Fire at St. John's Hospital Yonkers

[tommyguy 104]

Date: Feb. 3, 2014
Time: 0919

Incident Type: Smoke in laundry area
Location: St. John's Riverside Hospital No. B'way Yonkers

District: Yonkers FD
Units: Companies from Battalion One

Description: This fire was reported at 0919 this morning. A fire was discovered in a laundry area at the hospital and was quickly contained and extinguished. Because of smoke parts of the hospital were closed but normal operations continued. The emergency room remained open throughout. Traffic into the hospital was interrupted after North Broadway was closed to traffic.

Falling snow and several inches of accumulation made the job more difficult.

I don't have a rundown of the companies that responded. Because of the scarcity of incident alerts recently I did want to at least post something.

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Edited February 3, 2014 by tommyguy