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Engine 283 R&Ws - 1975 to 2013

Year  Engine  Runs  EMS  Workers    OSW  All Hands
1975    283      4484    0        3239           
1976    283      5069    0        4072           
1977    283      6056    0        5284           
1978    283      5772    0        5001           
1979    283      4133    0        3314         
1980    283      4649    0        3748           
1981    283      4137    0        3251           
1982    283      3692    0        2788           
1983    283      3285    0        2497        375 
1984    283      3428    0        2520         
1985    283      3361    0        2373        378 
1986    283      3208    0        2281        357 
1987    283      3562    0        2517        333 
1988    283      4257    0        2702        387 
1989    283      4136    0        2603        370 
1990    283      4152    0        2511        349 
1991    283      4891    0        2980        363 
1992    283      4509    0        2576        418 
1993    283      4221    0        2324        462 
1994    283      4331    0        2453        448 
1995    283      4591    0        2973        452 
1996    283      4101    572    2836        414 
1997    283      4231  1022    2762        416 
1998    283      3991    985    2713        379 
1999    283      4198  1124    2973        432 
2000    283      4003    994    2717        378 
2001    283      4005  1010    2669        335 
2002    283      3911  1010    2711        346 
2003    283      4229  1147    2835        367 
2004    283      4420  1272    2917        364 
2005    283      5058  1433    3505        391 
2006    283      4704  1438    3376        388 
2007    283      4622  1344    3266        421 
2008    283      4707  1293    3327        430 
2009    283      4673  1372    3177        365 
2010    283      4846  1509    3177        370      97
2011    283      4704  1606    3084        357    118
2012    283      5432  1836    3670        393      95
2013    283      5002  1682    3067        360    110

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Sample Engine 283 annual R&Ws (WNYF):

1941 - #3 engine:


1964 - #1 engine:


1971 - #2 engine:


1978 - #12 engine:

 

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1960 FDNY organizational chart:
1960_Unit_Location_Chart.jpg
Engine 283 and Squad 4 in 44th Bn, 15th Division

1976 FDNY organizational chart:

Engine 283 in 58th Bn,15th Division
 
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mack said:
Spirit of Louisiana Fire Engine - In December of 2001, the Ferrara pumper was delivered to Engine 283 after being purchased with donations from Louisiana citizens who wanted to help NYC after the WTC attack.




Return of pumper - Sept. 8, 2005:

"Billy Ladell, FDNY Dispatcher assigned to the Field Comm. Unit, reports "10-84" in New Orleans at 1900 on Thursday September 8. The contingent of 14 support vehicles and the Ferrara pumper that Louisiana donated to the F.D.N.Y. after 9/11 drove straight through, covering the 1300 plus miles in 2 days.

The 300 F.D.N.Y.  members that flew down on Sunday are being used to relieve NOFD members. The contingent is quartered at Holy Cross College (yes, there's another one besides Worcester) at Gen. DeGaulle Ave. & Woodland Dr., adjacent to the quarters of NOFD Eng. 17."


Engine 283 members in New Orleans:



Full story from the Signal 51 Group (supports the Fire Department of the City of Shreveport) website below: 

http://signal51group.com/Eng_283/Eng_283.htm





Follow-up:
"Spirit of Louisiana" pumper was used by NOFD until 2010 and decommissioned.  It was refurbished by Ferrara and assigned to the state Fire Marshal's office for emergency assistance requests. 

In 2012, at the request for help from the City of Long Beach, Long Island, after hurricane Sandy damage, the Fire Marshal sent the "Spirit of Louisiana" pumper to help. 




http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/11/06/louisiana-sends-spirit-of-louisiana-fire-truck-to-long-beach/

http://www.wafb.com/story/20006519/fire-marshal-dispatches-the-spirit-of-louisiana-to-long-island
Is this the same thing as the "Spirit of Oklahoma" Rescue rig?
 

