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Rescue with Stanley Kossup2607 views

Kossup, Stanley2572 viewsFire Director
1960
Photo shows Stanley as a rookie.

Kossup, Stanley Story2513 views

Caufield, Fire Director John2494 viewsPhoto from Stan Kossup

Hurle, Captain Eugene2475 viewsMIchael McGrath (l)
Photo from Cathy Knapp

Donlan, James2458 viewsEngine Company 6

Kossup, Stanley2434 viewsFire Director
1960
Photo shows Stanley as a rookie.

Kossup, Stanley Story2408 views

McGrath, Captain Michael2382 viewsCaptain Eugene Hurle (r)
Photo from Cathy Knapp

Redden, Chief2378 viewsPhoto from Stan Kossup

Olvaney, William2351 viewsEngine Company 6

Rescue with Stanley Kossup2321 views

Keifrider, Elmer2304 viewsTruck Company 8
1963

Van Houton, James E.2304 viewsAsst. Fire Chief

Wilson, John2301 viewsPhoto from Joyce Myers

2300 views(l to r) Captain Greeley, Bernie Habig & William Olvaney

Tighe, John Cornelius2290 viewsNewark Salvage Corps
1922/1924

Newark Riots2258 views

Hegel, George2210 viewsTruck Company 7

Newark Firemen 1950s2191 viewsPhoto from Bill J.

Rescue with Stanley Kossup2178 views

Memorial2162 viewsA memorial to the marines killed in the ambush in Lebanon at the
Newark Fire Academy on October 29, 1983
Photo from Stan Kossup

House Fire ~19782151 viewsPhoto from Stan Kossup

Durando, Edward2126 viewsFire Chief

Newspaper Article2116 views

Hagel, George2113 viewsTruck Company 7

2072 views

Jersey Central Railroad Yard Fire2057 views

Reilly, William2056 views(click photo to enlarge)
Photo from David Reilly

Practicing with the Saftey Net2055 views

Rescue2048 views

Last Alarm - International Fire Fighter2013 views

Rescue with Stanley Kossup1996 views

Jersey Central Railroad Yard Fire1995 views

Rescue1987 views

1982 views

July 7, 19511981 viewsFrom Robert Baptista:
I was living in Elizabeth at the time of the explosion but was too young to recall it now. My online newspaper archive indicates it happened at 1PM July 7, 1951 at the Warren Petroleum Co. 82 acre tank farm on Newark Bay. 125 Propane tanks blew up causing a fire that took six hours to bring under control. Flames shot up hundreds of feet and the smoke was visible to people in Manhattan skyscrapers and on Brooklyn beaches. Heat and a concussion shock wave were felt five miles away. The fire blew up seven rail tankcars on a siding next to Warren. A section of a tankcar flew a half-mile, landing on a gas station which ignited. Seventy-five men were working at the Warren site. Eleven men were injured but no lives were lost. The victims were treated at St. James Hospital. Property damage to Warren Petroleum and nearby plants was estimated at $5 million. Except for a favorable wind, 1.5 million gallons of gasoline stored at the Atlantic Petroleum Co. would have blown up. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known but all possibilites were being investigated including sabotage.

Engine Company 111960 views521-23 Central Avenue, corner of 9th Street
Photo from Cathy Knapp

Rescue1958 views

Marenghi, Vincent1948 viewsPhoto from David Reilly

20031947 views

Newspaper Article1945 views

Rescue1941 views

Jersey Central Railroad Yard Fire1937 views

Owens, Lieut. Joseph J.1932 viewsLieutenant Joseph J. Owens of Company No. 3 died at the City Hospital about 6 O'Clock December 25th, 1916. He sustained a fractured skull ina collision between the truck and the Salvage Corps automobile, when the apparatus was responding to an alarm of fire from Fourteenth Avenue and South Seventh Street.