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COMPANIES BATTLE BROOKLYN BLAZE

CHRIS TOMPKINS

On a night where the thermometer hovered in the single digits with a brisk wind put the wind chill below zero, the FDNY battled a five alarm fire that tore through a building supply company in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn on January 4th.

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Temperatures and alarm level almost match in Brooklyn

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Companies battling heavy fire conditions

On a night where the thermometer hovered in the single digits with a brisk wind put the wind chill below zero, the FDNY battled a five alarm fire that tore through a building supply company in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn on January 4th.

At 12:20 a.m., Brooklyn Dispatch began receiving numerous reports of a building fire at 858 Meeker Ave. , directly adjacent to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.

Battalion 45 transmitted the “all hands” on arrival for heavy fire in a one story warehouse.

A second alarm was quickly transmitted with a special call for the Thawing Unit due to several

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frozen hydrants. Operations went defensive as tower ladders were set up.

A third alarm was sounded at 12:39 as the fire spread throughout the interconnected buildings of the business. By 1:04, three tower ladders were in operation and a fourth was being set up. Foam units were special called to help with extinguishment of the building materials and vehicles inside the buildings.

Water supply continued to be a problem and Marine Co 1 (343)

was requested, although the water problem was solved and the boat was returned before being used. A fourth alarm was transmitted at 1:39 as a total of five tower ladders, three multi-versals, and four handlines worked the fire.

A fifth alarm was called for at 2:32 as companies were rotated out. The flames were held to the original business and the fire was slowly knocked down.

The fire was placed PWH at 4:03, but units remained at the scene for an extended period of time .

FRED BACCHI

Handline in exposure two yard

- BILL TOMPKINS

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Basement fire in Ridgewood, Queens CHRIS TOMPKINS

Master streams in operation

Firefighters were alerted to a fire on February 2nd at Grove Street and Cypress Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens. They arrived to a three brick OMD with fire in the basement. Two hose lines were used to extinguish the fire.

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Overturned auto in Gravesend, Brooklyn At approximately 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 2, 2014, an accident occured at the intersection of Ave V and E 13 St in which an SUV was struck by another auto and flipped over onto its roof. The elderly occupant of the auto was self-extricated and sustained non-life threatening injuries. FDNY Eng254 and Ladder 153 rendered assistance as well as the New York City Community Volunteer Ambulance Squad. The intersection was shut down for almost an hour while the cars were removed.

Tower ladder opening up before going into operation

BILL TOMPKINS

Stubborn Manhattan fire goes to six alarms FDNY firefighters battled a fire in a bank that took over eight hours to control on January 11th.

At approximately 5:30 a.m., companies were dispatched to Manhattan Box 1339, 2861 Broadway at W. 111th St. for a report of smoke in a Citibank branch.

All hands were put to work on arrival for a fire in the basement of the 75’ x 100’ two story structure.

A second alarm was struck as flames extended to the first floor.

Accessing the seat of the fire was difficult due to the many voids in the building from many renovations that had been done over the years. At 6:23, A third alarm was sounded and companies

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appeared to be making progress as the smoke condition lightened.

But the fire continued to hide in the voids and as conditions slowly deteriorated and a fourth alarm was transmitted at 7:40.

The first floor began to show signs of sagging and all members were withdrawn from the structure and tower ladders were moved into place. The smoke condition increased as flames became visible on the first floor.

Three tower ladders were put into operation as well as several hand lines in the exposure build-

ings. As conditions continued to worsen, a call for a foam unit was issued and then at 9:05, a fifth alarm was sounded.

Flames showed out of several windows on the B side of the structure as well as through the vent holes in the roof. The foam operation and the tower ladders made slow progress and at 1:54 the fire was able to be placed PWH after a sixth alarm was transmitted for relief.

No serious injuries were reported, but the residents of the “C” and “D” exposure buildings were left temporarily homeless due to smoke and water damage.