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Spirit of Oklahoma - American LaFrance donated a heavy-rescue vehicle built on its Condor chassis, dubbed the Spirit of Oklahoma. It was donated by the people of Oklahoma City, thanking the FDNY for its help during the terrorist bombing in that city






I found on "Firefighter Nation" a partial list of some of the apparatus purchased for FDNY by other states, cities and companies:

?The Louisiana Governor?s "Bucks for Fire Trucks" program donated funds for the Spirit of Louisiana, a pumper built by Ferrara. Ferrara?s employees donated their time to build the vehicle. (FDNY firefighters drove this same vehicle to New Orleans to help out during Hurricane Katrina four years later.)

?Akron, Ohio, raised $1.4 million dollars to purchase and donate a 95' Seagrave tower to the FDNY.

?Seagrave, which has been building FDNY trucks for more than 75 years, donated a pumper to the FDNY and stepped up its production of a large order of 54 apparatus. Rigs that normally take a year to build were built in 120 days, thanks to employees who worked double shifts. The city of Clintonville, Wis., where Seagrave is based, also raised money for the effort.

?Pierce donated a rescue vehicle built on a Kenworth chassis that was used as the second piece of a hazmat company.

?American LaFrance donated a heavy-rescue vehicle built on its Condor chassis, dubbed the Spirit of Oklahoma. It was donated by the people of Oklahoma City, thanking the FDNY for its help during the terrorist bombing in that city.

?General Safety, which is now part of Rosenbauer, built a heavy-rescue vehicle on a Mack chassis.

?Luverne, now part of Crimson, partnered with Spartan to build a pumper on a Spartan Gladiator chassis.

?E-One contributed a Freightliner rescue that was used as a decon unit.

?Bank of America donated money to purchase three pumpers.

?White Knoll Middle School in Columbia, S.C., raised $520,000 to purchase an apparatus for the FDNY. Perhaps, like Oklahoma City, Columbia wanted to repay FDNY firefighters for their donation of a hose wagon after the Civil War.
 
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Just curious if anyone knew the story behind this rig. The Decon Support Unit, a 2000 Ferrara on an International 4900 Chassis.




 
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90/41 is one of several built of this design that are actually 2 separate firehouses.  Everything was separate, they were just attached.  All have been punched thru to make one house, but I know that until recently one of them had a separate kitchen and at least one still had a separate house watch area.
 
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Ferrara donated a couple of rigs, as did E-One, to both NYPD and FDNY.  L163 got the rig that the People of Akron donated funds to.  L14 got the South Carolina donation rig.  E23's rig was paid for by Time Warner, one of the members in the company that was killed on 9.11, his wife worked for them.  Airbus donated the funds for R1's E-1 rescue. 

The Aviation Vollies in the Bronx(now disbanded) had a new rig donated by a corporation whose name escapes me now,  several other rigs donated by different departments, and their ALF repaired by the Greater NY auto dealers assn.  I will not go into other things related to the vollies though...
 

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patrickfd said:
Columbia, SC donated a tiller to Ladder 101. I am friends with Jack Jansen who was Chief of Department in Columbia at the time.

http://www.thestate.com/2014/02/01/3240616/donated-911-firetruck-could-make.html

http://lexingtonchronicle.com/clients/lexingtonchronicle/09082011PageB4.pdf


Engine 202/Ladder 101 website:  "Upon hearing of the losses suffered by this firehouse, students of the White Knoll Middle School of Columbia, South Carolina raised more than $500,000 to buy new trucks for this firehouse. This is the truck their money paid for. This truck is dedicated to the White Knoll students and the Red Hook firefighters who died at the WTC.

On June 1, 2002, the leaders of the Columbia, South Carolina Ladder 101 fire truck fundraising drive traveled to Red Hook and dedicated the new truck.

The new Ladder 101 which was delivered on February 9, 2002. This truck replaces the one that was destroyed at the WTC. This truck was purchased with money raised by the students of the White Knoll Middle School in Columbia, South Carolina."

http://eng202lad101.tripod.com/lad101truck.html



 

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FDNYTRUCKScom said:
Ferrara donated a couple of rigs, as did E-One, to both NYPD and FDNY.  L163 got the rig that the People of Akron donated funds to.  L14 got the South Carolina donation rig.  E23's rig was paid for by Time Warner, one of the members in the company that was killed on 9.11, his wife worked for them.  Airbus donated the funds for R1's E-1 rescue. 


