11/12/08 Manhattan Box 838 - 2nd Alarm

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Midtown, Manhattan, NY, 11/12/08

Address: 36 W48 st between 6th Ave and Rockefeller Plaza
Extension to: 38 W48 st, 31 W47 st

22:35 hours
Phone Box 838 - Report of fire from the roof of a restaurant
Engs 65, 54
L4, L2
Battalion 9

22:37 hours
Second source reporting a fire in a restaurant
Battalion 9: We have L4 heading up to check it out now.
E8 assigned

22:39 hours
BC9: We have L2 heading down to 43 st to check it out from there.

22:40 hours
Now recieving a Class 3 for 31 W47 st
BC9: I think we may have a kitchen fire there, I'll get back to you.

10-75-838 - 22:42 hours
BC9: 10-75 box 838, We have a fire in the restaurant at 36 W48 st, it's a 5 story brownstone.
E1
TL21 is the FAST truck
Rescue 1
Squad 18
Battalion 8
Division 3

Exposures are:
1 - street
2 - 5 story commercial
3 - unknown
4 - commercial 46 story high-rise

CIDs for 31 W47 st:
HAZMAT FACTORY: 16 story 50x100 jewelry manufacturer. Hazmat throughout. Standpipies stair C first floor to roof, stairway D, firetower, 1st floor to roof, rear of the building.

22:47 hours
Division 3 is delayed due to traffic

22:47 hours
BC9: Advise the Division we just got an urgent for fire in the roof, possible extension to Exposure 3, we have 2 Truck taking up, they're making their way up here.
Division 3: Start up an extra engine and truck.
E26, L24 S/C

7-5-838 - 22:48 hours
BC9: Going with the All-Hands, extra engine and truck
RAC1

22:50 hours
BC9: We have 1 line stretched in 36 W48 st, we have another line stretched to 38, which is exposure 4 building.

22:52 hours - Duration 21 minutes
BC9: We have a duct fire that is coming out of 38 W48 st, we have a line stretched in the Exposure 4 side, and we have a line a stretched in 36 W48 st.  We're trying to get water from the basement into the duct at this time.

22:53 hours
L3 is relocating to L4

22:54 hours
Phone Box 902: Report of smoke in the area @ W55 st and 6th Ave
Engs. 39, 21
L16
Battalion 10

22:55 hours
E39: We're at the box, it's smoke from the job.

22:56 hours
Phone Box 796 - W43 st and 7th Ave, report of smoke from a 3rd floor window
Engs. 34, 16
TL7
Battalion 7

22:56 hours
L3 acting 4 available replacing TL7

22:57 hours
Battalion 7 requests a 2nd truck, TL7 re-assigned

2-2-838 - 22:58 hours
DC3: Transmit a 2nd alarm at this box, and send one of the engines, trucks, and battalion to 47 st, and have them respond behind the fire building, they're going to find the address of that building behind the fire building.
E40
E9 w/ Satellite 1
Rescue, Safety, HazMat Battalions
Battalion 11
Battalions 6 (Safety Officer)
HazMat 1
Tactical Support 1
FieldCom
Command Tactical Unit

23:00 hours
Box 902 is a 10-33 code 1 (odor of smoke from nearby fire).  All companies from Box 902 assigned to the 2nd.
Box 796 is a 10-92 (false alarm).
Battalion 10 is designated the "Resource Unit Leader"

23:01 hours
DC3: Give me an extra engine, truck, and battalion chief to 31 W47 st.
E39, L16, Battalion 11 re-directed.

23:03 hours
DC3: We now have fire reported in 31 W47 st, we have a line being stretched, we have a line stretched in 36 W48 st, we have a 2nd line stretched to 38 W48 st.

23:07 hours
E1 to Manhattan, we're are investigating a smoke condition with L3 at 43rd and 7th.

23:07 hours
Battalion 10 is also 10-84 at 47 st.

23:09 hours - Duration 37 minutes
DC1: Main body of fire in the restaurant has been extinguished.  We have no extension to the 3rd floor.  Some extension to the exposure 4.  At exposure 3 it appears to be a window burning, checking if we had further extension into the exposure 3 building.  Get in contact with Battalion 11, tell him to contact us via the command post on the post radio tactical channel.
Battalion 11 is not 10-84.

23:11 hours
Battalion 7 reports they turned around and returned to Box 796.  10-92 on Box 796 rescinded.

23:12 hours
Car 4A (Assistant Chief Robert Sweeney, Assistant Chief of Operations) is responding.

23:12 hours - Duration 40 minutes
The staging area is 46 st and 6 ave

23:13 hours
BC7: The address is 4 Times Square, it's a 10-33 code 1 for residual smoke from the 2nd.

23:13 hours - Duration 40 minutes

23:16 hours
L8 is 10-8 in L24's response area

23:20 hours
Battalion 17 will relocate to Battalion 11 following completion of current assignment.

23:21 hours
Car 4A and Command Tactical Unit are 10-84

23:25 hours
DC3: Give us 2 trucks at this box for relief purposes.
L25, TL18 S/C

23:26 hours - Duration 55 minutes

23:27 hours
DC3: The main fire building, 36 W48 st, is a 5 story non-fireproof MD 25x60.

Fire Building Height/Size-up:
5 story brownstone non-fireproof MD 25x60 w/ restaurants on the 1st and 2nd floor

23:29 hours - Duration 57 minutes
DC3: Box 838, primary search in the fire building, exposure 3, and exposure 4 is complete and negative.  We're going to Probably Will Hold.

23:30 hours
DC3: All secondary searches in Exposure 3 are complete and negative.  Have Health Department respond to the original fire building, we have a restaurant on the ground floor, Sam's House.

23:32 hours - Duration 1 hours
DC3: We also have a restaurant on the 2nd floor, the Wu Liang Ye Sichuan Restaurant

23:33 hours
E9/Satellite 1 are 10-8 code 2

23:40 hours - Duration 1 hour 10 minutes
FieldCom: Progress report for second alarm box 838, the address 36 W48 st between 6th Ave and Rockefeller Plaza, DC3 reports: secondary searches in the fire building are complete and negative.  Also make notification to Department of Health the restaurant is LeMont Restaurant.

23:47 hours
FC: Have PD respond to 31 W47 st for security.

23:58 hours
Rescue Battalion, Tactical Support 1 is 10-8 back to Citywide.

00:03 hours - Duration 1 hours 31 minutes
FC: Final progress report for Box 0838, Car 4 Adam, Assistant Chief Sweeney reports: fire is now Under Control.
 
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