last-minute repairs by a roofing company owned by Samuel Engelstein. A leak had to be caulked with tar. During these repairs, at about 1:30 a.m., the light bulbs turned off and a worker kicked over a bucket of hot pitch, causing the light bulbs to explode. The fire quickly spread throughout the park. The Dreamland fire was the first double-nine-alarm fire that the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) had ever fought in Brooklyn. This alarm, which signified the most severe type of fire, summoned FDNY companies from across Brooklyn. Fires had been a persistent problem at Coney Island, so a new high-pressure water pumping station had been constructed at West 12th Street and Neptune Avenue a few years earlier. However, on the night of the Dreamland fire, the water pressure was extremely low: the pumping station was capable of supplying water at , but the pressure had dropped to . Furthermore, even though Coney Island's firehouse was within of Dreamland, the other FDNY companies had to travel long distances to reach Coney Island. By the time other FDNY companies reached the neighborhood, the entire park had caught fire. As a result of the conflagration's intensity, as well as the low water pressure, firefighters could not even enter the park; they attempted to extinguish the fire from its borders. As the park burned, tens of thousands of onlookers traveled from across New York City to see the fire. Firefighters quickly shifted their focus to saving adjacent structures. Several buildings on the south side of Surf Avenue caught fire, although almost all buildings on the north side remained undamaged. Bonavita and Ferari attempted to save the animals; some of the terrified animals escaped, but about 60 animals died. A lion named Black Prince rushed into the streets, among crowds of onlookers, and was shot by police. Another animal, Sultan, was shot several dozen times before being killed by an axe blow. Early editions of The New York Times claimed the incubator babies had perished in the flames, but in fact the infants had all been saved, and the Times subsequently corrected itself. According to contemporaneous accounts, New York City Police Department (NYPD) sergeant Frederick Klinck made several trips into the burning structure to rescue incubator babies. The conflagration extended east to Balmer's bathing pavilion at West 5th Street and west to the new Giant Coaster at West 10th Street. The Giant