FDNY and NYC Firehouses and Fire Companies
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Chief - Little Neck had a volunteer fire company from 1905-1929. There were a few pictures of their firehouse - 2 1/2 stories, bump out in front, 2 second floor front windows. The real estate building at 25002 Northern Blvd was listed as being built early 1900s and renovated in 1932. I cannot find original listing but it appeared to match original volunteer firehouse location, size, date built, date renovated (e.g. - removal of peaked roof). Sorry that I did not save original listing I found and can't verify that it is the former firehouse. Maybe someone else might have additional information.
Found picture of Northern Boulevard being widened in 1926. Volunteer firehouse was across the street from building on corner of Marathon Parkway and Northern Blvd. It was razed and a McDonalds currently occupies former firehouse location. Real estate building is old but was not former firehouse.
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Pan left or right arrow for modern day view of the intersection..most of the Real Estate bldg is blocked by the white truck..on the same side of Northern 2 bldgs East of the Mc D's was the Little Neck Inn one of the last Beer & Shot places in the area which closed it's doors not too long ago...the Scobee Diner a few blocks West as well as Patricks Pub are gone also http://www.vpike.com/?place=northern+blvd++%26+marathon+parkway+queens+ny&submit=Street+View&r=e
Engine 89/Ladder 50 firehouse 2924 Bruckner Boulevard Schuylerville/Throggs Neck, Bronx
Engine 89 organized 1799 1st Avenue, Manhattan w/Ladder 39 1909
Engine 89 disbanded to form Engine 91-2 1916
Engine 89 reorganized 2924 Bruckner Boulevard 1926
Engine 89 disbanded July 2 1975
Engine 89 reorganized July 19 1975
Ladder 50 organized 2924 Bruckner Boulevard w/Engine 89 1926
2924 Bruckner Boulevard:
Engine 89:
Ladder 50:
Engine 89 new apparatus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTOzyNqykjk
Engine 89 responding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTIoiF9x7x0
Ladder 50:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXpgBtA2Xkc
Ladder 50 responding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu83QIJH3_s
LODDs:
FF Daniel A Hart, Engine 89, October 27, 1910.
FF John T Rynn, Engine 89, Box 4064, East Tremont Avenue and Bersey Court, apparatus collision, April 10, 1948.
Schuylerville: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuylerville,_Bronx
Throggs Neck: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throggs_Neck
Ft Schuyler:
http://www.fortwiki.com/Fort_Schuyler_(1)
American revolution: http://www.nps.gov/fost/historyculture/fort-stanwix-in-the-american-revolution.htm
History: http://www.sunymaritime.edu/Maritime%20Museum/FortSchuyler/
Engine 89 organized 1799 1st Avenue, Manhattan w/Ladder 39 1909
Engine 89 disbanded to form Engine 91-2 1916
Engine 89 reorganized 2924 Bruckner Boulevard 1926
Engine 89 disbanded July 2 1975
Engine 89 reorganized July 19 1975
Ladder 50 organized 2924 Bruckner Boulevard w/Engine 89 1926
2924 Bruckner Boulevard:
Engine 89:
Ladder 50:
Engine 89 new apparatus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTOzyNqykjk
Engine 89 responding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTIoiF9x7x0
Ladder 50:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXpgBtA2Xkc
Ladder 50 responding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu83QIJH3_s
LODDs:
FF Daniel A Hart, Engine 89, October 27, 1910.
FF John T Rynn, Engine 89, Box 4064, East Tremont Avenue and Bersey Court, apparatus collision, April 10, 1948.
Schuylerville: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuylerville,_Bronx
Throggs Neck: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throggs_Neck
Ft Schuyler:
http://www.fortwiki.com/Fort_Schuyler_(1)
American revolution: http://www.nps.gov/fost/historyculture/fort-stanwix-in-the-american-revolution.htm
History: http://www.sunymaritime.edu/Maritime%20Museum/FortSchuyler/
John - May 1991
NY Times - 5 Die and 11 Bronx Stores Burn As Gas Tanker and Car Collide
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Published: May 21, 1991
A gasoline tanker and a car collided at a Bronx intersection early yesterday, killing five people and igniting a fireball with rivers of blazing fuel that engulfed a row of 11 stores and touched off a series of secondary explosions in parked cars.
