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Engine 52-2 1955 - 1956
Engine 298/Ladder 127/Battalion 50 firehouse 153-11 Hillside Avenue Jamaica, Queens Division 13, Battalion 50 "Hillside Hurricanes"
Hose 5 organized 90-22 Grace Court former volunteer firehouse 1907
Hose 5 became Engine 298 1918
Engine 298 new firehouse 89-56 162nd Street w/Engine 275, Engine 299, Ladder 127 1925
Engine 298 new firehouse 153-11 Hillside Avenue w/Ladder 127 1965
Engine 298 moved 159-06 Union Turnpike at Engine 315 2003
Engine 298 returned 153-11 Hillside Avenue w/ Ladder 127 2003
Ladder 77 organized 89-48 162nd Street former volunteer firehouse 1907
Ladder 77 became Ladder 127 1913
Ladder 127 new firehouse 89-56 162nd Street w/Engines 275, 298, 299 1925
Ladder 127 new firehouse 153-11 Hillside Avenue w/Engine 298 1965
Ladder 127 moved 91-45 121st Street at Squad 270 2003
Ladder 127 returned 153-11 Hillside Avenue w/Engine 298 2003
Battalion 50 organized 196 Greenwood Avenue w/Hose 2 1907
Battalion 50 moved 89-58 162nd Street 1909
Battalion 50 new firehouse 89-56 162nd Street w/Engines 275, 298, 299 1925
Battalion 50 new firehouse 153-11 Hillside Avenue w/Engine 298 1965
Battalion 50 moved 111-36 Merrick Boulevard at Engine 275 2003
Battalion 50 returned 153-11 Hillside Avenue w/Engine 298 2003
Ambulance 3 moved 89-56 162nd Street at Engine 298 1963
Ambulance 3 new firehouse 153-11 Hillside Avenue w/Engine 298 1965
Pre-FDNY:
Jamaica was protected by the volunteer Jamaica Fire Department
FDNY replaces Jamaica Fire Department - 1907:
Former firehouse 90-22 Grace Court - Hose 5, Engine 298:
Former firehouse 89-56 162nd Street - Engine 275, Engine 298, Engine 299, Ladder 127, Battalion 50:
153-11 Hillside Avenue firehouse:
Hose 5 organized 90-22 Grace Court former volunteer firehouse 1907
Hose 5 became Engine 298 1918
Engine 298 new firehouse 89-56 162nd Street w/Engine 275, Engine 299, Ladder 127 1925
Engine 298 new firehouse 153-11 Hillside Avenue w/Ladder 127 1965
Engine 298 moved 159-06 Union Turnpike at Engine 315 2003
Engine 298 returned 153-11 Hillside Avenue w/ Ladder 127 2003
Ladder 77 organized 89-48 162nd Street former volunteer firehouse 1907
Ladder 77 became Ladder 127 1913
Ladder 127 new firehouse 89-56 162nd Street w/Engines 275, 298, 299 1925
Ladder 127 new firehouse 153-11 Hillside Avenue w/Engine 298 1965
Ladder 127 moved 91-45 121st Street at Squad 270 2003
Ladder 127 returned 153-11 Hillside Avenue w/Engine 298 2003
Battalion 50 organized 196 Greenwood Avenue w/Hose 2 1907
Battalion 50 moved 89-58 162nd Street 1909
Battalion 50 new firehouse 89-56 162nd Street w/Engines 275, 298, 299 1925
Battalion 50 new firehouse 153-11 Hillside Avenue w/Engine 298 1965
Battalion 50 moved 111-36 Merrick Boulevard at Engine 275 2003
Battalion 50 returned 153-11 Hillside Avenue w/Engine 298 2003
Ambulance 3 moved 89-56 162nd Street at Engine 298 1963
Ambulance 3 new firehouse 153-11 Hillside Avenue w/Engine 298 1965
Pre-FDNY:
Jamaica was protected by the volunteer Jamaica Fire Department
FDNY replaces Jamaica Fire Department - 1907:
Former firehouse 90-22 Grace Court - Hose 5, Engine 298:
Former firehouse 89-56 162nd Street - Engine 275, Engine 298, Engine 299, Ladder 127, Battalion 50:
153-11 Hillside Avenue firehouse:
Engine 298/Ladder 127/Battalion 50 (continued)
Engine 298:
Ladder 127:
Engine 298/Ladder 127:
Battalion 50:
Ambulance 3:
Engine 298/Ladder 127/Battalion 50:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Ip0aESrfc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9MUlcf1gk0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s23lSK7YPF8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6sTstxNKqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAGOnRT_bD4
Engine 298:
Ladder 127:
Engine 298/Ladder 127:
Battalion 50:
Ambulance 3:
Engine 298/Ladder 127/Battalion 50:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Ip0aESrfc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9MUlcf1gk0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s23lSK7YPF8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6sTstxNKqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAGOnRT_bD4
Engine 298/Ladder 127/Battalion 50 (continued)
Jamaica Gas Leak and Explosion 1967:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/early-morning-gas-main-explosion-in-queens-houses-and-news-footage/454006694
FIRE ENGINEERING New York's 13-Alarm Night of Flame 04/01/1967 By DICK SYLVIA
Master streams used to combat radiant heat in
A gas main leak that sent a 20-footwide column of flame 150 feet above the street resulted in a 13-alarm fire that destroyed five buildings and damaged 15 others in the Jamaica section of New York City.
The first task of rousing hundreds of sleeping residents and removing them from their homes saw the margin between life and death narrowed to a fragile line when the escaping gas burst into flame. This produced the second problem?radiant heat.
The beginning of what the fire department was to call ?a major disaster? became evident when Mrs. Rose Padimha of 139-19 101st Avenue awoke in her second-story bedroom at 5:10 a.m. last January 13?a Friday. She dialed the telephone operator, who relayed her report of smelling gas to the police. The two policemen in the patrol car that was sent to investigate transmitted a fire alarm?box 4758?upon their arrival and began to get occupants out of their homes.
Record for alarms
Within 48 minutes after the first alarm at 5:19 a.m., the 10th alarm was struck for box 4758. And 50 minutes later, at 6:57 a.m., the 13th alarm was transmitted?the largest number of alarms in the history of the New York Fire Department.
?The last three alarms were merely precautionary to insure an adequate water supply,? Chief of Department John T. O?Hagan explained.
The first apparatus arriving on the first alarm. Engine 298 and Ladder 127, stalled on 101st Avenue as they reached Brisbin Street.
It is believed that so much gas was escaping from a drip pot on a natural gas main 10 feet west of Brisbin Street that there was not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the apparatus engines. Engine 298 stopped within a few feet of the drip pot, and Ladder 127 halted about 60 feet farther back.
The officers of the two units ordered their men to clear the nearby homes of occupants.
At this time, Battalion Chief Robert E. Fay arrived. After being informed of the situation by the company officers, lie ordered them to continue evacuating the area, and he immediately asked the dispatcher for a second-alarm assignment to hasten the evacuation. He also asked for more police and a repeat request for a Brooklyn Union Gas Company emergency crew. The second alarm was transmitted at 5:31 a.m.
Tower of flame
Slightly less than five minutes later, the escaping gas became ?a vertical column of flame about 150 feet high and 20 feet wide,? as Fay described the ignition. Men in the second-a'arm companies approaching the area saw the torch erupt in the blackness of the night. So did Deputy Chief Joseph Weinhofer, Jr., of the 13th Division, who transmitted a third alarm at 5:36 a.m. while still en route.
The source of ignition ?was problematical,? according to O?Hagan. A commercial truck went through the area, and while a vehicle ignition system might have lighted off the gas, it could have been a number of other things, the chief explained.
The 24-inch natural gas distribution main under 101st Avenue bad a drip pot just west of Brisbin Street that was designed to trap moisture in the years when the main was used for manufactured gas. Atop the drip pot was a 26-inch-diameter iron cover weighing 285 pounds. This cover was caulked and sealed with lead. Over it was 10⅝ inches of earth. The gas in the main, at 11? psi, exerted a tremendous force on the cover. Somehow, the cover was unseated so that it was at a 30-degree angle and a third of it was off the top of the drip pot, allowing the gas to break through the street, O?Hagan explained.
This was the situation as the gas was ignited while the first-alarm assignment of three engine and two ladder companies were getting people out of homes on 101st Avenue, Brisbin and Allendale Streets, and Cresskill Place.
Radiation Trouble
As the gas torched skyward, radiant heat on exposures became the dominant problem as building after building caught fire. The homes were mostly detached, two-story, wood frame construction, generally 20 to 25 feet wide and from 25 to 80 feet deep? mostly 45 feet deep. The lone three story, wood frame house had a neighborhood grocery store on the ground floor. It was only lightly damaged. A masonry, one-story, 100 X 100-foot paint factory at the northeast corner of 101st Avenue and Brisbin Street collapsed in flaming ruins. Ladder 127 burned in front of this building.
With a 4-7 mph wind behind it, the fire moved eastward on 101st Avenue. O'Hagan credited the brick veneer construction of a few homes with helping to contain the fire. Some of these houses, the chief commented, were remarkably well constructed. He cited a row of brick veneer homes with common walls separating them. The home nearest the fire was burned out, but the home adjoining it remained livable because the masonry party wall remained intact.
Some of the brick veneer homes became involved when exterior wood trim or wood window frames caught fire. A brick, four-story apartment house, 50 X 100 feet, on the west side of Allendale Street near 101st Avenue, was lightly damaged after fire entered through the rear windows in the top two stories.
The gas problem
As the fire spread and apparatus kept rolling in, the gas flame continued to burn. Firemen dared not try to extinguish the flame for fear that unburned gas would be let loose in the area. They had to wait for the gas flow to be shut off by gas company crews, who also had the problem of limiting the shutdown of service to as small an area as possible. This was because difficulties arise when service is resumed. Then it is necessary to make certain that appliances that had been operating at the time of the shutdown are turned off and pilot lights are relighted. The wider the area, the more difficult the job and the more chances for a mishap.
As pressure in the main was reduced by utility crews, the radiation problem created by the flame began to shrink.
?Until they reduced the pressure and flame on the main, we still had that exposure problem,? O?Hagan explained. ?We weren?t sure of containing the fire until we saw that reduction taking place.?
The main was finally bagged by introducing an inflatable bag into the main some distance from each side of the drip pot and then pressurizing the bags to form barriers to further passage of gas at those points. After this was done, an excavation was made around the drip pot, and the cover was replaced.
As Chief O?Hagan was responding, he drew a diagram of the fire area on a map, using information from progress reports received by radio. Then he drew a defense perimeter: 97th Avenue on the north, Liberty Avenue on the south, Allendale Street on the east and Brisbin Street on the west.
He put assistant chiefs in charge of three sides of this area and took charge of the southern line himself. The chief also ordered all companies that had not yet arrived to report to perimeter command posts.
?Unless you set up a perimeter for fire defense and put a chief in charge,? O?Hagan said, ?everybody gets confused.?
The first objective, the chief declared, was to keep the fire from jumping Allendale Street on the east. This was done by positioning two multiversals (deluge sets) on the roof of Public School 50, just east of Allendale Street on 101st Avenue. Another master stream was set up on the fourth floor of the school. Still another deluge set was placed on the roof of a brick building across the avenue from the school.
