Our house was 2nd due on the Verrazano Bridge box so many mornings in the Spring and Fall the box would come in early on the day tour and the section up front would be off to Staten Island. I went probably 20 or 30 times with the second section and never saw any real brush work but it was funny that almost every time the first section responded, they were up to their boot tops in mud and dirt and brush. There was no overtime so they often got back at 7 or 8 PM. The worst was when they would get in one of their cars to go and relieve the day tour, all at their own expense.
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ENGINE 162/LADDER 82/BATTALION 23 (CONTINUED)
FIRES/EVENTS
1963 NEW APPARATUS
Engine 162 received a 1952 Ward LaFrance pumper with a 250 gallon booster tank from Engine 58.
1964 2nd ALARM
October 16, 1966 – Box 22-2012 – Katan and Schley Avenue in Great Kills. Structure fire in a coal yard.
1970 HOUSE FIRE
March 15, 1970 – duplex house fire in Great Kills – two dead.
FIRES/EVENTS
1963 NEW APPARATUS
Engine 162 received a 1952 Ward LaFrance pumper with a 250 gallon booster tank from Engine 58.
1964 2nd ALARM
October 16, 1966 – Box 22-2012 – Katan and Schley Avenue in Great Kills. Structure fire in a coal yard.
1970 HOUSE FIRE
March 15, 1970 – duplex house fire in Great Kills – two dead.
ENGINE 162/LADDER 82/BATTALION 23 (CONTINUED)
FIRES/EVENTS
1973 3rd ALARM
March 18, 1973 – Large brush fire in New Dorp – Cedar Grove Avenue and New Dorp Lane. Ladder 82 transmitted 2nd alarm.
A frequent New Dorp Beach brush box. Miller Field, site of 1960 plane crash on SI, in upper right of photo.
1960 MILLER FIELD SI PLANE CRASH SITE - ENGINE 162/LADDER 82/BN 23 RESPONSE
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FIRES/EVENTS
1973 3rd ALARM
March 18, 1973 – Large brush fire in New Dorp – Cedar Grove Avenue and New Dorp Lane. Ladder 82 transmitted 2nd alarm.
A frequent New Dorp Beach brush box. Miller Field, site of 1960 plane crash on SI, in upper right of photo.
1960 MILLER FIELD SI PLANE CRASH SITE - ENGINE 162/LADDER 82/BN 23 RESPONSE
Dec. 16, 1960: Plane collision over Staten Island, Brooklyn kills 134
The crash killed all 84 people aboard Flight 826 and 44 on Flight 266 as well as six people on the ground.
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ENGINE 162/LADDER 82/BATTALION 23 (CONTINUED)
FIRES/EVENTS
1974 3rd ALARM
October 29, 1974 – 598 Giffords Lane, Great Kills. Vacant building.
1976 2ND ALARM
July 28, 1976 - Box 22-3818
1993 NEW APPARATUS
June 15, 1993 – Engine 162 received a new Seagrave 1000 GPM pumper with a 500 gallon booster tank.
1998 5th ALARM
March 29, 1998 – Large brush fire at Gateway Recreation Area, Great Kills. Box 55-8480.
Great Kills Park has been the location of many large brush fires due to size, heavy brush growth, winds and park usage. It also has significant exposure concerns with adjacent neighborhoods. Engine 162, Ladder 82 and Bn 23 are first due.
FIRES/EVENTS
1974 3rd ALARM
October 29, 1974 – 598 Giffords Lane, Great Kills. Vacant building.
1976 2ND ALARM
July 28, 1976 - Box 22-3818
1993 NEW APPARATUS
June 15, 1993 – Engine 162 received a new Seagrave 1000 GPM pumper with a 500 gallon booster tank.
1998 5th ALARM
March 29, 1998 – Large brush fire at Gateway Recreation Area, Great Kills. Box 55-8480.
Great Kills Park has been the location of many large brush fires due to size, heavy brush growth, winds and park usage. It also has significant exposure concerns with adjacent neighborhoods. Engine 162, Ladder 82 and Bn 23 are first due.
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ENGINE 162/LADDER 82/BATTALION 23 (CONTINUED)
FIRES/EVENTS
1999 4th ALARM
April 27, 1999 - Large brush fire at Gateway Recreation Area, Great Kills. Box 55-8480. Another “all-hands” brush fire occurred simultaneously at near-by Evergreen Park.
High Fire Activity - 4/27/99 & 4/29/99
It is said that April showers bring may flowers, but in reality all it does is give a few days respite from brush fire season. Another welcome side effect is that the NYC reservoirs are at 90% capacity. But during the last week of April, the rains stopped, the brush areas of Staten Island dried, and the stage was set for some major fire activity. Good thing the reservoirs were full.