- BILL TOMPKINS

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Second alarm at auto parts store On January 13th, FDNY firefighters were alerted to a fire at Rogers Avenue and Empire Boulevard in Brooklyn. Crews arrived to find a fire in a one brick commercial auto parts store.

Firefighters used three hose lines and two tower ladders to extinguish the fire.

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Crews evacuated from the building for exterior operations

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STEVE SOLOMONSON

Large sinkhole, water main break and gas leak in Sheepshead Bay On Sunday, January 5th, 2014 at approximately 1:00 p.m., the FDNY was dispatched to 2776 E 14 St just off Neptune Ave in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn. Upon arrival, they found a major gas leak at a site where National Grid was operating. In addition, there was a large water main break and a sinkhole in danger of swallowing a truck parked on the street nearby. The FDNY stoodby with a hand-line as National Grid was attempting to shut down the gas main at the scene. No injuries were reported at the scene

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Pole fire in Queens On January 5th, FDNY crews were alerted to a fire at Forest Avenue and Meehan Street in Queens. Firefighters arrived to find a utility pole on fire. They quickly extinguished the fire and turned the scene over to the utility company.

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Bronx all hands plane crash On Saturday, January 4th at approximately 3:30p.m., the Bronx communications office started getting reports of a small plane crash and emergency landing on the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at East 233rd Street. Dispatchers assigned Engines 62, 81, 52, Ladders 39, 52, Battalion 27 and Division 7. Division 7 then requested a foam unit to respond (Engine 95 with Foam 95), Engine 81 arrived moments later and advised there was a confirmed plane down with no fire. The foam unit was returned. Three occupants were removed from the plane with all minor injuries. Hazmat Company 1 was assigned to remove the spilled fuel from the roadway. The plane was lifted onto a flatbed tow truck and removed to its final resting place. Division 7 placed the incident under control at approximately 6:00 p.m.

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Car into house in Flushing On January 31, 2014 at 2:40 p.m., FDNY units responded to a car into a house at 148-18 35 Ave, at the corner of 35 Ave and 149 Street. Battalion 52 reported a minivan was into the first floor of a house. The building was a three story brick 20x40 attached on the exposure 4 side. Rescue 4 began removal of the car and shoring of the building. The civilian in the car was removed prior to the arrival of fire department units with no injuries. The vehicle was traveling East on 149th Street and was struck by another vehicle, which caused the minivan to swerve and crash into front wall of the building.

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Two alarm house explosion in South Queens On January 11, 2014, around 3:00 p.m., Queens dispatched a box assignment for multiple calls reporting an explosion in a house. E302 and L155 "Vipers Nest" made first due transmitting "10-75" in a two and a half story peak roof wood frame private dwelling at 129-13 135th Place in South Ozone Park.

Battalion 51 transmitted the allhands on arrival, requested an extra engine and tower ladder and ordered all members out of the building.

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A preliminary size up indicated fire on all floors, with exposures one, two and four bulging outward as they are conducting exterior operations.

Queens Dispatch then informed the 51 that they were going with the collapse matrix with the conditions received.

A second alarm was transmitted

at e:20 along with an urgent request for Con Edision Electric.

At this time, four lines were stretched and operating and one tower ladder was up and operating.

The fire was declared under control around 5:00 p.m. with partial structural collapse in the rear.

A "10-41 Code 4" (suspicious fire, vacant structure) was transmitted and will be thoroughly investigated by FDNY fire marshals.

- RICHARD YORK

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Small fire in Queens On February 2nd, firefighters were alerted to 68th Place and Myrtle Avenue in Queens for a small fire on the second floor.

The fire was knocked down quickly with a can.

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Firefighters of Engine 47 get help from their fellow brothers

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FRED BACCHI

Tower Ladder 135 operating on Exposure 1

Manhole fire in Forest Hills

Two alarm commercial garage in Forest Hills

On January 25, 2014, FDNY crews were alerted to a manhole fire at 67th Avenue and Burns Street in Forest Hills. Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire using one hose line.

