Newport News VA 2d Alarm 1/11/26

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Newport News/District 1/Battalion 1
Apartment Structure Fire
345 51st Street
Operations Tac 1?
2nd Alarm

BAT1, BAT2, E1, E2, E3, E6, E7, E8, E9, E10, E11, EMS1, EMS2, L2, L3, L4, L7, L9, M1, M2, M7, M8, M9, M10, MAR1, MAR2, MAR3, MAR4, MAR7, MAR8, R1, R2, SAF2, TWR6

Heavy fire showing alpha side; possible entrapments; arching wires; and expediting power and gas.

M2 is transporting

Marshal 2 added to assignment

Marshal 3 added to assignment

Marshal 1 added to assignment

Main fire building being evacuated

EMS2 added to assignment

Engine 8 and Engine 9 added to assignment

L4 only truck available, L9 just added.

Emergency Traffic - Vacate Building

L4 and E11 added to incident

All Newport News first line apparatus except Engine 5 are assigned to this incident.

Requesting PD to speed up their response.

Hampton, York County, Joint Base Langley/Eustis, Suffolk, and Norfolk contacted for backfills

L4 to stage at 52nd and Huntington.

Car 1 added to assignment

Unknown Unit 4 backfilling NN6
York Engine 6 backfilling NN11
James City Engine 31 backfilling NN4

Marshal 7 and 8 added to assignment

Hampton Ladder 9 backfilling NN7

York Engine 2 Backfilling NN6?

Newport News Engine 5 backfilling NN10

www.13newsnow.com

Families displaced after multi-unit fire on 51st Street in Newport News

A multi-unit fire in Newport News on Sunday morning has displaced six families, prompting the American Red Cross to assist with their immediate recovery needs.
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From Virginia Statewide Incidents Facebook page:

"Overnight Fatal 2nd Alarm Fire in Newport News

Newport News Fire Department responded to a 2nd alarm fire at 345 51st Street in the city’s Huntington Heights area early this morning, just before 2:00 a.m.

Upon arrival, crews encountered heavy fire conditions. Authorities report that one person died as a result of the fire.

The cause of the fire has not been released. Due to the scale of the incident, nearly the entire Newport News Fire Department responded, and multiple neighboring jurisdictions were called in to assist with fire response coverage across the city."

Fatality was from 2d floor apartment. R1 was directed to evacuate the building while conducting primary search of 2d Floor.

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Prince B. Williams' photos from this morning, in the aftermath: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.4441948922713333&type=3

Of note here is picture 12, which shows one of NNFD's two rescue companies (walkaround style, with extendable ladder leading to equipment storage on the top of the rig) and TECH10, NNFD's Technical Rescue rig, which carries a quantity of plywood, lumber, and assorted technical rescue equipment, with its large lift gate.
 
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This fire presented some real problems to the NNFD. To begin with, it occurred on one of the least accessible streets in the city. You can see in the Google Maps graphic that it was on a relatively short block with Newport News Shipbuilding at one end (the shipyard extends from 26th St to 69th St) and a major CSX railyard at the other. Also, the streets in this area are very narrow . . . and with parking on both sides (which is allowed), the lane for driving through is just barely wide enough for a fire apparatus to pass through . . . which means no room for more than one or two trucks in front of the fire building. A kid from Queens would feel right at home (at least as I remember Queens).
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In addition, it is a fairly dense residential neighborhood dating from the World War I era, with houses pretty close together (although not as close as you find in Queens or Brooklyn), and has houses in the Exposure 3 area. So apparatus placement is a real issue. Also, when first alarm units arrived, they found heavy fire blowing out the front windows and door of the fire building, and residents who had self-evacuated informing the firefighters that there were people trapped on the second floor.

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