Engine Company 7 responding to a fire
Engine Company 5 Hose Wagon with Hart Water Pump at Water Street Firehouse
Engine Company 1 1903 Metropolitan Steam Fire Engine (Quartered at 112 Van Houten Street)
Engine Company 1 Hose Wagon
Courtesy Jim Eifler
Chief John Stagg and Driver George Pfitzenmeyer at 10 Hotel Street Fire Headquarters
Courtesy Jim Eifler
Assistant Chiefs James Mills and John Gilmore at 10 Hotel Street (Hamilton Street_ Headquarters
Engine 1 1903 Metropolitan First Size Steamer at 112 Van Houten Street
Courtesy Jim Eifler
Engine 2 1904 Metropolitan First Size Steamer at 77 Highland Street
Courtesy Jim Eifler
Engine 3 at 298 Tyler Street 2nd size Button (formerly used by Passaic Engine 1 of Volunteer department)
Courtesy Jim Eifler
Engine Company 4 at 149 Slater Street with 1905 2nd Size Nott Steamer
Courtesy Jim Eifler
Engine Company 5 on Water Street - First size 1903 Metropolitan Steamer
Courtesy Jim Eifler
Engine Company 6 at 476 Market Street - Despite being labeled as a Second Size Nott Steam Fire Engine the apparatus in photo is a Second Size 1886 Clapp & Jones Steam Fire Engine, purchased in 1886
Courtesy Jim Eifler
Engine Company 7 at 78 Gould Avenue Firehouse 2nd size Silsby formerly used from 1890 until 1903 by Engine 5. As noted on card the steamer was totally destroyed when hit by a train in 1908.
Courtesy Jim Eifler
Engine Company 8 third size Silsby Steamer - quarters was 71 Wayne Avenue
Courtesy Jim Eifler
Engine Company 9's 1903 First Size Metropolitan Steam Fire Engine at the Main Street firehouse.
Courtesy Jim Eifler
Truck Company 1 on Jackson Street - A 75' LaFrance Aerial with Rawson Water Tower attachment
Courtesy Jim Eifler
Truck 2 at 77 Prospect Street Firehouse with 75' Seagrave aerial
Truck Company 3 at 41 Godwin Avenue - Combination Chemical and Ladder Truck with 55' extension ladder built by the Fire Extinguisher Company of Chicago - chemical tanks is to rtear of drivers seat
Courtesy Jim Eifler
Chemical Engine 1 at 10 Hotel Street (Hamilton Street firehouse) which then served as Headquarters
Courtesy Jim Eifler
Truck Company 2 at 77 Prospect Street - 1903 Seagrave 75' Aerial (with Hose Tower)
Men of Engine Company 7 at 78 Gould Avenue Firehouse:
FF Martin Brand second from left - Steamer in bay at left and hose wagon at right
FF Martin Brand at left - Note Steamer Harnesses hanging from ceiling behind them
Engine Company 4 horses with: L-R: John Heinzelman, Neil Kennedy, John Eagan and Bill Smith - 149 Slater Street
L-R: John Heinzelman, Corneilus "Neil" Kennedy, John Eagan and Bill Smith
Engine Company 10 at 198 17th Avenue with Paterson's first motorized apparatus: A Howe Fire Engine. On rear step: ? and Jack Anderson. On side: Lieutenant Thomas Coyle, Driver Paul Wentin and Captain Barton. On other side J Byrnes (or Burns) and ? at crank.
Circa 1913 Headquarters at 115 Van Houten Street circa 1913
Engine Company 5 Metropolitan Steamer with Nott Propelling Tractot at 115 Van Houten Street circa 1913: Driver Paul Wentink, James Sweeney, Chief Thomas Coyle, Engineer David Taylor. Circa 1913
Truck Company 2 Aerial with Christie Front Drive Steamer at 115 Van Houten Street 1913. Driver is Leo Kane and standing is Captain Weber.
Engine Company 12 Robinson Combination Engine circa 1913
Modern postcard showing the 1904 Nott Steam Fire Engine of Paterson Engine Company 8: restored by Exemots of the Wyckoff, NJ Fire department 1973-1976
The Almshouse at Chamberlain and Redwood Avenue with the Fire department Training/Drill Tower seen at the left.
The Paterson Exempt Fireman's Home on Clark Street
Postcards related to the Great Conflagration of 1902
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Old 1821 Gooseneck Engine of Passaic Engine Company 1 Postcards. The first is as it was stored on the porch of the Exempt Fireman's Home. Note original leather riveted hose.
Late 1940s restoration: displayed in from of the 23rd Avenue Firehouse. The Engine lamp is not original to the apparatus nor is the drum in the center or the keg on the yolk.
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Ahrens Fox Advertising postcard
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1951 postcard from the Fordham Felt Works located at 350 Main Street between DeGrasse St and lee Place (behind Central HS). They supplied jackets to many fire departments. That is not a Paterson apparatus in the photo.