88-44-8480
Great Kills Park is located on Staten Island's southeast shoreline. It is a huge expanse of land measuring almost 9000 feet in length and 3000 feet at its widest point. Part of the Gateway National Recreational Area, it's also home to yacht clubs, marinas, and public beaches.
At 1116 hours of the 27th, a fire alarm box activation sent 2 + 2 to Hylan Boulevard & Bay Terrace. A large area of brush was afire. A brisk wind stoked the fire faster than it could be contained, but fortunately it was away from any structures.
As Staten Island companies were busy fighting or responding to this fire, units from Brooklyn were called quickly to fill the vacant firehouses. Under the best traffic conditions it takes about 20 minutes for enough companies to respond over the Verrazano Bridge to bolster the Island's fire protection. But 15 minutes into the fire, the Red Devil struck again.
88-22-1960
At 1131 hours a call to the C.O. reported a structural fire at 38 Leo Street in the Mariners Harbor section. The normally assigned 4th due unit responded in 1st due. By the time they arrived, fire had claimed the entire front half of the 2-story frame 75 x 50 private dwelling. They requested a 2nd alarm on arrival. At 1225 hours, the fire under control, the building was a total loss.
88-75-2834
The Great Kills fire went under control at 1407 hours but units remained on the scene well into the afternoon. Just a stone's throw away, in Evergreen Park, another brush fire broke out at 1927 hours. Fire fighters made short work of this by bringing it under control 73 minutes later.
77-75-1905
Thursday, April 29 saw the most fire activity in recent history. It began in Brooklyn at 0040 hours in the New Lots section. Fire fighters made quick work of an all-hands fire at 655 Williams Avenue. The 2 story brick 30x60 vacant dwelling had fire on all floors but was under control 21 minutes later.
88-75-715
At 0100 hours in the Port Richmond section of Staten Island, there was another quick worker at 284 Jewett Avenue. A 2 story frame 20x40 private dwelling.
66-75-1430
Manhattan fire fighters were busy on the night shift starting with 130 West 120 Street in the Manhattanville section at 0451 hours. A 6 story brick 40x75 multiple dwelling with fire on the 3rd & 4th floor.
66-75-1795
It took 2 hours for fire fighters to tame a fire at 80 Seaman Avenue in the Inwood section at 0712 hours. A 6 story brick 75x100 multiple dwelling with fire on the 5th floor.
66-75-785
Twenty five minute later, an occupant at 400 West 43rd Street, in the Hell's Kitchen section, had their stove go awry on the 25th floor of the 45 story 200x200 hi-rise multiple dwelling.
77-75-967
Back to Brooklyn for a stubborn all-hands fire at 232 Gates Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section. Using an exterior only attack with 3 tower ladders and 1 deck gun, fire fighters poured water into the 3 story frame 40x80 vacant dwelling and waited for the fire to go out.
The Red Devil broke for a late breakfast but came back with a vengeance at 1103 hours.
88-44-8800
The Visy Paper Mill is located in the Travis section of Staten Island, just north of the Fresh Kills landfill. It's a large open area located at 4434 Victory Boulevard and is used as a paper-recycling center. This particular area of Staten Island is sparsely populated and remotely located. Because of this there is a mandatory dispatch policy of 3+2 on the box.
Within 32 minutes there was a 3rd alarm assignment responding to the box. Once again Brooklyn units screamed over the Verrazano Bridge to refill the vacant firehouses. Fire was into a 500-foot square area of baled paper, stacked 50 feet high. (The equivalent of a 5 story building half a city block long.)
It wasn't long before a 4th alarm and numerous special calls for trucks were transmitted. Many of those relocated Brooklyn units responded on the 4th alarm. As more and more units from Brooklyn were called upon to relocate to the island, Brooklyn had to pull units from Manhattan and Queens to fill up it's emptying firehouses.
Manhattan and Queens units eventually operated at the rapidly burning mound of paper. Plumes of smoke and flaming embers rose high into the air and could be seen for miles. Some of the embers made their way across the Arthur Kill waterway and set fire to a pier in Carteret New Jersey.
88-33-1777
While the 4th alarm was still burning freely, another brush fire in the Todt Hill section went to 3 alarms beginning at 1313 hours. The area of brush is located at Brielle & Bradley Avenues on the northern perimeter of Seaview Hospital's property. More units are coming over the bridge.
To put it into perspective: Staten Island's normal compliment of companies is 17 engines, 12 ladders, and 3 battalions. With the 3rd & 4th alarm ongoing simultaneously, 28 engines, 14 ladders and 8 battalions were operating. Most of them were from Brooklyn.
77-75-8102
With Brooklyn's availability appreciably decreased, it was time for Murphy's Law to kick in. The vessel Torm Brigette is a 550-foot cargo ship. It was docked at the Port of New York Authority pier 7 in the Gowanus Bay. At 1317 hours a fire was reported onboard.
