Ladder Co. 5
Ladder Co. 5
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A HISTORY
ORGANIZED: NOVEMBER 1, 1899
DISBANDED: JANUARY 22, 1960
COMPANY QUARTERS
COMPANY QUARTERS
1899-1912 99 India Street, easterly side, near Congress Street
1912-1915 376 Congress Street, corner of Market Street (old Central Station)
1915-1924 99 India Street, near Congress Street (1917-1924 with Engine 1)
1924-1960 380 Congress Street (new Central Station with E-1, 5, L-1, C-1)
COMPANY HISTORY
COMPANY HISTORY
November 1, 1899 – Ladder Co. 2 on India Street was renumbered as Ladder Co. 5, because of a new ladder & chemical truck numbered 2, with Steam Engine 2 and Hose 2, as a “double company.”
Ladder 5 was assigned Ladder 2’s 1887 Hayes truck, with an 85 ft. two-section wooden aerial ladder.
In 1900, A Permanent Lieutenant appointed.
January 24, 1908- Ladder 5’s aerial ladder broke at the City Hall General Alarm fire, later replaced.
1909 – Permanent Captain appointed.
January 19, 1912 – The new Chief Engineer, Patrick Flaherty, transferred Ladder Co. 5 (Hayes aerial) to Central Station and moved Ladder Co.1 to India Street. A Forth Permanent Man was appointed.
1915 – Chief Almus Butler relocated Ladder Co. 5 back to their former quarters on India Street, and
Returned Ladder 1 back to Central. A fifth L-5 Permanent Man was appointed the following year.
1917 – Ladder Co. 5 motorized with a Christie tractor attached to the 1887 Hayes aerial truck.
1918 – The India Street firehouse became quite crowded, when Engine Co.1 moved in with Ladder 5.
1923 – A new Seagrave tractor was attached to the 1887 ladder carriage, replacing the Christie tractor.
1924 – The India Street firehouse closed. Ladder 5 and Engine 1 moved to the new Central Station on Congress Street, between Pearl and Market Streets, along with Engine 5, Ladder 1, and Chemical 1.
November 22, 1926 – Ladder 5 became a permanent company.
1928 – A new Seagrave trailer with an 85-foot wooden aerial ladder replaced the old 1887 Hayes truck.
August 22, 1932 – Ladder 5 Ladderman Walter P. Webster died in the line of duty of a heart attack suffered from exertion and heat while working at a two-alarm fire at 2b Monroe Place.
December 27, 1937 – Ladder 5 was involved in an accident on an icy, slick Anderson Street. The trailer section slid into a house, and the wooden 85-foot aerial ladder went in the front window, resting into a Christmas tree. The damaged end of the aerial was removed.
February 2, 1938 – The damaged aerial was removed from L-5’s trailer and Ladder 6’s 75-foot wooden ladder was placed on Ladder 5 (L-6’s was retrofitted with an 85-foot steel aerial).
March 27, 1943 – Ladder Co. 5 was placed out of commission because of a number of department members entering the service during World War II and a shortage of people applying to be firefighters.
November 8, 1945 – Ladder Co. 5 was put back in commission, as WW-II service after the war. The company would be placed in and out of service in the 1950’s because of reductions in work hours.
January 22, 1960 – Ladder Co. 5 was decommissioned.
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