DCFD Photos, old or new

[dcfdtech]

[quote name='firemag' post='265166' date='Dec 8 2008, 11:17 ']DC folks, I'm looking for some address help and if some stations have been reopened after rennovations. Many thanks for any help offered. Jerry



DC FD Engine 10

1342 Florida Avenue, NE

Washington, DC 20002 - has it reopened? address correct?



DC FD Engine 9

1617 U Street, NW

Washington, DC 20307 - has it reopened? address correct?



DC FD Engine 16

1923 Vermont Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20005 - what is the correct address?



DC FD Engine 17

1227 Monroe Street, NE

Washington, DC 20017 - has it reopened, address correct?



DC FD Engine 25

3203 Martin Luther King Avenue, SW

Washington, DC 20032 - has it reopened? address correct?[/quote]





Engine & Truck 9 are back on U Street!!! E17 is back home. And I think E25 is back also!!

[smketrfdny]

E-16 is 1018 13th St, NW.



1923 is Grimke School, a/k/a Fire Dept HQ.

[Guest]

[quote name='dcfdtech' post='265202' date='Dec 8 2008, 17:56 ']Engine & Truck 9 are back on U Street!!! E17 is back home. And I think E25 is back also!![/quote]



E25 is indeed back home.

[tk1sq]

Anybody know what or where the two tillers from Richmond ended up at.

[Truckman]

[quote name='tk1sq' post='266838' date='Dec 17 2008, 15:00 ']Anybody know what or where the two tillers from Richmond ended up at.[/quote]





Leesburg got old Truck 5 and I am not sure where the other Truck 2 went. Maybe some of the DCFD Bmembers can recall



Look in the Virginia thread for photos and I beileve on the DC thread too

[dcfireman]

   



The Water Tower, 1901 75’ Champion



This excellent c.1914 image of DCFD’c original water tower appears on Shorpy.com. It is shown traveling east in the 1300 block of F St. NW, where some of the buildings shown are still extant. According to an article on the firehouse wall (which sources Len Sasher of the Friendship Fire Association), the 1901 75’ Champion was known to have overturned at least once and was to respond at only a fast walk or trot to downtown fires. On a multiple alarm the driver could “let it out”. Champion Serial No. 15 (DCFD C-9) was built by the International Fire Engine Company and was assigned the Water Tower in the quarters of Truck Co. C and Chemical 1 in the 400 block of 14th St. NW where the Reagan Building now stands. It served there until being replaced in 1922 by a 75’ American LaFrance tower. It was never motorized and was scrapped in 1930.



Historical photograph by Harris & Ewing.

[dcfireman]

   

1981

Speaking of towers, here is the Water Tower as I remember it - Shop serial S-360, a 1971, 85’ Sutphen. She was assigned to Truck Co. 3 from 1971 to 1976. In addition to running it’s own Box Alarm area, Truck 3 ran an extended Working Fire area, and was due city-wide on all 2nd Alarms. As a regular truck company she was dispatched as “Truck 3”; on any other response she was sent as “Truck 3, the Water Tower”.



October 16, 1981 photograph of the Sutphen (then Truck 10) working a 2nd Alarm on Box 215, 905 M St. NW, amid a passel of 1980 Hahns.

[dcfireman]

   

1976

In 1976 Truck Co. 3 received one of American LaFrance’s newly introduced Century Series tillered trucks. Shop serial S-365 was a rare (?) Century series truck without compartments on the running boards.

[dcfdtech]

[quote name='dcfireman' post='278837' date='Feb 3 2009, 16:24 ']

1981

Speaking of towers, here is the Water Tower as I remember it - Shop serial S-360, a 1971, 85’ Sutphen. She was assigned to Truck Co. 3 from 1971 to 1976. In addition to running it’s own Box Alarm area, Truck 3 ran an extended Working Fire area, and was due city-wide on all 2nd Alarms. As a regular truck company she was dispatched as “Truck 3”; on any other response she was sent as “Truck 3, the Water Tower”.



October 16, 1981 photograph of the Sutphen (then Truck 10) working a 2nd Alarm on Box 215, 905 M St. NW, amid a passel of 1980 Hahns.[/quote]



Chief,

When did the Tower go to T10?? Was it in 76 or 77?? BTW, Great History pics as always!! <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[eric christopher]

[quote name='dcfdtech' post='278950' date='Feb 3 2009, 22:50 ']Chief,

When did the Tower go to T10?? Was it in 76 or 77?? BTW, Great History pics as always!! <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />[/quote]



Head's up job getting the rig into postition....

[dcfireman]

   

Chief,

When did the Tower go to T10?? Was it in 76 or 77?? BTW, Great History pics as always!! <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

1977

Thanks, dcfdtech. The Water Tower was already at Truck 10 when I came on the job in 1977. A T-3 apparatus history on their firehouse wall identifies T-3 as putting the ALF in service in “fiscal 1976”. At any rate, it remained at T-10 until being retired in 1987. As Truck 10 it no longer responded automatically to greater alarms in the city. It served out its years as a regular truck and as the “Water Tower” on Special Alarms.



