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guitarman314 said:
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Thanks Mack for the S.I. Quad history. I do remember Quads also assigned E96 in the Bronx when they were a single company house on Bruckner Blvd, E251 and E312 also single houses in Queens.
E96's quad (#2613) was reassigned to E310 with E96 getting E310's standard 1951 WLF pumper. That same quad was later sent to E323 with E310 getting E323's 1953 WLF.  Engine 251 had their quad for a long time, I believe until 1968.  ;)

Thanks Gman.  Do you know how long some of the other Quads stayed in service where assigned.  And if they were 2nd pieces?  I think Engine 161 had their Quad for a long time but I don't think Ladder 82 kept theirs long.

I believe many of the old Quad debates were similar to the current Quint debates in departments.  Is versatility good and what do you give up to be versatile?
  E161 had their quad until 1961 when they got former E296's 1951 WLF which was right after L81 came over from E159.  I don't know how long E152 had their quad but my lists show E289's Mack C was reassigned to E152 when 289 got a new 1963 Mack C.

Thanks Gman.
 

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Engine 312  Firehouse  22-63 35th Street, Astoria, Queens  14th Division, 49th Battalion    ?Hellgate Firefighters?         
 
    Engine 312 organized 22-63 35th Street w/Ladder 163                                                        1928
    Engine 312 moved 42-08 Astoria Boulevard at Engine 263                                                  2003
    Engine 312 returned 22-63 35th Street                                                                              2004

    Ladder 163 organized 22-63 35th Street w/Engine 312                                                        1928
    Ladder 163 moved 41-24 51st Street at Engine 325                                                            1952

    Battalion 49 organized 112 Siegel Street at Ladder 108                                                        1906
    Battalion 49 disbanded                                                                                                      1922
    Battalion 49 reorganized 42-06 Astoria Boulevard at Ladder 117                                          1927
    Battalion 49 moved 22-63 35th Street at Engine 312                                                          1992
    Battalion 49 moved 27-12 Kearney Street at Engine 316                                                      2003
    Battalion 49 moved 22-63 35th Street at Engine 312                                                          2004

    Bridge Chemical Unit 62 organized 22-63 35th Street at Engine 312                                      1939
    Bridge Chemical Unit 62 moved LaGuardia Airport Hangar 4 at Airport Crash Unit 31              1946
    Bridge Chemical Unit 62 moved LaGuardia Airport Building 30 w/ Airport Crash Unit 31          1947
    Bridge Chemical Unit 62 moved 22-63 35th Street at Engine 312                                        1947
    Bridge Chemical Unit 62 disbanded                                                                                    1952


22-63 35th Street firehouse:
   
   

   

   

   

   


Engine 312:

   

   


Battalion 49:

   


Bridge Chemical Unit 62:

   


Engine 312/Battalion 49:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9sghuid9fI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjnCMH_tLD0

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZgHn_Q-IF0


FDNY Medals E 312:

    CAPT Denis W. Lane, awarded 1949 Stephenson Medal

    LT George R. Goger, September 17, 1953, awarded 1954 FDR Medal

         

          LT Goger LODD October 2, 1963

    FF Ronald S. Sessa, December 21, 1964, awarded 1965 Scott Medal

         


Engine 312 LODDs:

    LT George R. Goger, October 2, 1963

         


Battalion 49 LODDs:

    BC Samuel H. Levine, 49 March 21, 1967

         

    LT Michael A. Maloney, March 19, 1975

         


    RIP.  Never forget.


Airport Crash Unit 31:

    FDNY Airport Crash Unit 31 was organized to protect the new Laguardia Airport in 1946.  Primary duty was to extinguish fire and lend aid for emergencies related to aircraft entering or leaving the airport.  Equipment included a Sanitation Department sprinkler and three Army fire trucks.  Unit established fre protection system and procedures for airport, responded to major crash in which they saved many lives and stayed in service until disbanded and responsibilities turned over to Port Authority.  Bridge Chemical Unit 63 was located with Airport Crash Unit 31 1946-1947 until relocated to Engine 312.

    Airport Crash Unit 31:

             


Astoria history - Steinway Village:

    "Steinway Village: A Company Town - A desire to remove employees from Manhattan?s teeming humanity, particularly organized labor and ?the machinations of the anarchists and socialists,? inspired William to purchase 400 acres across the East River in a bucolic, sparsely-populated area of Astoria, New York.  With space for much-needed expansion, William set about creating the company town of Steinway where the firm could cast its own piano frames and saw its own lumber. Steinway & Sons pianos are still manufactured at this location. William approached the development of Steinway with characteristic thoroughness, wading through rainy salt meadows in ?great India rubber boots? inspecting property, overseeing street surveys, and assessing employee housing construction later advertised as ?country homes with city comforts.? Diary entries reflect William?s pride in creating a company town where workers could own brick homes, drink fresh water, and stroll under shade trees on Steinway Avenue?still the main thoroughfare in this part of Queens. He donated land and built a public school, fire house, post office and churches to further his vision. A network of horse-car railroads, streetcars, trolleys, and ferries provided access to the settlement and brought in additional income. What would become North Beach Amusement Park offered ?respectable people? an alternative to Coney Island and the chance to experience evening festivities illuminated by the novelty of electric lighting."
          - Smithsonian    http://americanhistory.si.edu/steinwaydiary/annotations/?id=367

