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Why did the city let a contract to Ferrara for heavy rescues instead of KME? Also, what is the status of the 89 pumpers order?

prior to L-10's disbanding at the end of 1975 it would interchange Friday nites with L-11.When there one evening I heard talk about making L-10  second section of L-11 positioning the apparatus in the space behind E-28 . Needless to say that the rumor-mill that told me that that evening circa...

what about ladders 139 and 141?

mine were documented in the CITY RECORD at the library on Chambers ST

there were many other double engine proposals: 204 and 226; 215 and 238,22 and 44 actually built with that plan but not enacted; eng 5 and ladd 3 nver built; 41 and 71 never realized; maybe others too....

If it makes no difference who/what responded then why do smaller incidents on here get posted with that very information?

How bout a post with the total FDNY response on that eveil day of infamy so that the heroic work can be documented HERE for future generations to marvel at; such an overwhelming and unprecedented man and machine mobilization in all human fire dept history?

http://newyorkyimby.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Firehouse.jpg 160 Chambers Street. LPC photo As mentioned earlier, there was also a non-backlog designation on Tuesday. It was the former Firehouse Engine Company 29 building at 160 Chambers Street, in TriBeCa. Its public hearing was back in...

With many new structures in the works is it possible more would be in order for fire safety? http://newyorkyimby.com/2016/06/cornell-techs-26-story-250-unit-passive-house-dorm-tops-out-on-roosevelt-island.html

Circa 1948 or thereabouts an underwriter report was recommending consolidation of FDNY firehouses from as few as 52 up to 82 being shuttered for greater efficiency . As it turned out only a very few were enacted evidently E58 being one, E76, L9 and E13 and a few in other boroughs as well.

The 1939 and 1947 disbanded units were for the three-platoon system enactment...

Only place is the park near the public library....or behind eng 65 in the present quarters....????

1947: engs 4,19,20,25,29 1957: engs 11,72 1959: engs 12, 30 1960; eng 56 1972; engs 2,31,32.SQ 6 1974: engs 13,91-2,SQ 5 1975: eng 27 1991: eng 17 2003: eng 36

Midtown ladder companies are very high run; relocate ladder 8 to vicinity of eng 65....that way they can run equally east and west....just my opinion....

Midtown needs another ladder company more than downtown anyway....

TITLE: REHABILITATION OF HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY 8 REBID-BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN Procurement Section Design and Construction (DDC) Agency Name Jlj V Enterprises, Inc. 213-19 99th Avenue, Queens Village, Ny 11429 Vendor Information Archived Status Construction/Construction Services Category...

News article of the day suggest that many more personnel of FDNY responded than merely the four alarms. Anybody know of special calls above the fourth for relief?

Was not WT-2 with L-3 rather than L-11?

I don't believe that Engine 25 was in the same house with Ladder 11 even though on the same street.Anybody care to comment?

There was 40 years ago a paper in the NY Public Library [type-written] that stated the response and described the incident. As a young man I deliberately looked that up to satisfy my curiosity regarding this famous fire.