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Joe DiBernardo - Episode 797

Behind The Shield

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The Chief's Guide to the Rescue Squads

The old squads were just manpower companies. Now they want to make the new squads. They first called them enhanced engines. But they got received the same training as the rescue companies. So when you, if you had a working fire, you got four engines, two trucks, the rescue and the squad. It's like having another rescue there. The only thing you can get out there is swift water. My son used to go and he got all the training on his own through his volunteer fight upon our war. And he knew everything about ropes. He went up to squad 61 in the Bronx and he was a charter member or plank member of squad 61. That's 90 years ago. I

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