    Steinway Hose 7:

         

          The paid Long Island City Fire Department replaced the volunteer Steinway Hose 7 in 1891.  Long Island City companies transitioned to FDNY in 1898 when Queens became part of NYC.

    Steinway Village:

         


Hellgate History:

    Hell Gate is a narrow tidal strait located in the East River in between Queens and Ward?s Island at the center of a confluence of the New York Upper Bay, Long Island Sound, and the Hudson River (via the Harlem River). It runs the span of Manhattan?s 90th Street to 100th Street, while its narrower, sister strait is known as the Little Hell Gate which flows in between Randall?s and Ward?s Islands.  The strait derives its name from the Dutch word, Hellegat, which has two meanings: "Bright Gate" or "Hell Gate."

    http://gothamist.com/2016/02/22/hell_gate_history_nyc.php


Astoria:

    http://forgotten-ny.com/2012/01/north-astoria-queens/

   


   
 

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Hell Gate Bridge was a scene in the 1973 NYPD-related movie "Serpico":

   

   
 
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312 is right around the corner from the famous Deli...    https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/sal-kris-and-charlies-deli-astoria?select=ogL-b7O93mTGJzrAK8vCBg ...... if you look at the photo map the Deli is right at the top of the V in 23 AVE...  https://postimg.cc/image/kgink0u8l/
 

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68jk09 said:
312 is right around the corner from the famous Deli...    https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/sal-kris-and-charlies-deli-astoria?select=ogL-b7O93mTGJzrAK8vCBg ...... if you look at the photo map the Deli is right at the top of the V in 23 AVE...  https://postimg.cc/image/kgink0u8l/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCwl8HWh8wg
 

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July 2006 Astoria blackout - Mets honor Engine 312:

    https://www.blackhelmetapparel.com/story.php?story=queens-firefighters-new-york-mets-blackouts-03-12
 
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LAD*116 I know this was discussed before on here but just saw this today.. https://www.facebook.com/nycfirewire/photos/pb.492465197497698.-2207520000.1506824658./1467265630017645/?type=3&theater
 

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Engine 261/Ladder 116/Collapse Rescue Unit 4  Firehouse  37-20 28th Street, Long Island City, Queens, NY  14th Division, 45th Battalion  "The Flaming Skulls"  ENGINE 261 DISBANDED

    Engine 3 Long Island City Fire Department organized 38-08 28th Street    1892
    Engine 3 LICFD became Engine 4 FDNY                                                  1898
    Engine 4 became Engine 161                                                                  1899
    Engine 161 became Engine 261                                                              1913
    Engine 261 new firehouse 37-20 29th Street                                          1932
    Engine 261 disbanded                                                                          2003

    Ladder 2 Long Island City Fire Department organized 443 Buckley Street    1894
    Ladder 2 LICFD became Ladder 16 FDNY                                                  1898
    Ladder 16 became Ladder 66                                                                  1898
    Ladder 66 new firehouse 38-11 Northern Boulevard                                  1904
    Ladder 66 became Ladder 116                                                                1913
    Ladder 116 moved 37-20 29th Street at Engine 261                                1947
    Ladder 116 moved 11-15 37th Avenue at Engine 260                              1997
    Ladder 116 moved 37-20 29th Street at Engine 261                                1997

    Water Tower 5 located at 37-20 29th Street at Engine 261                    1932-1947

    Collapse Rescue Unit 4 organized 37-20 29th Street at Ladder 116            2005


Long Island City was formerly a city, created in 1870, from the merger of the Long Island village of Astoria and the hamlets 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); separate Ward's Island and Randall's Island and ferries to Manhattan.
     

Long Island City Fire Department was a paid fire department which protected Long Island City in the 1890s before it became part of New York City in 1898.  LICFD companies entered FDNY in 1989 and were renumbered in 1898 and later in 1913.