On January 23, 2014, FDNY units in Queens responded to a reported fire in a garage at 69-46 Sybilla Street in the Forest Hills section of the Boro.

At 5:02a.m., Engine 319 arrived and transmitted the 10-75 for a fire in a commercial warehouse. Engine 319 also transmitted the 10-70 which is a request for a water relay due to frozen hydrants in the area.

At 5:04, Battalion 46 transmitted the all hands and requested an additional tower ladder. The fire building was a 75 x 40 one story brick commercial garage with fire through the roof. The garage is operated by the NYC Department of Transportation.

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At 5:13, a second alarm was transmitted and reported as all members were being withdrawn from the building due to the bowstring wood truss construction of the roof. An additional fast truck was ordered as TL142 was being put to work for firefighting.

Division 14 ordered TL142 to set up tin Exposure 2 parking lot.

Div 14 instructed Satellite 4/E324 to stretch six inch hose down 69 Avenue from Metropolitan Ave to the front of the fire building and set up a manifold.

FDNY thawing apparatus arrived and began thawing frozen hydrants. Tower Ladder 138 was instructed to respond down 69 Road and set up behind TL135.

At 5:48 a.m., Div 14 reported three tower ladders (two on Exposure 1 and one tower ladder in Exposure 2), four handlines in operation, strictly an outside operation.

At 7:38 a.m., Div reported the fire was darkening down and requested two tower ladders, two engines and a battalion chief for relief purposes and the fire was declared under control at this time.

- FRED BACCHI

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Fire breaks out on chilly morning in Port Richmond On January 9, 2014 around 10:15 a.m., the FDNY responded to 53 Orange Avenue for fire on the second floor of a two story private dwelling with extension to the attic. Firefighters worked quickly braving the cold to knock down the fire within an hour. The cause of the fire is under investagation at this time.

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Second alarm in Rosedale On January 25th, FDNY crews were alerted to a fire at 253rd Street and Francis Lewis Boulevard in the Rosedale section of Queens. The two alarm fire began in the basement and extended to the first and second floors of the private residence. Three house lines were in operation to extinguish the blaze. No injuries were reported to civilians or first responders on the scene.

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FDNY HOUSES FDNY HOUSES by Larry Woodcock

8 Truck Tribeca is the triangle below Canal Street bounded by Canal Street, West Street, Broadway and Vesey Street. It is a neighborhood in Manhattan that has gained considerable popularity over the last twenty years to become one of the city’s most desirable places to live and to visit.

Once, it was a thriving industrial area with beginnings in the 1850s It is now one of New York’s hot spots for living and dining.

Tribeca mostly consists of former industrial buildings that were converted to residential and loft apartments unique to this part of the city. Many notable buildings as well as landmarks can be found here.

This area should not be confused with Soho or Noho, which have their own distinctions, and include cobblestone streets and a large collection of galleries.

Development here, like most areas of the city, were made possible once the Broadway and Seventh Avenue subway systems were completed in 1918.

One of the neighborhood landmarks is the Holland Tunnel on Varick Street. Named after architect Clifford Holland, the tunnel opened in 1927. It took seven years to construct at a cost of $48 million dollars and claimed the lives of fourteen workers. Holland did not see his work completed, as he died of a heart attack at forty one years of age, three years before its opening.

The tunnel was added to the National Register of Historic Places and became a U.S. Historic Landmark in 1993.

When I hear Tribeca, I think of one thing 8 Truck on North Moore Street, classic construction for its time and made famous from the movie Ghostbusters.

The movie ďŹ lmed directly out of this ďŹ rehouse was released in June of 1984 and at the time put it in the top ten grossing ďŹ lms of all time. To this day, the ďŹ rehouse contains movie memorabilia and is known throughout the neighborhood as simply “the Ghostbusters houseâ€?.

