FIRE UNIT GOING OUT OF SERVICE FOR NITE TIME TOURS

[FDNYE54]

COMMISSIONER SCOPPETTA ANNOUNCES FIRE UNIT NIGHT CLOSINGS TO BEGIN JANUARY 17  

Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta today announced the Department will cease operating a fire unit on Governor?s Island and will eliminate night tours at four other firefighting units beginning January 17 to meet an $8.9 million agency budget cut announced last month due to the city?s financial crisis.

With the exception of the Governor?s Island Fire Protection Unit (a three-person firefighting team that has been assigned to the 172-acre island in New York Harbor since 2004), no firehouses will be closed and no fire units permanently disbanded. The following four firehouses all have two units assigned, and one unit will remain in service 24/7 while the second goes off-line during night tours

Goin out of service during nighttime tours Units covering the night time units out of service
42 South Street, Manhattan   ENGINE COMPANY 4/Ladder Co.15
278 McClean Avenue, Staten   Island ENGINE COMPANY 161/Ladder Co. 81
392 Himrod Street, Brooklyn   ENGINE COMPANY 271/Ladder Co. 124
169 Schofield Street, Bronx    LADDER COMPANY 53/Engine Co. 70

Affected units will remain in service during the day tour (9 a.m. to 6 p.m.), but will not be operational during the evening shift (6 p.m. to 9 a.m.). :'(


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[Squad2]

So does this mean half the groups will be transferred out of these houses or what?

 

[raybrag]

Since when can a ladder company substitute for an engine company, and vice versa???  Or are quints the next Bloomberg Bright Idea?? ??? ???

 

[bklyndisp54]

Since when can a ladder company substitute for an engine company, and vice versa???

I remember (in the late '60s and early '70s) tractor/trailer trucks on Staten Island carrying large reels of 2.5" line suspended
beneath the rear overhang of the (wooden) aerial ladder.

There's nothing new on the face of the earth!

 

[e203BCVFD]

Might be a good idea to ask guys in the solo truck companies, i.e. TL114, L102, etc, how they do it.... if they're 10-84 the box before that first engine arrives at a fire.... Hope the can man knows what he's doing!!

 

[FDNY220122]

Might be a good idea to ask guys in the solo truck companies, i.e. TL114, L102, etc, how they do it.... if they're 10-84 the box before that first engine arrives at a fire.... Hope the can man knows what he's doing!!

L114 will know be housed with 201...hopefully they wont forget...

 

[raybrag]

Here's how a ladder company (158, in this case) will operate when they're replacing an engine.  Just hope all fires they respond to are right in front of a hydrant (or can be put out by the can man). ;D ;D    Kudos to Bill Bennett for the photo.