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    VINTAGE FDNY WAR YEAR LIDS

    223 and 232 were boats 233 was/is a land engine 232 was both a marine and a land engine (at different times)
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    Companies in the 60th Battalion - technically, none. 1970 - 1971 Battalion 60 1971 - 1975 Battalion 60 E218 Engine 218 was in the 28th Battalion at the time.
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    Battalion 60 was a War Years unit established to provide additional Battalion Chief response availability in Bushwick's 37th Battalion area.  It was quartered with Engine 218 but it was not permanently assigned any companies. Battalion 60 Organized 650 Hart St, Brooklyn 1970 Battalion 60...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    Companies in Battalion 36 1869 - 1872 District Engineer 6 E12                       L6 1872 - 1887 District Engineer 6 E12 E15                 L6 1887 - 1890 District Engineer 6 E12 E13 E15             L6 1890 - 1892 District Engineer 6 E12 E15 E29            ...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    Brooklyn's Battalion 36 served the Greenpoint neighborhood.  Having lost many of its companies (Engine 212, Engine 215, and Squad 7), it was absorbed into the 35th Battalion (which had lost Engine 213).  The Greenpoint and Williamsburg neighborhoods have lost two battalions, the 34th and the...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    Battalions in Division 10 Staten Island Battalion 1, Staten Island 1905 - 1906 Battalion 2, Staten Island 1905 - 1906 Battalions in Division 6 Brooklyn Battalion 1 Brooklyn 1898 - 1898 Battalion 2 Brooklyn 1898 - 1898 Battalion 3 Brooklyn 1898 - 1898 Battalion...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    Brooklyn Division 6 Organized 365 Jay St 1898 former Brooklyn FD Headquarters Division 6 Disbanded to organize Division 10 on Staten Island 1905 Staten Island Division 10 Organized 1189 Castleton Ave 1905 with Ladder 104 Staten...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    Foam Units Foam Powder Supply Unit 81 Organized     33-51 Greenpoint Ave, Queens         1947 Engine 259 Foam Powder Supply Unit 81 Disbanded Foam Powder Supply Unit 82 Relocated     5th Rd, Roosevelt Island, Manhattan   1958 former station Combination Engine 49 Foam Powder Supply Unit...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    Washington DC had three Rescue Squads.  In 1976, for budgetary reasons, Rescue Squad 1 was combined with Engine 6, and Rescue Squad 3 was combined with Engine 15.  Rescue Squad 2 was relocated closer to the center of the city and remained separately staffed.  In a strange move, worthy of its own...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    The LAFD task force concept was implemented to protect firefighting crews during the 1965 Watts riots.  Two engines and a ladder, frequently augmented by police and national guard soldiers, responded together as a single unit to all calls with enough staffing and equipment to handle most...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    Battalion 20 has always been in southern Bronx.  It split the 15th Battalion which originally covered the entire eastern half of the Bronx all by itself. Battalion 20 Organized   2283 Jerome Ave              1903 at Combination Engine 75 Battalion 20 Relocated     491 E 166th St             ...
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    7/6/1019 75th Anniversary Of The Hartford Ct. Circus Fire

    Bronze statuette of circus clown Emmet Kelly, in tears, carrying Little Miss 1565, as sculpted from photographic images by Polish artist Piotr Klamerus.
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    VINTAGE FDNY WAR YEAR LIDS

    That's what the 'plug uglies' were for. New Yorkers Have Been Illicitly Cracking Open Fire Hydrants For Centuries, by Dan Nosowitz / 30 Jul 2015, says in passing: Water mains, which were only accessible by the rich, ran in limited numbers underneath the city, made mostly of hollowed-out logs...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    Battalion 15 covered all of The Bronx east of the Bronx River, until split by Battalion 20. It was organized as Battalion 14 and renumbered as 15 in 1898. Battalion 14 1896 - 1898 Battalion 14 E61 E62c E63 E64 Battalion 15 1898 - 1899 Battalion 15 E45 E48 E61...
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    Brooklyn Fire Headquarters

    Engine 207                1946-1971 Ladder 68/118          1901-1929 Ladder 110                1949-1972 Water Tower 6          1903-1946 Rescue 2                  1929-1946 Division 6/10              1898-1906 & 1951 Battalion 31              1946-1972 Ambulance 2              1938-1949...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    Division 16 battalions were listed here: http://nycfire.net/forums/index.php/topic,50639.msg178359.html#msg178359 Battalion 52 1908 - 1913 Battalion 52 E172 E173 E174               H8     H9           L79 L80 1913 - 1915 Battalion 52 E272 E273 E274               H8     H9          ...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    Brooklyn Fire Department 1869 - 1872 District Engineer 4 E9 E10                           L2 1872 - 1876 District Engineer 4 E9 E10 E14                     L2 1876 - 1877 District Engineer 4 E9 E10 E14 E17                 L2 1877 - 1880 District Engineer 4 E9...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    Battalion 23 was first activated in Brooklyn in 1898.  In 1906 it was renumbered as Battalion 33. Battalion 23 was reorganized on Staten Island in 1930.        Brooklyn Battalion 1898 - 1900 Battalion 23 E26 E39                                       L5 L10       WT1...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    Battalion 26 was first activated from 1898 to 1906 when it was renumbered as Battalion 36.  It was one of four battalions added in the Bronx in 1969. Brooklyn Battalion 1898 - 1900 Battalion 26 E12   E15   E29   E32 E38   L6 1900 - 1906 Battalion 26 E112 E115 E129 E132 E138      L56...
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    FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

    July 1997 to August 1998
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