When fire fighters arrived they discovered fire in 3 cargo holds; each filled with cocoa beans. This fire was labor-intensive. As units flooded the holds trying to extinguish the fire, the de-watering unit was trying to sump the hold so the ship's crew could move the cargo around to assist in overhauling.
Rescue 2 made full use of their thermal-imaging camera through the night to find hidden hot spots. The fire didn't go under control until 0138 hours the next morning.
77-75-2483
The Flatbush section of Brooklyn was next with an all-hands fire at 261 Westminster Road. Fire was in the front wall of the 3-story frame 20x60 private dwelling.
88-75-2855
Yet another blow to Staten Island's availability occurred at 1656 hours when a brush fire broke out at 43 Cherrywood Court in the Great Kills section. The fire extended to the dwelling at this address but was declared under control 35 minutes later.
At 1800 hours the night tour went on duty (That is assuming the apparatus had made it back to quarters.) and the day tour units started licking their wounds. Slowly, units were making headway on the Staten Island 4th and Brooklyn boat fire. The Devil had been tamed. But hell hath no fury like a Red Devil scorned.
66-44-1126
I arrived at the Manhattan C.O. around 1810 hours to relieve the day tour supervisor early. (Our tours begin at 1900.) We were discussing the day's events when Engine 22 broke the calm, "Engine 22 to Manhattan: 10-84 (arrival) box 1126, transmit a 2nd alarm!"
At 1821 hours fire was reported in a 5 story brick 150x50 multiple dwelling at 1046 Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side. Engine 22 gave us that startling announcement 4 minutes later. My day tour counterpart walked to the fire building and later described the scene.
The fire was on the top 2 floors and spread to the top floor and roof of exposure 3 (exposure to the rear). The 3rd alarm was transmitted at 1835 hours, the 4th at 1845. All of a sudden I had a major coverage problem.
With nary a unit available from 59th Street to 125th Street an apparatus staging area was set up at the quarters of engine 53 on 3rd Avenue & 103 Street. Somehow, Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn managed to scrap together some units to send to me. We told the responding units to rendezvous at engine 53 while we decided to where they should relocate. We held some in reserve just in case the IC wanted a 5th alarm.
At 1938 hours the fire was "probably will hold" and our coverage was starting to shape up. We had units scattered all over the city. Brooklyn units operating in and relocated into Staten Island. Manhattan units relocated to Brooklyn, then operating on Staten Island. Queens units relocated to Brooklyn. Bronx units relocated to Queens then operated in Manhattan. Many of them still had day tour members on board.
By 2300 hours the last relocator left the borough and things were getting back to some semblance of normal. I'm glad, however, that I don't have to pay the overtime bill.
- http://www.fdnewyork.com/april99.asp
FIRES/EVENTS
1999 4th ALARM
April 27, 1999 - Large brush fire at Gateway Recreation Area, Great Kills. Box 55-8480. Another “all-hands” brush fire occurred simultaneously at near-by Evergreen Park.
High Fire Activity - 4/27/99 & 4/29/99
It is said that April showers bring may flowers, but in reality all it does is give a few days respite from brush fire season. Another welcome side effect is that the NYC reservoirs are at 90% capacity. But during the last week of April, the rains stopped, the brush areas of Staten Island dried, and the stage was set for some major fire activity. Good thing the reservoirs were full.
88-44-8480
Great Kills Park is located on Staten Island's southeast shoreline. It is a huge expanse of land measuring almost 9000 feet in length and 3000 feet at its widest point. Part of the Gateway National Recreational Area, it's also home to yacht clubs, marinas, and public beaches.
At 1116 hours of the 27th, a fire alarm box activation sent 2 + 2 to Hylan Boulevard & Bay Terrace. A large area of brush was afire. A brisk wind stoked the fire faster than it could be contained, but fortunately it was away from any structures.
As Staten Island companies were busy fighting or responding to this fire, units from Brooklyn were called quickly to fill the vacant firehouses. Under the best traffic conditions it takes about 20 minutes for enough companies to respond over the Verrazano Bridge to bolster the Island's fire protection. But 15 minutes into the fire, the Red Devil struck again.
88-22-1960
At 1131 hours a call to the C.O. reported a structural fire at 38 Leo Street in the Mariners Harbor section. The normally assigned 4th due unit responded in 1st due. By the time they arrived, fire had claimed the entire front half of the 2-story frame 75 x 50 private dwelling. They requested a 2nd alarm on arrival. At 1225 hours, the fire under control, the building was a total loss.
88-75-2834
The Great Kills fire went under control at 1407 hours but units remained on the scene well into the afternoon. Just a stone's throw away, in Evergreen Park, another brush fire broke out at 1927 hours. Fire fighters made short work of this by bringing it under control 73 minutes later.
77-75-1905
Thursday, April 29 saw the most fire activity in recent history. It began in Brooklyn at 0040 hours in the New Lots section. Fire fighters made quick work of an all-hands fire at 655 Williams Avenue. The 2 story brick 30x60 vacant dwelling had fire on all floors but was under control 21 minutes later.
