Pittsburgh City, Allegheny County PA, Structure Fire 11/5/25

[ExChief-551]

Units dispatched @11:05 to 646 Herron Avenue, in the area of Webster Ave. & Milwaukee St., for the possible structure fire, 3 Story MD. Upgraded to a working fire.

ACCC911 – Caller states smoke from the 1st floor market @11:06

B2 – Fire under Control, all units available @12:17

Duration – 1 Hour 12 Minutes

Exposures:
1: Road
2: Similar Attached
3: 2 Story PD Unattached
4: Road

1st Alarm:
E-10,4,6,24
TK-14,4
B-2,4
MAC1
UT-4
I-4114
R-1
Medic-9
EMS-5502

 

[entropychaser]

This first alarm assignment is amazing and demonstrates the sad downsizing of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire (ISO Class 1).

In 1970 the assignment for Box 1872 Webster Ave. and McNeil Place was E26, 58, 5 T5, Sq 2. 3 and BC2

Only E58 on Aliquippa St (now E 10 remains). It's a good thing they got rid of the horses. Every other company has to respond up hill.

E 4 and T4 on Forbes Ave are almost Downtown, E 6 on Penn and 40th is way north. If they never fixed the weight limit on the Herron Ave. bridge across the old Pennsylvania RR Main Line tracks to Philadelphia, six will have a really long run. E24 is across the Monongahela River off S. Carson Street near the long gone Jones & Laughlin Steel Co South Side Works. I guess they would take the former Brady Street bridge. T14 on McKee Place in Oakland used to share quarters with the old, now gone, E 24. These companies were first due at the University of Pittsburgh, the huge Medical Center and Carnegie Museum, with the old site of Forbes Field in between (they are still looking for Bill Mazeroski's 1960 World Series home run ball)

If any of these companies responded to Box 1872, it would have been on the third to sixth alarm.

1950 population- 677,000

1970 population- 520,000 55 Engines, 22 Trucks, 8 Squads

2025 population- 307,000 28 Engines, 11 Trucks