page_title: New York City Fire Department
section_title: Fire companies
hierarchical_section_title: New York City Fire Department / Fire companies
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking southeast at FDNY Ladder 5. However, once the ladder moves out of the way we will see that this firehouse is the home for Ladder 4. The usual home for Ladder 5 is down in Greenwich Village along with Engine 24 and Battalion 2.
context_page_description: The New York City Fire Department, officially the Fire Department of the City of New York, is a department of the government of New York City that provides fire protection, technical rescue services, primary response to biological, chemical, and radioactive hazards, and emergency medical services responses to the five boroughs of New York City.
  The New York City Fire Department is the largest municipal fire department in the United States and the second largest in the world after the Tokyo Fire Department. The FDNY employs approximately 10,951 uniformed firefighters, 4,301 uniformed EMTs, paramedics, and 2,096 civilian employees. Its regulations are compiled in title 3 of the New York City Rules. The FDNY's motto is New York's Bravest for fire and New York's Best for EMS. The FDNY serves more than 8.5 million residents within a 302 square mile area.
  The FDNY headquarters is located at 9 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn, and the FDNY Fire Academy is located on Randalls Island. The International Association of Firefighters locals are 94 & 854.
context_section_description: The New York City Fire Department is made up of fire companies, similar to military companies of men and women. Each fire company operates a single type of Fire apparatus and has four shifts of firefighters and company officers. Each company responds to emergency calls from one of the city's 218 firehouses.
  There are currently six different types of fire companies in the New York Fire Department which all operate distinct types of apparatus: 197 engine companies, 143 ladder (or truck) companies, 5 rescue companies, 8 squad companies, 3 marine (or fireboat) companies, and the hazardous materials (hazmat) company. In addition to these six types of fire companies, there are numerous other specialized units that are operated by the Special Operations Command (S.O.C.), the Haz-Mat. Division, and the Marine Division. Each fire company has a specific role at the scene of an emergency.
  Each type of fire company utilizes a certain type of fire apparatus, colloquially known as "rigs".
caption: A tiller or tractor-drawn aerial ladder is another type of Ladder Truck operated by the FDNY. Pictured is a tiller ladder truck operated by Ladder Co. 5, quartered in Manhattan.
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