FDNY Rescue 1 firehouse
530 West 43rd Street | Hell's Kitchen | built 1988
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1985
A warehouse fire next door collapses onto Rescue 1's quarters while the company is out
In 1985 a fire in a neighboring warehouse collapsed the warehouse onto Rescue Company 1's quarters. The company was already out on a call when it happened. The unit worked from temporary quarters until 1989, when its present firehouse was finished. The firehouse's distinctive old door was saved and now stands at the back of the building.
“Rescue 1's firehouse was destroyed in 1985 by a fire in a neighboring warehouse. Rescue 1 was already out on a call…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2005
The city names the firehouse's block Terence S. Hatton Way after Rescue 1's captain
The city named Terence S. Hatton Way in 2005 for the block of West 43rd Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues that holds the firehouse. Hatton, Rescue 1's captain and one of the most decorated members of the FDNY, led ten of his firefighters into the North Tower stairwell on September 11, 2001. Eleven members of the company died, nearly half of it. His body was recovered on September 28.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2007
Rescue 1's 2007 Pierce rig carries Hatton's motto Outstanding with his initials added
Captain Terry Hatton of Rescue 1, who died in the September 11 attacks, designed rescue trucks that joined the FDNY fleet in 2002, with his catchphrase Outstanding painted across the front of Rescue 1's vehicle. The Pierce rig of 2007 carries the same word, with the initials T.H. added beside it.
“The subsequent 2007 Pierce rig had the same inscription with "T.H." added next to the motto.”
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