Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . West Thirty-seventh Street, temporarily located in thequarters of Engine No. 31, Leonard Street, near Broadway, was theonly companyto respond. At 8:43 and 8:44 two engines, and at 8:53all the companies due at station 422 (Fourth Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street), on first, second, and third alarms, were called, making Simultaneous Fires. 259 in all nineteen engine companies and four hook and ladder companiesbrought to this fire. Forty-two companies out of the sixty-seven at the time com-prising the f
Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . West Thirty-seventh Street, temporarily located in thequarters of Engine No. 31, Leonard Street, near Broadway, was theonly companyto respond. At 8:43 and 8:44 two engines, and at 8:53all the companies due at station 422 (Fourth Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street), on first, second, and third alarms, were called, making Simultaneous Fires. 259 in all nineteen engine companies and four hook and ladder companiesbrought to this fire. Forty-two companies out of the sixty-seven at the time com-prising the fire-extinguishing force in the entire city, were at workat these three fires, nine ofwhich performed service attwo of the three fires, andone at all the fires. The average workingtime of these forty-twocompanies was five hours and fifty minutes each, thenumber of officers and menemployed being four hun-dred and seventeen. All of the companieslocated south of TwentiethStreet were out of quarters,only five remaining be-tween Twentieth and Fifty-ninth streets, while n;newere called to locate in. vacated quarters in the central and lower part of the city, one ofwhich came from Manhattanville, above One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street, three and three-quarter miles, to its temporary location. The buildings consisted of one nine-story brick structure (for-merly a sugar refinery), on the south-west corner of Washingtonand Vestry streets, with a frontage of sixty-two and one-halffeet on the former and one hundred feet on the latter, with con-necting two and three story brick buildings on Washington Street,thirty-seven and one-half feet front, and a twenty-five feet frontthree-story brick building on Vestry Street, making the whole areaone hundred by one hundred and twenty-five feet. These buildings,with their contents, were all destroyed. The cause of the fire couldnot be ascertained. Loss, $121,500. At 11:26 A. M. on July 31, an alarm was received from station136 (corner of Pike and C
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