FDNY FF JOHN C. FARRAGHER R1 LODD 7/12/1962

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FDNY Line of Duty Death​



July 12, 1962 - LODD
Fireman John C. Farragher, 38
Rescue 1
FDNY. Manhattan, New York


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A four-alarm fire totally involved the top three floors of a non-sprinklered, five-story brick loft building at 390 Broadway. Fireman Farragher was killed when the roof collapsed, and his body could not be recovered until the next day. Fireman Farragher was a 9-year veteran of the department.


As a member of FDNY, FF Farragher was assigned to Rescue 1. During an incident at 390 Broadway (box 66-44-164), FF Farragher perished during a building collapse.


RIP. Never forget.


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Sadly, while filming a DuPont Show of the Week episode shown on September 30, 1962. "Rescue Goes". The opening scene is in the housewatch at Engine 65 when the only things there were the primary and secondary bell circuits, the Morse telegraph key (for in-service taps) and the department phone.
 
^^^^ In the Dupont film they are filming as R*1 responds to the Fatal Box 164 where FF Farragher was killed.....two of the R*1 FFs working & in the film were Paul Geidel whose Son later was killed in R*1 on 9-11-01 & Charlie Driscoll who was the CPT of R*5 when it was Re Organized in 1984.
 
My Dad John Reilly was assigned to E-65 which housed R-1. Paul Geidel was in his Probie Class. He arrived at quarters for the 6X9 and new something was wrong by the looks on the members faces. The floor above FF. Farragher collapsed and a safe landed on him. It took forever to find him. Someone took out a flashlight and started panning around the room. They noticed something shiny, it turned out to be a D ring for the MSA cannister mask.
 
The area in which this fire and L.O.D.D. happened, was at one time called "Hell Hundred Acres" due to the numbers of serious and deadly fires in the old Loft/heavy Timber buildings in the area. Canal St. was back then an open and still is now an "underground" a Canal and the Lofts were filled by lighters/barges, that moved freight from the East & Hudson Rivers, ocean going ships to be stored in the Lofts. Heavy fire loading, Heavy Timber sometime called slow burning Loft buildings, and up until the late 1950s & 1960; s NO SPRINKLER SYSTEMS. It was at one time one of the busiest fire areas in the world. FDNY had at one time. In the 1970's a Firefighting Procedures Manual on Loft Fires written by Capt. Silvio DelRosso L-8 and Chief's in the 5th later 2nd Battalion. The number of firemen killed and also trapped in collapses in "Hell's Hundred Acres" was very high until full sprinklers were retrofitted in the late 1960's by order of FDNY Chief of Department & Fire Commissioner, John T. O'Hagan. I had a dozen or so loft fires in this area, as a member of Engine 27 and later TL-18. Captain Bob Raineyu FDNY Engine 26 retired.
 
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