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Rescue Company 1 was organized on March 8, 1915. The first officer in charge of Rescue Company 1 was then Captain John J. McElligott and Lieutenant Edwin A. Hotchkiss. Rescue 1's firehouse was destroyed in 1985 by a fire in a neighboring warehouse. Rescue 1 was already out on a call when fire collapsed the warehouse onto their quarters.
62 – Vly Atwood Fire Department (disbanded) 63 – Walker Valley Chemical Engine Company #1; 64 – Wallkill Hook, Ladder & Hose Company; 65 – Claryville Fire Department; 66 – West Hurley Fire Company #1 (3 sta.'s) 67 – Woodstock Fire District (5 sta.'s) 68 – Kingston Fire Company; 71 – Kerhonkson Accord First Aid Squad Inc.
This article is a list of the emergency and first responder agencies that responded to the September 11 attacks against the United States, on September 11, 2001.These agencies responded during and after the attack and were part of the search-and-rescue, security, firefighting, clean-up, investigation, evacuation, support and traffic control on September 11.
Code 1: A time critical event with response requiring lights and siren. This usually is a known and going fire or a rescue incident. Code 2: Unused within the Country Fire Authority. Code 3: Non-urgent event, such as a previously extinguished fire or community service cases (such as animal rescue or changing of smoke alarm batteries for the ...
The FDNY Rescue Company No. 1's rescue vehicle. The New York City Fire Department's (FDNY) Rescue Company No. 1 is the oldest special operations firefighters in modern firefighting history. On 8 March 1915, Rescue Company No. 1 was established. Rescue Company No. 1 began as a volunteer fire squad composed of volunteers from the ironworker ...
This is a list of fire departments in the world. A fire department or fire brigade also known as a fire and rescue service or fire service is a public or private organization that provides firefighting, rescue and emergency medical services for a certain jurisdiction, which is typically a municipality, county or fire protection district.
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, 4,500 uniformed EMTs, paramedics, and EMS employees, and 2,000 civilian ...
Squad 1 responds to fires and other emergencies throughout New York City, operating primarily in Brooklyn from their station in the Park Slope neighborhood. They operate a Seagrave fire engine with a 1000 gallon-per-minute pump and a 500-gallon water tank. As of September 2007, four officers and twenty-five men were assigned to the company. [1]