These tactics were successful. The fire did not cross Allendale Street.
Water curtains used
Meanwhile, other companies had put numerous deck pipes and deluge sets into service. Many of these were used to provide water curtains to contain the fearful production of radiant heat. Other master streams were directed on blazing buildings. In some cases, hand lines were shifted to service master stream equipment.
?The tendency in large-scale fires,? O?Hagan stated, ?is to use too many hand lines. We had to shut some down and put them into master stream equipment.?
A total of 76 lines were laid, most of them for master streams, by some 400 firemen with 70 pieces of apparatus. Ladder pipes were not used because of the speed with which the fire spread. As O?Hagan explained, it takes too long to move an aerial with a pipe working, and it was feared that more apparatus might be trapped in flame.
With the use of a multitude of master streams, water supply was a problem. The actual fire area, supplied by a private water company, had mains that were overtaxed. Therefore, many of the engines were assigned to relay pumping. A 48-inch city main at Sutphin Avenue and 101st Avenue, a long three blocks to the east, provided a large supply of water.
Big hose used
Although the Super Pumper itself was out of service at the time, the rest of the Super Pumper system?the large tractor-trailer tender and three satellites?was used to advantage with the 4&-inch hose these units carry. This hose, because of lower friction losses and big capacity, simplified the problem of getting large amounts of water to the fire.
Satellites 1 and 3 operated deck guns with 700-gpm adjustable fog nozzles, and Satellite 2 used a 2-inch tip on its deck gun for two hours on 102nd Avenue, between Brisbin and Allendale Streets. Satellite 1 was positioned on 101st Avenue, between Brisbin and Cresskill Streets, and Satellite 3 was on Brisbin Street, between 101st and 102nd Avenues.
As conditions improved, hand lines were used to extinguish fires darkened down by master streams. All structural fires were under control by 9 a.m., about three and a half hours after the first alarm. By 3 o?clock in the afternoon, the fireground complement was down to a second-alarm assignment. At this time, the signal that the overall situation was under control was transmitted.
Gas company employees then went into every house they could enter to check for leaks and unlit pilot lights. All appliances had to be checked before gas service could be restored to unburned homes affected by the cutoff of gas service.
After 6 p.m., only a reserve engine with a detail of men manning one hose line was left on the fireground. This piece remained there for four days to guard against any flareup.
Although news reports at first told of as many as 12 blocks aflame in Jamaica, the fire was contained mostly within two blocks on 101st Street, where five buildings were destroyed by flames and nine others damaged. In addition to the lightly damaged apartment house on Allendale Street, light damage also was done to two woodframe, three-story homes on Brisbin Street and three wood-frame, 2-story homes on 102nd Avenue. The master stream attack won out over the radiant heat.
Of the five fire fighters injured, two were treated for foreign bodies in their right eyes. Another fireman?s shoulder was fractured and his right hand was cut. Two others were burned on their faces. No civilians were injured despite the extent of the fire at a time when they had to be awakened.
O?Hagan estimated the replacement cost of the two pieces of apparatus and their equipment at $100,000. Seven civilian autos and trucks were damaged or destroyed by flames.
The Jamaica Gas Leak and Fire - Division 7 - August 2017:
https://www.firefighterclosecalls.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/August-2017-Jamaica-Gas-Leak-13-Alarms.pdf
https://www.firefighterclosecalls.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/August-2017-Part-2-of-3.pdf
https://www.firefighterclosecalls.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/August-2017-Part-3-of-3.pdf
Engine 298:
Ladder 127:
Jamaica Gas Leak and Explosion 1967:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/early-morning-gas-main-explosion-in-queens-houses-and-news-footage/454006694
FIRE ENGINEERING New York's 13-Alarm Night of Flame 04/01/1967 By DICK SYLVIA
Master streams used to combat radiant heat in
A gas main leak that sent a 20-footwide column of flame 150 feet above the street resulted in a 13-alarm fire that destroyed five buildings and damaged 15 others in the Jamaica section of New York City.
The first task of rousing hundreds of sleeping residents and removing them from their homes saw the margin between life and death narrowed to a fragile line when the escaping gas burst into flame. This produced the second problem?radiant heat.
The beginning of what the fire department was to call ?a major disaster? became evident when Mrs. Rose Padimha of 139-19 101st Avenue awoke in her second-story bedroom at 5:10 a.m. last January 13?a Friday. She dialed the telephone operator, who relayed her report of smelling gas to the police. The two policemen in the patrol car that was sent to investigate transmitted a fire alarm?box 4758?upon their arrival and began to get occupants out of their homes.
Record for alarms
Within 48 minutes after the first alarm at 5:19 a.m., the 10th alarm was struck for box 4758. And 50 minutes later, at 6:57 a.m., the 13th alarm was transmitted?the largest number of alarms in the history of the New York Fire Department.
?The last three alarms were merely precautionary to insure an adequate water supply,? Chief of Department John T. O?Hagan explained.
The first apparatus arriving on the first alarm. Engine 298 and Ladder 127, stalled on 101st Avenue as they reached Brisbin Street.
It is believed that so much gas was escaping from a drip pot on a natural gas main 10 feet west of Brisbin Street that there was not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the apparatus engines. Engine 298 stopped within a few feet of the drip pot, and Ladder 127 halted about 60 feet farther back.
The officers of the two units ordered their men to clear the nearby homes of occupants.
At this time, Battalion Chief Robert E. Fay arrived. After being informed of the situation by the company officers, lie ordered them to continue evacuating the area, and he immediately asked the dispatcher for a second-alarm assignment to hasten the evacuation. He also asked for more police and a repeat request for a Brooklyn Union Gas Company emergency crew. The second alarm was transmitted at 5:31 a.m.
Tower of flame
Slightly less than five minutes later, the escaping gas became ?a vertical column of flame about 150 feet high and 20 feet wide,? as Fay described the ignition. Men in the second-a'arm companies approaching the area saw the torch erupt in the blackness of the night. So did Deputy Chief Joseph Weinhofer, Jr., of the 13th Division, who transmitted a third alarm at 5:36 a.m. while still en route.
The source of ignition ?was problematical,? according to O?Hagan. A commercial truck went through the area, and while a vehicle ignition system might have lighted off the gas, it could have been a number of other things, the chief explained.
The 24-inch natural gas distribution main under 101st Avenue bad a drip pot just west of Brisbin Street that was designed to trap moisture in the years when the main was used for manufactured gas. Atop the drip pot was a 26-inch-diameter iron cover weighing 285 pounds. This cover was caulked and sealed with lead. Over it was 10⅝ inches of earth. The gas in the main, at 11? psi, exerted a tremendous force on the cover. Somehow, the cover was unseated so that it was at a 30-degree angle and a third of it was off the top of the drip pot, allowing the gas to break through the street, O?Hagan explained.
This was the situation as the gas was ignited while the first-alarm assignment of three engine and two ladder companies were getting people out of homes on 101st Avenue, Brisbin and Allendale Streets, and Cresskill Place.
Radiation Trouble
As the gas torched skyward, radiant heat on exposures became the dominant problem as building after building caught fire. The homes were mostly detached, two-story, wood frame construction, generally 20 to 25 feet wide and from 25 to 80 feet deep? mostly 45 feet deep. The lone three story, wood frame house had a neighborhood grocery store on the ground floor. It was only lightly damaged. A masonry, one-story, 100 X 100-foot paint factory at the northeast corner of 101st Avenue and Brisbin Street collapsed in flaming ruins. Ladder 127 burned in front of this building.
With a 4-7 mph wind behind it, the fire moved eastward on 101st Avenue. O'Hagan credited the brick veneer construction of a few homes with helping to contain the fire. Some of these houses, the chief commented, were remarkably well constructed. He cited a row of brick veneer homes with common walls separating them. The home nearest the fire was burned out, but the home adjoining it remained livable because the masonry party wall remained intact.
Some of the brick veneer homes became involved when exterior wood trim or wood window frames caught fire. A brick, four-story apartment house, 50 X 100 feet, on the west side of Allendale Street near 101st Avenue, was lightly damaged after fire entered through the rear windows in the top two stories.
The gas problem
As the fire spread and apparatus kept rolling in, the gas flame continued to burn. Firemen dared not try to extinguish the flame for fear that unburned gas would be let loose in the area. They had to wait for the gas flow to be shut off by gas company crews, who also had the problem of limiting the shutdown of service to as small an area as possible. This was because difficulties arise when service is resumed. Then it is necessary to make certain that appliances that had been operating at the time of the shutdown are turned off and pilot lights are relighted. The wider the area, the more difficult the job and the more chances for a mishap.
As pressure in the main was reduced by utility crews, the radiation problem created by the flame began to shrink.
?Until they reduced the pressure and flame on the main, we still had that exposure problem,? O?Hagan explained. ?We weren?t sure of containing the fire until we saw that reduction taking place.?
The main was finally bagged by introducing an inflatable bag into the main some distance from each side of the drip pot and then pressurizing the bags to form barriers to further passage of gas at those points. After this was done, an excavation was made around the drip pot, and the cover was replaced.
As Chief O?Hagan was responding, he drew a diagram of the fire area on a map, using information from progress reports received by radio. Then he drew a defense perimeter: 97th Avenue on the north, Liberty Avenue on the south, Allendale Street on the east and Brisbin Street on the west.
He put assistant chiefs in charge of three sides of this area and took charge of the southern line himself. The chief also ordered all companies that had not yet arrived to report to perimeter command posts.
?Unless you set up a perimeter for fire defense and put a chief in charge,? O?Hagan said, ?everybody gets confused.?
The first objective, the chief declared, was to keep the fire from jumping Allendale Street on the east. This was done by positioning two multiversals (deluge sets) on the roof of Public School 50, just east of Allendale Street on 101st Avenue. Another master stream was set up on the fourth floor of the school. Still another deluge set was placed on the roof of a brick building across the avenue from the school.
These tactics were successful. The fire did not cross Allendale Street.
Water curtains used
Meanwhile, other companies had put numerous deck pipes and deluge sets into service. Many of these were used to provide water curtains to contain the fearful production of radiant heat. Other master streams were directed on blazing buildings. In some cases, hand lines were shifted to service master stream equipment.
?The tendency in large-scale fires,? O?Hagan stated, ?is to use too many hand lines. We had to shut some down and put them into master stream equipment.?
A total of 76 lines were laid, most of them for master streams, by some 400 firemen with 70 pieces of apparatus. Ladder pipes were not used because of the speed with which the fire spread. As O?Hagan explained, it takes too long to move an aerial with a pipe working, and it was feared that more apparatus might be trapped in flame.
With the use of a multitude of master streams, water supply was a problem. The actual fire area, supplied by a private water company, had mains that were overtaxed. Therefore, many of the engines were assigned to relay pumping. A 48-inch city main at Sutphin Avenue and 101st Avenue, a long three blocks to the east, provided a large supply of water.
Big hose used
Although the Super Pumper itself was out of service at the time, the rest of the Super Pumper system?the large tractor-trailer tender and three satellites?was used to advantage with the 4&-inch hose these units carry. This hose, because of lower friction losses and big capacity, simplified the problem of getting large amounts of water to the fire.
