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Two videos from a fire on April 13 in Utica, New York.
Seven residents were displaced in Friday night’s fire on Lincoln Avenue, which remains under investigation, fire officials said Saturday.
Firefighters arrived at 1243 Lincoln Ave. shortly after 7 p.m. Friday to find that not only that house was burning, but that flames had spread to 1245 Lincoln Ave.
Preliminary reports indicate the fire originated on the front, first-floor room of 1243 Lincoln Ave., officials said. It quickly extended through the first floor, second floor and into the attic, eventually causing the roof to collapse.
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Were there “no trespassing” signs posted ?
It appears that no attempt was made to extinguish the fire in the attic of the #4 (‘D’ exposure) from the interior. Does anyone know if there was some type of hazard that prevented interior op’s in the exposure?
I’m interested in that aspect of this job as well. With only the video to go on it looks like there were no interior ops in the exposure building. Early on it looks like an attic fire that could have been hit from inside. Anybody know what happened?
What is becoming of the firefighting profession? Do we need to make that many parking lots?
I’m not in favor of the use of 1.75″ handlines when performing an exterior attack. In addition, one can readily see the poor quality of stream that is being delivered by the fog nozzles on these 1.75″ lines. You can see through the stream. The reach, penetration and GPM’s prove to be completely ineffective on the heavy fire in the original fire building. More effort should have been made to rapidly deploy large caliber streams and to direct them into the main body of fire in the original fire building. As has been stated on this site numerous times in the past, “Put out the fire and your problems go away.” This is valid when we are trying to eliminate exposure problems.
agreed.
park the engines at the other end of the block. bring in the trucks and let 2 of them go to work on the original fire building and 2 handlines to each exposure.
30 minutes of work, another 1-2 hours of mop-up.
why do we make it so difficult?
Agreed. It’s like a broken record. It seems that the justification for use of small hand-lines and lower flows is defended by the “we see alot of fires” attitude. As long as those of us who do know better make the right choice in our departments that’s all that matters. I could never figure out the reason for extended an aerial 20 feet or higher above the target when using an elevated stream. Defeats the seeep and up.