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The New York City Fire Department is the largest municipal fire department in North America, and the Western Hemisphere, and the second largest in the world after the Tokyo Fire Department. [ citation needed ] The FDNY employs over 11,000 uniformed firefighting employees, 4,274 uniformed EMS employees, and 2,096 civilian employees.
The New York City Fire Commissioner is the civilian administrator of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY), and is appointed by the Mayor of the City of New York. Prior to 1865, the New York City Fire Department was staffed by volunteers. On March 30, 1865 the New York State legislature passed a law organizing the Metropolitan Fire ...
Albany County. 1 – Albany Fire Department (New York) (8 stations) 2 – Altamont Fire District Station 1. 3 – Berne Fire District Station 66, 67 (2 stations) 4 – Boght Community Fire District 1. 5 – Coeymans Fire District 1 (1 station) 6 – Coeymans Volunteer Fire Company Station 1. 7 – Cohoes F.D. Station 1 (3 stations) 8 ...
1979. Opened. 1980. Renovated. 2003. Known for. First fire station to respond to the fire at the World Trade Towers on September 11, 2001. Firehouse, Engine Company 10 and Ladder Company 10, is a New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire station, located at 124 Liberty Street across from the World Trade Center site and the National September 11 ...
June 23, 1980 [3] Designated NYCL. November 12, 1968. Firehouse, Engine Company 33 and Ladder Company 9 is a New York City Fire Department firehouse at 42 Great Jones Street in NoHo, Manhattan. It is the home of Engine Company 33 and Ladder Company 9. The building is a Beaux Arts structure built in 1899 by Ernest Flagg and Walter B. Chambers.
15. New York City Fire Department Ladder Company 3, also known as Ladder 3, is a fire company and one of two ladder companies in the New York City Fire Department 's (FDNY) 6th Battalion, 1st Division. It is housed at 108 E. 13th St., along with Battalion Chief 6, and has firefighting stewardship over a several square block area of Manhattan ...
Fireboats of New York City. For much of the late 19th and early 20th century, New York City maintained a fleet of ten fireboats. In recent decades technology has improved to where smaller boats can provide the pumping capacity that required a large boat in the past. [1] These smaller boats require smaller crews, and the crews themselves require ...
New York City Fire Museum. Coordinates: 40°43′33″N 74°0′25″W. The New York City Fire Museum is located in a renovated 1904 firehouse. The New York City Fire Museum is a museum dedicated to the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is housed in the former quarters of the ...