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Yes Pete, Rescue 1 station was just a red door with the word fire on it, you are right.
Please do not hesitate to add your comments with pleasure, cheers - JP
Added by Jacques PETER on 05 September 2009.
Please do not hesitate to add your comments with pleasure, cheers - JP
Added by Jacques PETER on 05 September 2009.
Many of FDNY's characteristic Victorian era firehouses simply cannot accommodate some of the newer rigs, without major reconstruction. The trucks seem to get bigger every time they are replaced, and the five FDNY Rescue Company trucks are no exception...
One reason FDNY still uses so many Baker Aerialscopes with midships platforms is that the truck is kept low enough to fit into these old firehouse doorways. Its the same reason all FDNY ladders are either rearmounts without cages or tillers. As a result. the department operates no rearmount ladder towers, and is one of only a handul who still buy Baker Aerialscopes - a design which goes back something like forty years!
Obviously, the city fathers think it is better to compromise on buying modern designs of vehicles, rather than spend tax money on new or modified firehouses. Great news for architecture buffs, but perhaps less great for FDNY members, who I think deserve the best equipment technology can provide.
Added by Rob Johnson on 26 August 2014.
One reason FDNY still uses so many Baker Aerialscopes with midships platforms is that the truck is kept low enough to fit into these old firehouse doorways. Its the same reason all FDNY ladders are either rearmounts without cages or tillers. As a result. the department operates no rearmount ladder towers, and is one of only a handul who still buy Baker Aerialscopes - a design which goes back something like forty years!
Obviously, the city fathers think it is better to compromise on buying modern designs of vehicles, rather than spend tax money on new or modified firehouses. Great news for architecture buffs, but perhaps less great for FDNY members, who I think deserve the best equipment technology can provide.
Added by Rob Johnson on 26 August 2014.
FDNY Engine 26 has been in its current quarters since it was formed in 1865, and theirs is the oldest fire station in continuous use in the city. It is located in the old Garment District of Manhattan.
As Pete mentions, there are still a lot of other, slightly more recent, stations which also date from the nineteenth century.
One result is that these old stations - built for horse-drawn rigs - are very close together. Three horses could not pull a steam pump very far very fast without becoming exhausted! This, along with having only one or two vehicles at most stations, means that response times under four minutes are still commonplace, even with modern traffic conditions - with different units coming in from all different directions.
Quite different from the convoy approach in most larger European cities, with everything often arriving from a single large fire station. And sometimes taking too long getting there...
Added by Rob Johnson on 14 February 2017.
As Pete mentions, there are still a lot of other, slightly more recent, stations which also date from the nineteenth century.
One result is that these old stations - built for horse-drawn rigs - are very close together. Three horses could not pull a steam pump very far very fast without becoming exhausted! This, along with having only one or two vehicles at most stations, means that response times under four minutes are still commonplace, even with modern traffic conditions - with different units coming in from all different directions.
Quite different from the convoy approach in most larger European cities, with everything often arriving from a single large fire station. And sometimes taking too long getting there...
Added by Rob Johnson on 14 February 2017.
HME
I see you found Rescue Co 1's quarters,I was really disappointed after finding it.I was looking for a typical old FDNY firehouse and got quiet a shock-I nearly walked passed it not realising it was a firehouse.I am abit of a fanatic on the FDNY,so I do hope you dont mind if I add afew comments where I can to some of your brilliant pictures of New Yorks apparatus-Pete.
Added by Pete Matten on 04 September 2009.