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FDNY · MANHATTAN · Fire

All-Hands Fire at 140 Bradhurst Avenue in Manhattan

By NYC Alert · ·

FDNY has an all-hands fire operating at Box 1643, 140 Bradhurst Avenue in Manhattan.

Location
140 Bradhurst Avenue
FDNY alarm box
Box 1643
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Radio audio

Latest transmission
Transmission 2
Transmission 1

Public FDNY / NYPD radio, kept for 7 days.

Updates

  1. Radio Heard: "Medical Branch 1643 to Manhattan North. Progress. 16434 feet. 1643. It's this time. Fires under control. Potential is going to be low. Zero patients to report. Been a..."
  2. Expand 2 updates
    1. Radio Medical branch one six four three, Manhattan, two citywide with progress.
    2. Radio Heard: "10 four division six. You're under control. Time 1508 hours. Duration 32 minutes."
  3. Radio The fire is under control, all secondary searches are complete and negative, and one unit remains on scene.
  4. Radio Heard: "10 four division six. You're probably will hold time 1459 hours duration 23 minutes."
  5. Expand 6 updates
    1. Radio Heard: "Division six. Division six. All hands spots 1643. We're going to go with a probable hold. Trucks are continuing to open up."
    2. Radio Heard: "Rescue three and squad 41 from box 1643. 10 one."
    3. Radio Units were informed that the incident has been ongoing for twenty minutes.
    4. Radio All hands are being used, the fire is extinguished, two lines are stretched with one in operation, primary searches are negative, trucks are opening up, and secondaries are underway.
    5. Radio Heard: "10 four battalion 16. Time of that report 1451 hours duration 15 minutes."
    6. Radio The fire department reported that searches are complete and negative, and that all visible fire has been knocked down.
  6. Radio Battalion 16 reported that primary searches on the floor above and in the fire apartment are complete, and that all visible fires have been knocked down.
  7. Radio Heard: "Medical Branch 1643 in Manhattan, the citywide. 164343. 1643. Confirm fire on 3rd floor at one 40 Bradhurst. Waters in the fire. Main body fire is knocked down. Tensions..."
  8. Expand 5 updates
    1. Radio Battalion 16 reported the building is a six-story class three and that exposure three is also a six-story class three.
    2. Radio Squad 34 reported that the FAST truck is no longer needed and requested the modified SCBA fast pack from Squad 41.
    3. Radio Ladder 34 was designated the FAST truck.
    4. Radio Units reported the exposures and that access to the rear is via the exposure two side.
    5. Radio The building is a six-story class three multiple dwelling with 12 apartments per floor, an enclosed rear shaft, and a fire escape.
  9. All-Hands Fire at 140 Bradhurst Avenue in Manhattan
  10. Expand 4 updates
    1. Radio The building is a six-story multiple dwelling, 100 by 100, class three, H type, with twelve apartments per floor, a closed rear shaft, and fire escapes on all exposures.
    2. Radio All Hands is now working on scene.
    3. Radio All Hands is again announced citywide for the fire on the third floor of the multiple dwelling.
    4. Radio All Hands was announced citywide for the fire in the multiple dwelling.
  11. Working Fire at 140 Bradhurst Avenue in Manhattan
  12. Radio Heard: "Battalion. Battalion 16. 1643. All hands. Fire on the 3rd floor, apartment three King, seven story, class three, hundred by hundred each type. One is the street, two is..."
  13. Expand 2 updates
    1. Radio Heard: "Citywide announcing the Borough Manhattan 1075 has been transmitted for box 1643, address 140 Brathearst Avenue, opposite West 149 Street, fire on the 3rd floor of..."
    2. Radio Heard: "Citywide now to Borough Manhattan. 10 75. Being transmitted for box 1643. 140, Bradhurst Avenue off of West 149 Street. Fire on the 3rd floor of a motel room."
  14. Radio Heard: "10 75 has been transmitted from Manhattan box 1643. The address 140 Bradhurst Avenue. That's going to be West 1493 for fire on the 3rd floor of multiple dwelling. 10 75..."
  15. Radio Heard: "We're now situated near the Empire State Building on our east side, and we're announcing the border Manhattan at one 40 Brothers between one 49 and one 50. The emergency..."
  16. Smoke Reported at 140 Bradhurst Avenue in Manhattan
  17. Radio Smoke was reported on the third floor of the multiple dwelling, and the caller is no longer in the area.

Units on this call

Battalion 16 Ladder 34 Rescue 3 Squad 41

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