Witnesses told of a 60-foot fireball, a tidal bore of flame on the street and an inferno of burning stores and twisted metal in the spectacular accident, which occurred shortly after midnight at Bruckner Boulevard and East Tremont Avenue in the Throgs Neck section.
The truck driver and four people in the car, which had Canadian license plates, were killed, and six firefighters suffered smoke inhalation or minor burns. But the stores, all in a one-story row wrapping around a corner, were closed and there were no other casualties in the blaze, which 225 firefighters subdued with chemical foam in a dangerous operation that lasted three hours.
At daybreak, the corner was like a scene out of wartime.
NY Times - 5 Die and 11 Bronx Stores Burn As Gas Tanker and Car Collide
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Published: May 21, 1991
A gasoline tanker and a car collided at a Bronx intersection early yesterday, killing five people and igniting a fireball with rivers of blazing fuel that engulfed a row of 11 stores and touched off a series of secondary explosions in parked cars.
Witnesses told of a 60-foot fireball, a tidal bore of flame on the street and an inferno of burning stores and twisted metal in the spectacular accident, which occurred shortly after midnight at Bruckner Boulevard and East Tremont Avenue in the Throgs Neck section.
The truck driver and four people in the car, which had Canadian license plates, were killed, and six firefighters suffered smoke inhalation or minor burns. But the stores, all in a one-story row wrapping around a corner, were closed and there were no other casualties in the blaze, which 225 firefighters subdued with chemical foam in a dangerous operation that lasted three hours.
At daybreak, the corner was like a scene out of wartime.
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102 never had a TL they had Tiller's up until 1970/71 when they got a RM to allow TCU*731 to fit into their qtrs during the adaptive response hours....they have had a RM ever since....i cant answer what the other rig in the picture is....1st guess maybe another ENG gassing up ?kidfrmqns said:
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mack said:
I was working EMS in Queens that night when I was assigned to respond. As soon as I was mid-span of the Whitestone bridge this blaze was highly visible. No need for a map that night as I am a bit Bronx deficient.
NY Times: "For Four Canadians in Bronx Crash, a Fiery End to a Holiday
By DENNIS HEVESI
Published: May 22, 1991
It was a gathering of the clan -- relatives and friends from the Treadways district in St. Catherine's Parish on the island of Jamaica exchanging childhood memories and banter Sunday night at an impromptu get-together in New Jersey.
Horace Taffe and his wife, Carmen; their cousin, Faye Duncan Reid, and her school chum, Judith Ann McKenzie, had driven from Ontario, Canada, on Friday for a three-day weekend in New York City -- and then to the celebration on Sunday at Errol Reid's house in Irvington.
But a few minutes after midnight, on their way from the party to another cousin's home in the Bronx, the joy ended.
At Bruckner Boulevard and East Tremont Avenue in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx -- where a traffic light may not have been working properly -- the Taffes' 1991 Chrysler and a tank truck carrying 4,000 gallons of gasoline slammed into each other. A 60-foot-high fireball instantly took the four Canadians' lives, as well as the truck driver's. Streams of flaming fuel then incinerated a row of stores. One in the Group Spared
Another friend, Lloyd Cohen of Toronto, had traveled from Canada with the Taffes on Friday. He, too, was at the party in New Jersey and was supposed to make the return trip to the Bronx. Fate intervened and spared him.
The talk at the party had been of ball playing and of cooking, Mr. Taffe's second cousin, Leo McCatty of Irvington, recalled yesterday, as well as of the much-anticipated wedding next month of Mr. McCatty's sister, Pat.
"There was so much laughter," Mr. McCatty said. "Just a joyous evening." Mr. McCatty went to bed that night with nothing but pleasant memories of the party. But as he commuted from Irvington to his job as a mechanic in the Bronx on Monday morning, he heard the news on the radio about a horrible accident and of the Canadian license plates on the car involved.
