FDNY firefighters battle a 5-alarm fire in Bayside

[firebuffkevin]

FDNY firefighters battle a 5-alarm fire in Bayside, Queens, on Dec. 2, 1954.

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Does anyone have any information on this five alarmer?

What burned and where?

 

[68jk09]

Tough question....i was still living in Manhattan then..... from the stacks of wood maybe a lumberyard ?.......anybody have their 1955 WNYFs handy ?

 

[firebuffkevin]

Tough question....i was still living in Manhattan then..... from the stacks of wood maybe a lumberyard ?.......anybody have their 1955 WNYFs handy ?

That's a great idea Chief  to check the WNYFs.  I am too young to have them back that far 

 

[memory master]

I wish I had never gotten rid of them. Had a collection from 1942 thru 1988.