.759 see like the young guys would grab a mutual so 344 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:35.599 they could go up to the bronx to try to 345 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:36.480 catch from Yeah. 346 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:40.039 They did. We really enjoyed it and all the stories 347 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:42.160 you heard about it, and you know, forty two trucks 348 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:45.079 was a nice, nicer place with seventy three and the 349 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:50.559 squad there. It was just crazy. The the the dishwasher 350 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:53.079 used to empty right on the floor. The cabinets, none 351 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:54.119 of them my doors on it. 352 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:55.160 Uh. 353 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:58.480 Some of the old timers there who us, they would 354 00:18:58.519 --> 00:19:00.799 never sit on a couch or anything. They never went 355 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:02.400 up to the bunk room. They just sat on a 356 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:06.279 hard chair like those school chairs, you know. And uh, 357 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:12.720 it's been the night. There went a lot of fires. 358 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:15.960 Just you remember your first fire in two sixty three. 359 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:20.200 Actually the first fire had it was an accident under 360 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:23.640 Grand Central Parkway where a couple of people died, you know, 361 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:28.759 and I guys doing like CPR on people. Uh, just 362 00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:32.200 before we used to do it with the cfr D 363 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:36.559 or anything. And uh, that was I mean, it was 364 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:41.440 pretty bad that one. And the fire, it was just 365 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:45.599 a basic fire. Had nothing to remember, you know, it 366 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:50.200 was just that small house fire in any area there. 367 00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:53.559 But it's a great house. The guys were great, right, 368 00:19:53.799 --> 00:19:58.000 and uh, but it were different, the office different. You know, 369 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:01.920 you're up in the bronx. There was just it's great 370 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:07.119 fire officers, great fire officers. And stayed there a couple 371 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:10.640 of years and then uh, I went up to Squad five. 372 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:14.599 We got not that we put in for it. I 373 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:17.519 put in for a couple of houses. But that was 374 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:20.279 the big lift. All the second sections were being closed. 375 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:23.160 And that's an original squad. Look at that. 376 00:20:24.039 --> 00:20:25.960 What what did you guys have? What kind of read had? 377 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:30.839 We had a regular pumper? Yeah? Where did you get that? 378 00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:32.799 I don't know where they got that picture from. 379 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:36.480 I sent it. I sent it to mine. You got 380 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:37.880 you went in there in seventy four. 381 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:41.119 You went to Squad five, right, correct, And it was 382 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:43.519 the mixture of guys transferred in. 383 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:44.759 Uh. 384 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:48.400 Some guys were left over from from forty one dash 385 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:54.480 too and h and and some guys from forty one 386 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:57.200 stayed there and then in the squad there. 387 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:00.400 So but so it was in forty one quarters. 388 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:05.759 Squad five forty one quarters. Characters came in, Uh that 389 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:09.160 came in from other companies and all that, and uh 390 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:12.880 it seems like, uh, some guys got there for punishment, 391 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:15.799 you know when I did hear that. 392 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:18.640 They would send guys to the squad for punishments. 393 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:22.400 Yeah, that's what the story was. And there are a 394 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:24.400 couple of characters there. And we had one lieutenant that 395 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:28.640 got jammed up in Queen's there and uh they sent 396 00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:31.480 him up there. So he was he was very bitter 397 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:34.759 and uh he's always cursing everybody out and all that. 398 00:21:34.799 --> 00:21:37.559 Great officer, he did his job and all that, but 399 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:43.640 he was disgruntled. Well, yeah, that that's that's what he's 400 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:45.039 for punishment. 401 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:50.279