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Throughout the night, officials went from firehouse to firehouse doing head counts to reckon the death toll.
Her extended family, she said, most of whom live in and around New York City, is planning a 60th anniversary commemoration of Firefighter Sullivan's death next year at his old Engine 319 firehouse, a two-story building wedged between one- and two-family houses on 67th Road in Middle Village, Queens.
How did he end up in this firehouse?
Ms. Sullivan learned more details of her father's service and death this week thanks to a neighbor of the firehouse, Doug Marra 59, a self-described fire buff who has hanged around Engine 319 since he was 5. Some 20 years ago, firehouse officials discarded the 1954 firehouse journals, following Fire Department guidelines on keeping records.
A volunteer firefighter was crushed to death yesterday morning in an accident at his firehouse, the Nassau police said.
Comment on the death of Cappy, the Dalmation mascot of the 43rd St. firehouse.
The New Yorker, May 20 , 1950 P. 19Comment on the death of Cappy, the Dalmation mascot of the 43rd St. firehouse..
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More than 150 artists will share their drawn, painted, photographed or otherwise rendered meditations on death in "A Book About Death: The Ties That Bind," an exhibition set to open at the Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery in Bay Shore on July 31.
