GETTIN' SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep.162 | FDNY LADDER 17 CAPT. MIKE LAFFEY

Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

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🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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GETTIN' SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep.162- Our special guest will be 92 year old and 36 year FDNY Capt. Mike Laffey. Appointed to the FDNY in April of 1956 out of Proby school he was assigned to Engine 48 after spending 2 years in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Transferred to L.105 in downtown Brooklyn……12/16/1960 the plane crash over Staten Island sent United airplane spiraling over Brooking landing into the street 2 short blocks from the firehouse. Bodies spread all over the crash site. He worked for 3 days at the crash site. Total of 128 people lost their lives. Three days later on 12/19/1960 he worked at the USS Constellation aircraft carrier claiming the lives of 50 civilian workers and injuries to over 300 workers. he was Promoted to LT and assigned to Ladder 2 in 1964 and then to Capt and assigned to Ladder 17 in 1972. Seven brothers lost their life over his 20 years there, but the full ramifications of the War Years hit the firehouse in 1974 when 3 of the brothers lost their lives within 4 months; June to October……. F/F’s Harry Hoey L.17, Johnnie Williams and Russ Linneball of L.17-2. He has seen 10 lifetimes worth of action!
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0:00.0	You're listening to the getting salty
0:17.2	You're listening to the getting salty experience podcast.
0:35.5	Hello! getting salty experience podcast hello and away we go curl sprained florida gonzow is allegedly.
0:38.0	Allegedly.
0:40.1	He says he's the chief down now. I don't know, Ruffy.
0:41.0	It's all fake.
0:41.9	I'm in on Lurphy.
0:44.1	Ruffy was out smacking the balls around today, playing golf.
0:47.1	He ran through his mother-in-laws like his hair was on fire.
0:50.5	And he just pulled in.
0:51.8	Just got in there.
0:53.0	He wanted a little bit of that gab of gold
0:54.6	over ye he wanted a little bit of a gabble gold over here she was going to make you the uh what
1:00.1	the muscles and the pasta she wasn't calling you didn't make the call then i was with my brother-in-law's
1:07.3	all day did you tell tell that you ate?
1:12.3	I did.
1:16.2	We had to have like a cocktail hour, but then I ran out and, like, my hair was on fire.
1:18.2	She's down there, frying the cutlets, Gonzo.
1:19.1	No doubt.
1:21.0	She's malleying them and frying them up.
1:22.7	Loie, I'm making the cutlets.
1:27.7	I'm making the cutlets. When me and my nephew came in, we opened the door. It's like it smacks you. In the face is the cookies smell, right?
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