6/19/2010 Staten Island Box 3734 10-75

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Staten Island 10-75 Box 3734 fire in a laundromat
Box Location - ROSSVILLE AVE at GRAFE ST

Box 3734
Address 1024 Rossville Avenue

18:34
1024 Rossville Avenue
Disp 219 to B23: 3 and 2 for you - E167 10-14

Engines: 168 164 167*
Trucks TL84 TL87
BC 23

18:36
E168: 10-75 - laundromat
Disp transmits 10-75

CIDS Information
Commercial one story - 40x60 Class 2 - steel bar joists and Q deck roof - no basement -
Exit Exp 3 - sprinkler siamese Exp 2 and Exp 4 - part of L shaped taxpayer - 350x60 - 10 stores

18:39

10-75 Assignment

Engine 151
Truck TL76 FAST
Squad 1
Rescue 5
BC 22
DC 8

Have to go out

 

[mack]

This is a 20 mile, 30 minute run for Squad 1 at 1836 hrs. at night.  Thirty minutes if traffic is not too heavy on the BQE, VN Bridge and SI Expway.  How effective can they be responding to the West Shore and South Shore of SI?  I suspect the reason they are assigned is to provide Staten Islanders the appearance that they are getting the same response that other boros do (except their assigned Squad is 20 miles away).  If Squad 1 is not available, Squad 252 is 27 miles away, maybe 45 minutes.  Are you really going to put the squad to work a half hour or 45 minutes after transmitting the 10-75?  Maybe if the job has extended operations or need of special operations units.  But not too often.  I realize a squad on the way is better than no squad assigned, but this is the old "SI needs a squad" issue.