In the pit of his stomach, Mr. McCatty said, he knew. "I felt like something was wrong, like something had changed," he said last night, his voice cracking. He detoured to the scene, where he told police of his worst suspicions. He was terribly right.
Yesterday, at the fatal intersection, three scorched parking meters, their insides reduced to grotesque molten blobs, stood forlorn sentinel outside boarded storefronts, reminders of what had been a busy commercial block only 36 hours earlier. Down the street, toward the intersection of Tremont Avenue, a 10-foot-deep trench was all that remained where eight stores had stood. Bulldozers and dump trucks had hauled off the debris.
There were at least three witnesses to the collision, said a person close to the police investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity. One witness, the person said, told detectives that the traffic light was stuck: red for the truck and green for the car.
Two other witnesses said they had heard the truck's brakes screeching just as it ap proached the intersection. A spokesman for the New York State Department of Transportation, Thomas D. Apple, said the driver of the truck, Alfredo Gonzalez, 33 years old, of Jackson Heights, Queens, had received three summonses in 1988, all for ignoring traffic signals.
Mr. Apple said Mr. Gonzalez received all three tickets in Manhattan while driving a van for W & W Cabinet Distribution Inc. of Maspeth, Queens. But Mr. Apple said there was no indication that Mr. Gonzalez's license had been suspended or revoked.
Two of the violations occurred on June 3, 1988, and may have arisen out of the same incident, Mr. Apple said. One citation was for disobeying either a yield sign or a stop sign, and the other was for running a red light.
Rather than going to court to contest the violations, Mr. Gonzalez pleaded guilty and paid fines for both offenses -- $35 for one and $50 for the other, Mr. Apple said. On Dec. 14, 1988, he said, Mr. Gonzalez pleaded guilty to disobeying traffic light and paid a $35 fine.
Meanwhile the Police Department and the City Transportation Department disagreed on whether the traffic light was malfunctioning.
The Police Department's deputy commissioner for public information, Suzanne Trazoff, said a police officer from the 45th Precinct noticed that the traffic light was stuck on red in one direction and green in the other and reported the problem to the police dispatcher at 11:16 P.M. Sunday.
The dispatcher, Ms. Trazoff said, informed the Transportation Department at 11:20 P.M. The accident occurred 51 minutes later, at 12:11 A.M.
A spokesman for the Transportation Department, Joseph DePlasco, said, however, that there was no record of the police or anyone else informing his department of a problem at the intersection before the accident. Mr. DePlasco said that computerized monitoring of the light indicated that there was no malfunction. A Holiday in Canada
He also said that when a traffic signal is not working, city regulations require that it be fixed within two hours -- leaving open the question of whether a police officer or someone from the Transportation Department should have been posted at the intersection until the light was fixed.
Considerations like this were hardly on the minds of the relatives and friends of Horace Taffe, 37, a construction worker; his wife, Carmen, 30, a computer operator; their cousin, Faye Duncan Reid, 22, and her friend, Judith Ann McKenzie, 22, all from the Toronto suburb of Mississauga.
Monday was Victoria Day in Canada, a holiday in honor of Queen Victoria and the first holiday of the vacation season, and it was cause for a three-day weekend. It was an opportunity for the Taffes to make one of their four or five trips a year to New York.
Mr. Taffe's cousin, Shirley Taffe, owner of the Bricktop Restaurant on White Plains Road near 227th Street in the Bronx, described Mr. Taffe as an outgoing person who loved New York City. "As soon as you see him, you begin to smile," she said.
Reached by phone last night at his home in Malton, Ontario, Stephen McKenzie, 49, a contractor, said he had at first held out hope that his daughter might have survived the collision, because early reports had said three people died and one was seriously injured. But then, about 11 A.M. yesterday, another television report made clear that everyone had been killed -- a fact confirmed by film footage of the car. 'I'm So Numb'
Then came the police request for his daughter's dental records. "I don't know what to say; I'm so numb," Mr. McKenzie said.
