Rescue 1 FDNY

FDNY Rescue Co 1 Pre 9/11, some shots were taken from a ride along with Rescue 1 to a building fire near Theater District in a residential area of Midtown, seen with Rescue 1 is a 1996 HME heavy rescue, seen with Ladder 4 and Engine 54 is a 2001 Seagrave rear mount aerial ladder and an late 1993-early 1994 Seagrave pumper, seen with FDNY EMS is a 1996 Ford F-150 utility ambulance, etc, this segment with the small pieces of the building fire response is to Lower Manhattan on Wall Street for a smoke condition known as a class III, but it turns out there was just an electrical smoke odor on the top floor with a missing elevator car, this was due to a burned out elevator engine located on a nearby floor for the maintenance guys, the units sent were Division 1, Rescue 1, Rescue 3, Engine 55, Engine 9, Ladder 6, and Battalion 4. After the incident they sent the guys home and became available for the next run. Rescue 1’s quarters is located at 530 West 43rd Street between 10th and 11th Avenue near the Javits Center which is in Hell’s Kitchen next to Engine 34 and Ladder 21, Rescue 1’s quarters was built in 1894 and was originally quartering Engine 2 of the NYFD before they became the FDNY, in 1915 Rescue 1 was organized but Rescue 1 didn’t get quartered at 530 West 43rd Street until later on in its life when Engine 2 was disbanded, in 1922 in Brooklyn at the submarine yard a fire broke out down there and sent all companies from Brooklyn to respond and the only rescue company at the time (Rescue 1) and it took too long for Rescue 1 to get there to use their special equipment so in 1925 Rescue 2 was organized to give Rescue 1 a permanent break from responding long distances into Brooklyn, when Rescue 2 first came into service in 1925 they were quartered at 210’s quarters at 160 Carlton Avenue near Barclays Center in Crown Heights, then they moved to Downtown Brooklyn in 1929 until 1946 when they moved back to their original quarters where 210 is now, then in the mid to late 50s after Engine 234 moved to 234th Street with Ladder 123 and Battalion 38 Rescue 2 got quartered there until recently in 2019, Rescue 2 responded to an aircraft collision on December 16th 1960 in Park Slope then on December 19th 1960 an aircraft carrier museum project went up in flames and it became a citywide alert more than 750 firefighters responded to the aircraft carrier to save the 300+ guys inside. In 1989 Rescue 2 got turned out for a 2 alarm fire in Midtown Brooklyn using a 1982 American LaFrance heavy rescue they were behind Long Island College Hospital on the way there, but the worst fire they responded to was on the morning of September 11th 2001 at 8:46AM EDT when American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the north tower of the WTC sending all 5 rescues and more than 1000 engine and ladder companies more than 700 deputy and battalion chiefs several marshals etc just like on February 26th 1993, this historic landmark was filled with emergency personnel in minutes, after the collapse of the towers the FDNY and other personnel had to dig for bodies and survivors to bring them home again. This lasted 8 months and the reconstruction began in 2004, in 2014 the reconstruction was finally finished and the museum was completed to memorialize the lives lost on that day America will never forget. Unfortunately for the rigs buried in the rubble that day they were totaled from the impact of the collapse of both towers and needed to be replaced.
God Bless America