Satellites 1 and 3 operated deck guns with 700-gpm adjustable fog nozzles, and Satellite 2 used a 2-inch tip on its deck gun for two hours on 102nd Avenue, between Brisbin and Allendale Streets. Satellite 1 was positioned on 101st Avenue, between Brisbin and Cresskill Streets, and Satellite 3 was on Brisbin Street, between 101st and 102nd Avenues.
As conditions improved, hand lines were used to extinguish fires darkened down by master streams. All structural fires were under control by 9 a.m., about three and a half hours after the first alarm. By 3 o?clock in the afternoon, the fireground complement was down to a second-alarm assignment. At this time, the signal that the overall situation was under control was transmitted.
Gas company employees then went into every house they could enter to check for leaks and unlit pilot lights. All appliances had to be checked before gas service could be restored to unburned homes affected by the cutoff of gas service.
After 6 p.m., only a reserve engine with a detail of men manning one hose line was left on the fireground. This piece remained there for four days to guard against any flareup.
Although news reports at first told of as many as 12 blocks aflame in Jamaica, the fire was contained mostly within two blocks on 101st Street, where five buildings were destroyed by flames and nine others damaged. In addition to the lightly damaged apartment house on Allendale Street, light damage also was done to two woodframe, three-story homes on Brisbin Street and three wood-frame, 2-story homes on 102nd Avenue. The master stream attack won out over the radiant heat.
Of the five fire fighters injured, two were treated for foreign bodies in their right eyes. Another fireman?s shoulder was fractured and his right hand was cut. Two others were burned on their faces. No civilians were injured despite the extent of the fire at a time when they had to be awakened.
O?Hagan estimated the replacement cost of the two pieces of apparatus and their equipment at $100,000. Seven civilian autos and trucks were damaged or destroyed by flames.
The Jamaica Gas Leak and Fire - Division 7 - August 2017:
https://www.firefighterclosecalls.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/August-2017-Jamaica-Gas-Leak-13-Alarms.pdf
https://www.firefighterclosecalls.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/August-2017-Part-2-of-3.pdf
https://www.firefighterclosecalls.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/August-2017-Part-3-of-3.pdf
Engine 298:
Ladder 127:
Engine 298/Ladder 127/Battalion 50 (continued)
Engine 298 - 1933:
Engine 298/Ladder 127 medals:
JAMES E. GRANEY, JR. LT. ENG. 298 JUL. 6, 1996 1997 HISPANIC
FRANK W. ROSS FF. LAD. 127 APR. 30, 1922 1923 PRENTICE
JOHN A. CALDERONE FF. LAD. 127 E-275 DEC. 18, 1977 1978 STEUBEN
Note - BC Jack Calderone joined the FDNY September 1973, assigned to Eng. 290. He was laid off in 1975. Came back to Eng.303, Lad.127 and Rescue 4. Promoted to Lt of HazMat, Squad 1 and Rescue 5. Promoted to Captain of Rescue 3, and again promoted to Battalion Chief in the 22 Bn. Jack is a very respected, decorated member of the FDNY, a firefighter we strive to be. He worked through the 'war years' of the FDNY and he saw the best and worst of NYC, and lost many friends on 9/11. He is also a well known fire service author and has written extensive history on all types of FDNY apparatus makes and models. - from NYC Fire Wire
ROBERT M. MYETTE FF. LAD. 127 DEC. 4, 1983 1984 EMERALD
JAMES M. MC FARLAND FF. LAD. 127 APR. 6, 1995 1996 WILLIAMS
CHARLES S. FRAME FF. LAD. 127 2003 PULASKI
MICHAEL J. CULEN FF. LAD. 127 2003 THOMPSON
DAVID C. BENGYAK LT. LAD127 JUL. 18, 2006 BELLA STIEFEL
ENGINE 298 OCT. 3, 2016 2017 CURRAN /BURN CENTER
Members of Engine Co. 298, Ladder Co. 127 and Ladder Co. 36 received the Lt. James Curran/New York Firefighters Burn Center Foundation Medal for their actions in Jamaica last Oct. 3. Engine 298 was dispatched to a report of police dealing with an emotionally disturbed person who was threatening to blow up an apartment building. Upon their arrival smoke and flames were visible in multiple windows of a third-floor apartment. Lt. Ralph Longo?s had to get nearby emergency vehicles moved to a safe distance and string hose lines before attacking a fire that had gasoline and natural gas as accelerants. Witnesses said the subsequent explosion blew out all the windows, and the fire advanced to the fourth and fifth floors before firefighters got the upper hand. Longo and firefighters James Branch, Howayne Delisser, Ross Dubner, Garret Langdon and Erich Smith were honored.
Engine 298/Ladder 127/Battalion 50 LODDs:
LIEUTENANT JOHN M. CLANCY BATTALION 50 December 31, 1995
https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2d-firefighter-killed-job-hit-fiery-gust-article-1.711930
FIREFIGHTER GARRETT W. LANGDON ENGINE 298 December 6, 1953
Fireman Garrett W. Langdon of Engine 298 died on December 6, 1953. He was injured on November 24, 1953 while operating at a fire at 139-42 Hillside Avenue. At the time it was not considered a line of duty death. On March 8, 1955 the Board of Trustees of the Fire Department Pension Fund reversed their earlier decision and said his death was in the performance of his duties. He was appointed to the Department on July 1, 1946 and served his whole career with Engine 298. He was forty years old. (From "The Last Alarm")
FIREFIGHTER ANTHONY W. DeFALCO ENGINE 298 January 9, 1974
Firefighter Anthony W. DeFalco - Engine 298 - 13-year veteran - suffered a fatal heart attack while operating at a dwelling fire
FIREFIGHTER GEORGE J. MURPHY LADDER 127 July 21, 1956
FIREFIGHTER JAMES J. O'SHEA LADDER 127 September 27, 2003
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/nyregion/city-firefighter-dies-after-queens-blaze.html
LIEUTENANT ROBERT STEGMEIER LADDER 127 February 16, 2012
Lieutenant Robert Stegmeier, Ladder 127, died February 16, 2012 from WTC-related illness.
RIP. Never forget.
Engine 298 - 1933:
Engine 298/Ladder 127 medals:
JAMES E. GRANEY, JR. LT. ENG. 298 JUL. 6, 1996 1997 HISPANIC
FRANK W. ROSS FF. LAD. 127 APR. 30, 1922 1923 PRENTICE
JOHN A. CALDERONE FF. LAD. 127 E-275 DEC. 18, 1977 1978 STEUBEN
Note - BC Jack Calderone joined the FDNY September 1973, assigned to Eng. 290. He was laid off in 1975. Came back to Eng.303, Lad.127 and Rescue 4. Promoted to Lt of HazMat, Squad 1 and Rescue 5. Promoted to Captain of Rescue 3, and again promoted to Battalion Chief in the 22 Bn. Jack is a very respected, decorated member of the FDNY, a firefighter we strive to be. He worked through the 'war years' of the FDNY and he saw the best and worst of NYC, and lost many friends on 9/11. He is also a well known fire service author and has written extensive history on all types of FDNY apparatus makes and models. - from NYC Fire Wire
ROBERT M. MYETTE FF. LAD. 127 DEC. 4, 1983 1984 EMERALD
JAMES M. MC FARLAND FF. LAD. 127 APR. 6, 1995 1996 WILLIAMS
CHARLES S. FRAME FF. LAD. 127 2003 PULASKI
MICHAEL J. CULEN FF. LAD. 127 2003 THOMPSON
DAVID C. BENGYAK LT. LAD127 JUL. 18, 2006 BELLA STIEFEL
ENGINE 298 OCT. 3, 2016 2017 CURRAN /BURN CENTER
Members of Engine Co. 298, Ladder Co. 127 and Ladder Co. 36 received the Lt. James Curran/New York Firefighters Burn Center Foundation Medal for their actions in Jamaica last Oct. 3. Engine 298 was dispatched to a report of police dealing with an emotionally disturbed person who was threatening to blow up an apartment building. Upon their arrival smoke and flames were visible in multiple windows of a third-floor apartment. Lt. Ralph Longo?s had to get nearby emergency vehicles moved to a safe distance and string hose lines before attacking a fire that had gasoline and natural gas as accelerants. Witnesses said the subsequent explosion blew out all the windows, and the fire advanced to the fourth and fifth floors before firefighters got the upper hand. Longo and firefighters James Branch, Howayne Delisser, Ross Dubner, Garret Langdon and Erich Smith were honored.
Engine 298/Ladder 127/Battalion 50 LODDs:
LIEUTENANT JOHN M. CLANCY BATTALION 50 December 31, 1995
https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2d-firefighter-killed-job-hit-fiery-gust-article-1.711930
FIREFIGHTER GARRETT W. LANGDON ENGINE 298 December 6, 1953
Fireman Garrett W. Langdon of Engine 298 died on December 6, 1953. He was injured on November 24, 1953 while operating at a fire at 139-42 Hillside Avenue. At the time it was not considered a line of duty death. On March 8, 1955 the Board of Trustees of the Fire Department Pension Fund reversed their earlier decision and said his death was in the performance of his duties. He was appointed to the Department on July 1, 1946 and served his whole career with Engine 298. He was forty years old. (From "The Last Alarm")
FIREFIGHTER ANTHONY W. DeFALCO ENGINE 298 January 9, 1974
Firefighter Anthony W. DeFalco - Engine 298 - 13-year veteran - suffered a fatal heart attack while operating at a dwelling fire
FIREFIGHTER GEORGE J. MURPHY LADDER 127 July 21, 1956
FIREFIGHTER JAMES J. O'SHEA LADDER 127 September 27, 2003
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/nyregion/city-firefighter-dies-after-queens-blaze.html
LIEUTENANT ROBERT STEGMEIER LADDER 127 February 16, 2012
Lieutenant Robert Stegmeier, Ladder 127, died February 16, 2012 from WTC-related illness.
RIP. Never forget.
Engine 298/Ladder 127/Battalion 50 (continued)
Jamaica:
Name origin - Jamaica is an English distortion of an Algonquin tribe that inhabited this Long Island outpost ? the Jameco Indians (also referred to as the Yamecah tribe). They were named after the Algonquin word for beaver. (from http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2008/09/name-that-neighborhood-why-is-jamaica.html)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica,_Queens
Jamaica:
Name origin - Jamaica is an English distortion of an Algonquin tribe that inhabited this Long Island outpost ? the Jameco Indians (also referred to as the Yamecah tribe). They were named after the Algonquin word for beaver. (from http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2008/09/name-that-neighborhood-why-is-jamaica.html)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica,_Queens
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fdhistorian said:
January 13, 1967 Jamaica Gas Leak and Explosion - from fdhistorian link above:
Chief K's incident summary -
"Another report on the 1967 Jamaica Gas Fire from the Bell Club Newsletter Thanks to JOR.... QUOTE...50 years ago this month, on Friday January 13, 1967 a major gas explosion occurred at 101 Avenue and Creskill Place in Queens. This incident resulted in the transmission of 13 alarms. The following is an edited and abbreviated version of the run-down that appeared in the January-February-March 1967 issue of the ?Third Alarmer?. I have also taken the liberty of using some of the abbreviations I use in summaries of the current rundowns. See WNYF 1967 2nd issue for additional information regarding this incident.
