FDNY - Early Arrival + Audio - Brooklyn 5th Alarm Box 0835 - Fire in 5 Buildings - 5/1/24

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Summary From @UnitWithTheUrgent on NYCFire.Net

Address: 1385 Bushwick Ave. at Cooper St.

Fire in a 1 story 40x100 commercial building with extension to the exposures

Phone Alarm - Reporting fire on the roof of a supermarket - 18:01

B-37: Urgent 10-75 - Fire on the roof with extension - 18:10

TL-120 FAST

R-2 & D-15 became available from All Hands Box 1086, taking in this fire.

B-37: Transmit a 2nd Alarm - Fire exposed from the roof & the rear of the supermarket into exposure 2 - 18:14

B-57 RUL, B-35 Safety

B-37: 2 L/S/O - 18:16

D-15: Give us a 3rd Alarm - Fire in a 2 buildings - 18:28

B-39 Staging, E-303 Communications

FC: 6 L/S, 3 L/O - Extension to exposure 2 & into the cockloft of exposure 2a - 18:31

FC: All members being removed from the building going to exterior operations - 18:33

FC: Transmit a 4th Alarm - Fire in 3 buildings - 18:36

FC: Transmit a 5th Alarm - We have extension into a 5th building 18:43

FC: Special call another FAST truck, we're utilizing the FAST truck for the bucket (L-148 act. 176) - 18:47

FC: Special call 2 additional BC's (B-42 act. 37 & B-32 act. 38) - 18:49

FC: Per D-15, We have fire in 5 buildings, we have fire in exposure 2, 2a, 3 & 3a - 4 L/S/O, 1 multiversal in operation, in the process of setting up TL's - 18:57

FC: Special call 2 additional trucks (TL-142 act. 120 & TL-158 act. 124) - 19:14

FC: Per C-4, 6 L/S/O, 1 multiversal & 1 TL in operation - DWH - 19:21

FC: Special call another FAST truck, we will have 2 FAST trucks with 5 buildings involved (TL-15 act. 111) - 19:22

FC: Special call 4 engines & 2 TL's (See in rundown below) - 19:25

FC: Per C-4, Fire in 5 buildings - Multiple TL's, 6 handlines & 1 multiversal - We set up a 3rd sector for the Copper Street fires - DWH - 19:52

FC: Special call 2 TL's & 2 BC's (TL-119, TL-107, B-49 act. 37 & B-50 act. 44) - 19:44

FC: Per C-4, At Bushwick Ave. we have 1 multiversal, 3 handlines & 3 TL's in operation - The Copper St. sector reports, fire on the 2nd & 3rd floors of 63, 65 Copper, 4 handlines & 1 cockloft nozzle in operation - 20:11

FC: Special call 2 BC's (B-7 act. 38 & B-41) - 20:15

FC: Special call 2 TL's (TL-51 act. 124 & TL-161 act. 170) - 20:23

FC: Special call 4 engines - 20:45

Maybe:
E-233, SQ-252, 222, 277, 231
L-176, 112, 120F, 175
B-37, 44
R-2
SQ-288
D-15
RAC-1

2nd Alarm Maybe:
E-227, 332, 214, 218
L-111, 135
B-38, 57R, 35S
FC, RB, SB, TSU-1, CTU, RM
E-207 w/ Sat. 6

3rd Alarm Maybe:
E-217, 286, 271, 290
L-124, 123
B-58, 39 Staging
E-303 Communications
MSU
RAC-4
Car-15, 22c, 24

4th Alarm:
E-323 (act. 233), 238 (act. 277), 225 (act. 227), 283
L-127 (act. 111), 153 (act. 120)
B-31
Car-4, 24a

5th Alarm:
E-235, 237, 291, 216
L-154 (act. 112), 140, 148F (act. 176) s/c, 142 (act. 120) s/c, 158 (act. 124) s/c, 15F (act. 111) s/c
B-28, 42 (act. 37) s/c, 32 (act. 38) s/c
Car-12b, 4a, 12, 11, 32, 11f

Special Called at 19:25
E-305 (act. 277), 245 (act. 227), 206 (act. 214), 330 (act. 332)
L-131 (act. 111), 170

Special Called at 19:55
L-119, 107
B-49 (act. 37), 50 (act. 44)

Special Called at 20:15
B-7 (act. 38), 41

Special Called at 20:23
L-51 (act. 124), 161 (act. 170)

Special Called at 20:45
E-294 (act. 233), 66 (act. 222), 24 (act. 277), 75 (act. 231)

Special Called at 20:53
E-239 (act. 217), 275 (act. 271), 234. 242 (act. 283)
L-35 (act. 135), 105
B-3 (act. 37), 46 (act. 39)

