FDNY Tales is short stories, non-fiction, interesting, funny, human-interest, motivational, maybe even inspirational, and 100% FDNY.
Everything in it will be supportive of FDNY. These stories will be of interest to FDNY firefighters (active and retired), and all FDNY fans.
Categories of stories:
A Celtic Lament (Liam O'Neill)
FDNY Ceremonial Unit (Jim Griffiths)
Bruce the Gorilla ECC (Kenny Erb)
Rat Story, part 2 (Nick Santimauro)
Sweet Jesus, Save My Arm (Seymour Schenker)
Only the Good Die Young (Phil Burns)
Me Fireman, Me Tarzan (Frank Cull)
The Tee Shirt (Seymour Schenker)
Rat Story, part 1 (Phil Burns)
Disney World, it's Not (Frank Cull)
Books about Specific Units or Fire Houses (Ira Hoffman)
The FDNY Assignment Card (Ira Hofman)
Just a Ride on the Ferry (William Hanahan)
The Stamp Machine (George Kreuscher)
Lessons Learned During 42 Years with FDNY (Vincent Dunn)
First Day on the Job (Stan Ferber)
A Tale of Two Columns (Jim Boyle)
The Toilet Seat (Seymour Schenker)
What is Your Location? (John Delmhorst)
The Bic Lighter Conflagration (Ray Leibowitz)
A Whale of a Tale (Ray Leibowitz)
What's in a name? (Jim Murray)
Fireman Thomas J. Dougherty Ladder 1 (Paul Hashagen)
It sure don't taste like chicken (Newt Tanner)
Not Your Standard Phonetic Alphabet (Jim Murray)
Don't Ask Lt. Andrade (Dennis Smith)
The Bronze Bennett Medal (Paul Hashagen)
Now it's your turn. If you have a story that you'd like to submit, or have an idea for a story please let me know. Send it to: fdnytales@Fire-Police-EMS.com
Thanks, Ira Hoffman