5:19AM: Box 4758 - E270, E298, L127, BC51 (first due units E303, L126 & BC50 were on another run). 5:31AM: 22-4758 - B/O BC51 ?for a massive gas rupture. Precautionary 2nd alarm transmitted to utilize companies to evacuate the neighborhood in conjunction with the NYPD. All units to report 1 block west of Cresskill Pl and 101 Ave and meet BC51. Citizens in immediate area are being evacuated. Brooklyn Union Gas urgently requested to respond immediately?. Response: E308, E302, E275, R4, L155, DC13, Searchlight 24, Safety Unit Car 500, Photo Unit, FC2, SAT3 and Car 956 (Satellite Officer). 5:36AM: Third alarm B/O DC13 (DC Winegar) - E315, E305, E301, L125, BC54...FD Ambulance 3, Superpumper System and Assistant Chief on duty ? Francis J Love (Car ...DC13 reported gas leak had erupted into a flaming holocaust!!! ?Flaming fire now erupting from manholes?...DOUBTFUL... 5:39AM: Fourth Alarm B/O DC13...E293, E317, E299 & L142...?BC51 to Queens----Have all 4th alarm companies respond in to fire and use heavy caliber streams in any direction possible. Special call two additional BC?s (BC50, BC39) and have them assume control on east side of fire at Allendale. Also notify Con Edison....? 5:47AM: Via Radio ? ?DC13 to Queens --- All 4th alarm units to respond North and West and assume defensive positions...TRANSMIT A FIFTH ALARM and have units approach from the East...SEVERAL BUILDINGS NOW INVOLVED!!? FIFTH ALARM: E319, E236, E252, E232 & L151...5:50AM: Car 5 ? Chief of Department JOHN T. O?HAGAN... ?Responding to Fifth alarm...notify gas utility companies to respond...emphasize this is a major incident...will require abnormal response of
(utilities)...everything available to be sent...Have high officials of such companies also respond 5:51AM: AC FRANCIS LOVE...?Have arrived at scene at 101 Avenue and Liverpool Street body of fire approximately 100? in diameter...Car 8 located 100? East of fire...approximately half a dozen buildings involved...practically impossible to enter the fire area...? 5:55AM: Car 8 ? ?Recommend to Car 5 (en-route) that a 3rd alarm Boro Call be transmitted?. Car 5 agreed and advised that instructions be given to units responding on Boro Call to have a chief in command of each sector and have them anticipate the arrival and control of companies responding...5:56AM: A 3rd alarm response of engines only normally assigned to Brooklyn Box 958 ? Atlantic & Bedford Aves. responded to Queens Box 4758...5:58AM: Car 8...?Have (Boro Call) companies respond in on Liberty & approximately 100 Ave. Send 4 companies to 101 Ave and Allendale?...1st alarm E235, E219, E280...2nd alarm: E214, E234, E209...3rd alarm: E249, E256, E230, E210...6:04AM: Car 8 ? ?Recommend to Car 5 that Boro Call be increased to a FIFTH ALARM & have these units respond in to 101 Ave. and Brisbin St.? Car 5 approved recommendation & radioed dispatcher to transmit 5th alarm Boro Call and to stand-by to receive instructions to set up a defense...Requested radio be kept clear for urgent fire traffic from Car 5 ? Chief of Dept. O?HAGAN. At 6:05AM the following report received from Car 5...?Center of fire incident is to be taken as 101 Ave & Brisbin St...East Front ? Allendale St; West Front ? Sanders Pl; North Front ? Atlantic Ave; South Front ? Liberty Av...Have one Staff Officer on each (of above) sectors or fronts... 6:06AM: 4th alarm: E211, E226, E217, E207; 5th alarm: E269, E222, E248, E220...6:14AM: TOWER LADDER #1 special called to scene by orders of Car 5...6:15AM: Satellite 1 to respond to 101 Ave & Brisbin; Satellite 2 to approach from North end of fire and stretch lines two blocks below fire area... 6:20AM: SUPERPUMPER responding to Sutphin Blvd & 103 Ave where a large 48? main was available for water supply...6:35AM: ?Car 5 to CITY-WIDE ?Prepare to transmit an additional Boro Call...will give order when required...have all utility companies respond to 101 Ave & Brisbin St?. 6:37AM: ?CITY-WIDE to Car 5?...CON ED and all
utilities notified and are responding...6:50AM: Car 5 advised all incoming Boro Call units & Tower Ladder to respond to Liverpool and 101 Aves. 6:56AM: ?BY ORDERS OF CAR 5 ? TRANSMIT AN ADDITIONAL 3RD ALARM BORO CALL?.6:57AM: A 3rd alarm response of engines only due to respond to Manhattan Box 174 Bowery and Canal St, were to respond instead to Queens Box 4758...1st alarm; E9, E55, E31...2nd alarm; E17, E15, E7, E32...3rd alarm; E27, E33, E13 and E10. 6:59AM: ?CITY-WIDE TO FIELD COMM UNIT? ?The American Red Cross requests all evacuees to respond to St Pius Church, 106 Ave & Liverpool St?...Field Comm 2 complied with this request and presently hundreds of men women and children ? in various stages of shock and fright ? came to the Church seeking help and comfort which was quickly forthcoming....7:03AM: (Via Manhattan Radio)...?All 3rd alarm engine companies responding from Manhattan are to proceed to Sutphin Blvd and 103 Ave and prepare to relay water (from Superpumper)...?7:13AM: PROGRESS REPORT from Car 5: ?Fire front on 97 Ave., Allendale St, Liberty Ave & Cresskill Pl. Center of fire is a large gas main break at Brisbin & 101 Ave. There are an undetermined number of private residential homes that have been involved in fire. Unable to extinguish main body of fire which is caused by a large column of illuminating gas which is burning at a height of approximately 50 to 75 feet...Defensive lines have been established to attempt to confine fire to present involvement. 8:11AM: BY ORDER OF CAR 5: All companies up to and including the (original) 5th alarm assigned on Box 4758 are to be relieved at the scene & their relief are to report to 101 Ave. and Allendale St. Relief of all Boro Call units are to remain in quarters unless receiving special instructions...9:51AM: PROGRESS REPORT #8 FROM CAR 5: ?Structural fires under control...gas fires extinguished...gas leakage has not been controlled...overall control will not be given until gas leak is stopped.10:05AM: SOCONY GAS & OIL UNIT to respond...11:16AM: Satellite 1 in service... Satellites 2 & 3 still
operating...12:02PM: SUPERPUMPER SYSTEM leaving scene by orders of DAC Ratner...3:21PM: PROGRESS REPORT #9 FROM CAR 5: ?Gas leakage stopped...overall problem under control. Car 5 leaving the scene...END OF REPORT. UNQUOTE."
Engine 151 original firehouse 190 Butler Avenue Tottenville, Staten Island
- former firehouse of volunteer Eureka Engine 1 - 1888-1905
- Engine 151 originally organized as FDNY Engine 201 - 1905
- Engine 201 became Engine 151 - 1913
- new firehouse 7219 Amboy Road - 1930
- former firehouse of volunteer Eureka Engine 1 - 1888-1905
- Engine 151 originally organized as FDNY Engine 201 - 1905
- Engine 201 became Engine 151 - 1913
- new firehouse 7219 Amboy Road - 1930
Engine 76/Ladder 22/Battalion 11 firehouse 145 W 100th Street Manhattan Division 3, Battalion 11 ?From Harlem to the Hudson?
Engine 76 organized 105 W 102nd Street w/ Engine 76-2 1904
Engine 76 moved to 766 Amsterdam Ave at Ladder 22 1957
Engine 76 new firehouse 145 W 100th Street w/Ladder 22 1960
Engine 76-2 organized 105 W 102nd Street w/Engine 76 1904
Engine 76-2 disbanded 1946
Ladder 22 organized 766 Amsterdam Avenue 1891
Ladder 22 new firehouse 145 W. 100th Street w/Engine 76 1960
Ladder 22-2 organized 766 Amsterdam Avenue at Ladder 22 1900
Ladder 22-1 disbanded 1957
Bn 11 organized 133 W 99th Street former quarters Battalion 16 1904
Bn 11 moved to 105 W 102nd Street at Engine 76 and Engine 76-2 1904
Bn 11 moved to 766 Amsterdam Avenue at Ladder 22 1957
Bn 11 new firehouse 145 W 100th Street w/Engine 76 1960
Thawing Unit 1 organized 223 E. 119th Street at Engine 35 1957
Thawing Unit 1 new firehouse 2282 3rd Avenue w/Engine 35 1974
Thawing Unit 1 moved 120 E. 125th Street at Engine 36 1986
Thawing Unit 1 moved 145 W. 100th Street at Engine 76 1987
Thawing Unit 1 became Thawing Unit 76
105 W 102nd Street former firehouse Engine 76 1904-1957:
766 Amsterdam Avenue former firehouse Ladder 22 1891-1960:
The 766 Amsterdam Avenue house originally quartered Ladder 16 from 1876 to 1882, when they were reorganized as Combination Engine Company No. 47 (steam engine, plus hose wagon, plus ladder truck). In 1891 CEC-47 was re-organized as a standard engine company (E-47) and moved to their current quarters on West 113th St. Ladder Company 22 was organized and quartered at 766 Amsterdam when E-47 moved out and worked there until 1960 when they both 145 W. 100 Street (with 76 Engine, also at 766 Amsterdam from 1957-1960). Ladder 16 was reorganized in 1887 and quartered at 157 East 67th Street, where they remain today.
133 W 99th Street former firehouse Battalion 11:
145 W 100th Street firehouse:
http://sideways.nyc/2016/06/engine-company-76/
Engine 76 organized 105 W 102nd Street w/ Engine 76-2 1904
Engine 76 moved to 766 Amsterdam Ave at Ladder 22 1957
Engine 76 new firehouse 145 W 100th Street w/Ladder 22 1960
Engine 76-2 organized 105 W 102nd Street w/Engine 76 1904
Engine 76-2 disbanded 1946
Ladder 22 organized 766 Amsterdam Avenue 1891
Ladder 22 new firehouse 145 W. 100th Street w/Engine 76 1960
Ladder 22-2 organized 766 Amsterdam Avenue at Ladder 22 1900
Ladder 22-1 disbanded 1957
Bn 11 organized 133 W 99th Street former quarters Battalion 16 1904
Bn 11 moved to 105 W 102nd Street at Engine 76 and Engine 76-2 1904
Bn 11 moved to 766 Amsterdam Avenue at Ladder 22 1957
Bn 11 new firehouse 145 W 100th Street w/Engine 76 1960
Thawing Unit 1 organized 223 E. 119th Street at Engine 35 1957
Thawing Unit 1 new firehouse 2282 3rd Avenue w/Engine 35 1974
Thawing Unit 1 moved 120 E. 125th Street at Engine 36 1986
Thawing Unit 1 moved 145 W. 100th Street at Engine 76 1987
Thawing Unit 1 became Thawing Unit 76
105 W 102nd Street former firehouse Engine 76 1904-1957:
766 Amsterdam Avenue former firehouse Ladder 22 1891-1960:
The 766 Amsterdam Avenue house originally quartered Ladder 16 from 1876 to 1882, when they were reorganized as Combination Engine Company No. 47 (steam engine, plus hose wagon, plus ladder truck). In 1891 CEC-47 was re-organized as a standard engine company (E-47) and moved to their current quarters on West 113th St. Ladder Company 22 was organized and quartered at 766 Amsterdam when E-47 moved out and worked there until 1960 when they both 145 W. 100 Street (with 76 Engine, also at 766 Amsterdam from 1957-1960). Ladder 16 was reorganized in 1887 and quartered at 157 East 67th Street, where they remain today.
