9/14/2010 -- All Hands/Box 2610

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Location: Soundview Ave/Cornell Ave
Fire reported to be in a Boathouse,Vacant Fully involved.  T/L Going in Op
E64/L41 First in.
Marine 4 and Marine 6 Enroute,Div 6,R3,L31 FAST
Time: 2202 hrs
 
Kane's Park, the Bronx, NY, 9/14/10

Location: the end of Soundview Ave in Kane's Park

Phone Box 2610 - Report of a boat house on fire
E64

21:57 hours
Box after initial 2610 - Now receiving multiple calls
Engs. 45, 90
TL41 acting 54, L47
Battalion 20
Marine 4

10-75-2610 - 21:59 hours
E64: You can 10-75 the Box.  Tell the units to come down Sound View Ave, all the way at the end.
E50
TL50 (FAST Truck)
Battalion 18
Division 6
Squad 61
Rescue 3
Marine 6

22:03 hours
TL41 acting 54: We have a fully involved structure, we're going to set up the tower ladder.  64's hitting it from the outside right now.  No exposure problems.  Appears to be vacant.

22:06 hours
Division 6 requests another Tower Ladder; TL50 will be going in for work.
TL31 S/C as the FAST Truck

7-5-2610 - 22:10 hours
Battalion 20: Box 2610, we're using All-Hands, we have fire in a 1 story vacant frame structure.  1 line stretcehd, this is an outside operation.  We have a tower ladder set up, primaries in progress, fire's Doubtful.
RAC1

22:12 hours
Marine 6 has a 45 minute ETA

22:13 hours
Division 6: You can have the two Marine companies go 10-8, we don't need them.

22:14 hours - Duration 23 minutes
DC6: We have a 1 story commercial frame vacant yact club 70x30.  We have 2 tower ladders set up.  3 lines stretched, 3 in operation, making progress, fire's still Doubtful.  Can you send us an extra truck please.
L19 acting 42 S/C

22:21 hours
RAC1: We're on your frequency, responding.
Bronx: Yep, go alllllllllllll the way down Soundview, k.
RAC1: Yeeeeep, that's where I grew up...

22:29 hours - Duration 38 minutes
DC6: 2 Tower Ladders in operation, 1 stang in operation . We've established a collapse zone, all members are outside that area.  We're making progress, still Doubtful.

22:46 hours - Duration 55 minutes
DC6: We've still got 2 Tower Ladders, 1 stang in operation, making progress, still Doubtful.

23:05 hours - Duration 1 hour 14 minutes
DC6:  All visible fire has been knocked down, hitting small pockets.  It will be an extended operation.

23:11 hours - Duration 1 hour 20 minutes
DC6: Probably Will Hold.  Primary and secondary visuals were negative, we're not allowing firefighters into the building.

00:01 hours - Duration 2 hours 9 minutes
DC6: We're going to go Under Control, we're going to release the FAST Truck.
 
This fire was in the former Soundview Yacht Club, which was still operating as a restaurant until recently taken over by the Parks Department, according to a local on the scene. Apparently a lot of memories for those who grew up here. It as out through the roof on both ends of the building but it wasn't going anywhere. Wind was offshore and the building stood alone next to LI Sound.

Anybody know where 96/54 were when this came in? They should have been 1st due. L41 was relocated to L54 when the box came in. This part of the East Bronx was fairly stripped of companies. Bn 27, L's 58 and 38 went 1/2 due to Metropolitan Oval  a few minutes later.

E96 had relocated to E79 for earlier 2d at Box 3396, but that was about 6 o'clock.
 
Actually this was the Point Yacht Club at the foot of Soundview Ave.  The closest box to it's location is 2603, which when I lived in the area and would have responded with Aviation Volunteer Fire Company (which has since closed their doors as of 2003).  Back at my time in the area Box 2603 was Soundview Ave. & Betts Ave., checking using Franks site is now lists it as Soundview Ave. & the Bronx River.  That building was a mixture of materials salvage from an old barge house boat with several modifications when in was originally constructed.  That whole area has what are the remains of what use to be the Whitestone Ferry Slip prior to the Whitestone Bridge being built at Ferry Point Park.  The Bronx River. Pugsley Creek and the Long Island Sound all meet at the foot of Soundview Avenue.  It might have been possible that both E96 & TL54 were operating at the fire in Hunts Point area, Box 2411 which was still an open incident at the time this came in.

Steve
 
3511 said:
This fire was in the former Soundview Yacht Club, which was still operating as a restaurant until recently taken over by the Parks Department, according to a local on the scene. Apparently a lot of memories for those who grew up here. It as out through the roof on both ends of the building but it wasn't going anywhere. Wind was offshore and the building stood alone next to LI Sound.

Anybody know where 96/54 were when this came in? They should have been 1st due. L41 was relocated to L54 when the box came in. This part of the East Bronx was fairly stripped of companies. Bn 27, L's 58 and 38 went 1/2 due to Metropolitan Oval  a few minutes later.

E96 had relocated to E79 for earlier 2d at Box 3396, but that was about 6 o'clock.
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96 & 54 were operating at the A/H box 2411 in Hunts Point
 
Svd,

Thanks for the additional info. Just as that box came in, Bn 3 took over from D6 as IC at another box, which I assume was 2411. (I was traveling north from Manhattan and had just turned on my scanner.) That explains 96/54 and 94/48 not available for 2610.

I defer to your local knowledge. This was not my part of the Bronx. My comments as to the Yacht Club were based on a bystander who reminisced about times spent at the Club in his youth.
 
I moved from that  area in 1977 so it is possible that the name of the yacht club had changed since then.  I was going on my memory not only as a resident of Harding Park but also as a member of Aviation 3 at the time.  Like many of the other things in that area it is now just a memory like both Shorehaven and Castlehill Beach Clubs.
 
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