In a recent post, I wrote about Ginger, a well-loved fire dog for Hook and Ladder Co. No. 5 of New York’s Metropolitan Fire Department. The following tale is also about Ginger, but this mascot was a fire cat for a historical fire company once called the Live Oak Engine Company. In 1894, an orange […]
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1888: Requiem for Ginger, the Fire Dog of Greenwich Village
Posted: 26th May 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails, FDNY Horses/MascotsTags: 96 Charles Street, Columbian No. 14, fire dog, Hook and Ladder Company No. 5, Metropolitan Fire Department, New York History, Old New York
Although their names were omitted from the payrolls, the fire dogs of the Metropolitan Fire Department played some very important roles in nineteenth-century New York City.
