Structure Fire - 54 Valentine Drive - Chelsea Fire District - 4/25/08

[Guest Photounit]

These are my photo's of the incident. The initial dispatch was for a fire on the porch at the above address and before the dispatcher completed the dispatch, it was upgraded to a confirmed structure fire.... Chelsea Asst. Chief Bob Van Tassel (35-2) arrived several minutes later and found a 2 story WF- SFD fully involved.... The house appeared to be about 3000 sq ft. and was approximately 2000 feet in on Valentine Drive which is a dirt road off Stony Kill Rd . Water was in short supply initially until the porta-tank operation was in place. This was one of those fires that had such a head start, it was impossible to change the outcome and it ended up being a complete exterior operation..... Here are the photo's........

A Village of Fishkill F.A.S.T Team member walks the ~ 2000 distance to the fire building as Hughsonville's Tanker backs down the road so they can lay out........

The 5" line now charged, the Village of Fishkill F.A.S.T Team and a DC Sheriff's Deputy continue their journey to the fire building.

Almost there...... The house is fully involved and the 5" is dry again.....

It didn't take long for the house to go up......

Out of water, firefighters wait for the porta-tank operation to begin and their supply of water to return.....

I'll post more later....... Bill

Edited April 26, 2008 by Photounit

[DOC22 1]

Once again, Bill, Aewsome photos!!!!! Thanks for sharing! Looks like it was going retty well upon arrival?

[Guest Photounit]

Thanks Doc.....Here's some more....

Still waiting for water....

Village of Fishkill's F.A.S.T. Team gets settled in.....

A pano shot of A-D sides ......

A shot of the C side...... It looks like it was a beautiful house.....

EMT-B's own JetPhoto was there..... He wasn't taking many Photo's though....He was the Chauffeur on Chelsea's 35-12.......

Edited April 26, 2008 by Photounit

[SmokeAndFlames 2]

There was so muuch screaming and yelling on the radio. Kind of comical

[JetPhoto 626]

Bill, awsome shots as always. Thanks for the great photo of me

Here are some of mine the first one is 12 min after dispatch with about 6 minutes of water on the fire

[spin_the_wheel 460]

There was so muuch screaming and yelling on the radio. Kind of comical

and your point is?