Apparently the fire spread over eastern parkway from what I heard (flying brands) the video is really good. Advanced video must have gotten there right after the factory collapsed
There is a 10 minute or so video of this fire on a DVD. You can clearly see 18 operating at the 1-2 corner wetting down the row frames. Another tower ladder is on the 1-4 corner behind a building try to prevent the spread up the block.
Pretty interesting watching this as someone who was not born yet when this happened. My mother was a teacher in the Bronx, and my father worked in a store in the Bronx when this happened. He said that “crooked nosed gentlemen” would patrol the streets around the neighborhood to ensure that what...
That top picture Dan, Mike Barone on his second of three episodes on GSE talks about being at that job with Ladder 18. There are some good news videos floating around on YouTube about the blackout.
There was a large fire in a loft building on broadway on Valentine’s Day 1979 where the building ran from broadway to Mercer street. It had a disco occupancy on the first floor and commercial and residential on the floors above. The owner of the property was doing a “freeze out” and had the hot...
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