Long Island City volunteer fire companies 1890:
                               
   


Long Island City Fire Department (paid department) 1891-1898:

   

   


Long Island City Fire Department companies 1897:

   


Engine 261 original 38-08 28th Street firehouse:

   


38-08 28th Street former firehouse:

   

   

   



Ladder 116 (Ladder 16) original firehouse 443 Buckley Street (original volunteer and LICFD firehouse):

   

   


Ladder 116 (Ladder 66) former firehouse 38-11 Northern Boulevard:

    In 1900, FDNY Commissioner JJ Scannell proposed a sweeping expansion of fire service citywide, but especially in underserved Long Island City. The ?Board of Estimate and Apportionment? was asked to make funds available for infrastructure- specifically fire houses. Built concurrently with Engine 258 fire house at 10-40 47th Avenue, the building was budgeted to cost $18,000 to build and complete in 1901, but ended up costing $23,000 when it was dedicated in 1905.  Firehouse  was designed and overseen by Ernest Flagg, architect of the US Naval Academy.  Former firehouse is used by NYPD.  The old  Ladder 116 firehouse on Northern Blvd is not an ESU response qtrs....there are NYPD Special Operations Units quartered there but they are medical in nature that deal w/sick/ injured PD MOS & provide home services like oxygen etc sort of like our old Oxygen Therapy Unit etc .....the ESU Truck Ten Units that cover this area (as well as most of North Queens) responds out of the 109 Pct on Union St in Flushing (thanks Chief K):

   
          - Firehouse 1940s building directly below US flag

   

   

   

   

    http://newtownpentacle.com/2009/07/16/hook-and-ladder-66/

    http://newtownpentacle.com/2009/07/31/hook-and-ladder-66-updated/


37-20 29th Street:

   
     
   

   

   

   

   


Engine 261:

   

   

   

   

   


Ladder 116 (Ladder 16) originally assigned this model apparatus:

   


Ladder 116 (Ladder 66) members in front of 38-11 Northern Boulevard:

   


Ladder 116:

   

   

   

   

   

   


Collapse Rescue Unit 4:

   

   


Ladder 116 NYPD support:

   


Ladder 116 members:

   

   


Ladder 116 responding:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fSiSqTOvNg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMKxxK3Da8g

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIXmm4iPNho


Engine 261 disbanded 2003:

    http://www.qchron.com/editions/western/engine-closes-its-doors-but-city-is-taken-to-court/article_9960b998-9be5-5635-9130-b377822d0cfb.html


Ladder 116 FDNY Medal:

    FF Christopher Polesovsky, Queens Box 2-2-7467, November 25, 2016

   


Engine 261 LODD - FF Michael Emmett, died July 26, 1900 from injuries received in quarters exercising horses:

   


Ladder 116 LODD - LT Lames A. O'Brien , died April 16, 1930 from pneumonia following burn injury received March 17, 1930:

   

   


    Never forget.


Ladder 116 Facebook:

    https://www.facebook.com/FLAMINGSKULLS/


Long Island City:

    http://www.queenswestvillager.com/about/detail/history_of_long_island_city

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_City












 

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Engine 219/Ladder 105  Firehouse  494 Dean Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn  11th Division, 57th Battalion 

    Engine 19 BFD organized 735 Dean Street                              1880
    Engine 19 became Engine 19 FDNY                                        1898
    Engine 19 became Engine 119                                              1899
    Engine 119 became Engine 219                                            1913
    Engine 219 new firehouse 494 Dean St w/Ladder 105            1977

    Ladder 5 BFD organized Manhattan Ave and Ten Eyck St        1869
    Ladder 5 BFD disbanded                                                      1873
    Ladder 5 BFD reorganized 648 Pacific Street                          1885
    Ladder 5 BFD became Ladder 5 FDNY                                    1898
    Ladder 5 became Ladder 55                                                  1899
    Ladder 55 became Ladder 105                                              1913
    Ladder 105 new firehouse 494 Dean St w/Engine 219            1977


Engine 19 BFD:

   

"ENGINE COMPANY NO. 19 : AMONG SCHOOLS, CLUBS CHURCHES AND ARMORIES

    The home of Engine Company No. 19 is in Dean Street, near Underhill Avenue.  The company was organized Dec. 24,1880, and is located in a very large and important district, which is bounded by Park Avenue, Kingston Avenue, the city line, and Carrol and Nevins Streets.  There are 112 boxes in this territory, and on a second-alarm the men respond to calls from 94 additional boxes.  They are expected to be first on hand should a fire occur in any of the following places : Knox's hat factory, Budweiser's  brewery, Reilly's storehouse, Vosburgh's gas fixture factory. Graves' storehouse, Webster's silver-plating establishment, the Brooklyn Riding Academy, the Home for Destitute Children, St. Joseph's School, St. Theresa s School, Adelphi Academy, Pratt Institute, Public Schools Nos. 9 and 42, Chester's silver-plating works. King's furniture and carpet house. Long Island Brewery, Brevoort flats. Union League Club, Kings County Penitentiary, Montauk Club, Brooklyn City car stables, Richardson's car stables. Flatbush Avenue depot of the Long Island Railroad and the large freight depot of the same company, on Atlantic Avenue ; Crawford & Valentine's Scrimshaw works, the 13th Regiment and the 3d Gatling Battery armories, the Criterion theatre, Seney Hospital, Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Home for Aged Men and Women (two buildings), private hospital on President Street, Ansonia clock works, Brasher's oilcloth factory, Homeopathic Hospital, Talmage's Tabernacle, St. Luke's Episcopal and several other large churches."

