The job was hairy. Lots of companies were running out of air, including rescue. Chief likely decided he wanted one more incase things went from bad to worse. The FDNY has the resources, might as well utilize them.
Also fun Easter egg - if you go to the corner of grand and the midtown expressway on Google Maps, you can see what looks like a pretty good job from 3 years ago on street view.
No phone alarm. Verbal by EMS [car] 551. Deputy Chief for EMS Div 5. Reported fire on the 2nd floor and through the roof.
10-75 txm by Brooklyn based on that report.
[0604] 551: EMS 551 to Brooklyn. I have a fire in a private dwelling on hart place near west 15th in Brooklyn. I have fire on...
Location: IFO 901 East 138th Street off Walnut Avenue.
Tractor-trailer fire extending to an exposure trailer loaded with dense pallets of cardboard.
Rundown:
Engine 39 (Acting 83)
Ladder 143 (Acting 42)
10-99 was transmitted - extended operation.
39 & 143 operated for 4+ hours knocking down...
Here’s a 1940’s era picture of the theater in its prime. The 2nd one is AI enhanced according to the website I found it on.
Before this job, the “Webster Cut-Rate Drugs Prescriptions” facade had survived behind the fruit stand awning all these years.
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