FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section
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Engine 42 firehouse 1781 Monroe Avenue Mt. Hope, Bronx Division 7, Battalion 19 ?No Truck? ?Da OK Corral?
Engine 42 organized 1192 Fulton Avenue former volunteer firehouse 1874
Engine 42 moved to 1180 Fulton Avenue 1891
Engine 42 new firehouse 1192 Fulton Avenue 1892
Engine 42 new firehouse 1781 Monroe Avenue 1915
Ladder 56 organized 1781 Monroe Avenue at Engine 42 1968
Ladder 56 moved to 2417 Webster Avenue with Engine 48 1981
Battalion 17 located at 1781 Monroe Avenue at Engine 42 1904-1905
Tower Ladder 44 located at 1781 Monroe Avenue at Engine 42 1997-1998
Pre-FDNY:
Lady Washington Engine Company 1 was a volunteer company located at 1192 Fulton Avenue where Engine 42 was originally organized. The volunteer company used a hand-drawn and hand-power engine named the "White Ghost" which was painted on front of carriage. "Morrisania Exempts" and "Organized June 7, 1875" were painted on the sides and on back of the pumper. The pumper also had wheels with copper hub bands and iron tires; body painted white; running gear painted maroon striped gold and black; a hinged hand pole; hose; nozzles; and ropes. The pumper was built in 1851 and used by the Lady Washington Engine Company 1 until 1874, when Morrisania was annexed to New York City and Engine 42 was organized in their firehouse.
Lady Washington Engine Company 1:
1781 Monroe Avenue firehouse:
Engine 42 organized 1192 Fulton Avenue former volunteer firehouse 1874
Engine 42 moved to 1180 Fulton Avenue 1891
Engine 42 new firehouse 1192 Fulton Avenue 1892
Engine 42 new firehouse 1781 Monroe Avenue 1915
Ladder 56 organized 1781 Monroe Avenue at Engine 42 1968
Ladder 56 moved to 2417 Webster Avenue with Engine 48 1981
Battalion 17 located at 1781 Monroe Avenue at Engine 42 1904-1905
Tower Ladder 44 located at 1781 Monroe Avenue at Engine 42 1997-1998
Pre-FDNY:
Lady Washington Engine Company 1 was a volunteer company located at 1192 Fulton Avenue where Engine 42 was originally organized. The volunteer company used a hand-drawn and hand-power engine named the "White Ghost" which was painted on front of carriage. "Morrisania Exempts" and "Organized June 7, 1875" were painted on the sides and on back of the pumper. The pumper also had wheels with copper hub bands and iron tires; body painted white; running gear painted maroon striped gold and black; a hinged hand pole; hose; nozzles; and ropes. The pumper was built in 1851 and used by the Lady Washington Engine Company 1 until 1874, when Morrisania was annexed to New York City and Engine 42 was organized in their firehouse.
Lady Washington Engine Company 1:
1781 Monroe Avenue firehouse:
Engine 42 (continued)
Engine 42:
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Engine 42:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSksK44uRgc
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Engine 42 (continued)
Engine 42 1st due - El Hoyo Social Club Fire - August 8, 1988:
DIVISION 7 TRAINING AND SAFETY NEWSLETTER - FEBRUARY 2017 - 1748-54 JEROME AVENUE, BRONX, N.Y. (CORNER OF EAST 175 ST.)
On August 21, 1988, the weather was warm and sunny. In the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) in the Bronx, routine tasks were being conducted and Multi-Unit Drills were taking place.
At 1748 Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, a single story taxpayer stood at the corner of E. 175 Street. The building was 50 feet x 100 feet. The building contained six stores, four fronting on Jerome Avenue, and two fronting on East 175 Street. In the cellar of this building, there was an illegal social club called ?El Hoyo? (aka: ?The Cave? or ?The Hole?). The only entrance to this illegal club was off of the Jerome Avenue side. There was a stairway approximately 10 feet from the front of the building. The stairway entrance was flush with the floor and the wooden stairway was steep.
Inside the club in the cellar, the ceiling was low (7 feet). There were candles burning in the club. There was a bar towards the front of the occupancy. There was no sprinkler system, automatic alarms or fire extinguishers in the social club. There was no emergency lighting.
There was a confiscated salad oil bottle filled with gasoline that a patron brought to the club a week before. A Bouncer searched a man attempting to enter the club with the container on his person. The Bouncer found the container, and then ejected the patron. The Bouncer kept the container filled with gasoline. It was being stored behind the bar.
At around noon, the club was filled with patrons. There were estimates from the Fire Marshals that there were as many as 150 people in the small club. Loud music was playing. It was a party atmosphere. The salad oil container filled with gasoline was discovered to be knocked over. A barmaid attempted to clean up the spill coming from the container when suddenly, the fluid ignited. The possible ignition source was from one of the candles burning at the bar area. The fire spread quickly and the entire club filled with smoke. The heat and smoke banked down due to the low ceilings.
The area where the fire started was near the stairway, the only exit out of the occupancy. Panic ensued as the patrons flooded the exit. The people charged up the steep wooden stairway until the means of egress was no longer passable. The only exit out was being consumed by fire. Many people were able to escape, some could not. The exiting patrons had to climb through the thermal levels. The heat was unbearable as they came closer to the ceiling level. There were eight trapped people. They were trapped in the El Hoyo Social Club inferno. Three of the trapped occupants worked their way to the rear of the social club. They were able to breach a wall that lead to the occupancy to the rear of the club, the cellar of Joe?s Auto Repair. On the floor of the cellar of the auto repair shop were tires, auto parts, and general debris. The three escaping people became overcome with smoke as they attempted to traverse across the cellar floor of Joe?s Auto Repair.
