Thursday, December 8, 2011 04:28hrs. Rescue 2 responded to 251 Albany Ave. for a report of a fire with people trapped. Engine 234 gave the 10-75 with fire blowing out the second floor front of the 3 story 20 x 60 structure. FF Lopez R-2 Irons removed one elderly victim out of the rear second floor window to L123's O.V.M. who set up a ground ladder. A second line was stretched and put into operation by Engine 227 on the third floor for fire in one of the front rooms. One 10-45 code1 victim was found in the original fire apartment in the second floor front. Probally will hold giving at 04:55hrs.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 04:50 hrs. Rescue 2 responded to 67 St. Paul's Place for a fire in a 4 story Multiple Dwelling. First due units arrived a light smoke condition was on the top floor , fire location unknown. As ceilings were pulled the fire was located in the cock loft in Apartment B12 on the 4Th floor. Battalion 41 then transmitted a 2ND alarm . The roof team gave a report of fire showing thru the roof in the hole they cut above the apartment. Ceilings were pulled below and the fire was contained and extinguished in the cock loft in apartment B12 with no extension to the next door apartments.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 18:01hrs Rescue 2 was redirected to take in 1409 St Johns Place for a fire on the fourth floor. Fire was showing out the rear and was located in Apt. 17 in the 60 x 75 brick building. Engine 234 was the first due Engine and Ladder 123 the first due Truck. Fire was under control at 18:25hrs.
Saturday, December 3, 2011 02:49hrs Rescue 2 responded to 67 Utica Ave. for a fire with reports of people trapped. R-2 responded in first due with fire showing on the first floor extending to the second floor in the 3 story 20 x 40 structure. Engine 234 stretched and operated the first line on the first floor as Engine 214 operated the second line on the floor above .Ladder 123 was first due truck with Ladder 111 operating above. Battalion 38 requested E.M.S. for a jumper down and one woman was removed off the rear setback. @ 03:02 hrs a second alarm was transmitted with extension on the second floor into exposure 2. Fire placed under control at 03:46hrs with 2 10-45's (one code 3 , one code 4).
Thursday, November 24, 2011 12:22hrs. Rescue 2 responded to 607 President Street for a fire in a 3 story brownstone with people trapped. As the company arrived there was one jumper on an awning and one woman at the top floor window. FF Myers R-2 put up a portable ladder to the woman and while removing her she told him her baby was still inside. FF Myers then entered the structure and found another victim in the front room. He transmitted a 10-45 removing the victim to Ladder 105's bucket. FF Newberry R-2 Can-man located the unconcious infant and handed the baby off to members in the street. The bleeding jumper on the awning was removed by Ladder 122 and Squad 1 was the first due Engine knocking the fire down. A total of 5 10-45's (3 code twos, two code 3's) was giving as the fire was placed under control at 12:56hrs. Hero firefighters who saved infant from Thanksgiving blaze caused by lit cigarette tell their stories The baby hadn’t taken a breath for 51/2 minutes and there was no heartbeat. Firefighter Neil Malone, who had given the infant mouth-to-mouth to no avail, knew the difference between life and death would be measured in seconds. “I was working against the clock,” he said. “It didn’t look good.” Yet Malone and the paramedics did not give up on the tiny boy whose lungs had been filled with smoke from a Thanksgiving Day inferno. And then, in the cramped confines of an FDNY ambulance, just before the six-minute mark, came twin miracles: a pulse and a small snortlike cough. “It’s like a song to your ears to hear that baby get its breath on its own,” Malone said. “It was the best Thanksgiving I ever had.” The boy, 8-month-old Josiah Alexis, was still fighting for his life on Friday as Malone and his Bravest brothers recounted the heroic efforts to save him from the fire. A cigarette touching a mattress sparked the blaze on President St. in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The residents tried to drag it out and wound up trapped in a hell of heat and smoke. Firefighter Richard Myers of Rescue 2 arrived on the scene to find one injured man on an awning after he fled the flames — and a woman retreating inside from a third-floor window. He grabbed a ladder off the truck and climbed up. Inside, the woman, Justine Alexis, 20, was sitting on a bed, staring at him. “She said, ‘My baby is inside! My baby is inside!’ ” Myers recalled. “I cleared the glass and grabbed her. She was bleeding bad. I lowered her onto the ladder. “I put on my mask and climbed through the window. . . . There was a guy on the floor at the base of the bed, unconscious.” He lifted up the man and passed him off to a firefighter in a bucket. Meanwhile, members of Squad 1 charged up the stairs with a hose and extinguished the flames consuming the back rooms. Firefighter Dave Newbery , 39, of Rescue 2, followed them through the apartment into the front room, where the baby was found, unconscious, in a corner. Newbery grabbed the soot-covered child and ran for the stairs. “I was doing mouth-to-mouth on the baby on the way down,” he recalled. He handed off the baby to Firefighter Andrew Hartshorne, who normally works at Ladder 110 in downtown Brooklyn but was assisting a battalion chief on the holiday. Malone, who was treating a bleeding man on the sidewalk, got someone else to tend to the man and hurried to help Hartshorne resuscitate the baby. “The baby was limp. He was not breathing. He was in cardiac arrest,” said Malone, 54, who was driving the truck for Engine 239. The 28-year veteran used his mouth to force little puffs of air into Josiah’s lungs, then switched to an air bag that did it mechanically. Hartshorne, 36, rhythmically pressed down on the tot’s chest. “It was chaotic without a doubt,” the nine-year veteran said. Newbery, Hartshorne and Malone got the child onto a stretcher and wheeled it toward an ambulance down the street. Malone knew that brain cells begin to die after five minutes without oxygen — and J osiah had stopped breathing before that. “Every second, every minute is crucial,” he said. He got into the ambulance with the limp child. “The baby was unresponsive,” he said. “He had no heartbeat, no respirations.” Fewer than 30 seconds later, Malone finally heard the baby’s cough — proof that Josiah was alive. In fact, everyone had survived, thanks to the speed, bravery and determination of uniformed rescuers working on a day most people spend with family. Later, Hartshorne said he had only done what he does every day. “You have a lifeless 1-year-old and you do what your training taught you to do,” he said. Myers said he didn’t mind working the holiday, and the outcome of the rescue was thanks enough for him. “I’m just glad it all worked out,” he said. “Knowing they are all alive — it felt good.” Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/hero-firefighters-saved-infant-thanksgiving-blaze-caused-lit-cigarette-stories-article-1.982826#ixzz1eoxP7xdB
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 07:10 hrs. Rescue 2 Responded to Brooklyn Box 1655 @ 07:10 hrs to 1662 St. Marks Ave between Rockaway ave. & E. New York Ave. To Heavy Fire in a 1 sty commercial auto repair shop. On arrival there was heavy fire throughout and thru the roof in the rear of the structure Batt. 44 received radio reports of a collapse in the rear from units already operating and pulled everyone out of the building for an exterior operation. A Tower Ladder was set up and multiple lines stretched to protect exposures and extinguish the fire.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 14:30hrs Rescue 2 responded to 5th Street and Neptune Ave. for a confirmed buiding collapse with workers trapped. The 5 story 75 x 50 building collapsed while workers were pouring cement on the upper floors. 3 workers were confirmed trapped . A major collapse response was ordered to the scene. The last victim was buried by cement , metal and debris. Rescue 2 operating with Squad 1 used sawzalls, airbags , partner saws and a battery operated hurst tool to remove the last victim trapped . After removal the search cam was used to check voids for any additional victims. The floor was also tied back to prevent further movement as members operated. 3 workers were removed and transported by E.M.S.
10-60 Major Collapse
Saturday, November 5, 2011 13:39hrs Rescue 2 responded to a 2nd alarm box 0139 612 Metropolitan Ave Fire was in a 3 story 25 X 50 frame. Battalion 35 transmitted a 2nd alarm for fire in the rear of the 2nd and 3rd floors. Fire started on the 2nd floor and extended to the 3rd floor and cockloft.
2nd Alarm Synagouge
Sunday, October 23, 2011 04:54hrs Rescue 2 responded to 109 South 8th Street for a report of a fire in the basement of a 6 story 25 x 75 Synagogue. @ 05:07hrs. Division 11 transmitted the 2nd alrm for fire in the basement and first floor. Members encountered maze like conditions through out the synagouge's basement and first floor. All searches in the synagouge and multiple dwelling that was above were negative. Fire placed under control @05:56hrs.
Thursday, October 20, 2011 04:47hrs Rescue 2 responded to 1072 Bergen Street for multiple calls reporting a fire in a brownstone. Engine 280 gave the 10-75 for a fire on the first floor of a 4 story 30 x 40 brownstone .Division 11 transmitted one 10-45code4 and a 10-41code1.
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