    "The company is equipped with a second-class Amoskeag engine, a four-wheel hosecart, and four young, well-trained horses, three of which are handsome bays and the fourth a dapple gray.  The following are some of the big fires at which the company has been engaged laboriously and often at great peril to their lives for many hours before the fire fiend could be controlled:

    Palmer's cooperage (twice), Dick & Meyer's sugar house, Church's soda works, Pratt's oil works (twice), St. John's Home, the Penitentiary shoe shop, Jewell's wharf, Watson's stores, Harbeck stores, Warner Institute, Adelphi Academy, Heckler's iron works (twice), Richardson's car stables (three times), Talmage's Tabernacle, Baum's millinery establishment, Koeke Brothers' hay and feed storehouse. Contractor dark's stables, where one hundred mules were burned, Loomis' moulding mills, Budweiser brewery, Brooklyn Cocoa-matting Company, Fink's coal yard and dwellings, a large rag repository on Kent Avenue, McDonald's oil works, Smith & Pettinger's lumber yard, the Almshouse, Hyde & Behman's theatre, Ovington Brothers' crockery store, Buchanan & Lyall's Planet mills. Horseman's bakery, the Wallabout Market fires, and the dwelling-house fire on Court Street during the water famine."
    - From "Our Firemen- the History of the Brooklyn Fire Department"


   


   


Engine 19 BFD (Engine 219) former firehouse 735 Dean Street:

   

   

   

   

   

   

    http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/2551618

Engine 119 FDNY:

   

   

    1902 driver of Engine 119 serious injury while responding to fire:

         


Engine 219 735 Dean Street:

   

   


Ladder 5 BFD:

   


Ladder 5 BFD:

"HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY NO. 5 : HEROES OF MANY "CLOSE SHAVES"

    Hook and Ladder Company No. 5 was organized by Fire Commissioner Richard H. POILLON, on June 15, 1885. It is located in Pacific Street near Sixth Avenue, in the centre of a very important district which is bounded by DeKalb Avenue, Nostrand Avenue, Fifth Street and Bond Street.  There are seventy boxes in this district, and on a second-alarm the company respond to sixty-five additional boxes. In this district are Graves' furniture house.  Green's underwear factory, Knox's hat factory. Kings County Penitentiary, Brooklyn watch case works; Ovington Brothers' crockery store, Journeay & Burnham's store, the Johnson building, Dyckman's box factory, Municipal Gas Company's works, Public Schools Nos. 9, 15, and 47, St. Joseph's parochial school, Talmage's Tabernacle, Washington Avenue Baptist church, St. Joseph's Roman Catholic, St. Luke's Episcopal, Dr. Cuyler' s church, Lafayette Avenue Congregational, St. Augustine's and Frs. McCarty, McNamee and Corcoran's churches, the 13th Regiment Armory, the Long Island R. R. passenger and freight depots. Young Women's Christian Association, Seney Hospital, Long Island Brewery, Budweiser brewery, Webster's silver-plating factory, Schieber's silver-plating factory, Tivoli Hall and the Franklin Avenue car stables.

    The company have a second-class Hayes truck and three handsome, well-trained horses, " Dan," a sorrel. "Baby" a dark iron-gray, and "Charlie Hart," a brown. They have a full-blooded English coach-dog, which is called "Frances," after Mrs. Cleveland. Frances is as intelligent as she is handsome, and prior to being run over by the truck in 1888, when one of her legs was broken, it was customary for her to go out with the truck on every alarm, and when the fire was reached to follow the men up to the roof. Since that event Frances has been detailed on the house watch, and it is as much as a mans life is worth to try to enter the house when the company is out. 
                 
    There are quite a number of men in the company who have been with it since its organization, and as such they have seen many fires which required many hours of hard and perilous work to subdue.  Notable among these were Watson's stores, the Penitentiary shoe shop, Adelphi Academy, Planet Mills, Talmages Tabernacle, the Seventh Avenue car stables, Brasher's oilcloth works. Butler Street car stables. Watts- lumber yard. Hyde & Behman's theatre, POILLON's ship yard, Loomis' moulding mills, the Hulvert mansion, Bradley's carpet house, Messuli's paint works and the Sand Street flathouse fires. 
                 
