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54 years ago..... 2-14-58...... a Fire & Collapse at 137 to 139 Wooster St. Lower Manhattan NY a six story 80 x 100 brick loft took the lives of 2 FDNY & Four NY Fire Patrol Members..... the bldg collapsed completly shortly after FD operations began.......a Fifth Alarm as well as special calls for additional manpower were utilized in the search & Rescue operations to recover the Six.......there was 9 inches of snow as well as temperatures as low as 4 degrees.....The Six were ......FDNY FF s Bernard Blumenthal LAD*20.....FF William G. Schmid LAD*1....& NY Fire Patrol Members...Sgt. Michael Mc Gee...Patrolmen Louis J. Brusati...James F. Devine...Michael R. Tracy.......REST IN PEACE TO ALL......NEVER FORGET ! (Additional info & photos can be found in the April 1958 WNYF.)