Outside, someone ran to the fire alarm box at the corner of Jerome Avenue and West 175 Street. The Bronx Communications Office received ERS (Emergency Reporting System) Box 2935 at 1237 hours. Engine 42, Engine 75, Ladder 33, Ladder 27 and Battalion 19 were dispatched. Captain Michael Giovinazzo was working overtime in Engine 42 for the day tour. As they approached Jerome Avenue from E. 175 Street, he could see a large cloud of smoke in the sky.
Photo courtesy of Steven Spak
At 1240 hours, Engine 42 arrived and transmitted a 10-84 and a 10-75. Engine 46 and Engine 43 were dispatched. The Bronx Fire Dispatchers also sent Rescue 3 and Ladder 59 due to numerous phone calls reporting a fire in a social club. These units were sent before Engine 42 arrived.
Battalion Chief Michael Towey of Battalion 19 arrived at the fire at 1241 hours. He saw: 1) Many civilians in the street in a frenzy attempting to help the Firefighters as they arrived; 2) Smoke and fire coming out of the crack in the sidewalk between the building and the sidewalk; and 3) A heavy fire condition in the stores at ground level that had extended from the cellar social club occupancy. He called the Bronx Fire Dispatcher and requested ambulances respond for the numerous injured people and the New York Police Department (NYPD) respond for crowd control. At 1244 hours, B.C. Towey transmitted a 2nd alarm.
Capt. Giovinazzo of Engine 42 ordered his Firefighters to stretch a 2 ? inch hand line to the entrance to the El Hoyo Social Club. Fr. Jim Fearon had the nozzle. He had an arduous task of trying to advance the hose line down the stairway to the social club. Capt. Giovinazzo mistakenly thought the stairs had burned away. Engine 42 lied prone on the floor trying to knock down the fire coming out of the stairway opening.
Ladder 33 arrived as the first due Ladder Company led by Capt. Jimmy Gallagher. Also working in Ladder 33 that day were Fr. John Rafferty, Fr. Joe Maggi, Fr. John Clarke, Fr. Anthony Pascucci, and Fr. James Graney. They saw the fire was extending upward and into three of the four stores on the Jerome Avenue side and into the cockloft. They commenced forcible entry of roll down gates. They laddered the front of the building and started performing a search of the area above the fire.
Ladder 27 was the second to arrive Ladder Company. Captain Richard Jacquin of Ladder 59 was working overtime in Ladder 27 for the day tour. Also working in Ladder 27 was Fr. Tom Murphy, Fr. John Clavin, Fr. Dennis Fennell, Fr. Joe Kisonas and Fr. Jim Forsyth. Fr. Murphy positioned Ladder 27?s apparatus on the exposure 4 (E. 175 St.) side of the building. He raised the aerial ladder to the roof. Captain Jacquin, Fr. Fennell and Fr. Forsyth went towards the entrance to Joe?s Auto Repair shop.
There were several civilians frantically trying to raise the roll down gate of the repair shop. The civilian?s efforts jammed the roll down gate. It was stuck and it was only raised 2 feet above the floor. Heavy smoke was coming out of the gate.
Captain Jacquin deployed his search rope and he, Fr. Fennell and Fr. Forsyth entered the auto repair shop. The smoke condition was heavy and fire was raging in the cockloft. They made their way toward the rear of the shop. They came upon two large dogs that had succumbed to the smoke. As they made their way deeper into the shop, they found an open stairway. High heat was coming out of the stairway. They descended the stairway, into the rising heat. Half way down the stairway, they found and unconscious man. Captain Jacquin removed him to the outside of the building where he was turned over to EMS personnel that started CPR. Ladder 27?s forcible entry team continued their search for trapped occupants.
Captain Jacquin re-entered the cellar where he found Fr. Dennis Fennell with an unconscious female. He helped Fr. Fennell carry the victim up the stairs and over the obstacles deep in the auto repair shop to the street. Fr. Fennell began resuscitation on the female victim. While Ladder 27 was making entry into the auto repair shop, Fr. Ed Marcoux of Ladder 59 used the saw with the metal cutting blade to gain better access to the auto repair shop.
Captain Jacquin reentered the cellar for the third time. When he made it down the scorching cellar stairs, he found Fr. Jim Forsyth with an unconscious male. He was struggling to remove him to safety. Both he and Captain Jacquin were able to remove the unconscious man to the street where resuscitation efforts were started.
Deputy Chief Tom Moran of Division 7 was dispatched on the 10-75. As he was responding, D.C. Moran requested that an additional Battalion Chief be dispatched to act as a Victim Tracking Coordinator.
When he arrived, he was briefed by Battalion Chief Mike Towey of Battalion 19. B.C. Towey was put in charge of the attack on the Jerome Avenue side of the building. Then, at 1249 hours, Deputy Chief Moran transmitted a 3rd Alarm.
Deputy Chief Moran decided to employ an alternative attack point. He ordered Ladder 44 to open a sidewalk cellar gate on the exposure 4 side of the building. The El Hoyo occupancy was one occupancy away from the sidewalk cellar gate entrance. Battalion Chief Bill Peterman of Battalion 17 was ordered to supervise this operation. Ladder 44 was being led by Captain Ed Handibolde. Lieutenant Gary Connelly of Engine 92 ordered his firefighters to advance a hose line into the sidewalk cellar gate. The heat was high enough that Lieutenant Connelly feared flashover in the narrow cellar entrance.
