FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies - 2nd Section

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Long Island City - 1873:




Long Island City was formerly a city, created in 1870, from the merger of the Long Island village of Astoria and the towns of Ravenswood, Hunters Point, Blissville, Sunnyside, Dutch Kills, Steinway, Bowery Bay and Middleton in Newtown Township. It was a separate city until it became part of New York City in 1898.


Long Island City 1873 map:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/1873_Beers_Map_of_Astoria_and_Long_Island_City,_Queens,_New_York_-_Geographicus_-_LongIslandCity-beers-1873.jpg

- Note: Blackwells Island became Welfare Island, then Roosevelt Island

 

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LIC - volunteer fire companies - 1890:





LIC - paid Long Island City Fire Department - 1890-1898:




LICFD history - 1890-1898:






LICFD paid firefighters - fired by FDNY commissioner then reinstated as FDNY members:

 

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3633 Vernon Avenue firehouse:

 

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1115 37th Avenue:

Note - Firehouse was a federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. WPA was a Great Depression-era federal works program to provide jobs to the unemployed.

 

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1115 37th Avenue:

 

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Bridge Chemical Unit 61 1939-1947:

Bridge Chemical Units were established to operate on bridges and in tunnels because pumpers did not have booster tanks. Long stretches for minor fires could be prevented. Bridge Chemical Unites were converted 750 GPM pumpers with 270 gallon water tanks, foam and foam generators, and portable extinguishers.

 

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Emergency Utility Unit 1 1942-1958:






SearchLight 21 1972-1990:

 

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Foam Supply Unit 81 1988-1998:

 

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Foam 260 1998-present:

 

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Engine 160 fire horse 312 1901:

 

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Engine 160 - accident 1901:





Engine 160 - accident 1934:

 

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Engine 260 water rescue 1922:

Engine 260 members rescue the rescuers.

 

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1943 LIC Pepsi Cola bottling plant fire:

Pepsi Cola had fire apparatus and firefighters.





LIC Pepsi Cola bottling plant active 1943-1999:

The Pepsi-Cola sign in Long Island city

Long Island City on Long Island is only one subway stop from mid-town Manhattan and right on the East River. Long Island City offers ...

www.bigapplesecrets.com

 

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1945 LIC plant fire:

 

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Engine 160 (260) LODD:

FIREFIGHTER PATRICK LENNON ENGINE 160 (260) December 1, 1904



Fireman Patrick Lennon of Engine 160 (now Engine 260) was burned while working on the roof of the Queens County Court House. The four-alarm fire started around noon on the third floor in the kitchen. The fire had spread up through the mansard roof by a strong north wind. Working on the roof at the time of the fire were twenty-one workers. They entered up through a skylight and became trapped by the flames exiting out of the skylight. An aerial ladder was raised and all twenty-one workers came down without any injuries. Fireman Lennon, who was detailed to Engine 158 (now Engine 258), was ordered up to the roof with other members. Lennon was the first up the ladder and when he stepped onto the roof flames enveloped him. Other firemen removed him from the roof and he was taken to a hospital. He had inhaled flames and was badly burned. While in the hospital his condition started to improve but took a turn for the worse and he died on December 1. He was married and the father of three children. - from "The Last Alarm"





RIP. Never forget.

 

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Engine 6 LICFD (now Engine 260):

FIREFIGHTER EDWARD MCDOWELL ENGINE 6 LICFD FEBRUARY 9, 1898

FF McDowell died in quarters while on duty.

 

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Long Island City:

Long Island City - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Ravenswood, Long Island City:

https://forgotten-ny.com/2005/04/quoth-the-ravenswood-queens/

 

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