    Foreman THOMAS HEALEY has had several narrow escapes since he became a Member of the Department on Dec. 6, 1870.  The closest "shave" he ever had was when he walked off the dock during the fire at Watson's stores and sank in twelve feet of water.  When he came up his fire-hat was gone, and being weighted down with his rubber coat and boots he found it extremely difficult to swim to the dock. The boys succeeded in getting him out with a rope just as his strength was deserting him.  At the fire at Woodruff & Robinson's stores, Mr. HEALY with others was on the roof when it fell in and precipitated them a distance of fifteen feet into a bin of burning grain, from which they were extricated with great difficulty. At the Pratt's oil works fire he made his best running record while trying to keep ahead of a river of burning oil. Mr. HEALY was born in the County Roscommon. Ireland, July 18. 1841, and was educated at the common schools of his native town. When he came to Brooklyn, he joined Goodwill Engine Company No. 4 and ran with her until the disbandment of the Volunteer Department. His first fire duty in the new Department was with Truck No. 2.  He was afterward transferred to Engine No. 19 and then to Truck No. 6. While with the latter company, on Sept. 5. 1885, he was promoted to the grade of Foreman and placed in command of Engine Company No. 9, and from that company was transferred to his present command.
                 
Assistant Foreman MARTIN J. CORCORAN was among the first to be promoted when Commissioner ENNIS created that rank.  He was born in the city of Limerick, Dec. 5, 1860, and was educated on his native heath. He was appointed to the uniformed force on Jan. 30, 1882, and assigned to Engine Company No. 19, and later was detailed as driver for District Engineer Parley. He was a private in Truck No. 5 at the time of his promotion on March 1, 1887. Mr. CORCORAN has been injured many times in discharge of his duty. While a private in Engine Company No. 19, in Aug., 1883, he was so ill with malaria that the Department surgeon advised him not to do active duty for a time. A fire broke out on a very hot day and Mr. CORCORAN, disregarding the doctor's advice, went out with his company. He was stationed on the wall of an adjoining building when he was overcome with the heat and fell backward, injuring his head so badly that it was necessary to remove him to the Homeopathic Hospital, where he remained for several days.  He narrowly escaped being killed at the Portland Avenue flat-house fire, when. one of the ceilings fell on him and others, and nearly buried them under a mass of burning timbers. At another time one of the horses belonging to Engine No. 19 threw him and nearly fractured his skull. At "The Abbey " fire, Mr. CORCORAN sprained his ankle so seriously that he was laid up for six weeks, and at a laid at Raymond and Fulton Streets his shoulder was nearly wrenched out of the socket.

JOHN H. HINTON, the driver of the apparatus, was born in New York City, Oct. .27, 1848.  When he was appointed a member of the Paid Department he was assigned to duty with Truck No. 1.  He was later transferred to Engine No. 20, then to the Veterinary Department, back to Truck No. 1, then to Engine No. 3, from there to Engine No. 24, and then to this company. At the ink factory fire on' Forty-second Street, South Brooklyn, in 1882, he with three other firemen narrowly escaped being killed by the caving in of the roof on which they were standing.

WILLIAM H. JONES, the tillerman, is one of the life-savers of the Department. "While tillerman of Truck No. 1, he assisted Engineer Duff, then Foreman of Engine No. 3, in bringing out an unconscious woman from the first floor of a dwelling on Columbia, near Congress Street. In Feb. 1887, unaided and with no little peril to himself, he carried a woman from the third floor of a burning house on Fifth Avenue, down the stairway to the street. Besides being  suffocated she had inhaled fire, and she died at the City Hospital some hours later.  Mr. JONES was born in Brooklyn, Nov. 2, 1849. In July, 1875, he enlisted in the regular army, where he served for five years with the 9th Infantry.  His appointment to the Department was made on Jan. 30, 1882.

MICHAEL JOSEPH KELLEY was born in Manchester, England, Jan. 15, 1857, and he has been a member of Truck No. 5 since he was appointed to the uniformed force, on Dec. 10, 1891.

LOUIS SCHULZ was born in New Hyde Park, L. I., on the anniversary of Washington's Birthday, 1866.  He enlisted in the United States Navy May 23,1887, and received an honorable discharge together with a continued service certificate June 12, 1890. Commissioner ENNIS made him a fireman Nov. 16. 1891, and he has been with Truck No. 5 since that time.

EDWARD PATRICK COFFEY was born in the city of Dublin, Ireland, Feb. 14, 1864. He was made a fireman Aug. 1, 1889, and since that time has done duty with Engines Nos. 14, and 27 and Truck No. 5.

JOHN L. TUCKER was born in Brooklyn, July 24,1860, and became a member of the Department June 4, 1890.

JAMES J. McGARRY was born in Brooklyn, March 18, 1859, and he has worn the uniform with credit to himself and the Department since July 17, 1891.

JAMES A. MALONE was a member of Mount Hose No. 10 when the Volunteer Department was disbanded. He was born in Brooklyn in 1847, and during the Civil War fought under General " Phil" Sheridan. He was appointed to the new Department Jan. 29, 1870  and assigned to duty with Engine No. 10, where he remained for fifteen years. He was then transferred to Engine No. 19, then to Engine No. 6, and thence to Truck No. 5 at the time of its organization. While a member of Engine No. 10, the tender upset on the way to Loomis' moulding mill fire, and Mr. MALONE narrowly escaped being killed.

