GETTIN' SALTY EXPERIENCE Ep. 262 FDNY CAPTAIN JIM CARPENTER

Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

Gettin Salty Experience

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Be sure and join us with our special guest 34 year veteran, Captain Jim Carpenter. Jim was appointed to the FDNY in October of 1969 to ladder 103-2 which was disbanded in December of 1974. From there he served in Ladders, 18, and 172. Was then promoted to Lt. in 1984 and went to 113 truck. Promoted to Captain in 1990, then worked in 153 truck. Cap also had the honor of being detailed to Chief Ganci, and to also be detailed as acting chief of MSU in 2000. Captain Carpenter retired in 2003. But that's not all, he served our country as a Marine and did a tour in Vietnam. Going to be a great show. 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 #fdny #therescue #prideofsheffieldave

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0:00.0	Disclamor, we'd like to know before the start of this interview that the opinions about to be expressed by the guest on tonight's Gett & Salty Experience podcast are that of the guest and do not directly or necessarily reflect the views of the host of the Getton getting salty experience podcast.
0:36.6	Hello!
0:40.8	Yes, and hello, Ruffian, guys.
0:44.5	Welcome back to the getting so podcast.
0:47.0	Hello, everyone.
0:47.9	It's the only one that brings the five-house kitchen table to you.
0:50.7	We missed you guys last week, but, you know, we had to do our thing for 9-11 and remember the voice. We got a good one tonight, Ruff. We got a guy who's probably seeing more jobs. Jobs. Got on the Warriors. He's in everywhere. Actually, I can smell the smoke coming through the screen when he was on, I don't know if he's sad. You don't have any stories.
1:13.4	He probably has one or two.
1:14.2	Give me the beep boop.
1:16.1	Which one you want?
1:16.8	I don't know.
1:21.5	Pick some of blood.
1:22.6	No one.
1:25.3	Not that.
1:32.6	All right. Stand by these. That's what you want to all of these?
1:34.6	Trying to read your mind.
1:35.2	What do you want?
1:37.0	What you want?
1:38.0	I want it to three, two in a rescue.
1:41.8	Oh, man, okay. We got three, two two and a rescue multiple phone calls sounds like a job
1:48.2	i saw the captain when you played that in the pre show i jumped out of his chair brother
1:53.6	he's got we got we got a run now we got we got to go yeah anyway i was down in jersey
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