133 W 99th Street former firehouse Battalion 11:
145 W 100th Street firehouse:
http://sideways.nyc/2016/06/engine-company-76/
Engine 76/Ladder 22/Battalion 11 (continued)
Engine 76:
Ladder 22:
Battalion 11:
Thawing Unit 76:
Battalion 11 1993:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgg5ydpuUvM
Engine 76/Ladder 22/Battalion 11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-AZvwMgJ7o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnmkCGx5WE0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agxgog72USM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcCX7u5lRAc
Engine 76:
Ladder 22:
Battalion 11:
Thawing Unit 76:
Battalion 11 1993:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgg5ydpuUvM
Engine 76/Ladder 22/Battalion 11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-AZvwMgJ7o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnmkCGx5WE0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agxgog72USM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcCX7u5lRAc
Engine 76/Ladder 22/Battalion 11 (continued)
Engine 76/Ladder 22/Battalion 11 medals:
JOHN T. O'CONNOR LT. ENG. 76 SEP. 20, 1950 1951 TODD
JAMES F. FITZPATRICK FF. LAD. 22 JAN. 7, 1920 1921 HURLEY
STANLEY F. WINNIS FF. LAD. 22 SEP. 30, 1922 1923 CRIMMINS
JOHN J. BLUMERT FF. LAD. 22 FEB. 8, 1926 1927 TREVOR-WARREN
FREDERICK J. G. WEDEMEYER CAPT. LAD. 22 DEC. 31, 1929 1930 BROOKMAN
JEROME MAYER FF. LAD. 22 DEC. 31, 1929 1930 DEPARTMENT
FREDERICK J. G. WEDEMEYER CAPT. LAD. 22 FEB. 15, 1932 1933 BROOKMAN
JAMES J. SMITHWICK FF. LAD. 22 FEB. 15, 1932 1933 PRENTICE
JOHN J. THOMPSON CAPT. LAD. 22 DEC. 15, 1936 1937 DEPARTMENT
MARTIN J. FOX FF. LAD. 22 DEC. 15, 1936 1937 DEPARTMENT
JAMES J. O'NEIL, JR. FF. LAD. 22 DEC. 15, 1936 1937 DEPARTMENT
JOHN D. CLUNEY FF. LAD. 22 AUG. 13, 1937 1938 KENNY
CHARLES A. WILSON (2) FF. LAD. 22 DEC. 24, 1942 1942 TODD
MARTIN J. GATELY FF. LAD. 22 MAY 8, 1943 1944 HUGH BONNER
Martin J. Gately was a proud New York City Fireman for 13 years. He was an Ensign in the Pacific Theatre during WW II. He was a physician in private practice in Levittown for 47 years and retired as Police Surgeon in Nassau County.
ROBERT G. M YOUNG FF. LAD. 22 NOV. 25, 1963 1964 JOHNSTON
CHRISTOPHER CALLENDER, JR. FF. LAD. 22 APR. 3, 1971 1972 DOUGHERTY
HAROLD N. TAYLOR FF. LAD. 22 AUG. 23, 1973 1974 WILLIAMS
VICTOR T. ZARNOCK FF. LAD. 22 JAN. 20, 1974 1975 THIRD ALARM
CLINTON A. WILLIAMS FF. LAD. 22 MAY 11, 1977 1978 JOHNSTON
CLINTON A. WILLIAMS FF. LAD. 22 JAN. 28, 1978 1979 MC ELLIGOTT
ROBERT H. BRANDT FF. LAD. 22 MAY 20, 1981 1982 CINELLI
FREDERICK C. HOLLINS FF. LAD. 22 MAY 5, 1981 1982 WAGNER
ARNOLD W. WECKEMAN FF. LAD. 22 MAY 5, 1981 1982 STEUBEN
ROBERT J. HANNON FF. LAD. 22 JUL. 15, 1985 1986 MC ELLIGOTT
WILLIAM E. JUTT FF. LAD. 22 DEC. 8, 1990 1991 NYS HONORARY FIRE CHIEFS
WILLIAM E. JUTT FF. LAD. 22 DEC. 8, 1990 1991 JAMES GORDON BENNETT
DANIEL J. TWOMEY, JR. LT. LAD. 22 OCT. 26, 1992 1993 JOHNSTON
THOMAS W. ANDERSON, JR. FF. LAD. 22 OCT. 29, 1993 1994 PULASKI
ROBERT F. SAVARESE LT. LAD. 22 SEP. 11, 1995 1996 BROOKMAN
JAMES G. RAHILL FF. LAD. 22 MAR. 18, 1995 1996 KRIDEL
DANIEL J. TWOMEY LT. LAD. 22 OCT. 1, 1995 1996 CONNELL
THOMAS H. ROCHE LT. LAD. 22 1996 KANE
KEVIN S. GORMAN FF. LAD. 22 DEC. 21, 2005 2006 FRIEDBERG
WILLIAM J. KELLY, JR. FF. BAT. 11 JAN. 8, 1960 1961 JOHNSTON
WILLIAM P. GRIMES LT. BAT. 11 E-47 APR. 24, 1961 1962 MC ELLIGOTT
PETER SACCO LT. BAT. 11 L-26 SEP. 21, 1962 1963 TREVOR-WARREN
WILLIAM J. BUSCH FF. BAT. 11 JAN. 11, 1976 1977 PRENTICE
ROY L. TEVERBAUGH FF. BAT. 11 JAN. 10, 1977 1978 BROOKMAN
JOHN A. CRISCI LT. BAT. 11 L-30 MAY 28, 1988 1989 MC ELLIGOTT
Engine 76/Ladder 22/Battalion 11 medals:
JOHN T. O'CONNOR LT. ENG. 76 SEP. 20, 1950 1951 TODD
JAMES F. FITZPATRICK FF. LAD. 22 JAN. 7, 1920 1921 HURLEY
STANLEY F. WINNIS FF. LAD. 22 SEP. 30, 1922 1923 CRIMMINS
JOHN J. BLUMERT FF. LAD. 22 FEB. 8, 1926 1927 TREVOR-WARREN
FREDERICK J. G. WEDEMEYER CAPT. LAD. 22 DEC. 31, 1929 1930 BROOKMAN
JEROME MAYER FF. LAD. 22 DEC. 31, 1929 1930 DEPARTMENT
FREDERICK J. G. WEDEMEYER CAPT. LAD. 22 FEB. 15, 1932 1933 BROOKMAN
JAMES J. SMITHWICK FF. LAD. 22 FEB. 15, 1932 1933 PRENTICE
JOHN J. THOMPSON CAPT. LAD. 22 DEC. 15, 1936 1937 DEPARTMENT
MARTIN J. FOX FF. LAD. 22 DEC. 15, 1936 1937 DEPARTMENT
JAMES J. O'NEIL, JR. FF. LAD. 22 DEC. 15, 1936 1937 DEPARTMENT
JOHN D. CLUNEY FF. LAD. 22 AUG. 13, 1937 1938 KENNY
CHARLES A. WILSON (2) FF. LAD. 22 DEC. 24, 1942 1942 TODD
MARTIN J. GATELY FF. LAD. 22 MAY 8, 1943 1944 HUGH BONNER
Martin J. Gately was a proud New York City Fireman for 13 years. He was an Ensign in the Pacific Theatre during WW II. He was a physician in private practice in Levittown for 47 years and retired as Police Surgeon in Nassau County.
ROBERT G. M YOUNG FF. LAD. 22 NOV. 25, 1963 1964 JOHNSTON
CHRISTOPHER CALLENDER, JR. FF. LAD. 22 APR. 3, 1971 1972 DOUGHERTY
HAROLD N. TAYLOR FF. LAD. 22 AUG. 23, 1973 1974 WILLIAMS
VICTOR T. ZARNOCK FF. LAD. 22 JAN. 20, 1974 1975 THIRD ALARM
CLINTON A. WILLIAMS FF. LAD. 22 MAY 11, 1977 1978 JOHNSTON
CLINTON A. WILLIAMS FF. LAD. 22 JAN. 28, 1978 1979 MC ELLIGOTT
ROBERT H. BRANDT FF. LAD. 22 MAY 20, 1981 1982 CINELLI
FREDERICK C. HOLLINS FF. LAD. 22 MAY 5, 1981 1982 WAGNER
ARNOLD W. WECKEMAN FF. LAD. 22 MAY 5, 1981 1982 STEUBEN
ROBERT J. HANNON FF. LAD. 22 JUL. 15, 1985 1986 MC ELLIGOTT
WILLIAM E. JUTT FF. LAD. 22 DEC. 8, 1990 1991 NYS HONORARY FIRE CHIEFS
WILLIAM E. JUTT FF. LAD. 22 DEC. 8, 1990 1991 JAMES GORDON BENNETT
DANIEL J. TWOMEY, JR. LT. LAD. 22 OCT. 26, 1992 1993 JOHNSTON
THOMAS W. ANDERSON, JR. FF. LAD. 22 OCT. 29, 1993 1994 PULASKI
ROBERT F. SAVARESE LT. LAD. 22 SEP. 11, 1995 1996 BROOKMAN
JAMES G. RAHILL FF. LAD. 22 MAR. 18, 1995 1996 KRIDEL
DANIEL J. TWOMEY LT. LAD. 22 OCT. 1, 1995 1996 CONNELL
THOMAS H. ROCHE LT. LAD. 22 1996 KANE
KEVIN S. GORMAN FF. LAD. 22 DEC. 21, 2005 2006 FRIEDBERG
WILLIAM J. KELLY, JR. FF. BAT. 11 JAN. 8, 1960 1961 JOHNSTON
WILLIAM P. GRIMES LT. BAT. 11 E-47 APR. 24, 1961 1962 MC ELLIGOTT
PETER SACCO LT. BAT. 11 L-26 SEP. 21, 1962 1963 TREVOR-WARREN
WILLIAM J. BUSCH FF. BAT. 11 JAN. 11, 1976 1977 PRENTICE
ROY L. TEVERBAUGH FF. BAT. 11 JAN. 10, 1977 1978 BROOKMAN
JOHN A. CRISCI LT. BAT. 11 L-30 MAY 28, 1988 1989 MC ELLIGOTT
Engine 76/Ladder 22/Battalion 11 (continued)
Engine 76/Ladder 22/Battalion 11 LODDs:
BATTALION CHIEF JOHN M. J. McGOWAN BATTALION 11 March 8, 1952
BATTALION CHIEF JAMES M. MEYERS BATTALION 11 November 15, 1979
Battalion Chief James M. Meyers - Battalion 11 - 22-year veteran - He died in the performance of his duties while operating at a single alarm fire.
