1/25/2012 All Hands SI Box 3724

[kfd274]

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ST LUKES AVE at ARTHUR KILL RD

2453 Arthur Kill Road

http://www.vpike.com/?place=2453+Arthur+Kill+Rd++Staten+Island+NY&submit=Street+View

Barge fire with possible oil on board

12:30  10-75

12:32 10-70 for water relay.  E168 Water Resource Unit

12:39  B 23 requests an extra engine and truck

12:40  M 9 and Marine 1 responding.  M 1 has a 90 minute ETA.  Thought I heard same for M9.

12:41  M 6  assigned.  45 minute ETA

12:44  B 23 has a report that diesel fuel and motor oil residue is burning

12:46  D 8  Fire on barge.............all broken up

12:49  Fallback step 3 implemented in SI

12:51  Marine Batallion asks who is responding.  SID:  M 9 alpha, M 9, M 1 and M6.   MB  you can have M1 return to Manhattan

12:57  MB and D8:   M 9 alpha has 10 minute ETA, M 9 a 45 minute ETA, and M 6 a 20 minute ETA.  (That M 6 is fast

13:02  D 8   Barge is 40x100.  Exposures:   .............

14:24  D 8  places this fire UC

Duration:  2 hours and 2 minutes

VERY DIFFICULT TO HEAR THE TRANSMISSIONS.  I KNOW THAT PEOPLE WERE RESPONDING FROM ALL OVER, BOTH APPARATUS AND CHIEFS.  IF ANYONE HAS ADDITIONALL INFORMATION IT WOULD BE A GOOD INCIDENT TO TRY AND RECREATE.

Some relocations:

L 153/77,   E 201/?

[memory master]

Across the road from the "Bermuda Inn" restaurant and just down the block from "Big Nosed Kate's" bar. Not that I have ever entered these places, mind you. Also just a stone's throw from E168/EMS 23's quarters. 168 was relocated to E151 at the time of the box.

[kfd274]

http://www.silive.com/southshore/index.ssf/2012/01/barge_fire_reported_in_waters.html

[memory master]

E243 relocated to 168.....168 had been relocated to 151 and when they responded 156 then went to 151. The 40 Bn. relocated to the 23 Bn. I believe L153 went to L84.

[kfd274]

http://www.nybuff.org/2012/01/all-hands-fire_25.html

[mack]

Kids have been setting old barges and ships on fire along Arthur Kill Rd for over 50 years maybe longer.  Used to be long stretches and extended operations for E 151 and E 164.  There are still plenty of old rotting ships and barges left to burn:  http://www.undercity.org/photos/Ship_graveyard1/index.htm

[memory master]

Yes the "kids" still have their fun over there. Yesterday's fire was due to the barge being dismantled by workers using acetylene torches as per radio transmissions by Div. 8. Still, it is a long and messy job when these hulks go up. As a side note, the remains of a former FDNY fire boat is still in the water there. That vessel was employed during the "General Slocum" fire back in, I think, 1903. I forget the name of the boat.

[kfd274]

Yes the "kids" still have their fun over there. Yesterday's fire was due to the barge being dismantled by workers using acetylene torches as per radio transmissions by Div. 8. Still, it is a long and messy job when these hulks go up. As a side note, the remains of a former FDNY fire boat is still in the water there. That vessel was employed during the "General Slocum" fire back in, I think, 1903. I forget the name of the boat.

The William F Havemeyerand the Zophyr Mills were around at the time of the Slocum disaster.

[efd274]

Updated SI Live account

http://www.silive.com/southshore/index.ssf/2012/01/fdny_brings_barge_fire_under_c.html

[memory master]

Yes the "kids" still have their fun over there. Yesterday's fire was due to the barge being dismantled by workers using acetylene torches as per radio transmissions by Div. 8. Still, it is a long and messy job when these hulks go up. As a side note, the remains of a former FDNY fire boat is still in the water there. That vessel was employed during the "General Slocum" fire back in, I think, 1903. I forget the name of the boat.

The William F Havemeyerand the Zophyr Mills were around at the time of the Slocum disaster.

It's the MILLS. If you stand at the foor of Rossville Ave. you can see it, or what's left of it.

[kfd274]

Thanks Memorymaster

[kfd274]

Picture of the Zophyr Mills:

Fourth one down

http://yngfire.com/index.php/topic,2018.0.html

[memory master]

KFD274, I stand corrected on the old fireboat in the Arthur Kill. It is the Abraham Hewitt. I aplogize for the misinformation.

 

[memory master]

Picture of Abraham Hewitt. I hope you can open it as I am not good with this technical computer stuff.....

                                           www.opacity.us/image2999

[guitarman314]

Picture of Abraham Hewitt. I hope you can open it as I am not good with this technical computer stuff.....

                                           www.opacity.us/image2999

     Cannot open this