GETTIN’ SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep.280: FDNY | BATTALION CHIEF JACK SPILLANE

Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Be sure and join us live Thursday night, February 12th at 8pm on our Youtube Channel with our special guest, 36-year FDNY veteran, Battalion Chief Jack Spillane . Chief Spillane was appointed to the FDNY in 1982 and retired in 2018. With three and a half decades of service to the FDNY, he has had an outstanding career. Once appointed to the FDNY he went on to: Assigned Engine 14 Onion skin to Ladder 3 in 1986 August 1987 promoted to Lieut. Div. 3 August 1988 transferred to Div. 5 Jan. 1990 transferred to Engine 80 Sept. 1993 promoted to Captain Div. 6 Sept. 25, 1993 to March 1994 UFO Engine 61 May 1994 transferred to Squad 41 July 1997 promoted to Battalion Chief Div. 3 Sept 1998 detailed to SOC Battalion Nov. 2018 retired Going to be another 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

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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 Getten getting salty experience podcast.
0:35.9	Hello!
0:41.5	That's right, baby. Hello, Mike in his suit.
0:45.5	Look at him.
0:46.5	The consummate professional in his suit, damn.
0:48.9	I try.
0:49.7	Sitting in for that other guy.
0:51.1	I don't remember his name.
0:52.2	What is it?
0:52.5	Pete?
0:53.0	Who is it, Rob?
1:12.6	Training. Training. Training chief? I don't know. Not even. He's battalion 80 now. Oh, he's sitting in for Battalion 80. He's probably watching in the firehouse. With his hair. Yeah, with a big puff of hair there. Welcome back to the get all these dreams. I guess the only one. Don't ask Kenny this, but the only one that brings the firehouse to get your table to you with. You know who
1:14.7	was in the chat? Hank Moley,
1:16.8	seeing you dude, checking in from the chat.
1:18.6	Happy birthday, Hankle.
1:20.5	Yep, big, happy birthday. Big 70 for Hank.
1:23.3	Big 70. He's got to get the other wheel fix now.
1:26.5	He's got to get the other wheel fixed now. He's got to get another neat.
1:28.2	Oh, my mom.
1:28.5	You're like a moly.
1:29.6	Oh, man.
1:30.1	He's fall apart, but he's like bionic men.
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