FIREFIGHTER WILLIAM BROWN ENGINE 76 March 25, 1905
Firefighter William Brown - Engine 76 - Injured March 18, 1905, died March 25, 1905 Eng.76 responded to a fire at Antique Room at National Academy of Design. While operating, FF Brown fell through to the next floor. He was pulled out, burned and bruised and suffering from a fracture of the right leg. He later succumbed to his injuries.
CAPTAIN ALFRED M. KNECHT ENGINE 76 March 1, 1982
Captain Alfred M. Knecht - Engine 76 - 24-year veteran He died as a result of the acute heart attack he suffered in the performance of his duties on February 22nd.
FIREFIGHTER PIERCE ENGLISH LADDER 22 JANUARY 7, 1898
Firefighter Pierce English - Ladder 22 He was killed when he was thrown from the apparatus as a result of a collision, and then run over by a provision wagon that wouldn't move out of the way. He lived long enough to receive his last rights by a priest.
FIREFIGHTER JAMES F. BARRETT LADDER 22 May 13, 1910
Firefighter James F. Barrett of Ladder 22 lost his grip when sliding the pole to answer an alarm of fire. He was already going down the pole when he lost his grip and fell from it, landing on his head. He was taken to J. Hood Wright Hospital where he died. He was forty-two years old and lived at 145 West 67th Street. (From "The Last Alarm")
LIEUTENANT THOMAS MITCHELL LADDER 22 November 28, 1913
When Assistant Foreman Thomas Mitchell of Hook & Ladder 22 started down the brass pole from the third floor of his company's quarters at 766 Amsterdam Avenue, he lost his balance and fell to the second floor suffering injuries from which he died an hour later in Knickerbocker Hospital. Mitchell was fifty-one years old and lived at 118 West 101st Street.
FIREFIGHTER RAPHAEL A. FOX LADDER 22 October 1, 1916
LIEUTENANT EDWARD T. MEEHAN LADDER 22 February 2018
Lieutenant Edward Meehan died from WTC-related illness.
https://www.irishecho.com/2018/02/death-9-11-hero-lt-edward-meehan
RIP. Never forget.
Engine 76/Ladder 22/Battalion 11 LODDs:
BATTALION CHIEF JOHN M. J. McGOWAN BATTALION 11 March 8, 1952
BATTALION CHIEF JAMES M. MEYERS BATTALION 11 November 15, 1979
Battalion Chief James M. Meyers - Battalion 11 - 22-year veteran - He died in the performance of his duties while operating at a single alarm fire.
FIREFIGHTER WILLIAM BROWN ENGINE 76 March 25, 1905
Firefighter William Brown - Engine 76 - Injured March 18, 1905, died March 25, 1905 Eng.76 responded to a fire at Antique Room at National Academy of Design. While operating, FF Brown fell through to the next floor. He was pulled out, burned and bruised and suffering from a fracture of the right leg. He later succumbed to his injuries.
CAPTAIN ALFRED M. KNECHT ENGINE 76 March 1, 1982
Captain Alfred M. Knecht - Engine 76 - 24-year veteran He died as a result of the acute heart attack he suffered in the performance of his duties on February 22nd.
FIREFIGHTER PIERCE ENGLISH LADDER 22 JANUARY 7, 1898
Firefighter Pierce English - Ladder 22 He was killed when he was thrown from the apparatus as a result of a collision, and then run over by a provision wagon that wouldn't move out of the way. He lived long enough to receive his last rights by a priest.
FIREFIGHTER JAMES F. BARRETT LADDER 22 May 13, 1910
Firefighter James F. Barrett of Ladder 22 lost his grip when sliding the pole to answer an alarm of fire. He was already going down the pole when he lost his grip and fell from it, landing on his head. He was taken to J. Hood Wright Hospital where he died. He was forty-two years old and lived at 145 West 67th Street. (From "The Last Alarm")
LIEUTENANT THOMAS MITCHELL LADDER 22 November 28, 1913
When Assistant Foreman Thomas Mitchell of Hook & Ladder 22 started down the brass pole from the third floor of his company's quarters at 766 Amsterdam Avenue, he lost his balance and fell to the second floor suffering injuries from which he died an hour later in Knickerbocker Hospital. Mitchell was fifty-one years old and lived at 118 West 101st Street.
FIREFIGHTER RAPHAEL A. FOX LADDER 22 October 1, 1916
LIEUTENANT EDWARD T. MEEHAN LADDER 22 February 2018
Lieutenant Edward Meehan died from WTC-related illness.
https://www.irishecho.com/2018/02/death-9-11-hero-lt-edward-meehan
RIP. Never forget.
Engine 24/Ladder 5/Battalion 2 firehouse 227 Avenue of the Americas Greenwich Village/SoHo, Lower Manhattan Division 1, Battalion 2 "Red Rover" & "The Phoenix"
Engine 24 organized 78 Morton Street former volunteer firehouse 1865
Engine 24 new firehouse 227 Avenue of the Americas w/Ladder 5 1975
Ladder 5 organized 102 Charles Street former volunteer firehouse 1865
Ladder 5 new firehouse 227 Avenue of the Americas w/Engine 24 1975
Ladder 5-2 organized 102 Charles Street at Ladder 5 1884
Ladder 5-2 disbanded 1939
Battalion 2 organized 26 Chambers Street at Ladder 1 1869
Battalion 2 moved 68 Elm Street at Engine 31 1894
Battalion 2 new firehouse Elm Street & White Street w/Engine 31 1896
Address changed to 87 Lafayette Street 1905
Battalion 2 disbanded 1948
Battalion 2 reorganized 87 Lafayette Street at Engine 31 1951
Battalion 2 moved 100 Duane Street at Engine 7 1965
Battalion 2 moved 87 Lafayette Street at Engine 31 1965
Battalion 2 moved 100 Duane Street at Engine 7 1967
Battalion 2 moved 251 Lafayette Street at Ladder 20 1974
Battalion 2 moved 55 Broome Street at Engine 55 1975
Battalion 2 moved 227 Avenue of the Americas at Engine 24 1998
Division 1 located 227 Avenue of Americas at Engine 24 1975-1990, 1994-1998
Pre-FDNY volunteer companies:
Howard Engine 34 "Red Rover" - predecessor of FDNY Engine 24:
Volunteer Howard Engine 34 - "Red Rover" - this company was organized in 1807. It started with twenty-six men on its roll. In 1813 it was located at Amos Street, and in 1820 at Gouverneur Street, in 1830 at Hudson and Christopher Streets, and in 1864 at 78 Morton Street. Engine 34 went out of service in 1865 when the paid department was formed. The "Red Rover" company title most likely came from a popular 1827 sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper called "The Red Rover".
Howard Engine 34 roster 1855:
Columbian Ladder 14 - predecessor of Ladder 5 FDNY:
Volunteer Ladder 14 was organized in 1854 with 14 members at temporary firehouse on Greenwich Street. It moved to its new firehouse on Charles Street in 1857. The Charles Street firehouse was one of the best in the city - library, parlor, bunk room, truck room, garden.
78 Morton Street former firehouse Engine 24 1865-1975:
Ladder 5 former firehouse 102 Charles Street - 1865-1975:
Ladder 5 mascot:
http://hatchingcatnyc.com/2013/05/26/ginger-fire-dog-of-greenwich-village/
227 Avenue of the Americas firehouse:
Engine 24 organized 78 Morton Street former volunteer firehouse 1865
Engine 24 new firehouse 227 Avenue of the Americas w/Ladder 5 1975
Ladder 5 organized 102 Charles Street former volunteer firehouse 1865
Ladder 5 new firehouse 227 Avenue of the Americas w/Engine 24 1975
Ladder 5-2 organized 102 Charles Street at Ladder 5 1884
Ladder 5-2 disbanded 1939
Battalion 2 organized 26 Chambers Street at Ladder 1 1869
Battalion 2 moved 68 Elm Street at Engine 31 1894
Battalion 2 new firehouse Elm Street & White Street w/Engine 31 1896
Address changed to 87 Lafayette Street 1905
Battalion 2 disbanded 1948
Battalion 2 reorganized 87 Lafayette Street at Engine 31 1951
Battalion 2 moved 100 Duane Street at Engine 7 1965
Battalion 2 moved 87 Lafayette Street at Engine 31 1965
Battalion 2 moved 100 Duane Street at Engine 7 1967
Battalion 2 moved 251 Lafayette Street at Ladder 20 1974
Battalion 2 moved 55 Broome Street at Engine 55 1975
Battalion 2 moved 227 Avenue of the Americas at Engine 24 1998
Division 1 located 227 Avenue of Americas at Engine 24 1975-1990, 1994-1998
Pre-FDNY volunteer companies:
Howard Engine 34 "Red Rover" - predecessor of FDNY Engine 24:
Volunteer Howard Engine 34 - "Red Rover" - this company was organized in 1807. It started with twenty-six men on its roll. In 1813 it was located at Amos Street, and in 1820 at Gouverneur Street, in 1830 at Hudson and Christopher Streets, and in 1864 at 78 Morton Street. Engine 34 went out of service in 1865 when the paid department was formed. The "Red Rover" company title most likely came from a popular 1827 sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper called "The Red Rover".
Howard Engine 34 roster 1855:
Columbian Ladder 14 - predecessor of Ladder 5 FDNY:
Volunteer Ladder 14 was organized in 1854 with 14 members at temporary firehouse on Greenwich Street. It moved to its new firehouse on Charles Street in 1857. The Charles Street firehouse was one of the best in the city - library, parlor, bunk room, truck room, garden.