The only saving grace to the tragedy was the survival of Mr. Cohen, 29, the other friend from Jamaica who had traveled from Canada with the Taffes for the weekend. Instead of riding to the Bronx in the Taffes' car, Mr. Cohen chose at the last minute -- at the request of his sister, Audrey Brown -- to ride with another friend. This allowed him to pick up a bat and ball that the friend had bought as a birthday present for Ms. Brown's 9-year-old son.
"The person who bought that ball and bat saved my brother's life," Ms. Brown said yesterday. Except for the turn of fate, she added, "he wouldn't be here tonight."
Photos: A frontloader lifting charred debris yesterday from a row of stores that were incinerated early on Monday when a gasoline truck collided with a car at East Tremont Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx. The heat from the fire melted parking meters. "
Engine 287/Ladder136/Battalion 46 firehouse 86-53 Grand Avenue Elmhurst, Queens
Engine 287 organized 86-18 Broadway former firehouse Wandowenock Engine 1 1913
Engine 287 new firehouse 86-53 Grand Avenue 1914
Engine 287 moved to 64-18 Queens Boulevard at Engine 292 1996
Engine 287 returned to 86-53 Grand Avenue 1997
Engine 287-2 organized 67-32 Queens Blvd former volunteer firehouse 1913
Engine 287-2 moved to new firehouse 64-18 Queens Blvd 1914
Engine 287-2 became Engine 292 1918
Ladder 136 organized 91-12 43rd Avenue former volunteer firehouse 1913
Ladder 136 new firehouse 86-53 Grand Avenue w/Engine 287 1914
Ladder 136 moved to 56-29 68th Street at Engine 288 1974
Ladder 136 returned to 86-53 Grand Avenue at Engine 287 1976
Ladder 136 moved to 64-18 Queens Boulevard at Engine 292 1996
Ladder 136 returned to 86-53 Grand Avenue at Engine 287 1997
Battalion 46 organized 40-08 Astoria Boulevard at Ladder 67 1906
Battalion 46 new firehouse 42-06 Astoria Boulevard with Ladder 67 1909
Battalion 46 disbanded 1909
Battalion 46 reorganized 86-18 Broadway w/Engine 287 1913
Battalion 46 new firehouse 86-53 Grand Avenue w/Engine 287 1914
Battalion 46 moved to 97-28 43rd Avenue at Engine 289 1974
Battalion 46 returned to 86-53 Grand Avenue at Engine 287 1976
Battalion 46 moved to 108-01 Horace Harding Expressway at Engine 324 1996
Battalion 46 returned to 46-53 Grand Avenue at Engine 287 1997
Note: Elmhurst was protected by the volunteer Newtown Fire Department prior to 1913. Elmhurst companies were:
Wandowenock Engine 1 86-18 Broadway 1843-1913
Wandowenock Ladder 1 86-18 Broadway 1890-1913
Elmhurst Ladder 11 91-12 43rd Avenue 1896-1913
September 1, 1913:
86-18 Broadway (original firehouse Engine 287):
Firehouse of Wandowenock Engine 1 and Ladder 1
Weathervane from former firehouse:
91-12 43rd Avenue (original firehouse L 136):
Firehouse of volunteer Elmhurst Ladder 11
86-53 Grand Avenue:
Engine 287/Ladder 136:
Engine 287 1958 Mack 750GPM:
Engine 287:
Ladder 136:
Battalion 46:
Engine/truck/chief response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_94zsHRPyE
Engine 287:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYb2eOv_do
Engine 287/Ladder 136/Battalion 46 Centennial:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/events/2013/090513a.shtml
http://www.qchron.com/editions/central/firehouse-celebrates-years-in-queens/article_026ccdb8-f0a2-5792-a32a-c73f08ba7593.html
LODDs:
FF Peter Farley, Ladder 136, fell sliding pole, August 16, 1949
FF Joseph Dugan, Ladder 136, collision with Rescue 4, July 31, 1954
FF Samuel A Schiller, Engine 324 detailed to Ladder 136, collision with Rescue 4, July 31, 1954
FF Robert Dayton - Engine 287, November 26, 1988 - LODD Port Washington Fire Department - Captain Robert Dayton, a 28-year-old firefighter died after being trapped in a smoke-filled building. It was the first time in 40 years that Port Washington's volunteer Fire Department had a LODD. Captain Dayton was a member of FDNY Engine 287 and was a volunteer in his hometown for 10 years. http://www.pwfd.com/?page_id=567
Capt Wayne Smith, burned Box 22-7876, 81-04 37th Avenue, died August 7, 1994
FF Michael Cawley, World Trade Center, September 11, 2001
FF Christopher Pickford, World Trade Center, September 11, 2001
Never forget.
Elmhurst: Original Dutch name Middenburgh. Changed to Newtown. Then Elmhurst.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/21253580@N06/with/2227501380/
http://oldelmhurst.blogspot.com/
http://forgotten-ny.com/2011/04/forgottentour-39-newtown-elmhurst-queens/
Note - Thanks Chief.
Engine 287 organized 86-18 Broadway former firehouse Wandowenock Engine 1 1913
Engine 287 new firehouse 86-53 Grand Avenue 1914
Engine 287 moved to 64-18 Queens Boulevard at Engine 292 1996
Engine 287 returned to 86-53 Grand Avenue 1997
Engine 287-2 organized 67-32 Queens Blvd former volunteer firehouse 1913
Engine 287-2 moved to new firehouse 64-18 Queens Blvd 1914
Engine 287-2 became Engine 292 1918
Ladder 136 organized 91-12 43rd Avenue former volunteer firehouse 1913
Ladder 136 new firehouse 86-53 Grand Avenue w/Engine 287 1914
Ladder 136 moved to 56-29 68th Street at Engine 288 1974
Ladder 136 returned to 86-53 Grand Avenue at Engine 287 1976
Ladder 136 moved to 64-18 Queens Boulevard at Engine 292 1996
Ladder 136 returned to 86-53 Grand Avenue at Engine 287 1997
Battalion 46 organized 40-08 Astoria Boulevard at Ladder 67 1906
Battalion 46 new firehouse 42-06 Astoria Boulevard with Ladder 67 1909
Battalion 46 disbanded 1909
Battalion 46 reorganized 86-18 Broadway w/Engine 287 1913
Battalion 46 new firehouse 86-53 Grand Avenue w/Engine 287 1914
Battalion 46 moved to 97-28 43rd Avenue at Engine 289 1974
Battalion 46 returned to 86-53 Grand Avenue at Engine 287 1976
Battalion 46 moved to 108-01 Horace Harding Expressway at Engine 324 1996
Battalion 46 returned to 46-53 Grand Avenue at Engine 287 1997
Note: Elmhurst was protected by the volunteer Newtown Fire Department prior to 1913. Elmhurst companies were:
Wandowenock Engine 1 86-18 Broadway 1843-1913
Wandowenock Ladder 1 86-18 Broadway 1890-1913
Elmhurst Ladder 11 91-12 43rd Avenue 1896-1913
September 1, 1913:
86-18 Broadway (original firehouse Engine 287):
Firehouse of Wandowenock Engine 1 and Ladder 1
Weathervane from former firehouse:
91-12 43rd Avenue (original firehouse L 136):
Firehouse of volunteer Elmhurst Ladder 11
86-53 Grand Avenue:
Engine 287/Ladder 136:
Engine 287 1958 Mack 750GPM:
Engine 287:
Ladder 136:
Battalion 46:
Engine/truck/chief response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_94zsHRPyE
Engine 287:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYb2eOv_do
Engine 287/Ladder 136/Battalion 46 Centennial:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/events/2013/090513a.shtml
http://www.qchron.com/editions/central/firehouse-celebrates-years-in-queens/article_026ccdb8-f0a2-5792-a32a-c73f08ba7593.html
LODDs:
FF Peter Farley, Ladder 136, fell sliding pole, August 16, 1949
FF Joseph Dugan, Ladder 136, collision with Rescue 4, July 31, 1954
FF Samuel A Schiller, Engine 324 detailed to Ladder 136, collision with Rescue 4, July 31, 1954
FF Robert Dayton - Engine 287, November 26, 1988 - LODD Port Washington Fire Department - Captain Robert Dayton, a 28-year-old firefighter died after being trapped in a smoke-filled building. It was the first time in 40 years that Port Washington's volunteer Fire Department had a LODD. Captain Dayton was a member of FDNY Engine 287 and was a volunteer in his hometown for 10 years. http://www.pwfd.com/?page_id=567
Capt Wayne Smith, burned Box 22-7876, 81-04 37th Avenue, died August 7, 1994
FF Michael Cawley, World Trade Center, September 11, 2001
FF Christopher Pickford, World Trade Center, September 11, 2001
Never forget.
Elmhurst: Original Dutch name Middenburgh. Changed to Newtown. Then Elmhurst.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/21253580@N06/with/2227501380/
http://oldelmhurst.blogspot.com/
http://forgotten-ny.com/2011/04/forgottentour-39-newtown-elmhurst-queens/
Note - Thanks Chief.
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Captain Wayne E. Smith, Ladder 136
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NYTimes Death of Queens Fire Company's Leader Ends 59-Day Vigil
By JAMES BARRON
Published: October 5, 1994
. .The signal -- a sequence of five bells repeated four times -- echoed through firehouses across the city yesterday. Slowly, solemnly, it confirmed what a telephone call had already told the firefighters at Ladder Company 136 in Elmhurst, Queens: the 59-day vigil for their commanding officer was over.
The commander, Capt. Wayne E. Smith, was trapped in a two-alarm fire on Aug. 7. With burns over 40 percent of his body and lung injuries from the air in the burning building at 81-04 37th Avenue, Captain Smith died at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. His wife, Connie, had kept a daily vigil. Fire Commissioner Howard Safir had stopped by nearly every day.
"Fifty-nine days of waiting for what was really the inevitable, unfortunately," Commissioner Safir said yesterday. "The prognosis from the beginning was extremely critical. We all hoped against hope."
Captain Smith, at 37 one of the youngest captains in the department, was the fifth firefighter to die in the line of duty this year.
At Captain Smith's firehouse -- its nickname, chosen by the firefighters and emblazoned on T-shirts they wear off duty, is Wayne's World -- the news seemed not to have sunk in, despite the telephone call, the bells and the flag at half-staff.
"There's a feeling like it's not really happening, that Wayne's going to wake up," said a firefighter, Duecy Smith, who is not related to Captain Smith.
He and other rank-and-file firefighters at Company 136 -- "truckies," they call themselves with pride -- remembered Captain Smith as someone who, in only nine months as a commander, had raised morale.
"To win over a firehouse that quickly takes considerable talent," Commissioner Safir said. "He was a real leader in the firehouse. No one was surprised that Wayne led his men into this fire and was right in front. They found him on the floor above where the fire was. One of the duties of a ladder company is to go above the fire floor and search for victims. That's exactly what Wayne was doing, putting his life in jeopardy to save others."
On the way in, firefighters faced huge volumes of smoke and flame. Captain Smith was one of the first to go inside.
Other firefighters discovered Captain Smith, overcome by the smoke, on an upper floor. Fourteen other firefighters were also injured, two seriously. Commissioner Safir said the blaze was still under investigation but is believed to have been caused by faulty electrical wiring.
Captain Wayne E. Smith, Ladder 136
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NYTimes Death of Queens Fire Company's Leader Ends 59-Day Vigil
By JAMES BARRON
Published: October 5, 1994
. .The signal -- a sequence of five bells repeated four times -- echoed through firehouses across the city yesterday. Slowly, solemnly, it confirmed what a telephone call had already told the firefighters at Ladder Company 136 in Elmhurst, Queens: the 59-day vigil for their commanding officer was over.
The commander, Capt. Wayne E. Smith, was trapped in a two-alarm fire on Aug. 7. With burns over 40 percent of his body and lung injuries from the air in the burning building at 81-04 37th Avenue, Captain Smith died at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. His wife, Connie, had kept a daily vigil. Fire Commissioner Howard Safir had stopped by nearly every day.
"Fifty-nine days of waiting for what was really the inevitable, unfortunately," Commissioner Safir said yesterday. "The prognosis from the beginning was extremely critical. We all hoped against hope."
Captain Smith, at 37 one of the youngest captains in the department, was the fifth firefighter to die in the line of duty this year.
At Captain Smith's firehouse -- its nickname, chosen by the firefighters and emblazoned on T-shirts they wear off duty, is Wayne's World -- the news seemed not to have sunk in, despite the telephone call, the bells and the flag at half-staff.
"There's a feeling like it's not really happening, that Wayne's going to wake up," said a firefighter, Duecy Smith, who is not related to Captain Smith.
He and other rank-and-file firefighters at Company 136 -- "truckies," they call themselves with pride -- remembered Captain Smith as someone who, in only nine months as a commander, had raised morale.
"To win over a firehouse that quickly takes considerable talent," Commissioner Safir said. "He was a real leader in the firehouse. No one was surprised that Wayne led his men into this fire and was right in front. They found him on the floor above where the fire was. One of the duties of a ladder company is to go above the fire floor and search for victims. That's exactly what Wayne was doing, putting his life in jeopardy to save others."
On the way in, firefighters faced huge volumes of smoke and flame. Captain Smith was one of the first to go inside.
Other firefighters discovered Captain Smith, overcome by the smoke, on an upper floor. Fourteen other firefighters were also injured, two seriously. Commissioner Safir said the blaze was still under investigation but is believed to have been caused by faulty electrical wiring.
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mack....once again excellent job...... a little history on some of the pictures..the shot of the wooden Aerial shows the 2 original Queen Anne's that were to the left of the FH....these were replaced by an auto glass & tire lot in the rear of business's fronting on Queens Blvd...in the mid 2000's the present dwelling units were built as seen in other recent photos..when these were being excavated the original stone foundations & cellars of the 2 Queen Annes were unearthed....the hole itself filled up w/water & leaked through the FH cellar wall causing water damage in the FH cellar....... the lot to the right of the FH was originally a parking lot & delivery entrance for a furniture store that fronted on Queens Blvd.... the same notorious developer that built the units on the left bought the property on the right & bulldozed the furniture store & attempted to build a multi story hotel...in the process he undermined the FH resulting in the Units being relocated out of the FH for a few days...the excavation was backfilled w/many truckloads of a stone & dirt mixture to prevent the collapse of the FH sidewall it remains that way several years later the remedial FH underpinning was never done....the vertical steel seen in the side photos had been put in place back in the '90s to reinforce the walls & has nothing to do w/the current serious situation...the contractor under a smoke & mirrors corporation attempted to ignore the stop work order & in the proceess there was a block wall collapse that killed a worker & injured others...only the shill foreman was arrested & charged not the real contractor who in addition to many horrific construction endeavors in Queens is also the guy who destroyed the inside of the landmarked RKO Theater in Flushing on Northern Blvd @ Main St which still remains a vacant shell.
Robert H. Dayton, Engine 287, was killed at an arson fire while serving as a member of Flower Hill Hose Co. #1, Nassau County, on, November 26, 1988.
3rd Alarm, 165 Main Street, Post Washington, LI
0729 hrs, November 26, 1988:
While commanding a search and rescue team at an apartment fire on Main Street, he became trapped and ran out of air. Due to the intense heat and smoke, repeated efforts to rescue Captain Dayton were unsuccessful. He was later pronounced dead at St. Francis Hospital. The Nassau County Police Homocide Squad and Fire Marshall?s Office later ruled the cause of the fire to be arson.
Captain Dayton attended Schreiber High School and later studied computers at Nassau Community College. He joined Flower Hill Hose Co. #1 at 18 years old. In addition to serving as a volunteer in Port Washington, he was also a professional firefighter with the Fire Department, City of New York, assigned to Engine Company 287 in Elmhurst, Queens. He was posthumously promoted to Captain of Flower Hill Hose Company #1.
The Port Washington Fire Department continues to mourn the loss of Captain Dayton. In 2010 the Town of North Hempstead renamed Haven Avenue, where Flower Hill Hose Co. #1 is located, Captain Robert H. Dayton Way.
http://www.pwfdhistory.com/g1/albums/memoriam_dayton/dpnews881208_pz_web.pdf
http://www.pwfdhistory.com/g1/albums/memoriam_dayton/cnday881128_web.pdf
http://www.pwfdhistory.com/g1/albums/memoriam_dayton/apnews881201_pz_web.pdf
3rd Alarm, 165 Main Street, Post Washington, LI
0729 hrs, November 26, 1988:
While commanding a search and rescue team at an apartment fire on Main Street, he became trapped and ran out of air. Due to the intense heat and smoke, repeated efforts to rescue Captain Dayton were unsuccessful. He was later pronounced dead at St. Francis Hospital. The Nassau County Police Homocide Squad and Fire Marshall?s Office later ruled the cause of the fire to be arson.
Captain Dayton attended Schreiber High School and later studied computers at Nassau Community College. He joined Flower Hill Hose Co. #1 at 18 years old. In addition to serving as a volunteer in Port Washington, he was also a professional firefighter with the Fire Department, City of New York, assigned to Engine Company 287 in Elmhurst, Queens. He was posthumously promoted to Captain of Flower Hill Hose Company #1.
The Port Washington Fire Department continues to mourn the loss of Captain Dayton. In 2010 the Town of North Hempstead renamed Haven Avenue, where Flower Hill Hose Co. #1 is located, Captain Robert H. Dayton Way.
http://www.pwfdhistory.com/g1/albums/memoriam_dayton/dpnews881208_pz_web.pdf
http://www.pwfdhistory.com/g1/albums/memoriam_dayton/cnday881128_web.pdf
http://www.pwfdhistory.com/g1/albums/memoriam_dayton/apnews881201_pz_web.pdf
68jk09 said:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/worker-death-construction-site-caps-decades-shoddy-work-developer-thomas-huang-article-1.154893
June 2013: Put out of commission for at least five years after he and his wife pled guilty last week to committing fraud:
http://www.timesnewsweekly.com/news/2013-06-27/Crime_(and)_Cases/Notorious_Developers_Knocked_Down_To_Size.html
http://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/huang-out-to-dry/
I'm curious as to what they're up to now. I can't believe that anybody with the gall to do what they've done in the past would bother to worry about convictions, time served, court orders or anything else. Rest assured that somebody's going to die because of this bunch and those associated with them.
FF Samuel Schiller, Engine 324, was detailed to Ladder 136 and died with FF Joseph Dugan, Ladder 136, on July 31, 1954, when Ladder 136 collided with Rescue 4.
FF Samuel A. Schiller - Engine 324 (det. to Ladder 136) - 1-year veteran
FF Joseph P. Dugan II - Ladder 136 - 15-year veteran
They were killed in the ensuing explosion and fire after Ladder 136 collided with Rescue 4. Both units had responded on two different alarms. Rescue 4's rig, as was Ladder 136's, were destroyed and eight other firefighters were seriously injured in the accident. A man was arrested and convicted in the incident for turning in a false alarm which Ladder 136 had responded to.
Collision was at Roosevelt Avenue (Rescue 4 route) and Junction Boulevard (Ladder 136 route). Intersection had decreased visibility due to elevated subway line and station stairs.
FF Samuel A. Schiller - Engine 324 (det. to Ladder 136) - 1-year veteran
FF Joseph P. Dugan II - Ladder 136 - 15-year veteran
They were killed in the ensuing explosion and fire after Ladder 136 collided with Rescue 4. Both units had responded on two different alarms. Rescue 4's rig, as was Ladder 136's, were destroyed and eight other firefighters were seriously injured in the accident. A man was arrested and convicted in the incident for turning in a false alarm which Ladder 136 had responded to.
Collision was at Roosevelt Avenue (Rescue 4 route) and Junction Boulevard (Ladder 136 route). Intersection had decreased visibility due to elevated subway line and station stairs.
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