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E206 - 1907 E86 - 1930 (pilot house on fireboat) Marine 5 - 1965 E94 - 1968 E245 - 1968 (during renovation) E207 - 1971 (roof on NYPD side of building) E290 - 1973 E294 - 1974 Marine 5 - 1978 (again) R1 - 1985 (collapse of exposure building) E80 - 2008 E65 - 2013 E163 - 2024 These burned while...

The concern was that if the Rehab was always operated by the Engine where it was quartered, that Engine would wind up assigned to every fire citywide, all the time. So, the assignment was given to the 5th due Engine (after the 3 initial Engines and one for RIT). While the Rehab was quartered...

Rehab engine provides a driver for the Rehab Bus. Engine and Bus are assigned together, Engine crew may be used on fireground, once Bus is delivered.

https://www.nycfire.net/forums/threads/second-sections.68664/

https://www.nycfire.net/forums/threads/11-28-22-queens-3rd-alarm-box-7186.74333/page-2#post-251480 Assigning companies pre-determined by distance to respond on multiple alarms and having relocators assigned separately from beyond the 5th alarm was a clever solution to a simple problem. Prior to...

Being very close to the county line, did Broward County send units to this incident?

Prior to volunteers, every household in the settlement had to have a bucket and every able-bodied person had to participate in the bucket line, enforceable by fine.

Kansas Ave is almost entirely in NW and it does not have a 300 block. Wondering how the CAD system could pick an assignment for a non-existant location? While some addresses repeat in as many as all four quadrants, the avenues, running diagonally, cannot.

There is no Kansas Ave SE

155 Mercer St1865 157 E 67th St1877 1 Centre St1914 110 Church St1971 250 Livingston St, BK1982 9 Metro Tech, BK1997

Commercial factory building conversion to firehouse 'temporarily' during WWII pending new firehouse (didn't happen). Previously rumored to be a brewery, then a commercial laundry. Became firehouse in 1944. (Per Mike Boucher article in Fire Service Digest article in 1989)

E14 was assigned to Box 488 at 0841. They were on the 2nd 5th alarm assignment to Box 9998 for #2 WTC from there.

The boro call system ended in 1981, while the last telegraph response was in 1983. (Brooklyn 5-7-438) Running cards, multiple alarm levels, and relocations could be initiated simultaneously for many companies by transmission of a single bell sequence. If a boro call is defined as the...

Knickerbocker Ave & Bleeker St, Brooklyn July 1977 77-767-66-33-678