GETTIN' SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep.225 : FDNY BATTALION CHIEF | JOHN MCELROY

Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

Gettin Salty Experience

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Join us on our Youtube Channel with our special guest, 86 year old and 38 year FDNY veteran Battalion Chief John McElroy. Assigned to Eng 65 in Jan 1960 Transferred to Rescue 2 in Aug 1962 Transferred to Lad 11 in July 1964 Promoted to Lt in Mar 1967 and assigned to Eng 28 in Jan 1968 Promoted to Capt. in Mar 1972 and assigned to Lad 30 in Mar 1973 Promoted to BC Mar 1981 and assigned to Battalion 5. He transferred to Battalion 17 where he finished out his career doing 16 years there before retiring in April 1997. Sure he hasn't seen any fire... We will get the whole skinny. You don’t want to miss this one. Join us at the kitchen table on the BEST FIREFIGHTER PODCAST ON THE INTERNET! You can also Listen to our podcast ...we are on all the players #lovethisjob #GiveBackMoreThanYouTake #Oldschool #Tradition

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0:00.0	Disclaimer, we'd like to note before the start of this interview that the opinions about to be expressed by the guest on tonight's Get Insulte Experience podcast are that of the guest and do not directly or necessarily reflect the views of the host of the Getting Salty Experience podcast.
0:34.5	You're listening to the getting salty experience podcast.
0:37.6	Hello. This Experience podcast. Hello!
0:41.4	Hey, you.
0:43.8	Hey, um,
0:44.8	mm-hmm.
0:47.2	Oh!
0:49.6	Oh!
0:51.5	I can't do it.
0:55.1	You're gonna get numbers up there, Cooby.
0:57.3	Those are rookie numbers.
0:58.1	Those are rookie numbers.
1:01.9	Welcome back to the getting sold to experience podcast.
1:05.1	It's the old one that brings to you.
1:10.1	The kitchen table, the firehouse kitchen table you know the one rough right
1:13.4	going that whole all i do the thousand stories thousand and one maybe it's 89 year old chiefs
1:19.7	to come out and tell their story that we got to i got to really wind that way back machine up
1:24.1	really tight tonight bro i got to get the crank going we because we're going to whee-y-n't-hany fire either.
1:29.6	Late 50s.
1:30.4	Nah, just, this,
1:32.4	pretty shabby.
1:34.1	I got to tell you, this guy's
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