02/26/06 - Bronx - 3rd Alarm Hi-Rise Fire

[ndemarse 0]

Wind-driven, blow-torch hi-rise job!

Date: 02/26/06

Time: 16:06 hours

Box #: 3553

Address: 20 W Mosholu Pkwy South X Jerome Ave

Building: 41 Story Class 1 Hi-Rise OMD 150x100

Fire Location: 24th Floor w/ Extension to 25th Floor

Bronx 3rd Alarm Photos

[Guest DFFD227]

awesome shots!!!

[ndemarse 0]

awesome shots!!!

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Thank You. I try!

[Guest]

BTW, Nate, great pics! Keep'em coming...

Wish a speedy and complete recovery to the injured FDNY FFs!

Hank G.

3 Bravest hurt in

Bx. hi-rise fire

BY JIMMY VIELKIND and MELISSA GRACE

DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Three firefighters suffered second-degree burns to the face battling a treacherous fire in a Bronx high-rise yesterday, officials said.

The 4 p.m. fire shattered the windows of a 24th-floor apartment at 20 W. Mosholu Parkway S., allowing heavy winds to rush in and create a "blowtorch effect" that sent flames leaping at firefighters, officials said - spurring Mayday calls.

"They were covering the withdrawal of the other firefighters," Assistant Chief Robert Sweeney said of the three injured men.

The firefighters, whose names were not released, were in stable condition in the burn unit at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. Six other firefighters and two civilians suffered minor injuries in the fire.

An FDNY source said the three firefighters who suffered facial burns managed to escape from the intense fire and sought refuge in a stairwell, where Mayday calls were issued at 4:37 p.m., officials said.

The fire was brought under control at 5:12 p.m. with the aid of fire-resistant blankets draped from windows above the burning apartment.

The blankets, invented by Firefighters Tom Oswald and Pat Kilduff in 1989 and dubbed KO Curtains, were used to block winds from fanning the flames, allowing firefighters back into the apartment to put out the blaze, officials said.

While the fire burned into the apartment above and the building was evacuated, the occupants of apartment 24D, where the blaze began, got out uninjured, officials said.

The FDNY said the cause of the fire remained under investigation but did not appear to be suspicious.

Edited February 27, 2006 by hoss

[llm60 0]

Nice pic's, speedy recovery to the injured FF's

[mfc2257 464]

Tracy Towers ?

[ndemarse 0]

Tracy Towers ?

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Yes Tracy Towers.

[JBE 328]

You got it. Those big turd looking buildings on Mosholu Parkway just up from Jerome Avenue. Where the Chinese food delivery man got lost in the elevator for two days. Where there's a chance for at least one or five fires such as this a year. Gotta love it.

[ndemarse 0]

You got it. Those big turd looking buildings on Mosholu Parkway just up from Jerome Avenue. Where the Chinese food delivery man got lost in the elevator for two days. Where there's a chance for at least one or five fires such as this a year. Gotta love it.

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There has already been (2) 10-77's in this building this year.