This firehouse in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood was one of two fire units that I used to live nearby and interacted with them both. Back in the 1970’s, the Fifth Avenue part of the Park Slope community was being put to the torch by drug addicts who destroyed nearly everything there. They even threw a bomb into the bottom story of a brownstone on the corner of my block on Prospect Place and 5th Avenue. Getting rid of the drug warlords was hard work but we finally won! Well…that fire department which responded to the bombing and fire and put it out is now GONE!