WOOSTER ST 2-14 -58.

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Wooster Street Collapse - February 14, 1958

Four member's of Fire Patrol # 1 placing salvage covers and two FDNY firefighters venting the roof were buried alive when all floors and the roof suddenly collapsed in a burning 6 story, 80x100 foot, heavy timber construction, loft building in "Hells' hundred acres"lower Manhattan. The fire occurred at 2215 hours, in a bailed paper storage building located at 137-9 Wooster Street, between West Houston and Prince Street....
FP 1 Killed In The Line Of Duty:
Fire Patrol # 1, Sargent Michael McGee
Fire Patrol # 1, Patrolman Louis Brusati
Fire Patrol # 1, Patrolman James Devine
Fire Patrol # 1, Patrolman Michael Tracey
FF Bernard Blumenthal - Ladder 10
FF William Schimd - Ladder 1
.......................................CONTINUED REST IN PEACE BROTHERS.

 

[memory master]

Photo of the collapsed building and members involved in the recovery operation was on the front page of the next WNYF.

 

[R1SmokeEater]

http://nyfd.com/history/wooster/wooster_street.html

 

[mack]

RIP