Ladder 8/Ladder 8-2 firehouse 14 North Moore Street Tribeca, Manhattan
Ladder 8 organized 153 Franklin Street former volunteer firehouse 1865
Ladder 8 moved 7 North Moore Street former volunteer firehouse 1869
Ladder 8 new firehouse 14 North Moore Street 1905
Ladder 8 moved 278 Spring Street at Engine 30 1914
Ladder 8 returned 14 North Moore Street 1915
Ladder 8 disbanded 1975
Ladder 8 reorganized 14 North Moore Street 1975
Ladder 8-2 organized 14 North Moore Street at Ladder 8 1905
Ladder 8-2 disbanded 1905
Ladder 8-2 reorganized 14 North Moore Street at Ladder 8 1906
Ladder 8-2 disbanded 1914
Ladder 8-2 reorganized 278 Spring Street at Engine 30 1917
Ladder 8-2 moved 14 North Moore Street at Ladder 8 1917
Ladder 8-2 disbanded 1918
153 Franklin Street former Ladder 8 firehouse (quarters of volunteer Knickerbocker Ladder 11 1852-1865):
Current:
7 North Moore Street former Ladder 8 firehouse (quarters of volunteer Mohawk Engine 16 1860-1865):
1980s:
Current:
14 North Moore Street firehouse:
Pre-1914 original double company design:
14 North Moore Street firehouse:
1980s:
Current:
Ladder 8 apparatus:
City service ladder:
1892:
1906 ALF:
Dederick aerial:
1931 ALF 75 ft.:
1955 FWD 75 ft:
1960 ALF:
2001 Seagrave:
Ladder 8 videos:
Responding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUK2rh1c6hE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS-5hzvYlJM
New Ferrara:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRiJvgY_9XA
Ladder 8 history:
1914-1915 firehouse redesigned (cut in half):
In 1914, Varick Street was widened by 30 feet to connect with 7th Avenue. FDNY looked at property across the street as a site for a replacement building. Fire Commissioner Robert Adamson decided to cut the firehouse in half. The cost to buy the site across the street would have been $110,000 and the cost of razing the existing building would have added another $25,000. Reducing the double company to a single one and renovating the structure to half its size instead cost only $20,000. Ladder 8 was relocated to Engine 30. The firehouse alterations, completed in 1915, were almost invisible. The limestone cornices, carved stone brackets and windows were all expertly copied.
http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2011/11/1904-hook-and-ladder-company-no-8-14.html
Ladder 8 - scaling ladder rescue - October 25, 1916:
Ladder 8 responded to a fire in a factory building at 21-25 East Houston Street. The building was engulfed in flames and working girls were trapped inside. Ida Goldberg, appeared in a seventh story window with no way out. FF John Walsh hung his scaling ladder from the cornice of an adjoining building and, by ?swinging like a pendulum" was able to grab the girl by the arm. Though a slip meant death, he brought her to safety,? praised The New York Times. Commissioner Adamson called the action ?one of the finest rescues in the history of the New York Fire Department. Walsh was awarded the James Gordon Bennett and Dr Harry M. Archer Medals of Valor for this rescue. FF Michael Sloane was awarded the Strong Medal. Captain John E Farley was awarded a Department Medal.
1917 FDNY medal recipients (three Ladder 8 members - scaling ladder rescue):
Captain Farley front right; FF Walsh front 2nd from left; FF Sloane back 4th from left
Ladder 8 LODDs:
FF Carl H. Bischoff, Ladder 8, Manhattan box 4-4-71, 200 Broadway, fire in Models Sporting Goods store, fell through hole from 4th floor, July 5, 1941
FF Frank E. Wolf, Ladder 8, Manhattan box 175, Mott and Canal Streets, died from injuries, apparatus accident, December 16, 1951
FF William D. Prange, Ladder 8, relocating to Ladder 102, died from injuries, apparatus accident, December 9, 1976
LT Vincent G. Halloran, Ladder 8, World Trade Center, September 11, 2011
Never forget.
Ladder 8 firehouse - used in 1984 and 1989 Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II movies:
Tribeca:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribeca