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