88-75-715
At 0100 hours in the Port Richmond section of Staten Island, there was another quick worker at 284 Jewett Avenue. A 2 story frame 20x40 private dwelling.
66-75-1430
Manhattan fire fighters were busy on the night shift starting with 130 West 120 Street in the Manhattanville section at 0451 hours. A 6 story brick 40x75 multiple dwelling with fire on the 3rd & 4th floor.
66-75-1795
It took 2 hours for fire fighters to tame a fire at 80 Seaman Avenue in the Inwood section at 0712 hours. A 6 story brick 75x100 multiple dwelling with fire on the 5th floor.
66-75-785
Twenty five minute later, an occupant at 400 West 43rd Street, in the Hell's Kitchen section, had their stove go awry on the 25th floor of the 45 story 200x200 hi-rise multiple dwelling.
77-75-967
Back to Brooklyn for a stubborn all-hands fire at 232 Gates Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section. Using an exterior only attack with 3 tower ladders and 1 deck gun, fire fighters poured water into the 3 story frame 40x80 vacant dwelling and waited for the fire to go out.
The Red Devil broke for a late breakfast but came back with a vengeance at 1103 hours.
88-44-8800
The Visy Paper Mill is located in the Travis section of Staten Island, just north of the Fresh Kills landfill. It's a large open area located at 4434 Victory Boulevard and is used as a paper-recycling center. This particular area of Staten Island is sparsely populated and remotely located. Because of this there is a mandatory dispatch policy of 3+2 on the box.
Within 32 minutes there was a 3rd alarm assignment responding to the box. Once again Brooklyn units screamed over the Verrazano Bridge to refill the vacant firehouses. Fire was into a 500-foot square area of baled paper, stacked 50 feet high. (The equivalent of a 5 story building half a city block long.)
It wasn't long before a 4th alarm and numerous special calls for trucks were transmitted. Many of those relocated Brooklyn units responded on the 4th alarm. As more and more units from Brooklyn were called upon to relocate to the island, Brooklyn had to pull units from Manhattan and Queens to fill up it's emptying firehouses.
Manhattan and Queens units eventually operated at the rapidly burning mound of paper. Plumes of smoke and flaming embers rose high into the air and could be seen for miles. Some of the embers made their way across the Arthur Kill waterway and set fire to a pier in Carteret New Jersey.
88-33-1777
While the 4th alarm was still burning freely, another brush fire in the Todt Hill section went to 3 alarms beginning at 1313 hours. The area of brush is located at Brielle & Bradley Avenues on the northern perimeter of Seaview Hospital's property. More units are coming over the bridge.
To put it into perspective: Staten Island's normal compliment of companies is 17 engines, 12 ladders, and 3 battalions. With the 3rd & 4th alarm ongoing simultaneously, 28 engines, 14 ladders and 8 battalions were operating. Most of them were from Brooklyn.
77-75-8102
With Brooklyn's availability appreciably decreased, it was time for Murphy's Law to kick in. The vessel Torm Brigette is a 550-foot cargo ship. It was docked at the Port of New York Authority pier 7 in the Gowanus Bay. At 1317 hours a fire was reported onboard.
When fire fighters arrived they discovered fire in 3 cargo holds; each filled with cocoa beans. This fire was labor-intensive. As units flooded the holds trying to extinguish the fire, the de-watering unit was trying to sump the hold so the ship's crew could move the cargo around to assist in overhauling.
Rescue 2 made full use of their thermal-imaging camera through the night to find hidden hot spots. The fire didn't go under control until 0138 hours the next morning.
77-75-2483
The Flatbush section of Brooklyn was next with an all-hands fire at 261 Westminster Road. Fire was in the front wall of the 3-story frame 20x60 private dwelling.
88-75-2855
Yet another blow to Staten Island's availability occurred at 1656 hours when a brush fire broke out at 43 Cherrywood Court in the Great Kills section. The fire extended to the dwelling at this address but was declared under control 35 minutes later.
At 1800 hours the night tour went on duty (That is assuming the apparatus had made it back to quarters.) and the day tour units started licking their wounds. Slowly, units were making headway on the Staten Island 4th and Brooklyn boat fire. The Devil had been tamed. But hell hath no fury like a Red Devil scorned.
66-44-1126
I arrived at the Manhattan C.O. around 1810 hours to relieve the day tour supervisor early. (Our tours begin at 1900.) We were discussing the day's events when Engine 22 broke the calm, "Engine 22 to Manhattan: 10-84 (arrival) box 1126, transmit a 2nd alarm!"
At 1821 hours fire was reported in a 5 story brick 150x50 multiple dwelling at 1046 Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side. Engine 22 gave us that startling announcement 4 minutes later. My day tour counterpart walked to the fire building and later described the scene.
