The lights are on inside the Engine 79 and Ladder 37 firehouse in Bedford Park, but no one is home. The building is closed for renovations through the end of the year, and possibly into January.

A sign is taped behind the window of the firehouse’s front door. As of July 15, it says, the building’s tenants have been moved to other headquarters, “Engine 79 is now in E-62’s quarters.” Engine 62’s firehouse is approximately 1.7 miles away on White Plains Road in Williamsbridge.

The crew of Ladder 37 has been moved to Engine 81’s firehouse, which is 1.9 miles away on Bailey Avenue in Kingsbridge.

Jim Long, a Fire Department spokesman, said the 103-year-old firehouse on Briggs Avenue will be getting an “apparatus floor upgrade.” The apparatus floor is where large equipment, such as fire trucks, are kept. Long explained that a century ago, firehouses “weren’t built to support the weight of [modern] trucks.”

Long said fire response times would not be affected and that the Fire Department received no complaints since the move.

Since its founding in 1904, the firehouse’s companies have seen over 155,000 runs, including their heralded response to the five-alarm fire at St. Philip Neri Church in 1997. Despite the intense magnitude of that fire, firefighters were able to save many of the church’s religious artifacts.