1922: Waterboy, Danny Beg, and the Last Fire Horses of the New York Fire Department » Company72
The first motorized apparatus of the FDNY was a 1909 Knox high-pressure hose wagon, shown here in front of Engine Company No. 72 at 22 East 12th Street (today the Cinema Village theater). This hose wagon was one of the first three firefighting vehicles to simultaneously arrive on the scene of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire on March 25, 1911. Photo, Museum of the City of New York Collections.
High-Pressure Hose Wagon, FDNY, 1910
