Millerton - Barn Fire - 3.19.2011

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Date: 3.19.2011

Time: 1446hrs

Location: 5378 Route 22 (Cross streets: Haight Road and Perry's Corners)

Frequency: Dispatch, Response, Command 3, FG 13/14, MFC 51, Amenia 31

Units Operating: Millerton All Equipment, Amenia All Equipment, Sharon All Equipment, CC14, CC9, Wassaic 69-31, Lakeville Engine 10/20/60, NDP, Cornwall's Tanker, Canaan's Tanker. Millbrook and Pine Plains M/A for standby in Amenia and Millerton Quarters.

Weather Conditions: 40's, Windy, Sunny.

Description Of Incident: Grassfire that quickly extended to a 150x70 foot dilapidated barn. Excess winds quickly caused the fire to consume the whole barn and start a grass fire behind the structure for approximately 3 acres burned. By the time units had setup the barn's roof had already collapsed. Handlines were immediately put into use, and after the outlying fires were contained a tanker shuttle was setup too feed Sharon's Tower 1 to get over the block walls that were still standing into the barns structure. Four silos were adjacent to the barn as well as three other barn type structures, none of the exposures were compromised by fire. Two draft sites were setup on Sharon Station Road and Coleman Station Road, the tankers were split up into two groups that had assigned fill sites. The ladder was able to operate successfully with a continuous water source from the rotating tankers. Millerton and Amenia returned today (3.20) for one silo that a very small amount of silage that was smoldering.

Reporter/Writer: FiftyOnePride

Note: Pictures can be found on Ed Harvey's website (LINK)