Queens - Unusual Incident - 6/2/09

[ryang 166]

Date: 6/2/09

Time: 20:30 hours

Location: 37 ave x 62 st

Frequency: 154.370, 482.03125 (FDNY Queens)

Units Operating: FDNY minor collapse assignment, OEM, DOT, and Sanitation Dept. Wrecker

Weather Conditions: cloudy

Description Of Incident: Street gives way underneath TL163 while company is operating at a box, resulting in the truck sinking several feet below street level

Writer: ryang

Woodside, Queens, NY, 6/2/09

Location: 37 ave and 62 st

Signal-7 Box 7812

TL163

20:30 hours

TL163: Can you send Rescue and a Battalion to our location, our rig just went into a sinkhole that collapsed under us. Also send the shops.

Box after initial 7812 - FD Unit in a sinkhole (Modified Minor Collapse Response)

E292, L154

TL146 w/ Collapse Rescue 4

Battalions 49, Rescue, Safety

Rescue 4

Squad 288

20:30 hours

TL163: Be advised we have a transformer vault about 2 feet away from where the rig is.

20:31 hours

TL163: Have DOT respond also, the street is undermined.

20:35 hours

"Battalion 49 to Queens, are you saying Ladder 163 fell into a sinkhole?"

20:40 hours

TL163: Uhh, 163 to Queens, you're probably gonna want to get a heavy wrecker from the shops, we're down past the axle, maybe 3 or 4 feet. Rig number is ST01005.

20:40 hours

Battalion 49: Be advised the rear of the rig is sitting on the pavement.

20:45 hours

BC49: Notify DOT or shops we're going to need a heavy wrecker, the rig is in pretty deep. We have no injuries to FD Members.

20:50 hours

BC49: We're going to release Squad, we need TL146 to continue in. We're also going to need a 2nd wrecker at this location.

Squad 288 is 10-8 but will standby at the scene

20:53 hours

BC49: Be advised all units will be 10-99 (operating over 30 minutes) on this box.

RAC 4 S/C

20;57 hours

BC49: Box 7812, can you have OEM respond to this box. Conditions at this time remain the same.

20:59 hours

Tactical Support 1, Division 14 S/C

21:00 hours

Sanitation Dept. will respond with a wrecker

21:03 hours

BC49: Have TAC1 respond to 62 st and 39 ave, the rig is on that corner.

21:15 hours

Division 14: We need a shop supervisor to come help us figure out how we'll get this truck out.

22:21 hours

DC14: Can you special call another collapse company and make sure they have 6x6's in their rig.

Rescue 3 w/ Collapse Rescue 3 S/C

22:38 hours

DC14: You can 10-2 (return) the second collapse unit.

Edited June 3, 2009 by ryang