Ladder 163 Seagrave donated by Akron, Ohio:






http://www.ohio.com/news/dyer/akron-s-9-11-firetruck-flourishes-as-war-horse-and-symbol-1.234414?ot=akron.PhotoGalleryResponsive.ot&s=1.234413


Fallen Brothers Foundation website:

"Queens ladder company grateful to Akron for new fire truck N.Y. firehouse hit by tragedy twice this year
By David Giffels

NEW YORK: Ladder Company 163 and Engine Company 325 share an old brick firehouse with a big red garage door in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens. It's a gritty place built in 1939, bordered by two alleys and a fence topped with razor wire.

These days, it's decorated with a homespun display of candles and flowers and little notes of grief and affirmation, spread out on a card table on the sidewalk. Few companies were spared on Sept. 11, and Ladder 163 is no different. Two of its men died that day.

This is home to 50 members of New York's Fire Department, 11 of them working in any given shift. And it will soon be home to a brand-new ladder truck, a 45-foot-long rig that will fill half the truck bay.

When that truck arrives two weeks from now, it will bear a bronze plaque on the side: "A Gift from the People of Greater Akron, Ohio.''

The $850,000 rig is the centerpiece of the Fire Truck Fund -- the community effort that raised nearly $1.4 million in the weeks following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and has also provided New York with two ambulances and three police cruisers.

Even in a city that has seen an unprecedented outpouring of good will, this gift stands out. The Fire Truck Fund is the largest single contribution to replace equipment after the attacks.

When ladder truck 163 comes home, it will be treated like a new baby, waxed and polished until it's so clean you could eat off its red bumpers. Snapshots will be taken. Neighbors will nod their approval. It will be the pride of the "Woodside Warriors.''


Day just beginning:

Go down the right alley, just past that shrine, to the heavy steel door with reinforced glass. Ring the buzzer. A sleepy-eyed firefighter answers. Coffee's on. Come on in.
Bob O'Neill shuffles by, wearing navy blue shorts, a blue FDNY shirt and an old pair of black work shoes, laced loosely so he can kick them off and jump into his fire boots if the alarm sounds. His tough Irish smile is framed by a thick mustache. He's rubbing his shaved head, still waking up.

It's 7:30 a.m. and the corners of the house are dark. There's growing activity in the kitchen and dining area, where shift Capt. Jim Donlevy is sitting down to coffee.

The table he leans on is a slab of an old bowling alley, some 15 feet long, decorated with the Woodside Warriors logo -- the profile of an American Indian. Painted in big letters on one end is "E 325, Pride of Woodside.'' Painted on the other is "L 163, We Rise to the Occasion.''

That same Warriors logo is on a bar-style neon sign hanging outside the dining room door.

Newspapers are spread out on the table; mismatched coffee cups steam here and there; cereal is being poured into bowls.

The conversation warms up on this early November morning -- inside jokes and locker-room insults; comments on the news and details of the coming day. The accents are thick, Queens and Brooklyn and Long Island. Many of these guys are Irish or Italian; perhaps half are second- or third-generation FDNY.

They are very much a type: aggressive, wisecracking and raw. The firehouse has the bare-knuckled charm and texture and -- oddly -- warmth of a rogue fraternity.

"These guys, they come in as individuals,'' Donlevy says. "But they get acclimated pretty quick.''

The Woodside Warriors serve an old Irish neighborhood that has become more mixed in recent years, with Hispanic residents moving into the modest houses and apartment buildings that form the bones of Woodside. Many of the candleholders on the shrine outside the building are decorated with images of "Divino Nino Jesus'' and "El Gran Poder.'' An old Asian lady has been stopping to water the mums.

Capt. Donlevy gets up from his coffee to give a nickel tour of the truck bay. Filling one side is 163's old rig, a 1989 model with a long ladder boom resting on top. "We Rise to the Occasion'' is painted on the boom that lifts a bucket nearly 100 feet into the air.

"It's a tired old thing,'' Donlevy says as he opens the door to one of the tool compartments, releasing a faint memory of smoke.

The old rig creaks when it takes corners. The suspension is shot. The boom isn't as tight as it once was, and the bucket can get rocking pretty good when the water pressure and wind kick in.