78 Morton Street former firehouse Engine 24 1865-1975:
Ladder 5 former firehouse 102 Charles Street - 1865-1975:
Ladder 5 mascot:
http://hatchingcatnyc.com/2013/05/26/ginger-fire-dog-of-greenwich-village/
227 Avenue of the Americas firehouse:
Engine 24/Ladder 5/Battalion 2 (continued)
Engine 24/Ladder 5/Battalion 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbVLy65MWkg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_CtfyVL3XY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTnENO_I43k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSxgzHcfcE8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXKv6mCbc-w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv-UOhzA4TI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKjUDJFWvS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emboa6i_1AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et2dVZY6FEU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmevIkCsJOc&t=254s
Engine 24/Ladder 5/Battalion 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbVLy65MWkg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_CtfyVL3XY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTnENO_I43k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSxgzHcfcE8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXKv6mCbc-w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv-UOhzA4TI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKjUDJFWvS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emboa6i_1AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et2dVZY6FEU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmevIkCsJOc&t=254s
Engine 24/Ladder 5/Battalion 2 (continued)
Engine 24/Ladder 5/Battalion 2 medals:
WILLIAM MC LAUGHLIN CAPT. ENG. 24 1887 1889 STEPHENSON
NEW YORK, May 7, 1889 - The Medal Presentation:
Saturday last was the great day of the year for the New York Fire Department. It was the day of the presentation of the Bennett and Stephenson medals ; the former for heroism and the latter for excellence as a foreman. Four medals were presented, two in each class, the awards for 1887 not having been made last year. The Bennett medal for 1888 was awarded to Foreman William Quirk, now of 49 Engine on Blackwell?s Island, while the medal for 1887 went to Assistant Foreman Samuel Banta of to Truck. The Stephenson medal, to the foreman of the best disciplined company for 1887, went to William McLaughlin of 24 Engine (from Fire Engineering 5/11/1889)
Award comment - ?Capts. William McLaughlin and Thomas A. Kenny, it is with heartfelt pleasure that I bestow upon each of you as a reward of merit a medal purchased with the income of the fund given in 1867 by John Stephenson to the New York fire department. The Commissioners have adjudged that, for the years 1887 and 1888 respectively, your companies attained the highest standard of discipline and efficiency. The value of our fire department is as much dependent upon the thorough care with which the men are trained by their chiefs, captains, and other officers as it is upon their individual bravery. May each of you endeavor in the future, as in the past, to make the companies which are under your control models of efficiency. ? Let me add that I feel that I am but expressing the sentiment of every New Yorker when I say I am deeply proud of the efficiency, the discipline and the courage of the gallant firemen of this city." (from Fire Engineering 5/11/1889)
JAMES J. CRAWFORD FF. ENG. 24 FEB. 13, 1897 1898 STRONG
JOHN P. HOWE FF. ENG. 24 JAN. 2, 1897 1898 HUGH BONNER
JAMES M. FRAWLEY FF. ENG. 24 APR. 23, 1907 1908 HURLEY
James M. Frawley, of Engine Company No. 24, on leave of absence, was passing No. 130 Barrow street, Manhattan, about I o?clock a. m., before any alarm of fire had been turned in. A stableman was on the third floor and when the hose wagon of his company came up, he took a scaling ladder and, climbing up to the third floor from window to window, brought the man down to the street in safety. The Hurley medal was his reward. (from Fire Engineering 11/11/1908)
JOHN R. DONOVAN FF. LAD. 5 APR. 6, 1944 1945 KENNY
JOHN I. POLETTO FF. LAD. 5 APR. 6, 1944 1945 MC ELLIGOTT
VINCENT G. CALFAPIETRA FF. LAD. 5 MAR. 17, 1954 1955 BROOKMAN
THEODORE J. MALINOWSKI FF. LAD. 5 DEC. 4, 1965 1966 BRUMMER
BERNARD M. CUNNINGHAM FF. LAD. 5 FEB. 19, 1970 1971 CONRAN
ALBERT A. SANTORE FF. LAD. 5 FEB. 17, 1990 1991 CINELLI
ROBERT F. DAVIS FF. LAD. 5 FEB. 26, 1993 1994 TREVOR-WARREN
FF Robert Davis, Ladder 5, was awarded the 1994 Trevor-Warren Medal for his performance of duty at the February 26, 1993 WTC bombing.
JOHN F. WOODS, JR. LT. LAD. 5 FEB. 26, 1993 1994 UFOA
LT John Woods, Ladder 5, was awarded the 1994 UFOA Medal for his performance of duty at the February 26, 1993 WTC bombing.
ALL MEMBERS LAD. 5 FEB. 26, 1993 1994 BURN CENTER
Members of Ladder 5 were awarded the 1994 Burn Center Medal for their duty performance at the February 26, 1993 WTC bombing.
http://www.interfire.org/res_file/pdf/Tr-076.pdf
ANTHONY L. MAURO FF. LAD 5 FEB. 19, 2016 2017 WYLIE
CHARLES W. DEPIETRI LT. BAT. 2 OFF DUTY MAR. 26, 1961 1962 DOUGHERTY
Engine 24/Ladder 5/Battalion 2 medals:
WILLIAM MC LAUGHLIN CAPT. ENG. 24 1887 1889 STEPHENSON
NEW YORK, May 7, 1889 - The Medal Presentation:
Saturday last was the great day of the year for the New York Fire Department. It was the day of the presentation of the Bennett and Stephenson medals ; the former for heroism and the latter for excellence as a foreman. Four medals were presented, two in each class, the awards for 1887 not having been made last year. The Bennett medal for 1888 was awarded to Foreman William Quirk, now of 49 Engine on Blackwell?s Island, while the medal for 1887 went to Assistant Foreman Samuel Banta of to Truck. The Stephenson medal, to the foreman of the best disciplined company for 1887, went to William McLaughlin of 24 Engine (from Fire Engineering 5/11/1889)
Award comment - ?Capts. William McLaughlin and Thomas A. Kenny, it is with heartfelt pleasure that I bestow upon each of you as a reward of merit a medal purchased with the income of the fund given in 1867 by John Stephenson to the New York fire department. The Commissioners have adjudged that, for the years 1887 and 1888 respectively, your companies attained the highest standard of discipline and efficiency. The value of our fire department is as much dependent upon the thorough care with which the men are trained by their chiefs, captains, and other officers as it is upon their individual bravery. May each of you endeavor in the future, as in the past, to make the companies which are under your control models of efficiency. ? Let me add that I feel that I am but expressing the sentiment of every New Yorker when I say I am deeply proud of the efficiency, the discipline and the courage of the gallant firemen of this city." (from Fire Engineering 5/11/1889)
JAMES J. CRAWFORD FF. ENG. 24 FEB. 13, 1897 1898 STRONG
JOHN P. HOWE FF. ENG. 24 JAN. 2, 1897 1898 HUGH BONNER
JAMES M. FRAWLEY FF. ENG. 24 APR. 23, 1907 1908 HURLEY
James M. Frawley, of Engine Company No. 24, on leave of absence, was passing No. 130 Barrow street, Manhattan, about I o?clock a. m., before any alarm of fire had been turned in. A stableman was on the third floor and when the hose wagon of his company came up, he took a scaling ladder and, climbing up to the third floor from window to window, brought the man down to the street in safety. The Hurley medal was his reward. (from Fire Engineering 11/11/1908)
JOHN R. DONOVAN FF. LAD. 5 APR. 6, 1944 1945 KENNY
JOHN I. POLETTO FF. LAD. 5 APR. 6, 1944 1945 MC ELLIGOTT
VINCENT G. CALFAPIETRA FF. LAD. 5 MAR. 17, 1954 1955 BROOKMAN
THEODORE J. MALINOWSKI FF. LAD. 5 DEC. 4, 1965 1966 BRUMMER
BERNARD M. CUNNINGHAM FF. LAD. 5 FEB. 19, 1970 1971 CONRAN
ALBERT A. SANTORE FF. LAD. 5 FEB. 17, 1990 1991 CINELLI
ROBERT F. DAVIS FF. LAD. 5 FEB. 26, 1993 1994 TREVOR-WARREN
FF Robert Davis, Ladder 5, was awarded the 1994 Trevor-Warren Medal for his performance of duty at the February 26, 1993 WTC bombing.
JOHN F. WOODS, JR. LT. LAD. 5 FEB. 26, 1993 1994 UFOA
LT John Woods, Ladder 5, was awarded the 1994 UFOA Medal for his performance of duty at the February 26, 1993 WTC bombing.
ALL MEMBERS LAD. 5 FEB. 26, 1993 1994 BURN CENTER
Members of Ladder 5 were awarded the 1994 Burn Center Medal for their duty performance at the February 26, 1993 WTC bombing.
http://www.interfire.org/res_file/pdf/Tr-076.pdf
ANTHONY L. MAURO FF. LAD 5 FEB. 19, 2016 2017 WYLIE
CHARLES W. DEPIETRI LT. BAT. 2 OFF DUTY MAR. 26, 1961 1962 DOUGHERTY
Engine 24/Ladder 5/Battalion 2 (continued)
Engine 24/Ladder 5/Battalion 2 LODDs:
FIREFIGHTER PHILLIP HOLTON ENGINE 24 JULY 31, 1880
FF Philip Holton died from injuries at Manhattan Box 33-282, 446 West Street, after becoming lost in heavy smoke and walking out a door on the 3rd floor and falling to the street.
FIREFIGHTER PETER PARKS ENGINE 24 February 23, 1927
FF Peter Parks - Engine 24 He died of smoke inhalation while operating at a fire at Manhattan Box 378, 625 Greenwich Street.
LIEUTENANT EDWARD D. O'CONNELL ENGINE 24 August 26, 1956
LT Edwards McConnell died August 26, 1956 from injuries sustained August 23, 1956 at Manhattan Box 22-331 Suffolk Street and Hester Street.
FIREFIGHTER JAMES F. YOUNG ENGINE 24 March 28, 1994
FF James F. Young - Engine 24 (detailed to Ladder 5) - Age 31 - 3-year veteran - As he and 2 other FFs were searching the 2nd floor at a 2-alarm fire in a 2-story dwelling, he was killed, and the 2 others were critically burned, when they were caught on the stairway by a flashover on the 1st floor. One of the injured men died the next day and the captain died at a later date.
http://www.firegroundleadership.com/2016/03/27/lessons-from-the-fireground-watts-street-fire-fdny-1994/
FIREFIGHTER CHRISTOPHER SIEDENBURG ENGINE 24 March 29, 1994
FF Christopher J. Siedenburg - Engine 24 (detailed to Ladder 5) - Age 24 - 2-year vet - He died as a result of smoke inhalation and critical burns sustained the previous day, when he and 2 other FFs were caught in a flashover on a 2nd floor stairway while operating at a 2-alarm dwelling fire, Manhattan Box 22-308.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irIeamEntvc
https://monsignorfarrellalumni.org/siedenburg
FIREFIGHTER ROBERT BEDDIA ENGINE 24 August 18, 2007
FF Robert Beddia died in the line of duty fighting a fire at the Deutsche Bank Building? a building that remained as part of the aftermath of 9/11.
https://www.silive.com/news/2014/08/life_of_fdny_firefighter_rober.html
FIREFIGHTER THOMAS L. JACOBUS LADDER 5 NOVEMBER 13, 1880
He died as a result of injuries sustained November 9th, when he fell from the repair shop wagon while at the test trial of a new engine.
FIREFIGHTER EDWARD WALSH LADDER 5 APRIL 1, 1896
While attempting to perform a rescue from a ladder, the ladder sprung in the middle causing FF Walsh to fall backward. He landed on his head and knees, broke both kneecaps and spine. He was one of the most popular as well as one of the bravest men in the service.
FIREFIGHTER STEPHEN J. BUTCH LADDER 5 April 19, 1945
FF Stephen Butch was killed when Ladder 5 collided with Engine 24 when both companies were responding to an alarm.
CAPTAIN JOHN J. DRENNAN LADDER 5 May 7, 1994
Captain John Drennan died May 7, 1994 as a result of smoke inhalation and critical burns sustained March 28, 1994 when he and 2 other FFs were caught in a flashover on a 2nd floor stairway while operating at a 2-alarm dwelling fire, Manhattan Box 22-308.
