1/14/09 Manhattan Box 1184 - All Hands

Joined
Nov 27, 2007
Messages
1,905
Upper West Side, Manhattan, NY, 1/14/09

Address: 589 Amsterdam Ave between W88 and W89 sts

Phone Box 1170 - Multiple calls reporting an outside odor of smoke in the vicinity of Central Park West between W85 and 87 sts.
Engs. 74, 76, 22
TL22, L25
Battalion 11

Receiving the address 262 Central Park West @ W85 st reporting an outside odor of smoke.

06:05 hours
Battalion 11: Box 1170, we're getting an odor of a possible oil burner, we have a fairly strong wind at CPW and 87, we're going to make our way down to 262 Central Park West and check it out.

06:11 hours
Now receiving the address 589 Amsterdam Ave for a compactor fire; all companies re-directed.  Box re-transmitted as Box 1184.

06:12 hours
E74: We're unable to respond to that, our brakes are locked up.
E40 replacing E74

06:18 hours
BC11: Box 1184, we're using 2 and 2 for a fire in the compactor.

Fire Building Height/Size-up:
18 story 200x75 OMD
Exposures are:
1 - street
2 - street
3 - unknown
4 - street

7-5-1184 - 06:25 hours
BC11: Box 1184 we used All-Hands for a compactor, no special units required, Under Control.

06:37 hours - Duration 28 minutes
BC11: Box 1184, continuing to use All-Hands, all visible fire has been knocked down, we're opening up chop rooms on multiple floors hitting pockets with the can.
 
Top