Engine 205/Ladder 118 firehouse - 74 Middagh St, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
Engine 5 BFD organized 160 Pierrepont St in former firehouse of volunteer Pacific Engine 14 1869
Engine 5 BFD became Engine 5 FDNY 1898
Engine 5 became Engine 105 1899
Engine 105 became Engine 205 1913
Engine 205 moved to 274 Hicks St at Engine 224 1925
Engine 205 moved to new firehouse 74 Middagh St w/Ladder 118 1929
Ladder 68 FDNY organized 365 Jay St in former BFD fire headquarters 1901
Ladder 68 became Ladder 118 1913
Ladder 118 moved to new firehouse 74 Middagh St w/Engine 205 1929
Ladder 118 moved to 172 Tillary St at Ladder 110 1992
Ladder 118 moved to 74 Middagh St at Engine 205 1993
Note: Volunteer Pacific Engine 14 organized 1946
Engine 5 BFD:
"Perhaps the most centrally situated of the two score headquarters of the fire-companies, upon which the city depends for protection, is the house of Engine Company No. 5, in Pierrepont Street near Fulton. Many hundreds of times have the doors been thrown open and the engine dashed forth to answer alarms from all parts of the city. Engine No. 5 responds to first-alarms in the territory in and contiguous to Fulton Street, from Clark Street to Hudson Avenue, which includes much of the most valuable property in the city. In this region are the public buildings, including the City Hall, Court House, Municipal Building, Hall of Records, and the new Federal Building; the principal places of amusement in the Western District, including the Academy of Music, Grand Opera House, Park Theatre, Star Theatre, and the recently completed Columbia Theatre; all the chief hotels of the city; such important structures as the Brooklyn Library, the Long Island Historical Society's building, the Hamilton and Germania clubhouses, the great dry goods houses, the offices of the principal banks and trust companies, a number of large churches, the Polytechnic and Packer Institutes, and the great office buildings surrounding City Hall Square. Property worth many millions of dollars is guarded first of all by this engine company. On second alarms it is called to the great warehouses on the waterfront and to the greater part of the Western District; while in response to third alarms and special calls it may be summoned to the Eastern District, and even to Greenpoint and East New York. Ever since the fatal and disastrous fire in the Brooklyn Theatre, at Washington and Johnson Streets, on Dec. 5, 1876, when 278 lives were lost, special precautions have been taken to avoid a repetition of the disaster even upon a small scale, and firemen are detailed from Engine No. 5, to attend each matin?e and evening performance in the playhouses within its territory, to be in readiness to flood the stage and quench any incipient conflagration.
No. 5 is the only engine company housed on the Heights, and it traces its history back to the old Engine Company No. 14 of the Volunteer Department, established in Love Lane in 1846. Ten years later it removed to the present quarters. It was the crack company of the Volunteer Department and the sons of many of the best families on the Heights had been connected with it. Their house was expensively decorated and furnished, and they owned a fine engine. At present No. 5 is equipped with a fine Amoskeag engine, which has been in use for seven years. It is fitted with all facilities for the work of extinguishing fire. To draw the engine and tender four horses are stabled in the engine house. The names over their stalls are Tom, Jerry, Speed, and Dick. The same names are bestowed upon successive occupants of the stalls. One of the most knowing horses ever attached to the company was a strawberry roan, which was in service for nine years, an unusually long time, and was finally run over by an engine and killed. As Engine No.5 is the nearest to the City Hall it is the show company of the city, and visitors frequently have the horses and men called out to see how quickly they can start. The horses usually get exercise enough in going to the fires to which the engine is summoned, but sometimes the interval is so long that they have to be taken out for exercise. The members of No. 5 have taken part in many great fires. The most diastrous was that in the old Brooklyn Theatre. The scenes after the flames were under control and the bodies were being brought forth were such as to cause the stoutest firemen to draw back, but the members of No.5 stuck to their posts throughout the trying ordeal. Among the other large fires in which this company has taken an important part have been those in Weclisler and Abraham's dry goods house in lower Fulton Street ; in Ovington's art and crockery store; in the old Elm Place Congregational church, on the foundation of which the Grand Opera House was built; and in Smith, Gray, Co.'s clothing store. At the last named fire, No. 5 was one of the earliest to arrive and the men battled with the flames and smoke until nearly suffocated. On second and third alarms the company has been called to all the great fires in the city. Despite the perils incurred the company has never had a man killed on duty and only a few have been injured."
From Our Firemen the Official History of the Brooklyn Fire Department
Engine 5 BFD at 160 Pierrepont St:
Engine 205 steamer:
Engine 205 located at Engine 224 firehouse at 274 Hicks St from 1925-1929:
Ladder 68 at 365 Jay Street:
Ladder 68 firehouse 1901-1929 at 365 Jay St:
74 Middagh St firehouse:
Engine 205:
Ladder 118:
Ladder 118 responding to World Trade Center:
Ladder 118 World Trade Center:
Engine 205 and Ladder 118 responding:
FDNY - Brooklyn Tiller Ladder 118 and Engine 205
Ladder 118 responding:
FDNY LADDER 118 ( tiller) RESPONDING
FDNY Tiller Ladder 118 Brooklyn Heights
Engine 205 returning to quarters:
FDNY Engine 205 returning into Quarters
Brooklyn Heights neighborhood:
http://www.thebha.org/about-the-neighborhood/history/
http://macaulay.cuny.edu/student-projects/2005/neighborhoods/16/history.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Heights
Brooklyn Bridge history:
Modern Marvels, S01E07 , The Brooklyn Bridge, fULL Length EPisode