HENRY A. BRINKMAN has been a member of this company since its organization and has worn the uniform since Nov. 12. 1880. In 1883, while a member of Engine No. 4, he received internal and spinal injuries by the collapsing of a church on Third Avenue. Mr. BRINKMAN was born in Brooklyn. Aug. 18, 1855, and has proved himself to be not only a good citizen but a faithful member of the Department. The orders have been issued and preparations have been made for the organization of a new engine-company. No. 34, to be attached to the Eighth District. Its house, now building, will be on Bergen Street, east of Troy Avenue.
    - From "Our Firemen- the History of the Brooklyn Fire Department"


Ladder 5 BFD:

    Ladder 5 BFD original firehouse 130 Ten Eyck St former quarters of volunteer "United States" Engine 4


Ladder 55 (Ladder 105):

   


Ladder 105 former firehouse 648 Pacific Street:

   

   
   
   

   

   



Ladder 105 1936 firehouse theft:

   


Engine 219/Ladder 105 494 Dean St firehouse:

   

   

   

   

   


Engine 219:

   

   

   

   


Ladder 105:

   

   

   


Engine 219/Ladder 105:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jsYv8BMY1E&t=87s

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M5ZyBwIGTE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDUNqT0I02M

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LbZ7_2D8No


Engine 219 Medals:

    LT JAMES E. MC MANUS, DEC. 22, 1914, HURLEY MEDAL

         
   
          Rescued Mrs Ella Deean at tenement fire, 817 Dean Street

    EDWARD GALLAGHER FF. ENG. 219 FEB. 25, 1968, CONRAN MEDAL

    LT NEAL M. MCKENNA, JUN. 7, 1982, AMERICAN LEGION MEDAL

    LT BRIAN F. MC CULLAGH, SEP. 9, 1984, THOMPSON MEDAL


Ladder 105 Medals:

    CAPT GEORGE J. KLEIN, OCT. 13, 1917, BROOKLYN CITIZENS MEDAL

         

    FF FREDERICK B. BROSNAN, OCT. 13, 1917, CRIMMINS MEDAL

    FF JOHN S. DENNIN, OCT. 13, 1917, HURLEY MEDAL

    FF JOSEPH P. GERRITY, FEB. 21, 1937, BROOKLYN CITIZENS MEDAL

         


    FF LEO P. J. HEAGEN, FEB. 21, 1937, PRENTICE MEDAL

    FF ROBERT W. LANE, OCT. 15, 1942, HUGH BONNER MEDAL

         

