11/26/08 Manhattan Box 1081 - HazMat

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Upper East Side, Manhattan, NY, 11/26/08

Address: The Ramaz Upper School - 60 East 78 st between Park and Madison Aves

15:52 hours
TL13: Give us a verbal for 60 E78 st, we have a high school experiment with a chemical spill, make it a 10-80 no code, possible potassium spill, have HazMat respond, as well as E44, an engine, and a Battalion.

15:53 hours
TL13: Make it a 10-80 code 1 (HazMat Incident requiring special units).

Verbal 10-80-1081 - 15:54 hours
Engs. 39, 23
TL13, L16
L43 is the FAST truck
Battalion 10 (Operations Section Chief)
Battalion 12 (Site Access Control Chief)
HazMat, Rescue Battalions
Rescue 1
Squad 18 (HazTec)
HazMat 1
Division 3

CIDs for 60 E78 st:
8 story school 100x100 class 1.  Labs on 5th floor.  Standpipe outlets in stairwell B.  Elevator machine room inside school on top of stairwell B.

16:00 hours
E44 (HazTec) available replacing Squad 18

16:01 hours
Battalion 10: The address is a school, and there was a spill of 10 to 20 grams of potassium metal in a lab on the 5th floor of 60 E78 st

16:04 hours
Now receiving Class 3 Manual alarm for the address.

16:06 hours
BC10: It's an 8 story school, approximately 400 kids and 50 staff, all have been evacuated at this time.  It's 8 stories above grade, 2 below grade, 100x100, the Ramaz School.

Exposures are:
1 - street
2 - alley
3 - unknown
4 - 10 story fireproof

16:13 hours - Duration 21 minutes
Division 3: Box 1081, we had an accidental spill of potassium, we have the area sealed off, HazMat and TL13 are investigating, we're holding all other units outside.  The area is cordoned off, all students have been evacuated along with personnel.  We're going to release the rescue, you can also 10-2 the Rescue Battalion.
Rescue 1, Rescue Battalion are 10-8.

16:23 hours
DC3: At box 1081, we're going go to Under Control at this time, we're going to leave E44, HazMat 1, TL13 on the box, the potassium is under a protective hood, HazMat is in the process of contacting a vendor to come pick it up, we're in the process of letting children back into the safe areas of the school.  Units will go 10-8 as they become available.
 
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