Yonkers FD Staffing

[Guest fdnyladder10]

What is the current staffing levels for Engine and Truck Companies in the YFD?

I am assuming for engines its Officer, and three Firefighters, including Driver.

For trucks, its Officer and four Firefighters including driver.

thanks

jarrod

[Oswegowind 17]

It's all 1 and 3 across the board unless there are "extras" out there. Then they get assigned to Ladders/Rescue first.

[BFarr156 0]

What is the current staffing levels for Engine and Truck Companies in the YFD?

I am assuming for engines its Officer, and three Firefighters, including Driver.

For trucks, its Officer and four Firefighters including driver.

thanks

jarrod

The current staffing for the YFD is:

Engines: 1 Officer - 3 Firefighters

Ladders: 1 Officer - 3 Firefighters

Rescue: 1 Officer - 3 Firefighters

Battalions: 1 A/C - 1 Firefighter

Safety: 1 Officer (A/C or Capt).

We have a total of 18 Companies - 11 Engine Co. (that's including our Squad), 6 Truck Co., 1 Rescue Co,.

Back in the late 70's/early 80's we had a total of 20 companies but several were eliminated to never be put back in service except for Engine 311 (now Squad 11) and the Rescue (which was known as Engine 305 back then after they disbanded it).

We never got back all the companies we lost and since then, the population of Yonkers has gone up over 200,000 + and the city has undertaken a lot of development (retail, community and hi-rises) and redevelopment and the YFD started doing EMS calls in the early 90's; and the total yearly responses went up from 5,000-6,000 back in the 80's to 15,000-16,000 runs today.

Edited December 31, 2008 by BFarr156

[Guest fdnyladder10]

The current staffing for the YFD is:

Engines: 1 Officer - 3 Firefighters

Ladders: 1 Officer - 3 Firefighters

Rescue: 1 Officer - 3 Firefighters

Battalions: 1 A/C - 1 Firefighter

Safety: 1 Officer (A/C or Capt).

We have a total of 18 Companies - 11 Engine Co. (that's including our Squad), 6 Truck Co., 1 Rescue Co,.

Back in the late 70's/early 80's we had a total of 20 companies but several were eliminated to never be put back in service except for Engine 311 (now Squad 11) and the Rescue (which was known as Engine 305 back then after they disbanded it).

We never got back all the companies we lost and since then, the population of Yonkers has gone up over 200,000 + and the city has undertaken a lot of development (retail, community and hi-rises) and redevelopment and the YFD started doing EMS calls in the early 90's; and the total yearly responses went up from 5,000-6,000 back in the 80's to 15,000-16,000 runs today.

Many thanks for the info, i also notice from the incident rundowns that YFD doesnt send its squad automatically on a working fire, just the rescue.

I hope the dark cloud hanging over the YFD as regards closing a company and redundancies can be sorted or is at best short lived.

Jarrod

[61MACKBR1 222]

Excellent Post by BFarr (below). When I resided in Yonkers back in the 1960's and 1970's, I too, remember when the Yonkers Fire Department was properly and adequately staffed. If BFarr and others within the department could confirm, this is how I remember it to be:

Station 1 (Headquarters - New School Street):

Engine 301 (Formally Engine 1)

Ladder 71 (Formally Truck 1)

Rescue 1 [Disbanded in 1976, was brought back briefly as Engine 305 in the 1980's and then removed from service again. Squad 1 was put into service back in the 1990's and then redesignated back as Rescue 1 in 1999)

Station 2 (Vineyard Avenue): [station is no longer operational]

Engine 302 (Formally Engine 2)

Ladder 72 (Formally Truck 2) [Eventually Moved to Station 9 on Shonnard after Station 2 closed]

Station 3 (Riverdale Avenue then Vark Street):

Engine 303 (Formally Engine 3)

Battalion 1

Station 4 (Radford Street):

Engine 304 (Formally Engine 4)

Ladder 74 (Formally Truck 4)

Station 6 (Oak Street):

Engine 306 (Formally Engine 6)

Station 7 (Central Park Avenue):

Engine 307 (Formally Engine 7)

Repair Shop (Eventually moved to the DPW facility on Neprahan Avenue)

Fire Prevention Division

Station 8 (Warburton Avenue):

Engine 308 (formally Engine 8)

Station 9 (Shonnard):