The alternative attack plan that was being conducted by Engine 92 and Ladder 44 was showing progress. Ladder 44 was able to breach a gypsum block wall which led them to the bar area of the El Hoyo social club. Engine 92 was able to extinguish the fire near the front of the cellar occupancy.
Deputy Chief Moran of Division 7 developed a command structure for the fire. He was unable to establish a Command Post for at least 20 minutes into the fire due to the uncontrolled frenzied civilians in the street. He deployed Battalion Chief Towey of Battalion 19 to the front of the building, Battalion Chief Peterman to the operation at the sidewalk cellar gate on exposure 4, Acting Battalion Chief John Ievolo of Battalion 27 was sent to supervise the roof and the rear of the building, and Battalion Chief Tom Rappe of Battalion 56 was put in charge of coordinating search efforts from the rear of the building.
Unable to advance a hose line into the cellar from the front of the building (Jerome Avenue), Capt. Gallagher of Ladder 33 ordered his members to enter the store over the fire to cut a hole to vent the fire away from the stairway. Fr. John Clarke and Fr. Jack Rafferty of Ladder 33 entered the store above El Hoyo and performed this tactic. Engine 75 moved their back-up hose line into the store to protect these firefighters.
Engine 42 was lying on the floor with the hose line trying to get an angle with their hose stream to attempt to cool the cellar ceiling. Engine 92?s hose line was making progress in the cellar. Ladder 33?s forcible entry team made it down the interior stairs and began searching for trapped occupants. Captain Jimmy Gallagher of Ladder 33 found an unconscious male near the bar area. This male was removed up the stairway to the street where CPR was administered. One minute later, another two fire victims were found near the bar area. Another minute passed, and another fire victim was found near the rest rooms. There were now seven victims found and removed from the building. CPR was being administered in the street to these victims.
Deputy Chief Tom Moran of Division 7 was now experiencing the nightmare of every Fire Chief; multiple fire victims in an uncontrolled fire. With the initial reports of between 60 to 200 people trapped, Chief Moran transmitted a 4th Alarm at 1312 hours. One minute later, another fire victim was found by the rear bar. This would be the last fire victim of the El Hoyo Social Club. EMS personnel informed Deputy Chief Moran that some of the victims that were removed from the cellar inferno had been declared dead. A make-shift morgue was set up at the gas station across the street on E. 175 Street. Six of the eight trapped people would eventually perish.
The Rev. Julian Deeken, a Fire Department chaplain, administers last rites to covered bodies at a temporary morgue that was set up at scene of the five alarm fire in the Bronx that erupted in basement of El Hoya Social Club.
Operating firefighters were physically and emotionally exhausted. Deputy Chief Moran transmitted a 5th Alarm for relief purposes at 1332 hours. The fire was placed ?Probably will Hold? at 1352 hours and declared ?Under Control? at 1407 hours.
FDNY Firefighters were pushed to their limits trying to rescue the poor souls that were trapped in this illegal social club. Ladder 33, Ladder 44, and Engine 92 were awarded Unit Citations. Fr. James Forsyth of Ladder 27 was awarded the ?Thomas E. Crimmins Medal?, Fr. Dennis Fennell of Ladder 27 was awarded the ?Walter Scott Medal? and Captain Richard Jacquin of Ladder 59 was awarded the FDNY?s highest medal, the ?James Gordon
Bennett Medal.?
(from http://www.fdnysbravest.com/El_Hoyo_Social_Club_February_Newsletter_2017.pdf)
Engine 42 1st due - El Hoyo Social Club Fire - August 8, 1988:
DIVISION 7 TRAINING AND SAFETY NEWSLETTER - FEBRUARY 2017 - 1748-54 JEROME AVENUE, BRONX, N.Y. (CORNER OF EAST 175 ST.)
On August 21, 1988, the weather was warm and sunny. In the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) in the Bronx, routine tasks were being conducted and Multi-Unit Drills were taking place.
At 1748 Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, a single story taxpayer stood at the corner of E. 175 Street. The building was 50 feet x 100 feet. The building contained six stores, four fronting on Jerome Avenue, and two fronting on East 175 Street. In the cellar of this building, there was an illegal social club called ?El Hoyo? (aka: ?The Cave? or ?The Hole?). The only entrance to this illegal club was off of the Jerome Avenue side. There was a stairway approximately 10 feet from the front of the building. The stairway entrance was flush with the floor and the wooden stairway was steep.
Inside the club in the cellar, the ceiling was low (7 feet). There were candles burning in the club. There was a bar towards the front of the occupancy. There was no sprinkler system, automatic alarms or fire extinguishers in the social club. There was no emergency lighting.
There was a confiscated salad oil bottle filled with gasoline that a patron brought to the club a week before. A Bouncer searched a man attempting to enter the club with the container on his person. The Bouncer found the container, and then ejected the patron. The Bouncer kept the container filled with gasoline. It was being stored behind the bar.
At around noon, the club was filled with patrons. There were estimates from the Fire Marshals that there were as many as 150 people in the small club. Loud music was playing. It was a party atmosphere. The salad oil container filled with gasoline was discovered to be knocked over. A barmaid attempted to clean up the spill coming from the container when suddenly, the fluid ignited. The possible ignition source was from one of the candles burning at the bar area. The fire spread quickly and the entire club filled with smoke. The heat and smoke banked down due to the low ceilings.