The fire was on the top 2 floors and spread to the top floor and roof of exposure 3 (exposure to the rear). The 3rd alarm was transmitted at 1835 hours, the 4th at 1845. All of a sudden I had a major coverage problem.
With nary a unit available from 59th Street to 125th Street an apparatus staging area was set up at the quarters of engine 53 on 3rd Avenue & 103 Street. Somehow, Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn managed to scrap together some units to send to me. We told the responding units to rendezvous at engine 53 while we decided to where they should relocate. We held some in reserve just in case the IC wanted a 5th alarm.
At 1938 hours the fire was "probably will hold" and our coverage was starting to shape up. We had units scattered all over the city. Brooklyn units operating in and relocated into Staten Island. Manhattan units relocated to Brooklyn, then operating on Staten Island. Queens units relocated to Brooklyn. Bronx units relocated to Queens then operated in Manhattan. Many of them still had day tour members on board.
By 2300 hours the last relocator left the borough and things were getting back to some semblance of normal. I'm glad, however, that I don't have to pay the overtime bill.
- http://www.fdnewyork.com/april99.asp
ENGINE 162/LADDER 82/BATTALION 23 (CONTINUED)
FIRES/EVENTS
2010 6TH ALARM
Staten Island brush fires at Great Kills Park spark six-alarm response
By EDGAR SANDOVAL and JONATHAN LEMIRE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS |
SEP 09, 2010 AT 4:00 AM
Firefighters battle a brush fire at Great Kills Park on Staten Island Wednesday.
Hundreds of firefighters battled a pair of intense wind-blown brush fires on Staten Island Wednesday.
One of the blazes - fueled by strong breezes and dry conditions - reached six alarms as it ripped through acres of Great Kills Park after igniting at 2:40 p.m., FDNY officials said.
The blaze, which investigators think started in an arid grassy area, was miles from any residential neighborhoods and did not threaten any homes, FDNY officials said.
One FDNY unit was briefly trapped between two fields of fire but escaped without injury, officials said.
The other brush fire in Arden Heights crept close to several homes before it was turned away.
www.nydailynews.com
FIRES/EVENTS
2010 6TH ALARM
Staten Island brush fires at Great Kills Park spark six-alarm response
By EDGAR SANDOVAL and JONATHAN LEMIRE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS |
SEP 09, 2010 AT 4:00 AM
Firefighters battle a brush fire at Great Kills Park on Staten Island Wednesday.
Hundreds of firefighters battled a pair of intense wind-blown brush fires on Staten Island Wednesday.
One of the blazes - fueled by strong breezes and dry conditions - reached six alarms as it ripped through acres of Great Kills Park after igniting at 2:40 p.m., FDNY officials said.
The blaze, which investigators think started in an arid grassy area, was miles from any residential neighborhoods and did not threaten any homes, FDNY officials said.
One FDNY unit was briefly trapped between two fields of fire but escaped without injury, officials said.
The other brush fire in Arden Heights crept close to several homes before it was turned away.
Staten Island brush fires at Great Kills Park spark six-alarm response
Hundreds of firefighters battled a pair of intense wind-blown brush fires on Staten Island Wednesday.
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ENGINE 162/LADDER 82/BATTALION 23 (CONTINUED)
FIRES/EVENTS
2017 3RD ALARM
Staten Island house fire kills 83-year-old woman; nine firefighters injured
By EDGAR SANDOVAL, LAURA DIMON and GRAHAM RAYMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 06, 2017 AT 3:34 PM
An 83-year-old retired Army civilian worker died in a Staten Island house fire early Monday after a desperate attempt to escape, police and neighbors said.
Carolyn Samuel, 83, was found in the kitchen of her two-story home on Driggs St. near Wilman Ave. in Great Kills, said neighbor Anthony Fezza.
The blaze started around 4 a.m. and went to three alarms just before 5 a.m., officials said.
Samuel's distraught son, Michael Samuel, rushed to the scene early Monday, holding back tears as a friend patted his back to console him. He crossed the yellow tape, even as a police officer asked him to stay back.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-yor...efighters-injured-article-1.2989700?cid=bitly
Grandmother killed, firefighter wounded in Staten Island house fire
Authorities say one person is dead after a fire broke out at a home on Staten Island.
By: Chris Brito , Kirstin Cole , Ashley Soley-CerroPosted at 5:39 AM, Mar 06, 2017 and last updated 7:33 PM, Mar 06, 2017
GREAT KILLS, Staten Island – A grandmother was killed and a firefighter injured when a fire broke out at a cluttered Staten Island home early Monday.
A fire was reported around 4 a.m. at a two-story home on Driggs Street in the Great Kills section of the borough, FDNY says. The fire was under control by 7 a.m.
An adult was killed in the blaze, and a firefighter suffered minor injury, fire officials said.
The victim's daughter and grandmother were at the scene, and identified her as a grandmother.
