1/10/2011 All Hands Queens Box 3125

firebuffkevin

firebuffkevin

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QUEENS BLVD at VAN LOON ST

Building Collapse:  for a 2-story cinder block building under construction

09:49  B 46 reports that there is a worker trapped

09:52  B 46 reports that the worker has been removed.  Return Collapse and Technical Rescue units

11:12  B 46 requested to return to the scene

11:27  Queens tries to raise Dept of Buildings at the scene

The incident occurred around the corner from E287, L136 and B 46's  quarters on Grand Avenue

 
3 Workers in all were injured, 1 was serious, other 2 walking wounded. Believe a full Collapse Response was given at first.
 
Major Collapse Response was issued

Special Units included:
TL117 SOC support
L25 with collapse rig (later told to go 10-8)
TL146 backup for L116 to pick up Collapse Unit at their quarters
RB
SB
Rescue 1 (later replaced by Rescue 4)
Rescue 2

09:51
DC14: return All Special Units above the All Hands

The All Hands Assignment:

Engines: 287, 289, 292, 307
Trucks: L136, TL138, L154 FAST
BC46, 49
Squad 288
Rescue 4
DC14

Relocations
E286/E287
E258/E292
 
This collapse ocurred in the lot that is next to 287/136/46 qtrs.....(if you "google earth" it you may still see a 1 story commercial that actually fronted on Queens Blvd.)......this is a chronic problem site......the owner & builder of the new const. is the notorious Tommy Huang....he runs a very shady construction business...about 3 years ago he dug down 2 stories & wound up undermining the FH....all Companies had to be relocated for several days until the whole excavation was backfilled w/dirt & gravel to stabilize the FH foundation.....it remained that way up until recently....remediation was supposed to have been done to the FH foundation but it has not happened yet....the Bldgs Dept cannot keep up w/this guys moves.....he has a multi million $ corporation involving many names & relatives .....he has been cited w/several other illegal bldg projects but always skates or has one of his scapegoat figures holding the bag.....in the FH case his 76 year old site supervisor (a Ret. bldg dept guy) was locked up....Huang is the guy responsible for destroying the landmark  RKO Flushing Kieths theater on Northern Blvd. opposite Main St........he not only gutted the interior but he was responsible for a major Haz Mat situation in the basement of the theater......it has been standing vacant for well over 20 years & he recently sold the shell for 20 million...in some of his other moves in Queens he would buy a big Queen Anne & bulldoze it ...then build four dwellings sideways on the lot....he would sell them telling the buyers that the previous driveway (which the fronts of the dwellings faced ) was actually a STREET.......just a few of his accomplishments.......always one step ahead. 
 
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