Mack Fire Apparatus

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[quote name='Crossbronxxpress' post='79059' date='Feb 20 2007, 13:40 ']The former FDNY Tower Ladder that Angola, Indiana is now running is the same rig that took Firemen Jim McManus and George Rice (L-153 FDNY) to their deaths at the Waldbaums Supermarket fire on Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn, NY on August 2nd 1978.



Also killed that day were: Lt. James Cutillo Batt. 33, FF Harold Hastings Batt. 42, FF Charles Bouton L-156, and Prob. FF William O'Connoer L-156



RIP Brothers![/quote]



Here's a letter from the nyfd.com (official website) reporting on naming the street in 1998: [url="http://nyfd.com/waldbaum.html"]http://nyfd.com/waldbaum.html[/url] a link at the end to the homepage.





Also, for those interested, here's a 118 p pdf file showing where FDNY companies are and were:

Every FDNY unit that ever was - [url="http://nyfd.com/history/cityhist.pdf"]http://nyfd.com/history/cityhist.pdf[/url]



All-in-all, lotsa good info on that site and this one as well: www.fdnewyork.com/



Phil, Bklyn.