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Katoomba railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Main Western line in Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia. It serves the Blue Mountains town of Katoomba opening on 2 February 1874 as Crushers, being renamed Katoomba on 9 July 1877. [3] [4] A passing loop exists to the north of the station. West of the station is a ...
Engine Company 261 served both Long Island City and the nearby community of Roosevelt Island until 2003, until it was closed as a cost-saving measure, while Ladder Company 116 still operates out of the firehouse. Fire officials, local residents, and business owners have argued that the engine company should be re-opened.
Engine 33 on Broadway near the station on Great Jones Street. Engine 33 Company was originally organized on Mercer Street in lower Manhattan on November 1, 1865, but then moved to its present location on June 1, 1899. [4] Ladder Company 9 was organized in 1865; its first house was on Elizabeth Street. It moved to 42 Great Jones Street in 1948. [5]
Firefighter 1st Class Chris Deberry said the ladder truck can flow 2, 000 gallons of water a minute and can handle 1, 000 pounds in the basket at 100 feet and has some features the current ladders ...
The crash involving a truck from Ladder 43 happened around 8:45 p.m. near 112th Street and Third Avenue, the FDNY said. The FDNY truck appeared to crash through a fence on a sidewalk. Dennis A. Clark
The financial cost of the fire, which began Saturday, May 19, 1934, [2] was estimated at US$8 million (about $182 million today). [3] Six square blocks were destroyed. [4] One employee and thousands of animals died. [2] A fire station, six fire engines and a hook-and-ladder truck were among the losses. [1]
Hook and Ladder No. 1 and Hose Co. No. 2, in Grand Forks, North Dakota; Hook and Ladder No. 3, in Hudson County, New Jersey; Hook and Ladder No. 4, in Albany, New York; Hook and Ladder House No. 5–Detroit Fire Department Repair Shop, in Detroit, Michigan; Hose and Hook and Ladder Truck Building, in Thomaston, Connecticut
Captain David B. Kenyon. According to a November 1872 article in the Chicago Daily Tribune announcing the purchase of three new steam pumpers, which would allow for the creation of three new fire stations, "of course it is conceded on all sides that one of the companies will be composed of colored men, but it is not definitely known whether it will be commanded by a Caucasian". [1]