The area where the fire started was near the stairway, the only exit out of the occupancy. Panic ensued as the patrons flooded the exit. The people charged up the steep wooden stairway until the means of egress was no longer passable. The only exit out was being consumed by fire. Many people were able to escape, some could not. The exiting patrons had to climb through the thermal levels. The heat was unbearable as they came closer to the ceiling level. There were eight trapped people. They were trapped in the El Hoyo Social Club inferno. Three of the trapped occupants worked their way to the rear of the social club. They were able to breach a wall that lead to the occupancy to the rear of the club, the cellar of Joe?s Auto Repair. On the floor of the cellar of the auto repair shop were tires, auto parts, and general debris. The three escaping people became overcome with smoke as they attempted to traverse across the cellar floor of Joe?s Auto Repair.
Outside, someone ran to the fire alarm box at the corner of Jerome Avenue and West 175 Street. The Bronx Communications Office received ERS (Emergency Reporting System) Box 2935 at 1237 hours. Engine 42, Engine 75, Ladder 33, Ladder 27 and Battalion 19 were dispatched. Captain Michael Giovinazzo was working overtime in Engine 42 for the day tour. As they approached Jerome Avenue from E. 175 Street, he could see a large cloud of smoke in the sky.
Photo courtesy of Steven Spak
At 1240 hours, Engine 42 arrived and transmitted a 10-84 and a 10-75. Engine 46 and Engine 43 were dispatched. The Bronx Fire Dispatchers also sent Rescue 3 and Ladder 59 due to numerous phone calls reporting a fire in a social club. These units were sent before Engine 42 arrived.
Battalion Chief Michael Towey of Battalion 19 arrived at the fire at 1241 hours. He saw: 1) Many civilians in the street in a frenzy attempting to help the Firefighters as they arrived; 2) Smoke and fire coming out of the crack in the sidewalk between the building and the sidewalk; and 3) A heavy fire condition in the stores at ground level that had extended from the cellar social club occupancy. He called the Bronx Fire Dispatcher and requested ambulances respond for the numerous injured people and the New York Police Department (NYPD) respond for crowd control. At 1244 hours, B.C. Towey transmitted a 2nd alarm.
Capt. Giovinazzo of Engine 42 ordered his Firefighters to stretch a 2 ? inch hand line to the entrance to the El Hoyo Social Club. Fr. Jim Fearon had the nozzle. He had an arduous task of trying to advance the hose line down the stairway to the social club. Capt. Giovinazzo mistakenly thought the stairs had burned away. Engine 42 lied prone on the floor trying to knock down the fire coming out of the stairway opening.
Ladder 33 arrived as the first due Ladder Company led by Capt. Jimmy Gallagher. Also working in Ladder 33 that day were Fr. John Rafferty, Fr. Joe Maggi, Fr. John Clarke, Fr. Anthony Pascucci, and Fr. James Graney. They saw the fire was extending upward and into three of the four stores on the Jerome Avenue side and into the cockloft. They commenced forcible entry of roll down gates. They laddered the front of the building and started performing a search of the area above the fire.
Ladder 27 was the second to arrive Ladder Company. Captain Richard Jacquin of Ladder 59 was working overtime in Ladder 27 for the day tour. Also working in Ladder 27 was Fr. Tom Murphy, Fr. John Clavin, Fr. Dennis Fennell, Fr. Joe Kisonas and Fr. Jim Forsyth. Fr. Murphy positioned Ladder 27?s apparatus on the exposure 4 (E. 175 St.) side of the building. He raised the aerial ladder to the roof. Captain Jacquin, Fr. Fennell and Fr. Forsyth went towards the entrance to Joe?s Auto Repair shop.
There were several civilians frantically trying to raise the roll down gate of the repair shop. The civilian?s efforts jammed the roll down gate. It was stuck and it was only raised 2 feet above the floor. Heavy smoke was coming out of the gate.
Captain Jacquin deployed his search rope and he, Fr. Fennell and Fr. Forsyth entered the auto repair shop. The smoke condition was heavy and fire was raging in the cockloft. They made their way toward the rear of the shop. They came upon two large dogs that had succumbed to the smoke. As they made their way deeper into the shop, they found an open stairway. High heat was coming out of the stairway. They descended the stairway, into the rising heat. Half way down the stairway, they found and unconscious man. Captain Jacquin removed him to the outside of the building where he was turned over to EMS personnel that started CPR. Ladder 27?s forcible entry team continued their search for trapped occupants.
Captain Jacquin re-entered the cellar where he found Fr. Dennis Fennell with an unconscious female. He helped Fr. Fennell carry the victim up the stairs and over the obstacles deep in the auto repair shop to the street. Fr. Fennell began resuscitation on the female victim. While Ladder 27 was making entry into the auto repair shop, Fr. Ed Marcoux of Ladder 59 used the saw with the metal cutting blade to gain better access to the auto repair shop.
Captain Jacquin reentered the cellar for the third time. When he made it down the scorching cellar stairs, he found Fr. Jim Forsyth with an unconscious male. He was struggling to remove him to safety. Both he and Captain Jacquin were able to remove the unconscious man to the street where resuscitation efforts were started.
Deputy Chief Tom Moran of Division 7 was dispatched on the 10-75. As he was responding, D.C. Moran requested that an additional Battalion Chief be dispatched to act as a Victim Tracking Coordinator.
When he arrived, he was briefed by Battalion Chief Mike Towey of Battalion 19. B.C. Towey was put in charge of the attack on the Jerome Avenue side of the building. Then, at 1249 hours, Deputy Chief Moran transmitted a 3rd Alarm.
