17:00hrs. - Engine 5 o/s reporting heavy fire showing from the "B" side of a large 2.5-story wood-frame P/D w/attached garage.
17:20hrs. - Car 3(AC) requesting a 5th Engine S/C for R.I.T. Engine 3 assigned.
17:25hrs. - Car 3(AC) reporting fire is k/d.
From Lt. Corbo, FFD Engine 3:
"Fogg Wood Rd. is the LAST street in Fairfield before you get to Easton, off of Redding Rd, on our northern border. When E-5 turns left out of their firehouse, which they have to do in this case, they are heading away from everybody else in town. This street is about as far away and uphill from the rest of the companies in town as you can get, and as a consequence help is sometimes a long way off. E-5 arrived to find a large 2 story colonial with an attatched 2 car garage on the B side. The garage was fully involved, with a vehicle inside also on fire, flames up the B side and over the roof of the house. E-5's 3 man crew, a Lt., a pump operator and 1 FF, made an INCREDIBLE stop. I was on E-3, we were last due, special called. When we got to the scene, the garage was on the ground, most of the fire was knocked down and there was very little extension into the main house. These guys were all alone for an extended period of time. Job well done. Water supply was done by the second due engine, in this case E-4. There was a hydrant in front of the house next door, so it was a very short lay, only 2 or 3 hundred feet. I believe 4's reversed to the hydrant, as their rig was past the driveway and down by the plug when I arrived. Their first line was a preconnected 2-1/2, in our case, 200 feet with an 1-1/4 inch smooth bore tip, which when pumped at the predetermined pressure of 90 psi is supposed to deliver 325 gpm. Not sure how they attacked the fire, as I was not on scene yet, but I did hear the first arriving officer request a subsequent arriving engine to take an 1-3/4 in the front door and cut off any interior spread. An interesting side note. This street and several others in the area have only in the last few years become hydranted. If anyone were to care to look on a map, the last hydrant going up Redding Rd. for many years was at Longmeadow Rd. Several beds of hose away, and it would have required a relay pumping operation that was discussed and pre planned for many times over my 22 year career."
