3/19/26 Brooklyn 3rd Alarm Box 2492

There is a post on here regarding 2nd Sections. I just give my 2 cents because someone had mentioned Watkins Street and I wanted to clarify what transpired during the war years from what I remember.
 
ta176 said:
There is a post on here regarding 2nd Sections. I just give my 2 cents because someone had mentioned Watkins Street and I wanted to clarify what transpired during the war years from what I remember.
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grumpy grizzly

Second sections

During the War Years how were the second sections of Ladder companies, such as Ladder 26, dispatched? Both respond on a job in their still area or did they alternate.
 
captaindewey50267021@gm said:
This is my old Flatbush, Brooklyn area. I believe these are old stores in an old Taxpayer with all the problems of old Taxpayers. A few years ago, now, the 12th Division was closed. The 12th Division was quirted with Engine 250 on Foster Ave, near McDonald Ave., when Div. 12 was closed, I believe. Now the 8th Division from S.I. and the 15th Division must cover all of Southern Brooklyn. Given the size of the area and the amount of vehicle traffic this is not practical. We need the reopening of Division 12. I is very hard to run a major fire with only a Battalion Chief or 2.
Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.
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Either the 12th or the 20th, its overdue.
 
captaindewey50267021@gm said:
This is my old Flatbush, Brooklyn area. I believe these are old stores in an old Taxpayer with all the problems of old Taxpayers. A few years ago, now, the 12th Division was closed. The 12th Division was quirted with Engine 250 on Foster Ave, near McDonald Ave., when Div. 12 was closed, I believe. Now the 8th Division from S.I. and the 15th Division must cover all of Southern Brooklyn. Given the size of the area and the amount of vehicle traffic this is not practical. We need the reopening of Division 12. I is very hard to run a major fire with only a Battalion Chief or 2.
Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.
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I believe Division 12 moved to Engine 242 when Division 8 was disbanded. When Division 8 was re-established in the early '90s, Division 12 moved to Engine 330/Ladder 172 where it was eventually disbanded in the mid '90s.
 
Thanks for the good information. I was working in Engine 26 7th Battalion, Div. 3 with D.C. Vincent Dunn as the Div, 3 Commander. Then E-26 was in Div., 2 for a short while, also Manhattan Central Fire Command. When I retired in 2000 E-26 was in Batt. 7, Division 1, where D.C. Pete Hayden was the Div. 1 Commander. Chief Pete Hayden was always a real gentleman and was the former Chief of Department of the FDNY. In all of this I lost track of when Div. 12 was closed. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired
 
t123ken said:
I believe Division 12 moved to Engine 242 when Division 8 was disbanded. When Division 8 was re-established in the early '90s, Division 12 moved to Engine 330/Ladder 172 where it was eventually disbanded in the mid '90s.
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This is correct, Division 12 moved to 330 about a year after division 8 was reorganized, and was disbanded in 1995 before being reopened for a 3 month duration just 4 days later.
 
Darrell said:
Either the 12th or the 20th, its overdue.
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Divisions have only ever gone up to 17.

In 1973 the fdny had 16 Divisions.

Division 1 - Southern Manhattan (South of 12th roughly)
Division 3 - Central Manhattan (North of 12th & South of 72nd)
Division 4 - Central park West/East Sides (North of 72nd & up to Manhattanville and east harlem)
Division 5 - Northern Manhattan (East Harlemn & West Harlem up to inwood)
Division 6 - Southern Bronx
Division 7 - Western bronx up to Riverdale & North of Yankee Stadium
Division 8 - Richmond
Division 9 - Eastern bronx, mostly east of the Bronx River Parkway
Division 10 - Wesern Brooklyn (North Bay ridge & Borough Park up into Downtown Brooklyn)
Division 11 - Northern Brooklyn (North of roughly Myrtle Avenue)
Division 12 - South/Central Brooklyn (Coney Island and South bayridge into Flatbush and Bergen beach)
Division 13 - South West Queens (Rockaways into Jamaica and Forest Hills)
Division 14 - North West Queens
Division 15 - East Brooklyn (East Flatbush into Cypress Hills and East New York)
Division 16 - Eastern Queens
Division 17 - North/Central brooklyn (Crown Heights up into Bushwick)

Division 2 was last located (ignoring the 1995 renumbering) near Union Square Garden before being disbanded in 1956
 
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