Deputy Chief Moran decided to employ an alternative attack point. He ordered Ladder 44 to open a sidewalk cellar gate on the exposure 4 side of the building. The El Hoyo occupancy was one occupancy away from the sidewalk cellar gate entrance. Battalion Chief Bill Peterman of Battalion 17 was ordered to supervise this operation. Ladder 44 was being led by Captain Ed Handibolde. Lieutenant Gary Connelly of Engine 92 ordered his firefighters to advance a hose line into the sidewalk cellar gate. The heat was high enough that Lieutenant Connelly feared flashover in the narrow cellar entrance.
The alternative attack plan that was being conducted by Engine 92 and Ladder 44 was showing progress. Ladder 44 was able to breach a gypsum block wall which led them to the bar area of the El Hoyo social club. Engine 92 was able to extinguish the fire near the front of the cellar occupancy.
Deputy Chief Moran of Division 7 developed a command structure for the fire. He was unable to establish a Command Post for at least 20 minutes into the fire due to the uncontrolled frenzied civilians in the street. He deployed Battalion Chief Towey of Battalion 19 to the front of the building, Battalion Chief Peterman to the operation at the sidewalk cellar gate on exposure 4, Acting Battalion Chief John Ievolo of Battalion 27 was sent to supervise the roof and the rear of the building, and Battalion Chief Tom Rappe of Battalion 56 was put in charge of coordinating search efforts from the rear of the building.
Unable to advance a hose line into the cellar from the front of the building (Jerome Avenue), Capt. Gallagher of Ladder 33 ordered his members to enter the store over the fire to cut a hole to vent the fire away from the stairway. Fr. John Clarke and Fr. Jack Rafferty of Ladder 33 entered the store above El Hoyo and performed this tactic. Engine 75 moved their back-up hose line into the store to protect these firefighters.
Engine 42 was lying on the floor with the hose line trying to get an angle with their hose stream to attempt to cool the cellar ceiling. Engine 92?s hose line was making progress in the cellar. Ladder 33?s forcible entry team made it down the interior stairs and began searching for trapped occupants. Captain Jimmy Gallagher of Ladder 33 found an unconscious male near the bar area. This male was removed up the stairway to the street where CPR was administered. One minute later, another two fire victims were found near the bar area. Another minute passed, and another fire victim was found near the rest rooms. There were now seven victims found and removed from the building. CPR was being administered in the street to these victims.
Deputy Chief Tom Moran of Division 7 was now experiencing the nightmare of every Fire Chief; multiple fire victims in an uncontrolled fire. With the initial reports of between 60 to 200 people trapped, Chief Moran transmitted a 4th Alarm at 1312 hours. One minute later, another fire victim was found by the rear bar. This would be the last fire victim of the El Hoyo Social Club. EMS personnel informed Deputy Chief Moran that some of the victims that were removed from the cellar inferno had been declared dead. A make-shift morgue was set up at the gas station across the street on E. 175 Street. Six of the eight trapped people would eventually perish.
The Rev. Julian Deeken, a Fire Department chaplain, administers last rites to covered bodies at a temporary morgue that was set up at scene of the five alarm fire in the Bronx that erupted in basement of El Hoya Social Club.
Operating firefighters were physically and emotionally exhausted. Deputy Chief Moran transmitted a 5th Alarm for relief purposes at 1332 hours. The fire was placed ?Probably will Hold? at 1352 hours and declared ?Under Control? at 1407 hours.
FDNY Firefighters were pushed to their limits trying to rescue the poor souls that were trapped in this illegal social club. Ladder 33, Ladder 44, and Engine 92 were awarded Unit Citations. Fr. James Forsyth of Ladder 27 was awarded the ?Thomas E. Crimmins Medal?, Fr. Dennis Fennell of Ladder 27 was awarded the ?Walter Scott Medal? and Captain Richard Jacquin of Ladder 59 was awarded the FDNY?s highest medal, the ?James Gordon
Bennett Medal.?
(from http://www.fdnysbravest.com/El_Hoyo_Social_Club_February_Newsletter_2017.pdf)
Engine 42 (continued)
Engine 42 medals:
JOHN J. MC DERMOTT CAPT. ENG. 42 JUL. 21, 1979 1980 TREVOR-WARREN
ALL MEMBERS ENG. 42 APR. 5, 1991 1992 ELSASSER
Engine 42 LODDs:
LIEUTENANT HOWARD CARPLUK, ENGINE 42 (DETAILED ENGINE 75), AUGUST 28, 2006
Lieutenant Howard Carpluk, Jr., Engine 42 (detailed to Engine 75). Bronx Box 3-3-2797, 1575 Walton Avenue, died August 28th, 2006 - Probationary Firefighter Michael Reilly, Engine 75, also perished with at Box 3-3-2797.
SECOND FIREFIGHTER DIES AFTER BLAZE IN THE BRONX - NY TIMES By THOMAS J. LUECK and MARIA NEWMAN AUG. 28, 2006
A second firefighter died from a blaze in a 99-cent store in the Bronx on Sunday where he and three colleagues crashed through a collapsing floor, city officials said.
Fire Lt. Howard J. Carpluk Jr., a 20-year veteran, died today at Montefiore Medical Center, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said. On Sunday, his fellow firefighter, Michael C. Reilly, 25, also died in the same fire.
Lieutenant Carpluk, 43, had been transferred to Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx on Sunday for specialized cardiac care after the fire put him in an advanced state of heart failure, doctors said. He worked out of Engine Company 42, while Firefighter Reilly, who had graduated from the New York City Fire Academy less than two months ago, had worked for Engine Company 75.
