9/27/2010 Queens Box 5300 All Hands

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Box 5300 Liberty Avenue and 183 St
Address 93-59 183 St - Jamaica

09:30
E301: do you have some information on Box 5300
Disp 231: it's the LIRR Wheel Shop Bldg #1 - supposed to be
some kind of machinery on fire there

09:31
Disp 231: Phone alarm - Box 5300 - it's at Liberty Avenue for the
Hillside Maintenance Yard - Wheel Shop Bldg #1 - reporting
machinery on fire

09:32
Disp: 3 and 2 - E 317 is your third Engine on a 10-14 - L165
is your second truck - we took the liberty of giving you one


First Alarm
Engines: 301 275 317*
Trucks L150     L165
BC 54

09:38
BC54: Box 5300 we had a metal lathe fire that involved the wood shavings and the oil - we
knocked it down with the Purple K - no extensions we're ventilating at this time k  -
Using 2 and 2 at this time

09:39
Disp 249: do you want to use the CIDS?
BC54: affirmative

09:51
BC54: Box 5300 be advised we used All Hands at this box for
a machinery fire on the first floor - there is no need for additional units at this time -
we have the fire as PWH - we needed All Hands for the stretching of a precautionary line as the building is large - 4 story 425x350 Class 2

Exposures
1 - street
2 - lot
3 - unknown
4 - street

Duration 22 minutes

09:53
Disp 231 transmits All Hands

10:08
E314 acting E 317

10:12
BC54: all searches are negative - we're Under Control
Duration 43 minutes
 
Can't speak for FDNY, and especially for this incident, but my 1 to 1 scale Ford minipumper had 2-20 lb Purple-K extinguishers mounted on the rear step . . . and I never had an opportunity to use them (before I sold the rig), so I don't know how much fire they'd handle.
 
All engines have a small supply of foam and Purple-K.  Not sure how much, but with 4 engines should probably be enough to knock down a decent sized fire.
 
All FDNY ENGs & TRUCKs have at least one Purple K extinguisher we had one in the 46*BN rig also... i dont know about other BNs......Purple K does a hell of a job.
 
Purple K in the correct application will knock down a whole lot of fire. Actually works really good on alcohol fires.
 
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