There's an old taxicab license plate screwed to the back and Indian feathers hanging in the cab. A New York Post sports page is tucked up on the dashboard.

The rig has had its share of breakdowns. A favorite story is the time the truck went out on a run and there was an electrical short. A call went out to dispatch:

"We have a warehouse on fire -- and Ladder 163 on fire.''

It was down for months after that, but returned. The truck was involved in the early stages of cleanup at the World Trade Center until it broke down and was pulled away for repair. Although most units that are replaced remain in service as spares, this one is likely to be retired permanently as soon as the Akron truck arrives.

As much as anything else, though, the biggest complaint is that it has no air conditioning. Because the men in the rear are sitting in tight quarters against the engine housing, it can get unbearably hot inside.

For all the adornments on the lumbering old rig, though, one stands out -- the gold-lettered plaque over the grille: "In memory of FF John Downing.''

A year of losses

Ladder 163, which hadn't lost a man since 1962, has suffered two heavy blows this year. When Sept. 11 hit, the company was still mourning the loss of Downing. He was killed in the "Father's Day fire,'' a June 17 warehouse blaze in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, considered at the time one of the deadliest incidents in FDNY history. Three men died and two were badly injured.
Downing and O'Neill grew up in this Woodside neighborhood, Irish kids who ran the streets together. They both joined the Fire Department in 1989.

"He was a big hunk of a guy that liked to break chops,'' O'Neill says, sitting in the early sunlight on the bumper of 325's rig.

The morning of June 17, the two passed each other at shift change. O'Neill teased his friend. "Have a nice Father's Day. I'm goin' home. You?''

Within hours, Downing lay dead after part of the building collapsed.

"Father's Day, I cried like a little baby. I dreamt about him for weeks and weeks,'' O'Neill says. "These other two, it hasn't even hit me yet.''

Tributes to Downing's memory pepper the house. A green "Downing St.'' sign is suspended in a hallway near one of the two brass fire poles. His wooden coat hanger, bearing his name, is propped on the wall of the upstairs weight room. Photographs and newspaper clippings fill a dining room bulletin board.

And upstairs in the locker room, a threadbare yellow chair sits empty in a corner. On the windowsill behind it, a half-smoked cigar is resting on the bent-down rim of a coffee can. A handwritten note is taped to the chair:

"Please don't remove the cigar or place personal things on chair. They were John's, and this is where he spent many long hours studying. Thank you.''

Still haunted by Downing's memory, O'Neill has been to dozens of funerals, trying to process it all. Two months after Sept. 11, he was looking at an Internet site about the 343 lost firefighters and spotted the name of a guy he knew.

"I got a pain in the heart.'' He curses angrily. "I didn't even know he was dead.''

Donlevy says there's been no closure to the numbing losses at the World Trade Center.

"It's in the present,'' he says. "It's not in the past yet.''

The two members of Ladder 163 who died at the trade center -- Scott Larsen and Tom Gambino -- were serving with other companies on Sept. 11. Ladder 163 responded to the call that day, but got delayed at the tunnel into Manhattan.

"That 15 minutes saved everybody's lives,'' O'Neill says.

Gambino -- "Gambo'' -- was an 18-year veteran of the department and had 17 years with Ladder 163. He was in the midst of a transfer; on Sept. 10, he was assigned to a rescue company that got caught in the collapse. He left a wife and two sons.

Larsen, who was training with another company, died the day his wife was due to deliver their fourth child. His son, August, was born Sept. 13.

When the Akron truck arrives, it will bear a new plaque with the names of all three men.

The truck will represent a bond with a community in Northeast Ohio, once a foreign place to many of these native New Yorkers, but now the home of friends.

As O'Neill finishes the tale of Sept. 11, Scott Grubert passes through the truck bay, pulling out a cigarette. He nods hello.

"These guys are from Akron, Ohio. Their town is buyin' our new rig for us,'' Donlevy says.

"No kiddin'?'' Grubert says. He immediately offers a handshake. "Thanks.''

Donlevy opens an invitation to any visitor who may want to stop by and see the truck in its new home.

"We'll take care of 'em,'' he says, smiling. "We'll feed 'em a good lunch.''"