Debris located near the home's front entrance hindered rescue efforts, fire officials said.
"It's very difficult to climb over [debris] and there was 3 to 5 feet at the entrance of the doorway," FDNY Chief Brian Gorman said. "It makes advancing very difficult challenge."
More than 150 firefighters arrived at the scene to battle the blaze.
https://www.pix11.com/2017/03/06/2-wounded-in-staten-island-house-fire/
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FIRES/EVENTS
2017 3RD ALARM
Staten Island house fire kills 83-year-old woman; nine firefighters injured
By EDGAR SANDOVAL, LAURA DIMON and GRAHAM RAYMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 06, 2017 AT 3:34 PM
An 83-year-old retired Army civilian worker died in a Staten Island house fire early Monday after a desperate attempt to escape, police and neighbors said.
Carolyn Samuel, 83, was found in the kitchen of her two-story home on Driggs St. near Wilman Ave. in Great Kills, said neighbor Anthony Fezza.
The blaze started around 4 a.m. and went to three alarms just before 5 a.m., officials said.
Samuel's distraught son, Michael Samuel, rushed to the scene early Monday, holding back tears as a friend patted his back to console him. He crossed the yellow tape, even as a police officer asked him to stay back.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-yor...efighters-injured-article-1.2989700?cid=bitly
Grandmother killed, firefighter wounded in Staten Island house fire
Authorities say one person is dead after a fire broke out at a home on Staten Island.
By: Chris Brito , Kirstin Cole , Ashley Soley-CerroPosted at 5:39 AM, Mar 06, 2017 and last updated 7:33 PM, Mar 06, 2017
GREAT KILLS, Staten Island – A grandmother was killed and a firefighter injured when a fire broke out at a cluttered Staten Island home early Monday.
A fire was reported around 4 a.m. at a two-story home on Driggs Street in the Great Kills section of the borough, FDNY says. The fire was under control by 7 a.m.
An adult was killed in the blaze, and a firefighter suffered minor injury, fire officials said.
The victim's daughter and grandmother were at the scene, and identified her as a grandmother.
Debris located near the home's front entrance hindered rescue efforts, fire officials said.
"It's very difficult to climb over [debris] and there was 3 to 5 feet at the entrance of the doorway," FDNY Chief Brian Gorman said. "It makes advancing very difficult challenge."
More than 150 firefighters arrived at the scene to battle the blaze.
https://www.pix11.com/2017/03/06/2-wounded-in-staten-island-house-fire/
Grandmother killed, firefighter wounded in Staten Island house fire
GREAT KILLS, Staten Island – A grandmother was killed and a firefighter injured when a fire broke out at a cluttered Staten Island home early Monday. A fire was reported around 4 a.m. at a two-story home on Driggs Street in the Great Kills section of the borough, FDNY says. The fire was under contro
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ENGINE 162/LADDER 82/BATTALION 23 (CONTINUED)
FIRES/EVENTS
2020 3RD ALARM
9 firefighters injured as fire rips through Staten Island home
By Joshua Rhett Miller
August 21, 2020 | 10:48am
A three-alarm fire ripped through a Staten Island home early Friday, injuring nine firefighters, officials said.
The blaze at a two-story home at 8 Holly Avenue in Great Kills broke out at about 3 a.m., with fire raging through its roof. A total of 138 firefighters from 33 units responded to the scene and brought the fire under control within two hours, FDNY officials said.
The injured firefighters, who had minor injuries and are expected to recover, were taken to area hospitals, an FDNY spokesman said, adding that no one inside the home was hurt.
Four people inside the residence managed to escape before firefighters responded, WABC reports.
“It was really scary and fast [moving],” a neighbor told the Staten Island Advance.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, FDNY officials told The Post.
The blaze ripped through the home’s basement, as well its first and second floors before breaching the roof, according to an FDNY Twitter feed.
The house appeared to be completely gutted in photos taken at the scene early Friday after the fire was extinguished, with piles of debris, including furniture, strewn across the front lawn.
nypost.com
FIRES/EVENTS
2020 3RD ALARM
9 firefighters injured as fire rips through Staten Island home
By Joshua Rhett Miller
August 21, 2020 | 10:48am
A three-alarm fire ripped through a Staten Island home early Friday, injuring nine firefighters, officials said.
The blaze at a two-story home at 8 Holly Avenue in Great Kills broke out at about 3 a.m., with fire raging through its roof. A total of 138 firefighters from 33 units responded to the scene and brought the fire under control within two hours, FDNY officials said.
The injured firefighters, who had minor injuries and are expected to recover, were taken to area hospitals, an FDNY spokesman said, adding that no one inside the home was hurt.
Four people inside the residence managed to escape before firefighters responded, WABC reports.
“It was really scary and fast [moving],” a neighbor told the Staten Island Advance.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, FDNY officials told The Post.
