3/5/23 Bronx 5th Alarm Box 4794

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On a straight assignment card L38 would have been 2nd due on the 2nd alarm but they don't show up anywhere on these rundowns. Ladder companies moving all over the city's chess board but L38 sat in quarters a little over a mile away from the incident? Just curious.
Great discussions on alarm assignments, ect.
 
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On a straight assignment card L38 would have been 2nd due on the 2nd alarm but they don't show up anywhere on these rundowns. Ladder companies moving all over the city's chess board but L38 sat in quarters a little over a mile away from the incident? Just curious.
Great discussions on alarm assignments, ect.
L38 did not respond
 
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On a straight assignment card L38 would have been 2nd due on the 2nd alarm but they don't show up anywhere on these rundowns. Ladder companies moving all over the city's chess board but L38 sat in quarters a little over a mile away from the incident? Just curious.
Great discussions on alarm assignments, ect.
This has been the topic of discussion for a while now. Acting companies going instead of who you would think would be there. It seems a lot more companies don’t make it at all in this new case. While for example, TL105 from Dean Street BK gets a ticket. I’ve said it before - imagine you’re a member at TL105 and someone told you by the end of your tour you’d be operating at a multiple alarm on the Grand Concourse…
 
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This has been the topic of discussion for a while now. Acting companies going instead of who you would think would be there. It seems a lot more companies don’t make it at all in this new case. While for example, TL105 from Dean Street BK gets a ticket. I’ve said it before - imagine you’re a member at TL105 and someone told you by the end of your tour you’d be operating at a multiple alarm on the Grand Concourse…
and L105 was the 5th section act. L33 that went to the job (all 5 went)
 
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In theory a 5th Alarm is the highest you can transmitted any one NYC Borough. Above a 5th in any one Borough "What was once called is a Borough or Simultaneous calls was sounded. Bringing units from another NYC Borough to the fire." The 1st. World Trade Center attack in 1997, was 23 Alarms. For the record the 9/11/01 World Trade Center attack was Equal to 27 Alarms and included some Mutal Aid F.D. units from New Jersey.
I responded to both W.T.C. Attacks. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 Retired.
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In the blackout in July of 1977 a 10th Alarm was transmitted for Knickerbocker & Bleeker. Although route cards only went to a 5th, Guess the computer was able to dig deep and get a 10th alarm out there.
 
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In the blackout in July of 1977 a 10th Alarm was transmitted for Knickerbocker & Bleeker. Although route cards only went to a 5th, Guess the computer was able to dig deep and get a 10th alarm out there.
I’d love to see that rundown lol
 
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On a straight assignment card L38 would have been 2nd due on the 2nd alarm but they don't show up anywhere on these rundowns. Ladder companies moving all over the city's chess board but L38 sat in quarters a little over a mile away from the incident? Just curious.
Great discussions on alarm assignments, ect.
Years ago it was a big no no to send a relocator to the fire unless there were some unusual circumstances. Especially in the Bronx there always seem to be at least one other job at the same time hence the necessity of having relocators in place.
 
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From the FDNY Facebook page . . .

"This is an extraordinary amount of damage from this single e-bike. This call came in around 10:41 a.m. this morning. We are still here fighting this fire. We have over 50 units, Fire and EMS, on scene. We have over 200 members. We have seven injuries, five firefighters, one member of the EMS and one civilian. Everyone is stable," said Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh. "But this really shows you how incredibly serious this can be. Thanks to the quick work of our members who were here in under four minutes, we have not suffered a loss of life. There is extraordinary damage. This entire building behind me is completely destroyed. The roof is caved in. There is nothing left. It's all because of this one single e-bike. And so we really want to emphasize to the public how much damage can be done by a single e-bike that isn’t a compliant, a single e-bike that might not be certified, might be using an illegal battery. This bike could be in your home. And if it can do this amount of damage to a store of this size, just think of the danger that to yourself, to your family, to your building."
"We quickly stretched the hose line into the building and started to extinguish the fire. The amount of fire that is produced by a single battery in just under five minutes, we were unable to get ahead of it. It had spread quickly into the void spaces of the building and took off from there. These buildings are old and the lumber and when you expose that aged lumber, to fire, it quickly spreads throughout the entire building," said Chief of Department John Hodgens. "It was a difficult operation. We went to a defensive operation. You see these tower ladders, we stopped the fire from spreading to the furniture store but the fire had already spread to the laundromat. It's really something that we have never seen before as far as a small fire turning into something like this in a matter of a few minutes."

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