Fire Boxes

[efd274]

I know you can look up box numbers by boro to get the location of a fire box.  Two questions (1) is there a site where you can do a reverse query i.e. give a street location and get the location of the nearest box number. (2) is there a list of boxes by boro with their locations somewhere?

 

[Fightnfire36]

i do not know of a website were it has a list or search of the NYC fire boxes, but i know there is a book that you could buy for $15 and it has a list of all the boxes in NYC by borough.

heres the link to purchase the book:

http://www.fire-police-ems.com/books/bf0762.shtml

 

[nfd2004]

  Fightnfire36, I think what he is referring to is the fact that there is a Web Site called FDNew York.com where if you put in a box number it will come up with that location. The Web Site is run by a Brooklyn Dispatch Supervisor named Frank Raffa. "FD347" on this site (?). If you go down that page, you can type in any box number and the location will come up.
  EFD274 is looking for the reverse of that I believe. (Give street and GET box number).

 

[FD347]

I am not aware of such a site but if you download the Google Earth placemark I made for Brooklyn Boxes it will show you the box locations. From there you can use the search feature to zoom in on an address and then see which box is closest.

http://www.fdnewyork.com/b-boxes.kmz

 

[efd274]

Thank you all very much!

 

[catry]

This is a little something I've been working on now and then.  It will take a while to complete but so far I have most boxes south of the Williamsburg Bridge excluding Battery Park City and 8000 series boxes:
http://tinyurl.com/ldnbl8

 

[firebuffkevin]

Catry,

This looks great.

 

[efd274]

This is great - do you plan on doing all five boros and how long will it take you - 6 months, 2 years etc?

 

[catry]

Best case scenario a month or so just to do a borough, worst case scenario till someone beats me to it  ;D

 

[efd274]

That's excellent, a boro a month - - it's tedious work -good luck with it!!

 

[Fightnfire36]

heres another link for you that might be of some help.

http://www.bensware.com/firetrucks/FireStationLocations.htm

you can download the fire box locations for brooklyn, Manhattan , the Bronx and the company locations for all the boro's onto google earth!

 

[catry]

There ya have it, someone beat me to it  ;D I can retire peacefully now.

 

[Fightnfire36]

There ya have it, someone beat me to it  ;D I can retire peacefully now.

catry, there is only 3 of the 5 boro's on there with the box locations, u could put staten island and queens boxes on google earth then it would be complete!

 

[efd274]

Catry - retirement was quick - you're still needed - if possible do Queens first

 

[catry]

If you scroll down some it looks like he has Queens and SI as well, unless those don't have box locations.

I did do an updated apparatus map of Manhattan though: http://tinyurl.com/nejsk9 Might've caught the Google Earth bug 

 

[efd274]

Yeah - no box locations!

 

[firebuffkevin]

If you scroll down some it looks like he has Queens and SI as well, unless those don't have box locations.

I did do an updated apparatus map of Manhattan though: http://tinyurl.com/nejsk9 Might've caught the Google Earth bug 

Google map doesn't come up, just the sidebare info on the left.

 

[efd274]

You may need a new computer bro!!

 

[firebuffkevin]

You may need a new computer bro!!

No, I have a new computer.

 

[efd274]

but is it modern - you really have to get rid of that Commodore!