Located at 129 Sigourney Street, Fire Station 5, home to Engine Company 5, has serviced the Asylum Hill section of the City since 1871.  Known as Lord’s Hill during the 19^th Century, the neighborhood was home to many of Hartford’s noted citizens, including authors Samuel Clemens and Harriet Beecher Stowe. 

 

Today’s Asylum Hill neighborhood is comprised of single- and multiple-family homes, apartment buildings, large and small businesses, office buildings, St. Francis Hospital, medical offices and many places of worship.  Interstate 84 passes through Engine 5’s response district, and the company is first-due to the Aetna and Hartford Insurance Companies, businesses that in the 1800s, helped earn Hartford the title of Insurance Capital of The World.  Engine 5’s location near the geographic heart of the city helps to make it one of the busiest engine companies in the City, answering over 3200 emergency calls per year.  Engine 5 responds regularly with other active engine companies, including Engines 2 and 14 in the North End, Engine 11 in the West End, and Engine 8 in the Frog Hollow neighborhood. 

 

Engine 5 is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year by a minimum of four members on each of the four work groups, or Tours.  For additional information on Station 5, please  contact:

 

Station 5 On-Duty Officer:  860-757-4605

 

   Tour A:                   Lieutenant Raul Ortiz               ortiR001@hartford.gov

   Tour B:                   Captain Kevin J. Walsh         walsk001@hartford.gov

   Tour C:                   Lieutenant James York III    yorkj001@hartford.gov

   Tour D:                   Lieutenant Gregory Gentry    GentG001@hartford.gov

The members of Engine Company 5 wish for you to stay safe, and to remember that smoke detectors save lives.

 

In Memory of Fire Captain Austin A. Dungan, Engine Company 5

Died in the Line of Duty, 29 July, 1933