Designed by architect Alexander Stevens, it opened in 1905 at a cost of $60,000.

It is the only ďŹ rehouse in the city that I know of that had to have a part of it torn down. Originally ďŹ fty feet in width and built to incorporate a double company, the ďŹ re house was simply cut in half to twenty ďŹ ve feet to accommodate the widening of Varick Street in 1914.

The alterations to the building were done with such precision and

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care that to most observers, it is unnoticeable. The neighborhood is home to some of the country’s most famous and inuential people. One is actor Robert DeNiro, who cofounded the Tribeca Film Festival.

The festival kicked off in 2002 and contributes to the long-term recovery of Lower Manhattan. The festival now draws over three million people and takes place every year in the Spring.

Tribeca was named a historic district beginning in 1992 and until 2002, for its vast area of art deco buildings.

Ladder Company 8 was organized on October 16, 1865 in their former quarters at 153 Franklin Street. They had a second section (company) from 1906 until 1914, when they were disbanded. Their second section was reorganized in April of 1917 and put in with En-

gine Company 30 on 278 Spring Street, which is now the ďŹ re department museum. The second section was disbanded again (this time for good) in May of 1918.

Ladder 8 was shut down on July 2, 1975 along with multiple other companies, as well as ďŹ fteen hundred ďŹ reďŹ ghters laid off, due to the city’s budget crisis. This was during a wave of arson and crime that besieged the city.

But they were closed for only two days, as the city could not keep up with the demand for the ďŹ re department. Existing companies were stretched so thin that emergency calls were put on hold due to the fact that there were no companies to answer them.

Ladder 8 has more then ten individual medal winners and several unit citations. In their history they have ďŹ ve line of duty deaths.

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All hands fire knocked in Corona

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Cornoa, NY. At 2:35 p.m., FDNY units in Queens were dispatched to 34-11 107 Street in the Corona section of Queens, with reports of children still in the apartment.

Engine 289 ar- JUMP TO FILE# rived and transmit- 011714116 ted the 10-75 signal and reported heavy fire, top floor of a wood frame private dwelling. Battalion 52 transmitted the all hands.

Fire building was a two and a half story frame, 20x50, occupied. As members were advancing to the attic, a collapse occurred. The exposure one attic roof collapsed into the second floor, with heavy fire in possession of the second and third floor.

Division 14 ordered all members out of the building and went to an exterior attack. The fire was knocked down from the exterior utilizing TL138 along with two handlines.

At 3:01, Div. 14 reported primary searches were complete and negative in the basement, first and second floors. Primary searches were delayed in the attic due to the collapse. The NYC Building Department was requested to check stability of the structure.

Of the 19 people living in the building, all were accounted. The fire was placed under control at 4:21.

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Exposure one front of the fire building

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FDNY Engine 166 and Ladder 86

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All hands in Ridgewood ROBERT PAV

Rescue 6, in service from August 3, 2004 to November 3, 2004 in Ladder 20's firehouse

All hands went to work at a paper recycling warehouse at 18-19 Flushing Ave, Queens, New York. The fire was in the center of a two brick 75x475 paper shredding company. Two lines were stretched and operated at this fire. A forklift was used to bring smoldering bales out of the building for final extinguishment.

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A large amount of gasoline was spilled secondary to an MVA involving a mini schoolbus.

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FDNY firefighters from Ladder 153 utilize the “jaws" to free a woman trapped in her car.

Woman trapped in her auto on Ocean Ave in Brooklyn On Sunday morning, January 12th, a woman lost control of her auto and slammed into a traffic signal in the intersection of Ocean Ave an Ave T in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.

The woman was trapped in her car for approximately 30 minutes.

The FDNY utilized the Jaws of Life in order to free her.

NYPD Emergency Service Unit from Truck 6 responded and assisted the FDNY in rendering aid to the victim.

