10/25/11 Manhattan Box 804 - All Hands

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Midtown Manhattan, NY, 10/25/11

Address: 136 West 44 st between 6th and 7th AVes

11:46 hours
Class 3 Box 804 - Alarm activation on the 4th floor
Engs. 65, 54, 26
L4, TL21
Battalion 9

Hotel personnel reports 4th floor being evacuated

10-75-804 - 11:53 hours
Battalion 9: We're using 2 and 2, we have a mattress fire in room 405, transmit the 10-75 due to the hotel being evacuated.
E21
L2 (FAST Truck)
Battalion 8
Division 3
Rescue 1
Squad 18

CIDS for 136 W 44 st
Hotel 8 story 35x100 class 1.  Building occupied by AIDS patients.

11:55 hours - Duration 11 minutes

7-5-804 - 11:56 hours
BC9: On Box 804, using All-Hands, fire has been extinguished, 1 precautionary line stretched at this time, 4th floor has been evacuated, primary search in the fire apartment is negative, primary search in the stairwells being conducted at this time.  Probably Will Hold.
RAC1

11:59 hours
BC9: We're going to hold the 3 engines, 2 trucks, and the Battalion, all other units can go 10-8.

12:01 hours - Duration 17 minutes
BC9: primaries in the stairwells are all negative, secondaries on the fire floor and in the stairwells are also all negative, fire Under Control.

Exposures are:
1 - street
2 - 7 story hotel
3 - unknown
4 - 3 story old-law mixed-occupancy