FIREFIGHTER LOUIS ARENA LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
FF Louis Arena was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
https://www.silive.com/september-11/2010/09/louis_arena_32_firefighter_who.html
FIREFIGHTER ANDREW BRUNN LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
FF Andrew Brunn was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
https://www.firehero.org/fallen-firefighter/andrew-brunn/
CAPTAIN VINCENT GIAMMONA LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
LT Vincent Giammona was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
http://www.legacy.com/sept11/story.aspx?personid=101789
FIREFIGHTER THOMAS HANNAFIN LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
FF Thomas Hannafin was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
https://www.silive.com/september-11/2010/09/thomas_hannafin_36_firefighter.html
http://www.legacy.com/sept11/story.aspx?personid=93173
FIREFIGHTER PAUL KEATING LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
FF Paul Keating was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
https://www.silive.com/september-11/2010/09/paul_keating_38_firefighter_wa.html
FIREFIGHTER JOHN SANTORE LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
FF John Santore was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
http://www.legacy.com/sept11/story.aspx?personid=93564
FIREFIGHTER GREGORY SAUCEDO LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
FF Gregory Saucedo was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
http://www.legacy.com/sept11/story.aspx?personid=147278
LIEUTENANT MICHAEL WARCHOLA LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
LT Michael Warchola was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
http://todayremember.blogspot.com/2010/11/today-we-remember-lt-mike-warchola.html
LIEUTENANT JOSEPH GRAFFAGNINO LADDER 5 August 18, 2007
FF Joseph Graffagnino died while battling a fire at the Deutsche Bank Building? 130 Liberty Street? New York? NY. His detailed unit? Engine 24, was called at the second alarm and was dispatched to the 14th floor of this former 40-story building? which was being demolished and abated simultaneously. At the time of insertion? his unit had the only fire hose? and they were searching for a working standpipe. What they didn?t know? nor did the over 250 firefighters that ended up fighting this seven alarm blaze? was that the water pipes in the building were cut away and removed for scrap metal. FF Graffagnino and FF Robert Beddia died after their oxygen tanks ran out? and a third member of their unit was injured. Their brothers could not reach them in time? due to heavy plastic and wood barriers in stairwells and windows.
https://www.firehero.org/fallen-firefighter/joseph-p-graffagnino/
ASSISTANT ENGINEER GEORGE A. ERLACHER BATTALION 2 FEBRUARY 9, 1873
January 17th, Asst Engineer George Erlacher was thrown from the tender while responding to Manhattan Box 38 at 183 Water Street. Erlacher in command of the 2nd Battalion was riding on the tender was thrown off and fatally injured by striking his head on the curb.
BATTALION CHIEF WILLIAM J. WALSH BATTALION 2 January 9, 1912
Batt. Chief William J. Walsh - Battalion 2 - He was killed when he was caught in a collapse on the 4th floor while operating at the spectacular 8-alarm fire in the block-square, 8-story, Equitable Life Assurance Co. building. Extremely heavy fire conditions, fear of additional collapses, and sub-freezing temperatures made rescue attempts impossible, and it was several days before his crushed body was found on the 3rd floor, buried under tons of rubble. Six civilians were also killed in the blaze, 2 of whom jumped from the roof.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM C. SEELIG BATTALION 2 December 7, 1972
Lt. William C. Seelig - Satellite 1 - 25-year veteran He died as a result of injuries sustained while operating at a 3-alarm fire.
FIREFIGHTER FAUSTINO APOSTOL JR BATTALION 2 September 11, 2001
FF Faustino Apostol was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
https://www.silive.com/september-11/2010/09/faustino_apostol_55_firefighte.html
http://www.legacy.com/sept11/thestate/story.aspx?personid=126851
BATTALION CHIEF WILLIAM MCGOVERN BATTALION 2 September 11, 2001
BC William McGovern was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
http://www.legacy.com/sept11/story.aspx?personid=96049
BATTALION CHIEF RICHARD PRUNTY BATTALION 2 September 11, 2001
BC Richard Prunty was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
https://www.firehero.org/fallen-firefighter/richard-a-prunty/
LIEUTENANT JOHN A. GARCIA LADDER 5 May 13, 2011
LT John A. Garcia died as a result of WTC illness.
file:///C:/Users/joseph/Desktop/E%2024%20L%205%20B%202/Garcia%202.pdf
https://obits.lohud.com/obituaries/lohud/obituary.aspx?n=john-garcia-jack&pid=151108560
RIP. Never forget.
Engine 24/Ladder 5/Battalion 2 LODDs:
FIREFIGHTER PHILLIP HOLTON ENGINE 24 JULY 31, 1880
FF Philip Holton died from injuries at Manhattan Box 33-282, 446 West Street, after becoming lost in heavy smoke and walking out a door on the 3rd floor and falling to the street.
FIREFIGHTER PETER PARKS ENGINE 24 February 23, 1927
FF Peter Parks - Engine 24 He died of smoke inhalation while operating at a fire at Manhattan Box 378, 625 Greenwich Street.
LIEUTENANT EDWARD D. O'CONNELL ENGINE 24 August 26, 1956
LT Edwards McConnell died August 26, 1956 from injuries sustained August 23, 1956 at Manhattan Box 22-331 Suffolk Street and Hester Street.
FIREFIGHTER JAMES F. YOUNG ENGINE 24 March 28, 1994
FF James F. Young - Engine 24 (detailed to Ladder 5) - Age 31 - 3-year veteran - As he and 2 other FFs were searching the 2nd floor at a 2-alarm fire in a 2-story dwelling, he was killed, and the 2 others were critically burned, when they were caught on the stairway by a flashover on the 1st floor. One of the injured men died the next day and the captain died at a later date.
http://www.firegroundleadership.com/2016/03/27/lessons-from-the-fireground-watts-street-fire-fdny-1994/
FIREFIGHTER CHRISTOPHER SIEDENBURG ENGINE 24 March 29, 1994
FF Christopher J. Siedenburg - Engine 24 (detailed to Ladder 5) - Age 24 - 2-year vet - He died as a result of smoke inhalation and critical burns sustained the previous day, when he and 2 other FFs were caught in a flashover on a 2nd floor stairway while operating at a 2-alarm dwelling fire, Manhattan Box 22-308.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irIeamEntvc
https://monsignorfarrellalumni.org/siedenburg
FIREFIGHTER ROBERT BEDDIA ENGINE 24 August 18, 2007
FF Robert Beddia died in the line of duty fighting a fire at the Deutsche Bank Building? a building that remained as part of the aftermath of 9/11.
https://www.silive.com/news/2014/08/life_of_fdny_firefighter_rober.html
FIREFIGHTER THOMAS L. JACOBUS LADDER 5 NOVEMBER 13, 1880
He died as a result of injuries sustained November 9th, when he fell from the repair shop wagon while at the test trial of a new engine.
FIREFIGHTER EDWARD WALSH LADDER 5 APRIL 1, 1896
While attempting to perform a rescue from a ladder, the ladder sprung in the middle causing FF Walsh to fall backward. He landed on his head and knees, broke both kneecaps and spine. He was one of the most popular as well as one of the bravest men in the service.
FIREFIGHTER STEPHEN J. BUTCH LADDER 5 April 19, 1945
FF Stephen Butch was killed when Ladder 5 collided with Engine 24 when both companies were responding to an alarm.
CAPTAIN JOHN J. DRENNAN LADDER 5 May 7, 1994
Captain John Drennan died May 7, 1994 as a result of smoke inhalation and critical burns sustained March 28, 1994 when he and 2 other FFs were caught in a flashover on a 2nd floor stairway while operating at a 2-alarm dwelling fire, Manhattan Box 22-308.
FIREFIGHTER LOUIS ARENA LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
FF Louis Arena was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
https://www.silive.com/september-11/2010/09/louis_arena_32_firefighter_who.html
FIREFIGHTER ANDREW BRUNN LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
FF Andrew Brunn was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
https://www.firehero.org/fallen-firefighter/andrew-brunn/
CAPTAIN VINCENT GIAMMONA LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
LT Vincent Giammona was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
http://www.legacy.com/sept11/story.aspx?personid=101789
FIREFIGHTER THOMAS HANNAFIN LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
FF Thomas Hannafin was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
https://www.silive.com/september-11/2010/09/thomas_hannafin_36_firefighter.html
http://www.legacy.com/sept11/story.aspx?personid=93173
FIREFIGHTER PAUL KEATING LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
FF Paul Keating was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
https://www.silive.com/september-11/2010/09/paul_keating_38_firefighter_wa.html
FIREFIGHTER JOHN SANTORE LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
FF John Santore was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
http://www.legacy.com/sept11/story.aspx?personid=93564
FIREFIGHTER GREGORY SAUCEDO LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
FF Gregory Saucedo was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
http://www.legacy.com/sept11/story.aspx?personid=147278
LIEUTENANT MICHAEL WARCHOLA LADDER 5 September 11, 2001
LT Michael Warchola was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
http://todayremember.blogspot.com/2010/11/today-we-remember-lt-mike-warchola.html
LIEUTENANT JOSEPH GRAFFAGNINO LADDER 5 August 18, 2007
FF Joseph Graffagnino died while battling a fire at the Deutsche Bank Building? 130 Liberty Street? New York? NY. His detailed unit? Engine 24, was called at the second alarm and was dispatched to the 14th floor of this former 40-story building? which was being demolished and abated simultaneously. At the time of insertion? his unit had the only fire hose? and they were searching for a working standpipe. What they didn?t know? nor did the over 250 firefighters that ended up fighting this seven alarm blaze? was that the water pipes in the building were cut away and removed for scrap metal. FF Graffagnino and FF Robert Beddia died after their oxygen tanks ran out? and a third member of their unit was injured. Their brothers could not reach them in time? due to heavy plastic and wood barriers in stairwells and windows.
https://www.firehero.org/fallen-firefighter/joseph-p-graffagnino/
ASSISTANT ENGINEER GEORGE A. ERLACHER BATTALION 2 FEBRUARY 9, 1873
January 17th, Asst Engineer George Erlacher was thrown from the tender while responding to Manhattan Box 38 at 183 Water Street. Erlacher in command of the 2nd Battalion was riding on the tender was thrown off and fatally injured by striking his head on the curb.
BATTALION CHIEF WILLIAM J. WALSH BATTALION 2 January 9, 1912
Batt. Chief William J. Walsh - Battalion 2 - He was killed when he was caught in a collapse on the 4th floor while operating at the spectacular 8-alarm fire in the block-square, 8-story, Equitable Life Assurance Co. building. Extremely heavy fire conditions, fear of additional collapses, and sub-freezing temperatures made rescue attempts impossible, and it was several days before his crushed body was found on the 3rd floor, buried under tons of rubble. Six civilians were also killed in the blaze, 2 of whom jumped from the roof.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM C. SEELIG BATTALION 2 December 7, 1972
Lt. William C. Seelig - Satellite 1 - 25-year veteran He died as a result of injuries sustained while operating at a 3-alarm fire.
FIREFIGHTER FAUSTINO APOSTOL JR BATTALION 2 September 11, 2001
FF Faustino Apostol was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
https://www.silive.com/september-11/2010/09/faustino_apostol_55_firefighte.html
http://www.legacy.com/sept11/thestate/story.aspx?personid=126851
BATTALION CHIEF WILLIAM MCGOVERN BATTALION 2 September 11, 2001
BC William McGovern was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
http://www.legacy.com/sept11/story.aspx?personid=96049
BATTALION CHIEF RICHARD PRUNTY BATTALION 2 September 11, 2001
BC Richard Prunty was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
https://www.firehero.org/fallen-firefighter/richard-a-prunty/
LIEUTENANT JOHN A. GARCIA LADDER 5 May 13, 2011
LT John A. Garcia died as a result of WTC illness.
file:///C:/Users/joseph/Desktop/E%2024%20L%205%20B%202/Garcia%202.pdf
https://obits.lohud.com/obituaries/lohud/obituary.aspx?n=john-garcia-jack&pid=151108560
RIP. Never forget.