 

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FDNYTRUCKScom said:
  Airbus donated the funds for R1's E-1 rescue. 

Rescue 1:




http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/799593/

"AIRBUS PRESENTS FDNY-RESCUE 1 WITH A NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART TRUCK AT SPECIAL FIREHOUSE CEREMONY IN NEW YORK
11 April 2002

Airbus today helped one of New York City?s hardest-hit fire companies in the September 11 World Trade Center attack return to full capability, with the donation of a new state-of-the-art fire and rescue truck.

America?s first rescue unit, Rescue One, located on West 43rd Street in Manhattan, was presented the custom-built vehicle by Airbus President and Chief Executive Officer No?l Forgeard, at a firehouse ceremony with former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Director Joe M. Allbaugh.

Mr. Forgeard said Toulouse, France-based Airbus ?is privileged to fund this truck, as well as a major piece of equipment for the police department to be delivered later this spring. This is one of those times when a company can step up and do something simply because it is the right thing to do.?

He added, ?Airbus first committed to the donations last October, and in so doing, heeded (current New York City) Mayor Bloomberg?s campaign call to the private sector to reach out and assist in the expensive and painstaking recovery effort.? Mr. Forgeard noted the city?s legendary European heritage, and said, ?New York has been the springboard to success for so many people.? It is in that spirit ?as a global company with a truly diversified family of 45,000 employees,? Airbus decided to ?make this contribution to New York?s continuing recovery.?

Airbus first contacted fire truck manufacturers in late September as it explored options on making a contribution to New York and the fire department.

Mr. Forgeard told the men of Rescue One, ?We salute you and remind you that every time this truck rolls, a lot of Airbus people you will never meet will be riding with you.?
The $750,000 Rescue One apparatus and the $450,000 police department lighting truck, now under construction, are part of a $2 million donation Airbus is making to New York City and the family funds established by American Airlines and United Airlines in the names of crew members lost last September.

Before the attacks on New York City, the firefighters of Rescue One and Captain Terry Hatton had been developing a design for a new truck to replace the 17-year-old unit then in service. Last October, Airbus teamed with Saulsbury Fire Rescue, the Preble, NY-based company contracted to build the unit for Rescue One.

Mr. Forgeard said that while Airbus is ?the best at designing large airplanes, we cannot take a bit of credit in designing this apparatus.? Those honors belong to the men of rescue One and Captain Terry Hatton and the 10 good men who died with him on September 11.?

A plaque with the names of those lost is mounted in the truck."


http://offthebroiler.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/a-visit-with-rescue-1/

 

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FDNYTRUCKScom said:
E23's rig was paid for by Time Warner, one of the members in the company that was killed on 9.11, his wife worked for them.

Engine 23 - blessing of a new Seagrave 1000 GPM pumper 23 May 20, 2002 donated by AOL Time Warner:


 

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Engine 230/Squad 3 firehouses - 59 Ellery Street, 894 Bedford Avenue and 701 Park Avenue  Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

    Engine 30 BFD organized 59 Ellery Street                              1891
    Engine 30 BFD became Engine 30 FDNY                                1898
    Engine 30 became Engine 130                                              1899
    Engine 130 became Engine 230                                            1913
    Engine 230 moved to 894 Bedford Avenue at Ladder 102        1946
    Engine 230 new firehouse 701 Park Avenue                            1950

    Squad 3 organized 206 Monroe Street at Engine 235              1955
    Squad 3 moved to 701 Park Avenue at Engine 230                  1966
    Squad 3 disbanded                                                              1975
    Squad 3 reorganized 701 Park Avenue at Engine 230              1975
    Squad 3 disbanded                                                              1976

Engine 30 BFD at 59 Ellery Street:


Engine 130 changeover from horses to motorized apparatus:


894 Bedford Avenue Ladder 102 - quarters of Engine 230 1946-1950:


Engine 230 new firehouse 1950 (Brooklyn Eagle):


701 Park Avenue:










Engine 230 with Alex Donchin 1936:


Engine 230:








Engine 230 stretches line at Greenpoint 4th Alarm 3/18/14:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxH3jUg97bk





 

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Squad 3 was one of busiest units in FDNY responding from Engine 230 quarters:

1969  8445 runs (#1):


1970  9278 runs (#2):


1971  7550 runs:

 
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I'm am new here but wanted to say this is one of my favorite threads along with the younger buff years. Thanks to all who post the great info and pictures. I have the deepest respect for all that have served especially thru the war years many of which also served this country be it WW 2 Korea or Vietnam Nam.
 