"Today, New York City has lost another one of its Bravest," said Mayor Bloomberg.
The fire on Sunday, which began just after noon, gutted the Mega 99 store in the Mount Eden neighborhood of the Bronx and damaged a cellphone shop in the same single-story building. Witnesses and fire officials described it as a horrifying ordeal in which more than 100 firefighters continued battling the blaze even as they learned that five of their colleagues were trapped inside.
The three other firefighters who were injured when the floor collapsed were taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where fire officials said their conditions were serious but stable. At least eight other firefighters were treated at Jacobi for less serious injuries and released; a total of 23 firefighters suffered some injury at the blaze, the department said.
The cause of the fire was still under investigation, but Mr. Bloomberg said it did not appear to be of a suspicious origin. Witnesses who looked on from a fourth-floor window directly across the street from the fire said they had seen a heavy rooftop air-conditioner fall in, with enough force to crash through the floor beneath.
Commissioner Scoppetta said of the loss of the two firefighters: "In less than 24 hours, we have lost two courageous men, a young probie at the start of his career and an accomplished veteran who dedicated 20 years of service to New York City. It is a heartbreaking loss for the Fire Department.??
In his 20-year career, Lieutenant Carpluk was awarded two citations for bravery, including one award for a rescue in 1988, when he carried out two unconscious men he found in the bedroom of a fire-engulfed apartment in the Bronx. A resident of Yaphank, he is survived by his wife, Debra, his 10-year-old daughter, Paige, and his 14-year-old son, Bradley.
Mr. Bloomberg said he met with the men of Engine 42 this morning.
?They told me how the lieutenant faced each and every challenge before him bravely and unflinchingly,?? he said in a statement. ?Yesterday was no different.??
Firefighter Reilly was taken to Bronx Lebanon Hospital at about 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, arriving with no discernible pulse or heartbeat, a doctor at the hospital said, adding that he could not be revived.
Firefighter Reilly, who lived in Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County, had worked for smaller fire departments, in Ramsey, N.J., and Stratford, Conn., and had fought fires as a marine in Iraq.
He had just graduated from the New York City Fire Academy in early July. Working as a New York City firefighter ?was his lifelong dream,? said Ronald C. Nattrass, the fire chief in Stratford.
Firefighter Reilly is survived by his parents, a brother and a sister. ?All he wanted to do in his life was to be a firefighter,? the mayor said.
The fire started in a back room at Mega 99, at the corner of Walton and East Mount Eden Avenues, and spread quickly, according to accounts by Mr. Bloomberg, fire officials and the owner of the convenience store, Anis Shaibi.
Mr. Shaibi, 28, said he was in the store with three employees and a customer when one of the employees yelled that flames were shooting out from the area of a refrigerator in the back of the store.
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Firefighters consoled each other Sunday outside Engine Company 75. It was the unit of Firefighter Michael C. Reilly, who died on the job.
?I thought it was something small, and I got my fire extinguisher, but it got big so fast,? Mr. Shaibi said. ?When I saw everything falling off the ceiling, I told everyone to leave.?
One witness, Jashira Abreu, a 25-year-old medical assistant, said: ?The air-conditioner went in, and then the whole ceiling went in. I was in shock because it was so surreal.?
https://nypost.com/2006/08/30/crippling-loss-felt-by-comrades/
http://www.backstepfirefighter.com/2010/08/26/illegal-renovation-kills-fdny-lieutenant-and-probie-2006/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/29/nyregion/29profile.html?_r=0
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/fire/reports/face200627.html
FF KEVIN A. ROONEY, ENGINE 42, JAN.22, 2017
FF Kevin A. Rooney died from WTC-related illness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont,_Bronx
RIP. Never forget
Engine 42 medals:
JOHN J. MC DERMOTT CAPT. ENG. 42 JUL. 21, 1979 1980 TREVOR-WARREN
ALL MEMBERS ENG. 42 APR. 5, 1991 1992 ELSASSER
Engine 42 LODDs:
LIEUTENANT HOWARD CARPLUK, ENGINE 42 (DETAILED ENGINE 75), AUGUST 28, 2006
Lieutenant Howard Carpluk, Jr., Engine 42 (detailed to Engine 75). Bronx Box 3-3-2797, 1575 Walton Avenue, died August 28th, 2006 - Probationary Firefighter Michael Reilly, Engine 75, also perished with at Box 3-3-2797.
SECOND FIREFIGHTER DIES AFTER BLAZE IN THE BRONX - NY TIMES By THOMAS J. LUECK and MARIA NEWMAN AUG. 28, 2006
A second firefighter died from a blaze in a 99-cent store in the Bronx on Sunday where he and three colleagues crashed through a collapsing floor, city officials said.
Fire Lt. Howard J. Carpluk Jr., a 20-year veteran, died today at Montefiore Medical Center, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said. On Sunday, his fellow firefighter, Michael C. Reilly, 25, also died in the same fire.
Lieutenant Carpluk, 43, had been transferred to Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx on Sunday for specialized cardiac care after the fire put him in an advanced state of heart failure, doctors said. He worked out of Engine Company 42, while Firefighter Reilly, who had graduated from the New York City Fire Academy less than two months ago, had worked for Engine Company 75.
"Today, New York City has lost another one of its Bravest," said Mayor Bloomberg.