The blaze ripped through the home’s basement, as well its first and second floors before breaching the roof, according to an FDNY Twitter feed.
The house appeared to be completely gutted in photos taken at the scene early Friday after the fire was extinguished, with piles of debris, including furniture, strewn across the front lawn.
9 firefighters injured as fire rips through Staten Island home
A three-alarm fire ripped through a Staten Island home early Friday, injuring nine firefighters, officials said. The blaze at a two-story home at 8 Holly Avenue in Great Kills broke out at about 3 …
nypost.com
ENGINE 162/LADDER 82/BATTALION 23 (CONTINUED)
GREAT KILLS
1907
2020
GREAT KILLS NAME
The eastern half of what has been known since 1865 as Great Kills was originally named Clarendon after a British colonial governor, and the western half was named Newtown. For a time, both were known as Giffords, after Daniel Gifford, a local commissioner and surveyor.[2][7] The name survives in Giffords Lane and Giffords Glen, which are adjacent to the Great Kills train station that was formerly named Giffords, and also in the Gifford School, P.S. 32. The term "Great Kills" traces back informally at least to 1664, the final year of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, when French settler Jacques Guyon called the area "La Grand Kills".
From the 1680s when English colonial government was organized, until 1898 when Staten Island consolidated into New York City, eastern Great Kills was officially part of the town of Southfield, Richmond County, New York, and western Great Kills was officially part of Westfield.[8][9] Great Kills and Staten Island's other East Shore neighborhoods were mostly rural and dotted with shoreline resorts until the 1950s, after which the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge brought heavy residential growth from Brooklyn.
GATEWAY NATIONAL RECREATIONAL AREA
Great Kills Park is a 523 acre park located on the south shore of Staten Island. This site was created by Robert Moses and operated by New York City Department of Parks and Recreation between 1947 and 1972. Great Kills Park became part of the National Park Service in 1972 when Gateway National Recreation Area was established. Great Kills Park has several public recreation facilities including a beach center, a life-guarded beach, a multi-use path, hiking and biking trails, fishing areas, a marina and a boat launch.
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GREAT KILLS NAME
The eastern half of what has been known since 1865 as Great Kills was originally named Clarendon after a British colonial governor, and the western half was named Newtown. For a time, both were known as Giffords, after Daniel Gifford, a local commissioner and surveyor.[2][7] The name survives in Giffords Lane and Giffords Glen, which are adjacent to the Great Kills train station that was formerly named Giffords, and also in the Gifford School, P.S. 32. The term "Great Kills" traces back informally at least to 1664, the final year of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, when French settler Jacques Guyon called the area "La Grand Kills".
From the 1680s when English colonial government was organized, until 1898 when Staten Island consolidated into New York City, eastern Great Kills was officially part of the town of Southfield, Richmond County, New York, and western Great Kills was officially part of Westfield.[8][9] Great Kills and Staten Island's other East Shore neighborhoods were mostly rural and dotted with shoreline resorts until the 1950s, after which the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge brought heavy residential growth from Brooklyn.
GATEWAY NATIONAL RECREATIONAL AREA
Great Kills Park is a 523 acre park located on the south shore of Staten Island. This site was created by Robert Moses and operated by New York City Department of Parks and Recreation between 1947 and 1972. Great Kills Park became part of the National Park Service in 1972 when Gateway National Recreation Area was established. Great Kills Park has several public recreation facilities including a beach center, a life-guarded beach, a multi-use path, hiking and biking trails, fishing areas, a marina and a boat launch.
YES - Engine 162, Ladder 82 and Bn 23 responded to the fire at the Church of St. Joachim and St. Anne on the grounds of Mission of the Immaculate Virgin, Mount Loretto, Pleasant Plains, on Dec. 19 1973. Engine 151, Ladder 76, Engine 164, Ladder 84, Battalion 23 on box. Probably Engine 167, Engine 162, Engine 165, Ladder 82, Ladder 85, Battalion 21, Division 8 on 2nd alarm. Fire went to 5th alarm. Initial alarm came in about 4:30 AM - a cold winter morning. My father responded to fire from Brooklyn on 3rd alarm.
HISTORY OF CHURCH
The Old Church of St. Joachim and St. Anne is a historic Roman Catholic church building located in the Pleasant Plains area of Staten Island in New York City. It is located north of Hylan Boulevard between Page Avenue and Richard Avenue, in the southern part of the island, near the Atlantic Ocean and Tottenville.
It was constructed in 1891 on the grounds of Mount Loretto, an institution founded by Father John Drumgoole to house destitute street children who were living on the streets of the city. The church principally served the children and staff of that institution. Mount Loretto was conceived as a farm and at the time of its construction the church stood in a rural area.
In 1972, the church was one of the locations used in the movie The Godfather. In 1973, a serious fire largely destroyed the church, leaving only its facade. The owner of the church, the Archdiocese of New York, rebuilt it in 1976, incorporating the facade into the new structure.
