GETTIN’ SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep.285: FDNY | BATTALION CHIEF JOSEPH McHUGH

Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

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🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Be sure and join us live Thursday night, March 26th at 8pm on our Youtube Channel with Our special guest, FDNY veteran, Battalion Chief Joseph McHugh. Chief was appointed to the FDNY in September of 1991 and was assigned to ladder 25. In December of 2002 Joe was promoted to Lieutenant and assigned to the 7th division. In 2004 he was assigned to Ladder 41. A few years later in March of 07, Joe was promoted to Captain and was assigned to the 1st. division. In July of 2008, Joe was assigned to ladder 10, downtown. But he didn't stop there, in November of 2010 he was promoted to BC and was assigned back to the 7th division. In 2014, Joe was assigned to the Safety Battalion and in 2016 was an executive officer, car12a. Joe retired in 2020 and is the current Chief of Department for the Greenwich, CT. Fire Department. Tune in as we hear all about his career and where it all started. 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 to the getting salty experience podcast.
0:36.6	Hello! That's right, baby, hello. Who is saying hello? We got a bunch of people in there, bro. We have Rob Prokuccini, Gabe. Gabe's coming out to India to meet me. I talked to him today. Oh, really? Gabonich. Who owed? We paid last time. Gabe, or do we pay last time, bro? Maybe I'll hit him up for dinner. We paid? That's all right. Him and his brother. I got Sammy, my girl, Sammy in there. Welcome back to the getting sold to the experience podcast. It's the only one that brings Firehouse Kitchen Table. Yep. Right to you. I'm just going to say one thing. Meet the Mets. I'm going to sing one. Meet the Mets. Step right up and greet the Mets. What is that? Today, baby, big day. 11-7 win. We hammered the ball. Oh, they won today. Big. It's the best pitcher in baseball. What's that. It's the best pitcher in baseball.
1:28.6	What's that?
1:43.2	Yeah, we had the best pitcher in baseball out in the first inning, bro. Having them. Don't they always win the first game and I go right in the turn? I don't know about that. No, who knows? Mike, you check that out. I'm taking one game at a time, brother. That's it. Yeah. We got the next one.
1:45.8	Oh, you take your jacket up, but I'm a little warm up there in the end?
1:47.0	It's a little warm up there. So that's it yeah we got mike you know in a suit oh you take your jacket up but i'm a little warm up there
1:45.6	in the end it's a little warm up there so that's yeah we're just going with that's a little warm up
1:50.7	yeah yeah you got you have pants on or you go i do yes freeballing yes yeah so this is a more
1:57.9	casual wear you know well lunch you have jeans or do you have like dressing?
2:01.0	No, no, I have suit pants.
2:02.5	Come on.
2:03.9	That's a senior man move to leave your pants off so you don't wrinkle him.
2:06.9	You know that.
2:07.3	Yeah, but that's amazing.
2:09.3	You keep the boys out.
2:10.3	You get the boys.
2:10.7	He's wearing the whole suit pants and everything, bro.
2:12.9	Look at him.
2:14.1	Professional.
2:15.2	From start to finish he is right roof it does a nice job has a
2:19.2	has a club swinging you playing golf we don't I played the other day I played the
2:22.8	other day I played a how did you do I shot 80 80 really wow first day out with
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