Engine 309 (Formally Engine 9)

*Ladder 72 Eventually moved to Station 9 from Station 2 after Station 2 Closed)

Station 10 (Saw Mill River Road):

Engine 310 (Formally Engine 10)

Station 11 (Bronxville Road):

Engine 311 (Formally Engine 11) [Now Squad 11)

[Also Truck 3 was housed here. Truck 3, now designated as Ladder 73 was moved to Station 13]

Station 12 (Fortfield Avenue):

Engine 312 (formally Engine 12)

Ladder 75 (Formally Truck 5)

Battalion 2

Station 13 (Kimball Avenue):

Engine 313 (formally Engine 13)

Ladder 73 (Formally Truck 6) [Truck 6 (ie: Ladder 76) was disbanded and Truck 3 (ie: Ladder 73) moved from Station 11 to Station 13]

Station 14 (North Central Park Avenue)

Engine 314 (Formally Engine 14)

Ladder 70 (Formally Truck 7)

No longer in Service are:

Engine 301

Engine 302

Ladder 76

Can anyone in the department confirm this, as I remember it?

Thanks

The current staffing for the YFD is:

Engines: 1 Officer - 3 Firefighters

Ladders: 1 Officer - 3 Firefighters

Rescue: 1 Officer - 3 Firefighters

Battalions: 1 A/C - 1 Firefighter

Safety: 1 Officer (A/C or Capt).

We have a total of 18 Companies - 11 Engine Co. (that's including our Squad), 6 Truck Co., 1 Rescue Co,.

Back in the late 70's/early 80's we had a total of 20 companies but several were eliminated to never be put back in service except for Engine 311 (now Squad 11) and the Rescue (which was known as Engine 305 back then after they disbanded it).

We never got back all the companies we lost and since then, the population of Yonkers has gone up over 200,000 + and the city has undertaken a lot of development (retail, community and hi-rises) and redevelopment and the YFD started doing EMS calls in the early 90's; and the total yearly responses went up from 5,000-6,000 back in the 80's to 15,000-16,000 runs today.

[FirNaTine 370]

It's amazing. We are now doing more with less. Go figure.

[BFarr156 0]

To help answer 61MACKBR1 question in regard to companies and locations in the history of the YFD. I put together a database of our old Fire Pull Boxes (in service from June 1, 1934 to July 17, 1980) with their locations and assignments, a few years back for our now retired Capt. Tobin (Capt of Training and Dept. Historian). Part of that database was putting together a listing of our fire companies and any information pertaining to them (from the history he had put together and old dept. orders). I believe most of the info is accurate but can not guarantee it that it is 100% but close to it.

Here it is:

Yonkers Fire Department

Company History

1896-2008

Engine 1 - Commissioned September 1, 1896; 18 Palisade Avenue – Fire Headquarters

Moved October 1928 to 5-7 New School Street – “newly constructed” Fire Headquarters

De-Commissioned January 1, 1976

Engine 2 – Commissioned October 1897; 7-9 Vineyard Avenue - Station 2

March 10, 1978 re-designated Engine 302

September 15, 1980; Station 2 closed and moved to Station 1

De-Commissioned April 19, 1982

Re-Commissioned June 1983 at Station 1

De-Commissioned July 1983

Engine 3 – Commissioned September 16, 1901; 81 Riverdale Avenue – Station 3

August 17, 1971 moved to 96 Vark Street – “newly constructed” Station 3

March 10, 1978 re-designated Engine 303

Engine 4 – Commissioned May 1, 1901; 36 Radford Street – Station 4

March 10, 1978 re-designated Engine 304

Engine 5 – Commissioned May 1, 1901; 53 Shonnard Place

De-Commissioned February 1, 1942

Engine 6 – Commissioned August 4, 1902; 81 Oak Street - Station 6

March 10, 1978 re-designated Engine 306

Engine 7 – Commissioned August 4, 1902; Central Park Avenue/Yonkers Avenue – Station 7

1931 Moved to “newly constructed” firehouse at 441 Central Park Avenue – Station 7

March 10, 1978 re-designated Engine 307

Engine 8 – Commissioned August 15, 1907; 268 Woodworth Avenue – Station 8

1933 moved to 583 Warburton Avenue - Station 8 (a former carriage house)

