3/29/11 Staten Island Box 8480 - All Hands

[catry]

Great Kills Park, Staten Island, NY, 3/29/11

11:06 hours
Phone Box 3057 - Report of a brush fire
Engs. 162, 165, 167
L82, TL85
Battalion 23
BFU 1, 3

CIDS for Great Kills Park:
Converted landfill.  Use RAD50 throughout.  Monitor background readings.  Minimum overhaul of soil.

11:11 hours
L82: We see smoke in Great Kills Park by the ballfield off Redgrave.  We're going to enter the secondary entrance off of Keegans Ln.

11:12 hours
Box changed to Box 8480

7-5-8480 - 11:18 hours
Battalion 23: All-Hands at Great Kills Park, no special units required, can I get a mixer-off message please.

11:19 hours - Duration 15 minutes
BC23: Probably Will Hold.

11:24 hours - Duration 20 minutes
BC23: Fire's Under Control, all units will go 10-8 as they become available, Battalion 23 is 10-8.

 

[guitarman314]

Hottest box on Staten Island, has been number one for multiples for a while.

 

[Atlas]

For any fire in that park, the incident is always changed to that box number so that the incidents can be traced. This procedure is done in Queens & Bklyn once the fire hits Gateway Property. FD use to get paid by the Feds for their activity on gvt property.