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GODFATHER MOVIE BAPTISM SCENE
1973 FIRE 5TH ALARM
FDNY THROWBACK THURSDAYS
2016-12-15 Throwback Thursday from 1973
This week’s Throwback Thursday photos are from December 19, 1973 – a 5th alarm at Mount Loretto Church on Staten Island (FD Box 55-4758).
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Port Mobil also site of barge explosion in 2003.
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Thank you Mack this is a great thread! If you look at one of the pics you linked to on Flickr from Mt. Loretto you can see the L82 ALF tiller on the right. Its hard to make out numbers but I see a Rapid Water rig in one shot and I think one of the satellites.
The Rapid Water engine was Engine 163. A satellite was also there. This was a fire my father responded to from Brooklyn - 43 Battalion from Coney Island on the 3rd alarm.
Ladder 82 3rd due truck
Engine 151 1st due engine
Satellite 3 located Engine 242
Section where fire originated in a storeroom in building attached to church before communicating to main church. Origin was difficult to locate. Looks like Ladder 84, Engine 151 and Tower Ladder 76 - 1st alarm companies.
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Mt Loretto history
Mount Loretto was once the largest orphanage in New York State. It was started by Father John Christopher Drumgoole, an Irish Catholic priest and founder of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin in Manhattan, an organization to help poor and disposed children. He purchased the Staten Island land for the orphanage in the 1890s and named it "Mount Loretto" in honor of one of the nuns who worked with him at the mission. It was served by the Mount Loretto Spur of the Staten Island Railway.
Mt Loretto Spur - train line to Mt Loretto
The Mount Loretto spur on the SIRT was intact and serviceable until at least 1964, although the passenger platform at the orphanage had been demolished. There was a ramp and trestle used for coal deliveries in the 1950's at the end of the line.
The right of way and road bed from the Amboy Road grade crossing to the end of track at the Home was privately owned by the Archdiocese of New York. It was not owned by the SIRT nor was it open to the public. SIRT provided any needed track maintenance, which the Home paid for. The name of the private station at Mount Loretto was "Mission of the Immaculate Virgin."
The branch line was originally built to bring construction materials for large buildings at Mount Loretto and its power house in the late 1800s.
Besides supplying coal and other materials to the home over the decades, SIRT operated an every third Sunday special train from the St. George Ferry Terminal directly to Mount Loretto for relatives and visitors. It was paid for by the Archdiocese of New York.
This direct train service ended in the late 1930s and chartered Staten Island Coach Co. buses were used after that. A steam locomotive was used to haul the special trains of usually three steel MUE cars up to Mount Loretto after the 1925 electrification of the SIRT. The branch was never electrified.
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Steam train to Mt. Loretto
Mount Loretto was once the largest orphanage in New York State. It was started by Father John Christopher Drumgoole, an Irish Catholic priest and founder of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin in Manhattan, an organization to help poor and disposed children. He purchased the Staten Island land for the orphanage in the 1890s and named it "Mount Loretto" in honor of one of the nuns who worked with him at the mission. It was served by the Mount Loretto Spur of the Staten Island Railway.
1896: Tige, the Newfoundland of the Mount Loretto Orphanage for Boys in Staten Island, Part II
An orphan boy and dog are reunited at Father Drumgoole's Mount Loretto, a farm for orphaned children and one very lucky homeless Newfoundland dog
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Mt Loretto Spur - train line to Mt Loretto
The Mount Loretto spur on the SIRT was intact and serviceable until at least 1964, although the passenger platform at the orphanage had been demolished. There was a ramp and trestle used for coal deliveries in the 1950's at the end of the line.
The right of way and road bed from the Amboy Road grade crossing to the end of track at the Home was privately owned by the Archdiocese of New York. It was not owned by the SIRT nor was it open to the public. SIRT provided any needed track maintenance, which the Home paid for. The name of the private station at Mount Loretto was "Mission of the Immaculate Virgin."
The branch line was originally built to bring construction materials for large buildings at Mount Loretto and its power house in the late 1800s.
Besides supplying coal and other materials to the home over the decades, SIRT operated an every third Sunday special train from the St. George Ferry Terminal directly to Mount Loretto for relatives and visitors. It was paid for by the Archdiocese of New York.
This direct train service ended in the late 1930s and chartered Staten Island Coach Co. buses were used after that. A steam locomotive was used to haul the special trains of usually three steel MUE cars up to Mount Loretto after the 1925 electrification of the SIRT. The branch was never electrified.
Mount Loretto Spur on Staten Island
The Mount Loretto spur on the SIRT was intact and serviceable until at least 1964, although the passenger platform at the orphanage had been demolished. I'm not sure why this does not show on the 1949 map. There was a ramp and trestle used for coal...
Steam train to Mt. Loretto
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