    FF LEO H. KANGAS, OCT. 4, 1956, SCOTT MEDAL

          FF Kangas attended City College and was 1939 college handball champion

    PROB FF JOHN J. BROWNE, JR., NOV. 11, 1957, DOUGHERTY MEDAL

    FF JOSEPH L. PETELEY, FEB. 14, 1958, TREVOR-WARREN MEDAL

    CAPT GEORGE D. KELLY, JAN. 12, 1959, BROOKLYN CITIZENS MEDAL

    FF THOMAS J. WHELAN, JAN. 12, 1959, FDR MEDAL

    FF JOHN C. ROGAN, DEC. 16, 1960, MC ELLIGOTT MEDAL
         
          1960 plane crash - Park Slope, Brooklyn - Ladder 105 1st due

              At 10:34, on a foggy morning, two planes collided over NYC. One plane crashed at Miller Field in Staten Island. The second plane, struggled to stay aloft only to crash into one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the city: Park Slope in Brooklyn. A wing clipped an apartment house as the plane drove into the street and a row of buildings at Sterling Place and Seventh Avenue. An elderly man startled by the crash, pulled the fire alarm box sending Engines 269, 280 & 219 along with Ladders 105 & 132 to Box 1231. The first due units arrived quickly to find 11 buildings in flames. Within minutes Battalion 48 had transmitted a 2nd & 3rd alarms. Lt. Bush of L-105 split his men and tried to cover the flaming fuselage of the plane and a blazing apartment building. As the officer and his team crawled into the burning building, Firemen Rogan & Dailey entered the blazing plane armed with only extinguishers. As Dailey held back the flames, Rogan cut two people from their seats and pulled them from the blazing wreckage. Amazingly the passengers were still alive.
    Inside the apartment, heavy fire was filling the first and fifth floors as jet fuel fed flames burned up the outside and in through broken windows and gaps in the damaged structure. Fireman Browne found an elderly woman and together with Lt. Bush carried her to safety. They then found and removed an injured man just as the flaming building collapsed. Within ten minutes of the initial alarm, a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th alarms and special calls for Rescue 1 & 4 had been transmitted. The plane?s fuselage crashed into the Pillar of Fire Church which was completely destroyed by the resulting fire and explosions. Engine companies stretched lines and began battling the row of buildings set ablaze by flaming jet fuel.
    The neighborhood was now in a complete panic. Mothers and their children fled from their homes onto the snowy streets. Others opened their doors to a wall of flames and had to escape through the rear. Rumors a school with 1500 students inside had been hit, only increased the drama. (Luckily the school was okay).
Despite the intense heat, and tottering walls, Rescue, Squad and Laddermen moved into the blazing areas covered by attack lines. Team after team advanced across the shattered debris and into the raging fires. In all 38 lines were stretched and operated. Thirty one engines, six ladder companies, three rescue companies, and four special units operated at this fire.
    When the smoke finally cleared, the toll was devastating: 84 passengers on the Brooklyn plane were killed. Six people on the ground were killed, fifteen civilians and seventeen firemen were injured. In Staten Island all 44 people on the plane had been killed.
    In Brooklyn, 200 off-duty firemen responded and worked at the scene. The firefighting and recovery efforts at this, the worst commercial airline crash (at that time), would go on for several days. For the next several days members of the FDNY combed the wreckage of the crashed airliner, and searched the shattered neighborhood buildings. Pockets of fire were extinguished as the devastation left behind became evident. The six people killed on the ground were: an elderly church caretaker, a sanitation worker shoveling snow, two men selling Christmas trees on the sidewalk, a butcher in his shop and a man walking his dog.  A total of 134 people had lost their lives.  For their heroic rescues upon arrival, Lt. Bush, Firemen Browne, Dailey and Rogan of Ladder 105 were later awarded medals. John Rogan was also treated at the hospital for second degree burns.

          http://gettinsaltyapparel.com/blog/1960-plane-crash/

    FF JOHN DAILEY, DEC. 16, 1960, HUGH BONNER MEDAL

          1960 plane crash - Park Slope, Brooklyn - Ladder 105 1st due

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxAQ65sGWVk

    LT JAMES F. BUSH, DEC. 16, 1960, PRENTICE MEDAL

          1960 plane crash - Park Slope, Brooklyn - Ladder 105 1st due

          http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/1960-new-york-city-plane-crash-back-gallery-1.1549629?pmSlide=1.1549614

    FF JOHN J. BROWNE, JR., DEC. 16, 1960, DELEHANTY MEDAL

          1960 plane crash - Park Slope, Brooklyn - Ladder 105 1st due

    FF JOHN T. BURKE, DEC. 21, 1968, HUGH BONNER MEDAL

         

    FF FREDERICK W. POWERS, APR. 17, 1968, FDR MEDAL

         

    FF JOSEPH D. GROSSO, APR. 12, 1969, DOUGHERTY MEDAL

         

    FF JEREMIAH GORMAN, JAN. 9, 1977, BROOKLYN CITIZENS MEDAL

    LT FRANK P. CRUTHERS, JUN. 24, 1978, JOHNSTON MEDAL

          Became Chief of Department.

    FF ROBERT P. KACZMAREK, JUN. 7, 1982, FIRE CHIEFS MEDAL

    FF  WILLIAM S. STARK, FEB. 13, 1990, COMPANY OFFICERS MEDAL

          Rescued two people, 4-story OMD, 682 Washington Avenue

         

    FF PETER B. HESPE, FEB. 13, 1990, TUTTLEMONDO MEDAL

          Rescued two people, 4-story OMD, 682 Washington Avenue

    FF EDWARD X. COOPER, FEB. 13, 1990, CONNELL MEDAL

          Rescued two people, 4-story OMD, 682 Washington Avenue

    LT SHAUN M. REEN, OFF DUTY, OCT. 17, 1990, SIGNAL 77 MEDAL

    FF ROBERT P. STRAFER, JUL. 4, 1993, LANE MEDAL

    LT JOHN M. SPILLANE, 2005 HONOR LEGION MEDAL

         

    FF JORDAN C. SULLIVAN, MAR.16, 2014, HUGH BONNOR MEDAL, HONOR LEGION MEDAL

       


Engine 219 LODDs:

    FF James H. Malone, July 18, 1922

         

    FF Joseph T.Mannino, December 24, 1953

         

    FF Patrick J. Cleary, May 30, 1976

         

    LT John Chipura, September 11, 2001

         

         

          http://www.silive.com/september-11/index.ssf/2010/09/john_chipura_39_fdny_was_forme.html

          http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/fdny-lt-gerard-chipura-remembers-brother-john-chipura-marine-survived-beirut-bombing-died-hero-twin-towers-fell-9-11-article-1.1157248


Ladder 105 LODDs:


    FF Hugh McGowan, December 4, 1891

         

    FF Michael J. O'Toole, December 26, 1902

         

    LT John F. Timmons, October 23, 1911

         

