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FDNY Engine 94 and Ladder 48 celebrated the company’s centennial Friday morning. The Hunts Point firehouse was established in November of 1913.
Generations of firefighters gathered Friday to commemorate the centennial of a South Bronx firehouse whose Bravest battled some of the borough’s worst blazes.
“Hundreds of lives have been saved, so many families have been kept intact, and so many buildings still stand thanks to the work of the firefighters in this house,” Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano said at the ceremony honoring Engine Company 94 and Ladder Company 48.
The pair of companies served the Hunts Point area as it grew from mostly farmland to residential and commercial property.
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FDNY plaque commemorating the 100 years of service provided to the Hunts Point community by Engine 94 and Ladder 48.
The firehouse joins 32 other companies celebrating a century of service this year, according to an FDNY spokesman.
“If not for the incredible work of these two companies, and so many more like it surrounding, the destruction would be so much greater,” Cassano added.
In researching the history of the South Bronx companies, officials discovered that a firefighter named John Carroll died while battling a blaze on Charlotte St. in 1935.
A second plaque commemorating Carroll’s work was also presented at the ceremony.
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