The fire on Sunday, which began just after noon, gutted the Mega 99 store in the Mount Eden neighborhood of the Bronx and damaged a cellphone shop in the same single-story building. Witnesses and fire officials described it as a horrifying ordeal in which more than 100 firefighters continued battling the blaze even as they learned that five of their colleagues were trapped inside.
The three other firefighters who were injured when the floor collapsed were taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where fire officials said their conditions were serious but stable. At least eight other firefighters were treated at Jacobi for less serious injuries and released; a total of 23 firefighters suffered some injury at the blaze, the department said.
The cause of the fire was still under investigation, but Mr. Bloomberg said it did not appear to be of a suspicious origin. Witnesses who looked on from a fourth-floor window directly across the street from the fire said they had seen a heavy rooftop air-conditioner fall in, with enough force to crash through the floor beneath.
Commissioner Scoppetta said of the loss of the two firefighters: "In less than 24 hours, we have lost two courageous men, a young probie at the start of his career and an accomplished veteran who dedicated 20 years of service to New York City. It is a heartbreaking loss for the Fire Department.??
In his 20-year career, Lieutenant Carpluk was awarded two citations for bravery, including one award for a rescue in 1988, when he carried out two unconscious men he found in the bedroom of a fire-engulfed apartment in the Bronx. A resident of Yaphank, he is survived by his wife, Debra, his 10-year-old daughter, Paige, and his 14-year-old son, Bradley.
Mr. Bloomberg said he met with the men of Engine 42 this morning.
?They told me how the lieutenant faced each and every challenge before him bravely and unflinchingly,?? he said in a statement. ?Yesterday was no different.??
Firefighter Reilly was taken to Bronx Lebanon Hospital at about 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, arriving with no discernible pulse or heartbeat, a doctor at the hospital said, adding that he could not be revived.
Firefighter Reilly, who lived in Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County, had worked for smaller fire departments, in Ramsey, N.J., and Stratford, Conn., and had fought fires as a marine in Iraq.
He had just graduated from the New York City Fire Academy in early July. Working as a New York City firefighter ?was his lifelong dream,? said Ronald C. Nattrass, the fire chief in Stratford.
Firefighter Reilly is survived by his parents, a brother and a sister. ?All he wanted to do in his life was to be a firefighter,? the mayor said.
The fire started in a back room at Mega 99, at the corner of Walton and East Mount Eden Avenues, and spread quickly, according to accounts by Mr. Bloomberg, fire officials and the owner of the convenience store, Anis Shaibi.
Mr. Shaibi, 28, said he was in the store with three employees and a customer when one of the employees yelled that flames were shooting out from the area of a refrigerator in the back of the store.
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Firefighters consoled each other Sunday outside Engine Company 75. It was the unit of Firefighter Michael C. Reilly, who died on the job.
?I thought it was something small, and I got my fire extinguisher, but it got big so fast,? Mr. Shaibi said. ?When I saw everything falling off the ceiling, I told everyone to leave.?
One witness, Jashira Abreu, a 25-year-old medical assistant, said: ?The air-conditioner went in, and then the whole ceiling went in. I was in shock because it was so surreal.?
https://nypost.com/2006/08/30/crippling-loss-felt-by-comrades/
http://www.backstepfirefighter.com/2010/08/26/illegal-renovation-kills-fdny-lieutenant-and-probie-2006/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/29/nyregion/29profile.html?_r=0
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/fire/reports/face200627.html
FF KEVIN A. ROONEY, ENGINE 42, JAN.22, 2017
FF Kevin A. Rooney died from WTC-related illness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont,_Bronx
RIP. Never forget
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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
Bronx Battalion
1908 - 1909 Battalion 26 E46 E48 E79 L27 L37
1969 - 1971 Battalion 26 E71 E73 L42 L55 S2
1971 - 1974 Battalion 26 E50 E50-2 E71 L19 L55 S2
1974 - 1976 Battalion 26 E50 E71 L19 L55 S2
1976 - 1988 Battalion 26 E50 E71 L19 L55
1988 - 1989 Battalion 26 E50 E71 E82 L19 L31 L55
1989 - 1990 Battalion 26 E50 E73 E82 L19 L31 L42
1990 - 1991 Battalion 26 E50 E71 E82 L19 L31 L55
1991 - Battalion 26 E50 E73 E82 L19 L31 L42
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
Bronx Battalion
1908 - 1909 Battalion 26 E46 E48 E79 L27 L37
1969 - 1971 Battalion 26 E71 E73 L42 L55 S2
1971 - 1974 Battalion 26 E50 E50-2 E71 L19 L55 S2
1974 - 1976 Battalion 26 E50 E71 L19 L55 S2
1976 - 1988 Battalion 26 E50 E71 L19 L55
1988 - 1989 Battalion 26 E50 E71 E82 L19 L31 L55
1989 - 1990 Battalion 26 E50 E73 E82 L19 L31 L42
1990 - 1991 Battalion 26 E50 E71 E82 L19 L31 L55
1991 - Battalion 26 E50 E73 E82 L19 L31 L42
Engine 236 firehouse 998 Liberty Avenue, East New York, Brooklyn Division 15, Battalion 39 "The Pride of East New York"
Engine 36 BFD organized 998 Liberty Avenue 1895
Engine 36 BFD became Engine 36 FDNY 1898
Engine 36 became Engine 136 1899
Engine 136 became Engine 236 1913
Battalion 39 located at 998 Liberty Avenue at Engine 236 1930-1976
Battalion 39-2 located at 998 Liberty Avenue at Engine 236 1968-1969
Battalion 29 located at 998 Liberty Avenue 1969-1970
Pre-Brooklyn Fire Department - New Lots Fire Department protected East New York:
"When the Fire Department was formed in 1850, the American Eagle Co. No.1, organized with 32 men, an engine was bought in Bklyn. This Co. disbanded, 1862, was re-organized as Union Hook & Ladder Company No.1. A truck was bought for $150. & manned by 30 members. In 1864 Engine Company No.1 was org. & an engine was bought for $750. Hope Company was org. The department was chartered in 1850. It disbanded,1875 but was immediately re-organized & Liberty Hose Company No.1 was formed,
In 1886 the Paid Department of the City of Bklyn took the place of the volunteers & the apparatus was sold. Proceeds were invested in the headquarters of, Exempt Firemen's Assoc.