    FF Robert W. Lane, April 9, 1943

          Posthumous award of 1943 Hugh Bonner Medal

         

    FF Joseph O'Flaherty, March 4, 1944

         

    CAPT William F. Klauck, March 30, 1944

         

    LT Theodore F. Knote, October 23, 1959

    CAPT Vincent Burton, September 11, 2001

         

         

          http://www.irishtribute.com/tributes/view.adp@d=236920&t=247688.html

    LT Thomas R. Kelly, September 11, 2001

         

         

          http://sept11memorials.tumblr.com/post/60702606297/thomas-richard-kelly-world-trade-center-fdny

          http://www.newsday.com/911-anniversary/memories-of-thomas-kelly-1.2764945

    FF Henry Miller, Jr., September 11, 2001

         

         

    FF Dennis O'Berg, September 11, 2001

         

         

          http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/fdny-rookie-mourned-capt-dad-died-9-11-article-1.485390


    FF Frank Palumbo, September 11, 2001

         

         

          http://abc7.com/news/son-remembers-firefighter-father-who-died-on-9-11/304896/


    RIP.  Never Forget.


Prospect Heights neighborhood:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Heights,_Brooklyn

   

    Barclays Center:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barclays_Center









 
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A correction to a photo above - the member pictured as one of the Line-of-Duty deaths from Ladder 105 on September 11, 2001 is FF Thomas W. Kelly of Ladder 15, not FF Thomas R. Kelly of Ladder 105.
 

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A correction to a photo above - the member pictured as one of the Line-of-Duty deaths from Ladder 105 on September 11, 2001 is FF Thomas W. Kelly of Ladder 15, not FF Thomas R. Kelly of Ladder 105.
Thanks t123ken.  Corrected.
 
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I remember as a young guy (12) going to both original firehouses and both were buff friendly.Eng 219 was only six blocks north of 280 and I picked up 280&132 Lunch at a sandwich shop on Washington Ave near Bergen St so to kill 30 mins went to both FH's
 
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I believe the L 105 house on Pacific Street was used by an FDNY salvage unit after L 105 moved to the new house on Dean Street.
 
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johnd248 said:
I believe the L 105 house on Pacific Street was used by an FDNY salvage unit after L 105 moved to the new house on Dean Street.
Yes after 105 left a Fire Salvage Unit moved in until they were relocated then after that the FH became the SOC Decon Laundry.
 

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Salvage 4  Firehouse former quarters Ladder 105 648 Pacific Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn      DISBANDED

    Salvage 4 organized 648 Pacific Street                                          1979
    Salvage 4 disbanded                                                                    1991

648 Pacific Street firehouse:

   


Salvage 4:

   


    Salvage units were organized in the 1970s to limit water damage and seal fire buildings.  They were funded by the federal Model Cities Program.  Units were staffed by an FDNY fire officer, an FDNY firefighter chauffer and civilian salvage personnel who lived in designated Model Cities neighborhoods.  The program provided an opportunity to hire salvage personnel, train them and introduce them to the fire service.  There were five salvage units organized between 1972 and 1991:

      SALVAGE 1 BROOKLYN ORG. 2581 Atlantic Ave.  (May  18, 1972) RELOC. 551 Waverly Ave.  (Dec.  3, 1977) RELOC. 1472 Bergen St. FQ E-234 (Mar. 22, 1979) RELOC. 657 Liberty Ave. FQ E-332 (Jul. 24, 1985) DISB.  (Dec.  2, 1986)

    SALVAGE 2 MANHATTAN ORG. 242 E. 111th St. At E-91 (Mar. 22, 1979) DISB.  (Jan. 26, 1991) REORG. 242 E. 111th St. At E-91 (Jan. 31, 1991) DISB  (Feb.  9, 1991) 

    SALVAGE 3 BRONX ORG. 2504 Webster Ave. FQ E-48 (Mar. 22, 1979) DISB.  (Jan. 26, 1991)

    SALVAGE 4 BROOKLYN ORG. 648 Pacific St. FQ L-105 (Jun. 30, 1979) DISB.  (Jan. 26, 1991)

    SALVAGE 5 BRONX ORG. 1080 Ogden Ave. FQ E-68 (Sep. 29, 1979) DISB.  (Jul.  1, 1982)
 
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Seeing the picture of the Mack Tower Ladder L 105 had, I believe they were the second company to have a Tower Ladder after TL 1.  Possibly L 14 had one prior to L 105 but I think they wanted one in Brooklyn.
 
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johnd248 said:
Seeing the picture of the Mack Tower Ladder L 105 had, I believe they were the second company to have a Tower Ladder after TL 1.  Possibly L 14 had one prior to L 105 but I think they wanted one in Brooklyn.
  I believe Tower Ladders were in this order: 1964-1, 1966-14, 1969(4)-44, 105, 119, 127 ;)
 
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