GETTIN' SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep.259 | TRIBUTE TO FDNY : CAPT. JOHN DRENNAN

Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

Gettin Salty Experience

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Be sure to tune into our next segment of “NEVER FORGET” with our special guest, the widow of FDNY Captain John Drennan, Vina Drennan. We will also be joined by 43 year FDNY veteran Deputy Chief Jay Jonas. Captain John Drennan, one of three firefighters who died in the line of duty as a result of the Watts Street Fire in New York City on March 28, 1994. After Captain Drennan’s death…40 days after the tragic fire, Ms Drennan turned her attention to fire life safety for firefighters and the public. Her incredible commitment to the fire service has impacted all who have heard her personal story. Small list of her accomplishments : -Secretary of the Board for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) -Founding member of NFFF’s Fire Service Survivors Network -Lobbied U.S. Congress during multiple attempts to pass Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act -Testified for fire safety on national, state and local levels -Involved with the FDNY Fire Foundation -Worked with the New York State Task -Force of Fire Safety Teacher Training Curriculum 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 #meanttobe #neverforget

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0:00.0	Disclamor, we'd like to note before the start of this interview that the opinions about to be expressed by the guest on tonight's Getton Salty Experience podcast are that of the guest and do not directly or necessarily reflect the views of the host of the to the getting salty experience podcast.
0:37.2	Hello!
0:40.9	And hello!
0:43.7	You getting salty fanatics.
0:46.1	Welcome to getting salty experience.
0:48.0	Podcast.
0:49.4	It's the moment we bring everything on,
0:51.0	it's all fire- related material to the kitchen
0:55.2	fully encompassing fully encompassing I love it we run a little late I don't know
1:00.7	who was somebody was late Louie I'm not gonna tell you what I was doing I don't want
1:07.0	to know what you were doing wait this is a good family show ah Is that what you're doing? Salute, my friend. How you doing? Right there, Eric. We got a good show tonight. Yeah, get me one of those. Drennan, the wife of John Drennan, we lost in the line of duty. And our buddy, our pal, Ruff. I don't know if he's your pal, he's my pal, Chief Jay Jonas. Yes. Coming to happen, we're going to talk about Drennan, the man, the father, the husband, and then we're going to get into the fire a little bit with Chief Jay Jonas, because he's all things fire. And then we're going to go back to Vina see what she's doing after that. I know she's gone off in many directions. National, she's on the national stage now. I know. She told me she was going to put a nightgown on and relax a little bit, but I told her, whoa, take it easy. We're not there yet.
2:02.1	She's back there.
2:04.5	She's been around Feynman, that's for sure.
2:05.5	There's no other than about that.
2:06.6	She knows.
2:07.3	She knows very well.
2:08.8	Small brains, big talk.
2:13.5	Let's talk about the membership really quick.
2:14.3	It's doing really well.
2:16.2	We gave you a little sample the other day. We did a Hash Hagen, The Living Legend, a little history with Hash Hagen. You get that kind of stuff with the membership and a whole bunch of all this stuff here. We got a bunch of guys in here who are members. Yes. Christy. She was looking to join. Hopefully she hooked up. I gave her some info. All right, Christ that join button hit it all right geons play the commercial
2:35.6	quick i want to get to our guests yes for sure we're going to hit the new jersey fire
2:39.0	established in 1930 and under the current ownership since 1987 the new jersey fire equipment company
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