This photo from the New York Daily News was taken by Maya Tucker. Click the image for the story.
Firegeezer beat me to the picture of the day and has details about this Bronx fire from Monday. Everyone was rescued even though it was a challenge with multiple people trapped and the baby dangling from the fifth floor of the Pelham Parkway Houses.
FireSceneAudio.com posted the audio (below) and WNYW-TV talked with the person who took the picture.
Also on STATter911 …
- ‘Get off the roof!’ Interesting audio from Sacramento fire with a report of people trapped as command orders a switch to defensive operations. – December 28, 2011
- Fireground audio: Mayday in Toronto after firefighter falls through floor of burning storage facility. Five-alarm fire burns overnight. – January 10, 2012
- UPDATED – Three dead in New Haven, Connecticut fire. Clearer video of FD rescues. Early indications of arson. Just hours earlier fire chief met with citizens about closing an engine company. – March 9, 2011
- UPDATE – Audio from Philadelphia house fire with rescues. Three firefighters & four civilians hurt. Lt. critical but stable. – February 5, 2012
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Another shining example why FDNY is the greatest fire department in the world. Makin multiple grabs is a common occurrance in the city, not just the rarity. How many firefighters do you need? Quite a few to make a dozen grabs on 3 different floors.
Nice job done by F.D.N.Y.(as usual). This incident clearly illustrates why firefighters need to arrive at the scene completely ready to go to work (PPE already donned, SCBA on back, tools in hand, etc). It also shows the need for firefighters to have a game plan in place for every type of structure that they have in their response area as well as pre – assigned tool assignments and functions (forcible entry, roofman, nozzleman, etc.). There is no time available to stand around and try to figure out what to do once you arrive at a working fire (do a quick size up and get to work). So many videos on this site depict clueless fire crews doing little or nothing after arrival at fire scenes while the fire grows in intensity and any victims chance for survival quickly diminishes.
F.D.N.Y. has long set a great example to be followed when it comes to saving lives and extinguishing fires. There are some other F.D.’s who do the same (thankfully). Unfortunately, there are far too many F.D.’s that are totally ineffective on the fire ground and hide behind “firefighter safety” after they lose a structure or civilian lives. Firefighting is not for the physically weak and it is not inherently safe (unless you are doing it wrong).
Why the heck are there bars on the fifth floor windows? anyone wonder that? Shouldn’t the fire code prohibit such a practice?
They are placed there by NYC Housing Authority as child window guards. There is a high incidence of small children falling out open windows. The bars are required by law.