2/12/2015 Manhattan All Hands Box 0154

[FDNY793727]

Manhattan Box 0154  34 Pell Street between Mott Street and Bowery

Reporting fire on the 3-floor of a Chinese Restaurant 00:41


-B1 10-75 fire on the first floor of a chinese restaurant 00:47

-B1 All Hands 1LS, searches in process. Exposures(1-street, 2-five story attached, 3-unknown, 4-four story attached) 00:48

-B1 we have fire KD by the sprinkler system. Still Doubtful 00:53 17 mins

-D1 10-84 Box 154 00:53

-MN to D1...Medical Branch Resources are responding 00:58

-D1 we are using All Hands. We have 2LS 1IO, all fire is KD. Searches are in progress. Primaries on the 1st and 2nd floors and the basement are negative. Fire was in the rear kitchen of the address. Fire is Doubtful ATT 00:59 23 mins

-D1 Probably Will Hold. Primaries on the 3rd and 4th floors are negative. Secondaries are in progress. Trucks are opening up 01:02 26 mins

-D1 notify Board of Health. Restaurant is Sichuan Hot Pot Cuisine 01:06

-D1 notify ConEd, we shut the gas to all the stoves. Secondaries of all the floors are negative. Still PWH 01:08 32 mins

-D1 Under Control 01:11 35 mins

-Sq18 10-8 01:18

-D1 10-8. B1 will be your radio contact 01:19


Maybe:
Initial: E9, E55, E7, E6, L6, TL1, B1, R1, Sq18,
All Hands: L20FAST, B4, D1

Relocations:
EXX acting E9
E54 acting E7
EX6 acting E55

2/12/2015

 

[FDNYSTATENISLAND]

Chinatown area

"Dragon Fighters" Engine 9 / Tiller Ladder 6 First Due

Streetview of Pell Street - how narrow are those streets?? Defintely the perfect example of why a tiller calls this neighborhood home:

 

[manhattan]

Pell Street is barely wide enough for a parking lane and a through lane, curb-to-curb I'd guess no more than 15 feet, at most.  Apparatus going along Pell might need to have two wheels on the sidewalk if there are parked cars, and there are probably vaults under that sidewalk..  Lucky it's not Doyers Street ("Blood Alley") with its dog-leg curve.

A couple of very good restaurants on Pell.

 

[Ret Phila Lieut]

We have some street in south philly that are impossible for apparatus to get down. The engines lead off from the corners and the ladder companies carry ground ladders to the fire building.

 

[CFDMarshal]

Was this box one of the good ones Manhattan?

 

[manhattan]

The restaurant was probably re-painted, cleaned and ready for business 20 minutes after the last apparatus left the area.  With New Year coming up there's no way they're going to lose that much business.

 

[manhattan]

Does anyone know if Chinatown boxes get larger-than-usual responses because of the crowded conditions, age of buildings, narrow and very congested streets, rear tenements etc, etc?

Thanks.

 

[68jk09]

No they do not.

 

[manhattan]

Thank you, Chief.