But you don't have to be an engine-and-ladder enthusiast to relish the full breakfast buffet of pastries, cheese, pancakes, eggs, bacon, and from-scratch granola (included in the price), or to raise a glass with other guests in the rooftop solarium during wine hour (5pm-6pm, Mon-Thurs).
The department has already cobbled together enough engines and ladder trucks to protect the city.
As a result, the department is analyzing statistics, block by block and neighborhood by neighborhood, to determine how it can most safely take engines and ladder trucks out of service.
There, by digital maps of responding police cars or under big boards of data — fire engines and ladder trucks by borough, ambulances en route or at a patient's side — the men and women on the other end of 911 act as air traffic controllers, managing the city's emergency response.
There are more than 300 engine and ladder companies in the city.
I was the first to arrive -- engine and ladder companies followed -- and I saw standing at the firebox a scared and shaken young Asian couple.
The Fire Department has replaced a little less than half of its lost vehicles, and not many of its larger engine and ladder trucks.
On a tray, he formed two long loafs of pinkish meat that resembled the engine and ladder parked out in the garage.
Commanders of every engine and ladder company have been ordered to train, over the next month, about 4,000 firefighters who have never been taught to drive the equipment.