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Engine 230 LODDs:  Havemeyer Street Fire  August 21, 1923

    FF Raymond Farrell, Engine 230
   
    FF James J. Sullivan, Engine 230
         

Never forget.


Location after 50 ft wall fell on firefighters Farrell and Sullivan:


Pumper after wall collapse:


Side view of building:



Brooklyn Eagle August 22, 1923:






http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/55597583/?terms=raymond+farrell+engine+230

http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/55597583/?terms=raymond+farrell+engine+230


NYC Fire Wire - "FDNY's Line of Duty death on August 21, 1923

Dance Hall Fire
Kingston Daily Freeman New York 1923-08-21

New York, Aug. 21. -- Two firemen were killed and 27 injured early today when the roof and one of the walls of the three-story building housing the New Plaza dance hall, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, collapsed as fire was sweeping the structure.
The building was an old land mark, and for years was the old Masonic Temple. About fifty firemen were in the structure fighting the blaze when the roof and walls collapsed without warning.

The old structure had been gutted. Firemen had been ordered inside to extinguish the last remaining sparks. Then the crash came. With a roar the roof went down, carrying with it one of the side walls.

As the great shower of debris came down, burying the firemen beneath the wreckage, those outside the structure became a maddened mob of rescuers. Firemen, police and by-standers, unmindful of their own danger, plunged into the hot ruins. The rescuers dug and kicked at the debris to rescue the buried firemen.

Calls for assistance brought ambulances and physicians to the scene.

Reports of a great loss of life began to spread. One report had it that twenty firemen had been killed. Another that eleven bodies had been recovered.

As the rescuers dug at the ruins they soon uncovered many of the imprisoned firemen.

Hope had been abandoned for six men known to have been on the roof when it caved in. It seemed impossible that these men could have escaped from the seething furnace into which they had seemingly plunged. But one by one they reported to their commanders, their eyes full of sweat and grime as they begged for news of their comrades.

Deputy Chief O'Hara, in charge of the Brooklyn fire forces, was saved by his chaffeur, who dragged him from harm's way in the nick of time.

As fireman after fireman was rescued hope began to dawn that no one had lost his life. This hope was soon abandoned, however, when another rescue party, digging at a pile of hot bricks, came across the bodies of two firemen. They had been burned almost beyond recognition. The victims, members of the same engine company, were RAYMOND FARRELL and JAMES SULLIVAN.

The fire started shortly after midnight. Within an hour the interior of the building was a blaze from cellar to roof. Hard work by the firemen prevented the flames spreading to a row of tenements. Dense smoke hampered the firemen. Four alarms were turned in. Police reserves were summoned. Tenants were ordered from nearby homes. Trolley traffic was tied up. The damage was estimated at $250,000."

 

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Engine 230 - Havemeyer Street Fire:




FF James Sullivan - Engine 230 funeral:

Funeral procession passes Engine 230's firehouse
 

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Chiefs at the Havemeyer Street Fire: 

BC Isaac Ludgate, Battalion 35:

Chief Isaac Ludgate was the most seriously injured FDNY member with serious head and internal injuries from the collapse.  His aide was credited with his rescue. Chief Ludgate was also injured 3 years earlier at the Nassau Works Brooklyn Union Gas fire with face and hand burns.  He had a very lengthy recovery at Williamsburg Hospital and had returned to full duty before the 1923 dance hall fire on Havemeyer Street.

As a Lieutenant in Engine 211, Chief Ludgate was awarded the Brooklyn Citizens Medal.

As a Captain in Ladder 104, Chief Ludgate received the 1914 Stephenson Medal.


Deputy Chief John F. O'Hara:

Arrived on the 3rd Alarm and assumed command.  Ordered 4th Alarm for fire. His aide, FF Walter Doolan, pushed the Chief to prevent injury from the collapsing wall.


 
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