Field Organizations
The ten Emergency Service Squads (ESS) are divided geographically as:
Emergency Service Squads (or Trucks):
- ESS-1 (Lower Manhattan),
- ESS-2 (Upper Manhattan),
- ESS-3 (East and South Bronx),
- ESS 4 (West and North Bronx),
- ESS-5 (Staten Island),
- ESS-6 (South Brooklyn),
- ESS-7 (East Brooklyn),
- ESS-8 (North Brooklyn) - REP truck,
- ESS-9 (South Queens) - Heavy Rescue Truck,
- ESS-10 (North Queens) - REP truck, and
- ESS-11 (Assigned to ESU Headquarters).
- ESS-14 Hazmat/Rescue Truck.
ESS-11 is not a patrol squad but a vehicle manned by trainers and support staff assigned to ESU headquarters at Floyd Bennett Field and can respond to nearby incidents or as back-up to other Emergency Service Squads when required.
Lieutenants are city wide patrol supervisors who are assigned to patrol multiple "trucks". They patrol as either U-5 (Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island), or U-4, (Manhattan and the Bronx) and respond to major incidents within their assigned boroughs for the shift.
The ESU Canine Unit maintains 36 dogs-handler teams which include three bloodhounds and several dogs cross-trained in cadaver recovery. The ESU canines are an integral part of the US-TF1 Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Team as deployed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
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