Relocations:
E-225 to E-227
E-245 to E-227
E-323 to E-233
E-294 to E-233
E-238 to E-277
E-305 to E-277
E-24 to E-277
E-263 to E-216
E-239 to E-217
E-221 to E-290
E-275 to E-271
E-90 to E-291
E-242 to E-283
E-202 to E-237
E-66 to E-222
E-75 to E-231
E-330 to E-332
E-206 to E-214
L-154 to L-112
L-167 to L-112
L-29 to L-167
L-153 to L-120
L-142 to L-120
L-127 to L-111
L-15 to L-111
L-131 to L-111
L-158 to L-124
L-51 to L-124
L-148 to L-176
L-2 to L-176
L-6 to L-176
L-30 to L-2
L-168 to L-123
L-81 to L-168
L-59 to L-175
L-161 to L-170
B-42 to B-37
B-49 to B-37
B-3 to B-37
B-32 to B-38
B-7 to B-38
B-10 to B-38
B-50 to B-44
B-46 to B-39

[jz]

Caught this fire on Scanner Radio...dispatch got very busy, very quickly.
Great capture. Excellent visuals...Excellent Comms!

[aportman]

I have never in my life except back in the early wars years the number of 3, 4, 5 alarm fires in NY. I guess it is so congested with all types of occupancies crammed into buildings that are falling apart and have been renovated and patched so many times. As many old congested deteriorating buildings in NYC, it has to be impossible to maintain (enforce) any kind of regulations and safety measures. Dispatcher absolutely phenomenal!

[Eric-snqz]

Great video. Thanks for no annoying play by play.

[desertdinghy]

Great dispatching! There's so much more going on than dispatch handling the fire alone.

They're tracking changes in unit assignment, relaying radio traffic and moving units around the city to cover unmanned stations emptied out due to the run response, and notifying off duty personnel to man reserve units.

At the same time there are still all kinds of fires happening, traffic accidents, medical calls, rescues, you name dispatch is handling it. What a great way to make a living!

If you have a knack for multi tasking, a cool head in emergencies and are a good communicator, apply for an open position in fire dispatch. It's one of the best jobs in the fire service.

[yrsotj]

Great catch, watching this one hurt a little, worked that area for the better part of 25 yrs and have driven past those bldgs 1000s of times.

[JanePowell-oesc]

Happy Memorial Day.Good dispatcher doing a job.

[owensweetland]

Smooth dispatcher. Not hurried. Not excited. Just matter of fact like.👍🏻👍🏻

[jurgenkuhlmann]

During the first few minutes it is easy to understand why this is a 5 alarm fire! Sorry for Christa, hope the insurance will pay for the damage. And in action again: the Command Post out of the suitcase at 1:35! I guess this piece of equipment is typical for the FDNY, no other Fire Dept. has it. At any rate, someone would have to explain how this thing works! Flashover at 10:35! All the best!
Oh, I forget: we also had one spectacular fire In Germany a week ago. Industrial fire in Berlin - Lichterfelde, the galvanization plant belonging to Diehl Defence was burning, took two days to put it out!

[DarrylKing-urkm]

NYFD is simply the Best They can Drop a 3rd Alarm an it's More Equipment than most U.S.Cites On a third Alarm they can bring 400 Men Incredible with A Enormous amount of Man Power to spare

[itsjustme]

FDNY the best trained, best equipped and hardest working FD in the world!!! I just love the way FDNY overwhelms the fire scene with men and equipment!! RESPECT Cn someone tell me what is a "fast truck"??

[Rudy]

Wheres Kramer at to get these trucks there quicker using a shortcut!!❤

[Greylocks]

The color of that smoke billowing out of the Market is not encouraging. A weird brown toxic looking cloud.

[obieknol]

Wow, dat ging snel, bizar…angstig ook…houten gebouwen misschien?…

[mikeholmstrom]

They has so many special calls after the 5th alarm that they should have called a 6th alarm.

[jeffreymcmahon]

Any of the new newly promoted battalion chief on the job

[Dbodell]

Don't people ever notice at all these scenes how many firefighters there are always walking or standing around doing nothing ?

[DanielGaffney-kqzt]

Tell fire alarm stop using term units there ompanys

[JB]

Are there fans blowing air in, so the smoke is forced out?

Have they had Flashover Training recently?

Are they attacking the Rear fire from the Rear or they trying to get to it from the front?

Something tells me there isn't any water being used at all. SOP so far! Typical!


A straight stream of water being squirt blindly into the smoke with no idea where the fire actually is. Maybe they have been waiting for it to come to them from the Rear!

If ever there was a time for Vertical Venting, this is it!

Cooling the smoke with all those streams?

18:00 And they are accomplishing What?

They let it spread to the exposures! That's great! Go back to the beginning and see how small this fire was in this one-story structure.