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The intersection was shut down for over 30 minutes until the scene was cleared.

The woman was eventually cut out of the auto and transported to a local hospital by the FDNY EMS with non-life threatening injuries.

Schoolbus MVA in Midwood Brooklyn sparks gasoline spill "It was a lucky thing there were no kids on board," said the driver of the short schoolbus just minutes after the bus was struck in the intersection of Ave I and E 22 St by a private car in Midwood Brooklyn just before 3:00 p.m. on January 27th.

The mini schoolbus was struck by a private vehicle in the intersection causing a gasoline spill from the ruptured gasoline tank.

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The FDNY was on scene attempting to stop the gasoline leak but determined that the FDNY HazMat unit Engine 250 must respond.

The FDNY Haz Mat unit and Engine 250 were on scene within a few minutes as their firehouse was just a few minutes away.

The firefighters from Engine 250 and their Haz Mat team siphoned the remaining gasoline out of the schoolbus tank and into a large recovery drum.

There were no injuries in this incident, but the street was shut down for over an hour at a very busy time with a nearby school's dismissal time.

- STEVE SOLOMONSON

- STEVE SOLOMONSON

FRED BACCHI

Two alarms in Corona Corona, NY. FDNY units responded to a fire at 57-15 Penrod Street. E324 transmitted the 10-75 signal and reported fire on the second floor of a two and a half story brick private dwelling. Fire rapidly spread via the walls from the second floor to the attic. Division 14 transmitted the second alarm at 9:24 p.m. Three lines were stretched and operated at this fire.

All occupants safely evacuated before arrival of FDNY. The fire was declared under control at 10:15 p.m.

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94 year old is lucky to be alive On February 2nd at approximately 2:00 p.m., a 94 year old man was counting his blessings and lucky to be alive after he was struck by a motor vehicle at Glenwood Rd and E 48 St in Flatbush Brooklyn. Emergency medical technicians and paramedics from the Flatlands Volunteer Ambulance received the call and responded immediately. The 94 year old male was treated and transported to Kings County Hospital Trauma Center where he was listed in serious condition.

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Vehicle News

RON JEFFERS

FDNY Tower Ladder 51 has been assigned a new Seagrave 95-foot Aerialscope apparatus.

FRED BACCHI

Two alarms in South Ozone Park

RON JEFFERS

FDNY Ladder Co. 59 received a Ferrara 100 foot rearmount.

On January 11, 2014, at 3:05 p.m., FDNY units in Queen responded to a reported explosion and fire in a private house at 135 Place and Sutter Ave. Bn 51 transmitted the all hands on arrival and requested an extra engine and truck. The fire building was a two and a half story wood frame private dwelling with fire on all floors with the rear portion blown out. Exposure one, two and four all were bulging outward. Bn 51 ordered all members out of the building and went to an exterior attack. Four hand lines were stretched and operated along with one tower ladder in operation. At 3:20, the second alarm was transmitted along with an urgent request for Con Edison Electric to respond for power lines hampering firefighting efforts. The fire was declared under control at 5:00 p.m.

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In mid December 2013 Ladder 39 in the Bronx received their new rig, A 2013 Seagrave 100' tiller.

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House fire in Marine Park ROBERT PAV

FDNY Center for Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness

On January 25th, FDNY companies were dispatched to Box 3054 for a reported house fire on Ave P just off E 37 St in the Marine Park section of Brooklyn. FDNY E-309 arrived at the scene at approximately 4:20 p.m. and transmitted over the FDNY department radio a signal 10-75, which is a request for a full first alarm for a working house fire. The fire was located on the top floor of the two story dwelling and within just a few minutes, a handline was stretched to the top floor knocking down the fire. At least one occupant was evacuated from the home while holding her two small dogs. She was brought to a neighbors house for shelter as there was a snowstorm in progress. No injuries were reported in the incident and the fire was brought under control in less than 30 minutes.

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