Largest 1st due area

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Marine units, particularly Marine 9, previously known as Engine 51, covers New York Bay.
Engine 207, when it was staffing the Superpumper, later Maxi Water, ran citywide for those units.
The Squads, particularly Sq1 prior to the formation of Sq8, covered much of Brooklyn and all of Staten Island, as a squad, first due.
Any of the Engines with collateral assignments can travel citywide for their assignments.

Also, PATH units, particularly at JFK airport, cover a very large first due area.
 
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Prior to the organizing of R*5 & HM*1 in the '80s R*2 covered all of BKLYN (except the North End of Greenpoint) plus Rockaway West of Beach 116 St & all of Staten Island for Major Fires...Emergencies & Haz Mat incidents.
 
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For many years, Rescue 3 (In addition to it's Bronx & Harlem response area as a Rescue Company) was the collapse unit for the entire city responding to all 10-60's.
 

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Take a look at Eng 165/ L85 or Eng 167/Lad 87 for the most first due boxes in NYC.  Lad 47 in the Bx at one time had on of the largest 1st area areas if you counted 1st & 2nd due boxes.
 
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81 engine response area not as large as the units already listed and the new barb took away responses into parts of upper Manhattan some runs up into Riverdale are a few miles but nowhere near mileage that Staten Island and queens units have.
 
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Does anyone have pics of the unit response maps that are located in quarters for any of the companies listed above? Love to see them.
 
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For companies that do a lot of running, E-257 and E-290 can be first due more than two miles away.
 
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