3/16/25 Boston MA 9th Alarm Box 1715

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Signal73

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Fire Location: 64 Gerald St

Fire in a 100 X 150 metal clad building

Housing a transfer station

Partial collapse. Defensive operations

E-14,21,3,22
L-4,23,26,3
R-2
D-5

*TL-3 assigned. L-10 is in a spare

2nd Alarm
E-24,17,37
L-7
Car-9(RIT)
Car-3
Car-2
H-1,2
MCP
W-12

3rd Alarm
E-7,50
L-16
Car-7
Car-4

4th Alarm
E-42,10
C-7

Car-7 assuming command

Car-7 Heavy volume of fire. 20+ foot pile of trash fully involved.

Car-7 Transmit a 5th Alarm

5th Alarm
E-55,33,20(RIT)s/c
L-1,14(RIT)s/c
Car-1

Car-7 exterior operations. Ladder pipes and deck guns in operation

Car-7 now operations in the rear of the building

Command send me another RIT Engine & Truck

6th Alarm
E-49
L-56

Car-1 transmit a 7th Alarm

7th Alarm
E-28,52
L-19

Car-1 Redding and Hamden for the command post

Car-1 to Fire Alarm. Per Commissioner Burke. 8th Alarm

8th Alarm
E-8,51

Car-1 9th Alarm

9th Alarm
E-9,39

*Boston Fire Twitter Photos*

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Mutual aid: Brookline E-1 to E-28, Cam 2 to E-33, Quincy E-4 to E-18, Qunicy L-5 to E-20 Brookline L-2 to L-14 on the 5th. 6th Needham E-1 to E-30, Newton E-6 to E-51, Som E-2 to E-32. 7th Chelsea E-2 to E-9, Dedham E-1 to E-48, Winthrop E-1 to E-56. 8th Everett E-1 to E-8, Milton E-1 to E-16, Watertown E-1 to E-37, Cam L-1 to L-15. 9th Malden E-3 to E-10, Revere E-3 to E-5, Waltham E-1 to E-41, 10th alarm assignments are engines from Cambridge, Arlington and Belmont with a Somerville ladder to unknown locations. I think this is right.
 
t123ken said:
Why wouldn't L-10 respond because they have a spare?
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City has 2 towers, TL 3 in D-1 and TL 10 in D-2, BFD always has a TL responding so if the other TL isn’t in a TL the other TL gets assigned automatically. This fire is actually pretty close to TL3s quarters also.
 
Sfdc111 said:
City has 2 towers, TL 3 in D-1 and TL 10 in D-2, BFD always has a TL responding so if the other TL isn’t in a TL the other TL gets assigned automatically. This fire is actually pretty close to TL3s quarters also.
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Correct and L-10 is currently using a RMA.
 
Since the Boston FD instituted the 10-Alarm running card several years ago, have there been any 10 Alarm incidents?
If not, what's the betting line doing?
If not, how come the Boston Chief didn't call for two more engines and get his name in the record books?

A hundred years ago running cards had some utility due to the slow pace of action and communications. Now, it's like the "big bang" at the beginning of time. Things can go downhill rapidly. A ten alarm running assignment (with relocations) is now really only a conceited wish list. Entropy in action.

The late, great Leo Stapleton noted that when he was a Chief, he established the record for the fastest five alarms struck for a job on Mass Ave. to "run out" an old BFD five alarm assignment card As you would hope, the wiseguys in the kitchen observed that it wasn't due to heavy fire on arrival or threatened exposures, but just panic.
 
entropychaser said:
Since the Boston FD instituted the 10-Alarm running card several years ago, have there been any 10 Alarm incidents?
If not, what's the betting line doing?
If not, how come the Boston Chief didn't call for two more engines and get his name in the record books?

A hundred years ago running cards had some utility due to the slow pace of action and communications. Now, it's like the "big bang" at the beginning of time. Things can go downhill rapidly. A ten alarm running assignment (with relocations) is now really only a conceited wish list. Entropy in action.

The late, great Leo Stapleton noted that when he was a Chief, he established the record for the fastest five alarms struck for a job on Mass Ave. to "run out" an old BFD five alarm assignment card As you would hope, the wiseguys in the kitchen observed that it wasn't due to heavy fire on arrival or threatened exposures, but just panic.
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Well there is some disagreement as to whether or not it was eight alarms or nine and I am not getting into that fight. I believe there has not been a 10 alarm fire since BFD went from 9 to 10 but there were one or two in the early 80's, one being a meat packing facility in Somerville. I was told the reason for 10 vs 5 was for more orderly placement of companies. I still maintain contact with several on BFD but I have not lived there since 1979. Do you have the info on fastest 5, I know of a job 5 alarms in 6 minutes in 1967
 
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grumpy grizzly said:
Well there is some disagreement as to whether or not it was eight alarms or nine and I am not getting into that fight. I believe there has not been a 10 alarm fire since BFD went from 9 to 10 but there were one or two in the early 80's, one being a meat packing facility in Somerville. I was told the reason for 10 vs 5 was for more orderly placement of companies. I still maintain contact with several on BFD but I have not lived there since 1979. Do you have the info on fastest 5, I know of a job 5 alarms in 6 minutes in 1967
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We may be referring to the same job Grump. I'll look into it.
 
grumpy grizzly said:
Well there is some disagreement as to whether or not it was eight alarms or nine and I am not getting into that fight. I believe there has not been a 10 alarm fire since BFD went from 9 to 10 but there were one or two in the early 80's, one being a meat packing facility in Somerville. I was told the reason for 10 vs 5 was for more orderly placement of companies. I still maintain contact with several on BFD but I have not lived there since 1979. Do you have the info on fastest 5, I know of a job 5 alarms in 6 minutes in 1967
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Boston – 26 Bellflower St- 05/22/1964 Box 7251​

The response to the fire was as follows:

Alarm​
Engines​
Ladders​
Other​
Chiefs​
Still @ 13382120.D6
1st @ 1339437..
2nd @ 13401, 17, 12, 73, 4Rescue CoDiv. 1
3rd @ 13433, 24, 25, 37...
4th @ 134410, 53, 50, 39...
5th @ 134656, 20, 34, 40...
Special Call @ 135016, 42, 55, 32, 5...
All possible help @ 135313, 45, 26, 9, 51, 33...
 
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