March 10, 1978 re-designated Engine 308

June 1980 moved to 573 Warburton Avenue – “newly constructed” Station 8

Engine 9 – Commissioned December 22, 1909; Swain Street (Pondfield Road West)

1922 moved to 53 Shonnard Place - Station 9

March 10, 1978 re-designated Engine 309

Engine 10 – Commissioned November 5, 1910; 485 Saw Mill River Road

March 10, 1978 re-designated Engine 310

Engine 11 – Commissioned January 9, 1922; 427 Bronxville Road – Station 11

March 10, 1978 re-designated Engine 311

De-Commissioned April 19, 1982

Re-Commissioned June 1983 at Station 11

De-Commissioned July 1983

Re-Commissioned January 2, 1984 at Station 11

De-Commissioned December 1, 2004 (see Squad 11)

Engine 12 - Commissioned June 17, 1930; 75 Fortfield Avenue – Station 12

March 10, 1978 re-designated Engine 312

Engine 13 – Commissioned August 13, 1956; 340 Kimball Avenue – Station 13

March 10, 1978 re-designated Engine 313

Engine 14 – Commissioned December 1, 1958; 2187 Central Park Avenue - Station 14

March 10, 1978 re-designated Engine 314

Truck 1 – Commissioned September 1, 1896; 18 Palisade Avenue - Headquarters

Moved October 1928 to 5-7 New School Street – “newly constructed” Fire Headquarters

March 10, 1978 re-designated Ladder 71

Truck 2 – Commissioned October 1897; 7-9 Vineyard Avenue – Station 2

March 16, 1972 moved from Station 2 to 53 Shonnard Place - Station 9

March 10, 1975 re-designated Truck 9

March 10, 1978 re-designated Ladder 72

Truck 3 – Commissioned abt. 1907; 53 Shonnard Place

1922 moved to 427 Bronxville Road - Station 11

March 10, 1975 re-designated Truck 11

De-Commissioned January 1, 1976

Re-Commissioned 1979 as Ladder 76 at Bronxville Road; Station 11

August 18, 1980 moved from Station 11 to 96 Vark Street – Station 3

De-Commissioned April 19, 1982

Truck 4 – Commissioned late 1914; 36 Radford Street – Station 4

March 10, 1978 re-designated Ladder 74

Truck 5 – Commissioned January 5, 1932; 441 Central Park Avenue - Station 7

De-Commissioned February 1, 1942

Re-Commissioned April 19, 1943

De-Commissioned abt. 1943-44

Re-Commissioned February 17, 1946

March 31, 1961 moved from Station 7 to 75 Fortfield Avenue - Station 12

March 10, 1975 re-designated Truck 12

March 10, 1978 re-designated Ladder 75

Truck 6 – Commissioned March 27, 1956; 340 Kimball Avenue – Station 13

March 10, 1975 re-designated Truck 13

March 10, 1978 re-designated Ladder 73

Truck 7 – Commissioned December 21, 1967; 2187 Central Park Avenue - Station 14

March 10, 1975 re-designated Truck 14

March 10, 1978 re-designated Ladder 70

?? July 1983 Re-assigned to Station 11??

?? January 1984 Re-assigned to Station 14??

Rescue 1 – Commissioned March 3, 1930; 5-7 New School Street –

Station 1 Fire Headquarters

De-Commissioned February 1, 1942

Re-Commissioned April 19, 1943

De-Commissioned January 1, 1976

Re-Commissioned March 6, 2000; Station 1 Headquarters

Engine 305 - Commissioned October 19, 1979; 5-7 Vineyard Avenue – Station 2

Functioned not as an Engine Company; but as a support unit, so called

“Rescue Company”

September 15, 1980; Station 2 closed and moved to Station 1

De-Commissioned April 19, 1982

Squad 1 – Commissioned June 18, 1992; Station 1 Headquarters 5-7 New School Street

De-Commissioned March 6, 2000 (see Rescue 1)

Squad 11 - Commissioned December 1, 2004; Station 11 - 433 Bronxville Road

(see Engine 11)

West Side Chief/ Division 1 Chief / Battalion 1 -

East Side Chief / Division 2 Chief / Battalion 2 - Commissioned March 2, 1956; 75 Fortfield Avenue – Station 12

Safety / Car 5 – Commissioned January 19, 2002: Station 1 Headquarters

5-7 New School Street

Edited December 31, 2008 by BFarr156