Brooklyn - 3rd alarm/Fatal - 3/23/10

[ryang 166]

Date: 3/23/10

Time: 01:22 hours

Location: 322 56 st between 3rd and 4th Aves

Frequency: FDNY Brooklyn

Weather Conditions: rain

Description Of Incident: fire in a 3 story frame MD extended into the cockloft and exposures

Reporters/Writer: ryang

Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY, 3/23/10

Address: 322 56 st between 3rd and 4th Aves

01:23 hours

Phone Box 2661 - Report of a fire in a MD

Engs. 201, 241, 228

TL114, L109

Battalion 40

10-75-2661 - 01:25 hours

Battalion 240: 10-75 2661, row frame, looks like the 1st floor.

E282

L148 (FAST Truck)

Battalion 48

Squad 1

Rescue 2

Division 8

01:26 hours

BC40: A quick size-up, it's a 3 story frame, and it's a top floor fire. We have 1 line stretched so far. The address is 322 56 st.

Exposures are:

1 - street

2 - similar attached

3 - yard

4 - similar attached

7-5-2661 - 01:30 hours

BC40: We're using All-Hands, we've got 1 line stretched in operation, we've got fire in the rear, dimensions of the building are 20x60

E247, TL149 S/C

RAC5

2-2-2661 - 01:35 hours - Duration 13 minutes

BC40: 2661, we've got 2 lines stretched now and 2 in operation, we've got fire in the cockloft possibly going to exposure 2, start a 2nd alarm, k.

Engs. 242, 240, 279

E284 w/ Satellite 3

TL131

Battalion 42 (Safety Officer)

Battalion 32 (Resource Unit Leader)

Rescue, Safety Battalions

Tactical Support Unit 2

FieldCom, Command Tactical Unit

01:37 hours

Division 8: Have the additional truck (TL149) respond in off of 4th Ave

3-3-2661 - 01:39 hours

Engs. 250, 220, 239, 243

L122, L168

Battalion 41

Battalion 33 (Staging Manager)

Mask Service Unit

(Air-Recon Battalion not available due to weather)

01:41 hours

Staging area is 56 st and 4th Ave

01:49 hours

Car 17 is responding

01:52 hours

Car 9 (DAC John Sudnik, Queens Borough Commander) is responding

01:56 hours - Duration 33 minutes

DC8: At Box 2661, DC Howe reports: 5 lines stretched, 5 in operation. Fire in the fire building has been knocked down, still have fire in exposures 2 and 4, fire's still Doubtful. Fire is in an occupied 3 story attached.

02:00 hours

DC8: Transmit a 10-45 no code, found in the exterior rear of the fire building.

02:10 hours - Duration 48 minutes

FieldCom: Progress report on 3rd alarm Box 2661, the address 322 56 st at 3rd Ave, fire in a 3 frame 20x60 MD with extension to exposures 2 and 4, Division 8, DC Howe, reports: primary search throughout the fire building is complete and negative. Secondary search delayed due to the amount of debris. Primary search complete and negative in exposures 2 and 4, secondary search in progress. Previously reported 10-45 no code is a 10-45 code 1 (Black Tag, Deceased) in the rear yard of the fire building. Probably Will Hold.

02:19 hours

Rescue 2 is 10-8

02:20 hours - Duration 57 minutes

FC: Box 2661, 10-41 code 1, large volume of fire on arrival and no determinable cause.

02:24 hours

Rescue Battalion is 10-8 back to Citywide

02:25 hours - Duration 1 hour 2 minutes

FC: Progress report on 3rd alarm Box 2661, the address 322 56 st at 3rd Ave, fire in a 3 frame 20x60 MD with extension to the cockloft and exposures 2 and 4, Car 9, DAC Sudnik, reports: secondary search in the fire building will be delayed due to debris. Fire Under Control.

Relocations:

Engines: 202/201, 309/247, 227/279, 245/282, 10/284

Ladders: 105/114, 15/122, 156/149

Battalions: 1/42, 37/48

Edited March 23, 2010 by ryang