Editing Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan (section)

===September 11, 2001===
[[File:Engine54-memorial.jpg|thumb|upright|Memorial to 15 firefighters from Engine Co. 54/Ladder Co. 4/Battalion 9 who died on September 11, 2001]]
While most fire stations in Manhattan lost firefighters in the [[September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks]], the station with the greatest loss of firefighters was Engine Co. 54/Ladder Co. 4/Battalion 9 at 48th Street and Eighth Avenue, which lost 15 firefighters, an entire shift on duty.<ref>[http://abc7ny.com/archive/8349429/ "Hardest Hit Firehouse Still Recovering 10 Years Later] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623173721/http://abc7ny.com/archive/8349429/ |date=June 23, 2016 }}, [[WABC-TV]], September 11, 2011. Accessed June 6, 2016. "No firehouse was hit harder than the one in Midtown Manhattan. Fifteen members of Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9 were killed."</ref> Given its proximity to Midtown, the station specializes in skyscraper fires and rescues. In 2007, it was the second-busiest firehouse in New York City, with 9,685 runs between the two companies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fdnewyork.com/randw_07.asp |title=Runs and Workers – 2007 |website=www.fdnewyork.com |access-date=February 18, 2009 |archive-date=December 5, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205232445/http://www.fdnewyork.com/randw_07.asp |url-status=live }}</ref>

Its patch reads "Pride of Midtown" and "Never Missed a Performance". Memorials dot the station's exterior walls and a granite memorial is in a park to its north. Ladder 21, the "Pride of Hell's Kitchen", located on 38th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, and stationed with Engine Co. 34, lost seven firefighters on September 11.<ref>Fertig, Beth. [http://www.wnyc.org/story/85579-firemen-on-september-11th/ "Firemen on September 11th"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828181809/http://www.wnyc.org/story/85579-firemen-on-september-11th/ |date=August 28, 2016 }}, [[WNYC]], September 12, 2002. Accessed June 6, 2016. "But all seven members of Ladder Company 21 who raced downtown on the big truck that morning perished. None of the bodies was ever recovered."</ref> In addition, on September 11, Engine Co. 26 was temporarily stationed with Engine Co. 34/Ladder Co. 21 and lost many firefighters themselves.
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