Neptune Engine went to Sheepshead Bay,
Liberty Hose Carriage to Staten Isl & ,
Alert Hose Carriage to Far Rockaway,
Union Hook & Ladder truck to Yonkers,
Eagle Hook & Ladder truck to Rockaway Beach
Independence Pump & Bucket equipment to Bay Ridge.
Franklin Engine was reserved for the Exempt Firemen's Assoc.
The New Lots Fire Department was formed at a meeting held on August 15, 1850 in the carpenter shop of Frank DOREMUS. The organizers were former members of the Volunteer Fire Department of N.Y. & Brooklyn who then resided in East N.Y. At this meeting American Eagle Company No. I was org., Feb.5th, 1851, the first Firemen's Ball was given at Henry LUB'S Hotel on the Jamaica Tp"
(from http://bklyn-genealogy-info.stevemorse.org/Town/NewLots.html)
Union Hook & Ladder 1 1870:
New Lots Exempt Firemen 1889 (former volunteer department members)
998 Liberty Avenue firehouse:
998 Liberty Avenue firehouse:
http://6tocelebrate.org/site/engine-company-236/
Engine 36 BFD organized 998 Liberty Avenue 1895
Engine 36 BFD became Engine 36 FDNY 1898
Engine 36 became Engine 136 1899
Engine 136 became Engine 236 1913
Battalion 39 located at 998 Liberty Avenue at Engine 236 1930-1976
Battalion 39-2 located at 998 Liberty Avenue at Engine 236 1968-1969
Battalion 29 located at 998 Liberty Avenue 1969-1970
Pre-Brooklyn Fire Department - New Lots Fire Department protected East New York:
"When the Fire Department was formed in 1850, the American Eagle Co. No.1, organized with 32 men, an engine was bought in Bklyn. This Co. disbanded, 1862, was re-organized as Union Hook & Ladder Company No.1. A truck was bought for $150. & manned by 30 members. In 1864 Engine Company No.1 was org. & an engine was bought for $750. Hope Company was org. The department was chartered in 1850. It disbanded,1875 but was immediately re-organized & Liberty Hose Company No.1 was formed,
In 1886 the Paid Department of the City of Bklyn took the place of the volunteers & the apparatus was sold. Proceeds were invested in the headquarters of, Exempt Firemen's Assoc.
Neptune Engine went to Sheepshead Bay,
Liberty Hose Carriage to Staten Isl & ,
Alert Hose Carriage to Far Rockaway,
Union Hook & Ladder truck to Yonkers,
Eagle Hook & Ladder truck to Rockaway Beach
Independence Pump & Bucket equipment to Bay Ridge.
Franklin Engine was reserved for the Exempt Firemen's Assoc.
The New Lots Fire Department was formed at a meeting held on August 15, 1850 in the carpenter shop of Frank DOREMUS. The organizers were former members of the Volunteer Fire Department of N.Y. & Brooklyn who then resided in East N.Y. At this meeting American Eagle Company No. I was org., Feb.5th, 1851, the first Firemen's Ball was given at Henry LUB'S Hotel on the Jamaica Tp"
(from http://bklyn-genealogy-info.stevemorse.org/Town/NewLots.html)
Union Hook & Ladder 1 1870:
New Lots Exempt Firemen 1889 (former volunteer department members)
998 Liberty Avenue firehouse:
998 Liberty Avenue firehouse:
http://6tocelebrate.org/site/engine-company-236/
Engine 236 (continued)
Engine 236 20 year retirement 1907:
Engine 236 mascot 1913:
Engine 236 rescue 1906::
Engine 236 medals:
HAROLD V. KINNEY CAPT. ENG. 236 OFF DUTY JAN. 6, 1933 1934 CRIMMINS
CHARLES H. ARCHUL LT. ENG. 236 APR. 14, 1973 1974 CRIMMINS
MATTHEW C. IRELAND FF. ENG. 236 MAR. 8, 1976 1977 DOUGHERTY
Engine 236 LODD:
FRANK SMITH LT. ENGINE 236M BROOKLYN BOX 1768 JANUARY 14, 1973
RIP. Never forget.
Engine 236 20 year retirement 1907:
Engine 236 mascot 1913:
Engine 236 rescue 1906::
Engine 236 medals:
HAROLD V. KINNEY CAPT. ENG. 236 OFF DUTY JAN. 6, 1933 1934 CRIMMINS
CHARLES H. ARCHUL LT. ENG. 236 APR. 14, 1973 1974 CRIMMINS
MATTHEW C. IRELAND FF. ENG. 236 MAR. 8, 1976 1977 DOUGHERTY
Engine 236 LODD:
FRANK SMITH LT. ENGINE 236M BROOKLYN BOX 1768 JANUARY 14, 1973
RIP. Never forget.