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D-13: 2 L/S, 1 L/O - Operating the line from the exterior into the basement, conditions are starting to improve - 01:26 D-13: 2 L/S/O, we're operating a line through a hole on the first floor into basement - 01:33 Bresnan distributor...

38/51 arrived and operated 1st

Likely migrant mischief. There are several large hotels in that vicinity that are completely occupied. The streets outside are a free for all.

And the BUS DRIVER gets arrested!

Alternating duplex apartments. One goes up a level, one is down a level, one may be a regular single level. Configurations vary. Very confusing if you don't know the building in advance.

What do you mean "contributed"?

The coffee has kicked in. “Work” is a relative term. In this thread we mean relative to 2024, not 1974, etc. On that basis, the companies mentioned above are going more “legit” working fires than they ever have in years past. The demographic change in the neighborhoods is startling...

"The house appeared to be housing 2 dozen + migrants." Case in point as to why the workload in Gravesend/Bensonhurst has increased tremendously.

The major tactical problem is getting water on the outside fire. A line has to get to the rear. As the saying goes- "You can't win on the inside until you start winning on the outside." It's extremely difficult to get the whole picture in a rapidly developing situation like this. Chaotic...

You go sleep in a tent in the woods, I'll fill your spot on OT. ;)

Difficult fire. Heat and humidity caused a "negative stack effect". Smoke went down instead of up. Zero visibility conditions on 1st and 2nd floor into lobby. Companies had a hard time hooking up and making it to the apartment. Several maydays transmitted. Quite a few ran out of air and...

The quiet Beverly Road.

Maybe she's trying to spite JD Vance. ;)

Ret. FF Tommy "Pops" O'Shea. 41 years OTJ, longtime senior man of L 59. 2X medal winner and former member of the FDNY hockey "A" team. (y)

rowframes?

If you know what's 2 doors down from here, that will be 5 Hail Mary's, 5 Glory Be's and 10 Our Father's. ;)

Yesterday- the City used something called "the barnacle" thru out Rockaway. Its like a tire boot, except it gets attached to the drivers windshield. The City could end the hydrant parking problem in a week if they actually wanted to.

Ret. BC Herb Perciavalle B-19 FF E-63, LT E-93, Capt. E-43 Appt. 1959, Ret. 2000 41 years

Lt. Ciampo's tower ladder book is excellent.

The main problem with an exterior line is air movement or "entrainment". That moves heat and everything else IN to the building instead of out of it. The reason a nozzleman is taught to whip the line around is so that he creates forward air movement, ideally out a window that has been vented...