11/30/2014 Staten Island All Hands Box 0481

[firephish]

Address: 11 Smith Street between St. Mary's Ave and Bell St.

Fire on the top floor of a 3 story 25x75 flat roof PD.

4-2-Rescue for multiple calls and reports of entrapment.

1004 - Bn. 21 - Transmit the 10-75.

L-78 FAST

1010 - Div. 8 - All Hands - Extra Engine and Truck (E-155, L-83).

1014 - Div. 8 - 2 L/S/O, trucks opening up.  DWH

1017 - Div. 8 - MBFKD, primaries in progress, trucks continue to open up.  We have (2) 10-45's no code.  Have EMS report to the front of the fire bldg.

1023 - Div. 8 - Primaries are negative throughout.

1028 - Div. 8 - Secondaries are complete and negative.  There is a total of (5) 10-45 code 4's, 2 were in the building, 3 were neighbors who went in to remove the elderly couple.  Under Control - Duration 28 minutes.

Assignment:
E-152, 153, 160, 161, 155 s/c
L-77, 81, 78F, 83 s/c
B-21, 22
R-5
D-8
RAC-5
E-159 w/ Sat. 5

*Squad 1 was not available.

 

[Signal73]

Address: 11 Smith Street

Fire on the top floor of a 2 1/2 story PD.

1010 - Div. 8 - All Hands - Extra Engine and Truck (E-155, L-83)

D8 to SI. Tight streets down here

 

[FDNYSTATENISLAND]

Address: 11 Smith Street

Fire on the top floor of a 2 1/2 story PD.

1010 - Div. 8 - All Hands - Extra Engine and Truck (E-155, L-83)

D8 to SI. Tight streets down here

No tillers on Staten Island. I know the island is mostly open and there isn't much of a need, but what about this area? I know for sure the Westerliegh area (163/83) has extremely tight and narrow streets - especially off of Manor Road right by their firehouse. That area should have a tiller instead of a regular RM. Couldn't help but think how 83 truck fits down some of those blocks - let alone an AH response.

 

[guitarman314]

  Yes, Rosebank, Grasmere, South Beach, and most of the North Shore have old streets that were originally designed for horse drawn carriages. Even a main drag like Clove Rd. from Forest Ave. to Richmond Terrace in West Brighton is a narrow 2 lane road.

 

[mack]

A lot of the newer developments of townhouses built through SI the last 25 years have narrow streets, limited access, congested parking.

 

[memory master]

A lot of the newer developments of townhouses built through SI the last 25 years have narrow streets, limited access, congested parking.

Mack you are, as always, 100% correct. On more than one occasion an EMS bus was at a job in one of these townhouse developments and the doorbell to the patient's home was ringing with a motorist inquiring in a belligerent way just how long was that ambulance going to be there.

 

[FDNYSTATENISLAND]

Pictures are from SILIVE















Neighbors notice flames shooting out windows, force entry into house and rescue elderly couple before FD arrives. Article:

http://www.silive.com/eastshore/index.ssf/2014/11/neighbors_bust_down_door_rescu.html#incart_river

Memory, that doesn't surprise me haha. What are the odds of the dept. making 83 a tiller, are there any odds at all? The situation at hand probably isn't as bad as I'm making it sound but with Mack being correct on the increasing number of housing developments and such going up, on top of the already old and narrow streets in the area, I don't think it would be such a far fetched idea to consider it. Just makes the job of the LCC, and the ECC for that matter even tougher in those areas. Now the dept. making 83 truck a TDA and creating a new firehouse or Battalion in the SI mall area (where the AH job was 2 days ago) - imagine that...