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Fire occurred Thurs AM
Kissena Park Golf Course betweem 164 Street and Fresh Meadow Lane (opp St Mary's Cemetery) - picture available on FDNY Live Home. Anybody have a rundown - a lot will depend on the box assigned - if 164St and Booth Memorial Avenue the following could be:
First Alarm: B52, E299,TL152, E315,L125, E274
Second Alarm: Total of 8 Engines 5Trucks, 4BC and 1 DC. Probables include:
Engines: 299,315,274,320,306,326,324w/Sat
Trucks: TL 152, L125, L167(FAST), L129, TL 160
Squad 288
BC's:52,53,50,46
D14
Res 4 & Rac4 (All of the above subject to check and unit availability)
More than three dozen golf carts were torched at a public Queens course yesterday, sparking a two-alarm fire that left part of the clubhouse a charred wasteland, authorities said.
The massive blaze at Kissena Golf Course, deemed suspicious, erupted at about 1:20 a.m. in a fenced-in area where the carts were stored, and it quickly spread to the nearby clubhouse.
"I think there are some sick people out there," said Ron Hansen, 74, a starter at the course who helps people get carts before their rounds.
"There is no reason to do this. This is for the public's enjoyment."
Just a sea of twisted metal and ash remained of 38 of the 60 brand-new carts -- worth about $4,000 each -- which had been leased as part of an overhaul.
More than 100 firefighters battled the hellish inferno at Booth Memorial Avenue and 164th Street in Flushing for about an hour before they were able to bring it under control.
Officials said the blaze was being investigated as arson, and marshals were poring over surveillance footage.
"Just think of how you feel when you treasure something and you treat it with pride and something like this happens," said operator Norman Tafet.
"It's a tremendous shock."
Tafet said he helped install a slew of extra security measures after vandals broke in in May and took about a dozen carts on a joy ride, ditching two of them in an irrigation pond. They were never caught.
"What we did after that was take steps to make sure that never happened again," Tafet said.
The measures included all-night floodlights, a security camera trained on the cart pen, an alarmed gate and signs saying the area's under surveillance.
Golfers were furious at the firebugs.
"There are few good things in this city that's left, and now it's been destroyed," said Vivian Krasner, 57, of Queens. "This is a place for the middle class."
The course will remain open and receive loaner carts.
Kissena Park Golf Course betweem 164 Street and Fresh Meadow Lane (opp St Mary's Cemetery) - picture available on FDNY Live Home. Anybody have a rundown - a lot will depend on the box assigned - if 164St and Booth Memorial Avenue the following could be:
First Alarm: B52, E299,TL152, E315,L125, E274
Second Alarm: Total of 8 Engines 5Trucks, 4BC and 1 DC. Probables include:
Engines: 299,315,274,320,306,326,324w/Sat
Trucks: TL 152, L125, L167(FAST), L129, TL 160
Squad 288
BC's:52,53,50,46
D14
Res 4 & Rac4 (All of the above subject to check and unit availability)
More than three dozen golf carts were torched at a public Queens course yesterday, sparking a two-alarm fire that left part of the clubhouse a charred wasteland, authorities said.
The massive blaze at Kissena Golf Course, deemed suspicious, erupted at about 1:20 a.m. in a fenced-in area where the carts were stored, and it quickly spread to the nearby clubhouse.
"I think there are some sick people out there," said Ron Hansen, 74, a starter at the course who helps people get carts before their rounds.
"There is no reason to do this. This is for the public's enjoyment."
Just a sea of twisted metal and ash remained of 38 of the 60 brand-new carts -- worth about $4,000 each -- which had been leased as part of an overhaul.
More than 100 firefighters battled the hellish inferno at Booth Memorial Avenue and 164th Street in Flushing for about an hour before they were able to bring it under control.
Officials said the blaze was being investigated as arson, and marshals were poring over surveillance footage.
"Just think of how you feel when you treasure something and you treat it with pride and something like this happens," said operator Norman Tafet.
"It's a tremendous shock."
Tafet said he helped install a slew of extra security measures after vandals broke in in May and took about a dozen carts on a joy ride, ditching two of them in an irrigation pond. They were never caught.
"What we did after that was take steps to make sure that never happened again," Tafet said.
The measures included all-night floodlights, a security camera trained on the cart pen, an alarmed gate and signs saying the area's under surveillance.
Golfers were furious at the firebugs.
"There are few good things in this city that's left, and now it's been destroyed," said Vivian Krasner, 57, of Queens. "This is a place for the middle class."
The course will remain open and receive loaner carts.