Photo is c.1977, T-10 at a 7th Battalion alarm in E-7’s first due.

[dcfdtech]

Thanks Chief!! Yeah when I came on in 89 they had the Grumman's in service as 8 & 10!! Thanks for the history lesson!!! <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[Engine2524]

[quote name='dcfireman' post='279448' date='Feb 5 2009, 23:32 ']

1977

Thanks, dcfdtech. The Water Tower was already at Truck 10 when I came on the job in 1977. A T-3 apparatus history on their firehouse wall identifies T-3 as putting the ALF in service in “fiscal 1976”. At any rate, it remained at T-10 until being retired in 1987. As Truck 10 it no longer responded automatically to greater alarms in the city. It served out its years as a regular truck and as the “Water Tower” on Special Alarms.



Photo is c.1977, T-10 at a 7th Battalion alarm in E-7’s first due.[/quote]

Wasn't there a big diesel exhaust mark on the front of the firehouse above the bay door of this rig? I seem to recall seeing a picture of it.

[dcfireman]

   

[quote name='Jay Kormann' post='279504' date='Feb 6 2009, 02:47 ']Wasn't there a big diesel exhaust mark on the front of the firehouse above the bay door of this rig? I seem to recall seeing a picture of it.[/quote]

It is plausible - the Sutphen had a vertical exhaust stack. A recent pic of reserve piece S-385 (1995 Seagrave, ex-Truck 9) in front of Truck 3's quarters doesn't show any stains. However, all the houses suffered interior soot from those great Detroit Diesels, which was part of the impetus toward pole closets – a necessary, but visual blight on firehouse aesthetics. 2008 photo.

[Guest]

didnt T3 always end up getting some of the newer trucks each time they bought DCFD new ladder trucks? they had a few towers serving as T3 right?

[Engine2524]

[quote name='lfdtruckie343' post='279787' date='Feb 7 2009, 12:38 ']didnt T3 always end up getting some of the newer trucks each time they bought DCFD new ladder trucks? they had a few towers serving as T3 right?[/quote]

T3 runs the only Aerialscope in DCFD, so I assume that is the case.

[smketrfdny]

[quote name='lfdtruckie343' post='279787' date='Feb 7 2009, 12:38 ']didnt T3 always end up getting some of the newer trucks each time they bought DCFD new ladder trucks? they had a few towers serving as T3 right?[/quote]



Sutphen to L-3, L-10



Grummans to L-8, L-10



Seagrave TL to L-3.



After the ALF tiller, L-3 had a 110 RM E-1. Damaged in a wreck with L-4(Spartan/E-1 135', Ex-L-1) 01/30/96, they had no rig until 06/97, when L-3 received old L-6, the 2nd 135' E-1 in DCFD.



After 98, someone can fill that in.



Stay safe, Brothers.

[Guest]

ah yes the E-1 135' RMA's.....anyone have a photo of those DCFD rigs?

[dcfireman]

   

[quote name='smketrfdny' post='280112' date='Feb 8 2009, 11:26 ']After the ALF tiller, L-3 had a 110 RM E-1. Damaged in a wreck with L-4(Spartan/E-1 135', Ex-L-1) 01/30/96, they had no rig until 06/97, when L-3 received old L-6, the 2nd 135' E-1 in DCFD.



After 98, someone can fill that in.[/quote]

After the 135’ truck, Truck 3 received a new Seagrave 100’ tillered in 2001, followed by the new 95’ Seagrave tower in 2003.



So what does this photograph have to do with anything? Nothing. This is the old gal smketrfdny just up and left and abandoned way back when: DCFD’s one-of-a-kind 1978 Sutphen/ Pirsch (Shop serial S-366). This rig was the last open-bed truck and last Pirsch (after a 40-year run). The Shops added a facing jumpseat on the driver’s side to keep the sixth man off the running boards. She retired from Truck 11 in 1993 and went into reserve status. Eventually she disappeared from the roster and smketrfdny can never come home again. c.1978 Photo.

[dcfireman]

   

[quote name='lfdtruckie343' post='279787' date='Feb 7 2009, 12:38 ']didnt T3 always end up getting some of the newer trucks each time they bought DCFD new ladder trucks? they had a few towers serving as T3 right?[/quote]c.1979

With one exception, all of T-03’s 19 pieces of apparatus since 1891 have been new.



The DCFD maintained a separate 4-man water tower company that ran from the quarters of Truck 3 from 1901 through 1952. Truck 3 itself received a tower (first of two) in 1971. The central location of the company, the water capacity of the apparatus, and the look of the Sutphen brought the term water tower back into the vernacular for a few years. C.1979 photo shows the Sutphen working a fire at 419 7th St. NW.



E-16’s wagon (S-109), alongside, is one of the five Ford/ Pirsch 750 GPM wagons purchased in 1969. That appears to be the lineman’s spent 15-minute Sling-Pak bottle lying on the back step.