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All Members Removed From Pile at 1321 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn
FDNY is operating a fourth-alarm collapse rescue at 1321 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. Assistant Chief Kingan reports that all members have been removed from the pile. NYPD K-9s are sweeping the area, and construction grapples are being used to remove debris. TEPs are in the process of shutting down the water main. The incident is currently doubtful and will hold.
- Location
- 2625 Bedford Avenue
- FDNY alarm box
- Box 3741
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- Radio Heard: "Ladder 86 to Brooklyn. What are you six? Ladder 86, leaving your frequency, switching over to Staten Island. 10 four over Staten Island, O 3199."
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- Radio Ladder 26 is moving to a new location to serve as the command post.
- Radio Heard: "Ladder 86, ladder 149 is back at quarters. Are we returning back to our quarters? That's affirmative. 10 four."
- Radio Heard: "Ladder 86, acting ladder 149 to Brooklyn. 86 acting 149."
- All Members Removed From Pile at 1321 Flatbush Avenue in BrooklynAll members removed from pile; NYPD K-9s sweeping area; construction grapples removing debris; TEPs shutting down water main; incident doubtful will hold
- Major Emergency at 2625 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn
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- Radio Assistant Chief Kingan reported that all members were removed from the pile, NYPD and grapples are clearing debris, the water main is being shut down, and the incident remains doubtful.
- Radio Heard: "16 to Brooklyn. 16. Your frequency responding to box 3741. That four. I'll be going one hour. time 516."
- Radio Heard: "Engine 287 to Brooklyn. Engine 287. One of your frequencies. One of your black boxes. 10 four. 301 hours 551."
- Radio Heard: "Engine 91 to Brooklyn. Engine 91. Engine 91 is on your frequency. Spotted the four to the left. Spotted four. 1258 hours a time. Batch 516."
- Radio Ladder 126 confirmed it is on the frequency and responding to the box.
- Radio Mobile Command listed the units assigned to the special call.
- Radio Heard: "Rack three, Brooklyn. Rack three. We're on your frequency. Responding to box 3741. 10. O 244 hours in time, fetch 516."
- Radio Ladder 153 reported it is available and can be released; Mobile Command assigned Engine 247 and Ladder 108 as the new FAST truck.
- Radio Mobile Command requested a special call for one truck to become the new FAST truck and one engine car.
- Radio Heard: "15 acting 211 to Brooklyn. 315 acting. 05 acting 10 eight. Air response area. 10 four. Welcome to the mobile command."
- Radio Heard: "10 two mobile command."
- Radio Mobile Command identified the extra units as Engine 73, Engine 65, and Ladder 16.
- Radio Ladder 157 reported it is acting as Ladder 153 in the 153 area.
- Radio Mobile command requested two engines and two trucks as a special call.
- Radio Heard: "Engine 315, engine 211, Brooklyn."
- Radio Battalion 38 reported that the mobile command unit is down.
- Radio Mobile command is bringing a mobile command unit to the scene.
- Radio Mobile command confirmed it is responding to the box.
- Radio Heard: "Battalion 43 to Brooklyn. What three? 10 eight back in Coney Island from 3741 K. 10 four."
- Radio Heard: "Welcome to Mobile Command. Go ahead. Two additional battalion chiefs are going to be battalion 46 and battalion two. One 37 is the time. Dispatcher four."
- Radio Heard: "Ladder 29 to Brooklyn. Ladder 29. We are on your scene responding to the collapse. 10 four. 132. I was on such 516. Brooklyn to the mobile command. Mobile command. I..."
- Radio Heard: "Brooklyn two, mobile command. All command. Out of 132 beam in Newfashion."
- Radio Heard: "Mobile command to Brooklyn. Mobile command. Mixero off. All units in Brooklyn, stand by for a mixero off message. Unless urgent. Mobile command, the mixer is off."
- Radio FDNY is moving to mobile command and assigning additional engines 243 and 222, along with Ladder 24 and Ladder 29, to the incident.
- Radio Heard: "Brooklyn two, mobile command. One. Do or show rescue is 10 84. They're making their way to the command post. They're at Avenue. They're on their way up. One, thank you."
- Radio Heard: "Ladder five, Brooklyn. Ladder five. Ladder five, acting ladder one 10. We're on your frequency. 10 four. Double 053434."
- Radio Ladder 105 reported it is available and noted a child on scene.
- Radio Ladder 11 reported it is in from the box and leaving the frequency.
- Radio Heard: "Ladder 86, acting. Ladder 149 to Brooklyn. Ladder 86, acting. Ladder 149."
- Radio Ladder 85 confirmed it is still responding to the incident.
- Radio Engine 258 confirmed it is still responding to the incident.
- Radio Mobile command asked whether a 95-foot tower can be called and for its report to the command post.
- Radio Mobile command assigned Ladder 170, Ladder 149, Ladder 110, Battalion 10 (acting Battalion 33), and Battalion 57 to the incident.
- Radio Heard: "Mobile command. Hey, Brooklyn, as per Assistant Chief Keenan, call for Charlie. Can you special call three additional truck companies and two more battalion chiefs? All..."
- Radio Mobile command confirmed its location at Flat Bush and Bedford.
- Radio Mobile command assigned Ladder 111 as the new facility and designated Battalion 31 and Battalion 39 for two extrications.
- Radio Mobile command is moving to a mobile command post.
- Radio Heard: "Ladder 114 10 four."
- Radio Ladder 138, Ladder 153, and Ladder 114 acknowledged the instruction to report to the command post.
- Radio Mobile command requested two battalion chiefs and one truck to replace the fast truck.
- Radio Mobile Command identified the three ladder companies responding to the special call.
- Radio Mobile command requested three additional ladder companies as a special call and instructed them to report to the command post.
- Radio Engine 262 confirmed it is responding to the box.
- Radio Mobile command designated four engines and Ladder 12 for the job; Ladder 12 is leaving.
- Radio Ladder 130 reported a delay due to heavy traffic on the Van Wyck and confirmed it responded to the command post.
- Radio Heard: "In a ladder 10."
- Radio Heard: "Ladder 138, I'm on ladder 105 to Brooklyn."
- Radio Mobile command is arriving on scene.
- Radio Mobile command designated the staging area at Farragut and Slaplish.
- Radio Units are leaving the scene and returning to their home borough.
- Radio Units are taking up from the box and a battalion chief is being sent to replace the captain at staging.
- Radio Ladder 105 confirmed it is responding and is the FAST truck.
- Radio Mobile command is operating and Ladder 105 is designated as the new FAST truck.
- Radio Rescue 13 reported it was activated and is responding to the box.
- Radio Engine 13 reported it was activated and is responding to the box.
- Radio Heard: "Engine 233. 233. Engine 233. Did you receive your MDT message? 233 10 four. 21 35. Stagger four feet."
- Radio Heard: "Ladder one 10. 21 16."
- Radio Units reported they are available from the box.
- Radio Ladder 217 was released and is going available.
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- Radio Heard: "We're on the ladder two, Captain."
- Radio Heard: "Stuck on the ladder two."
- Radio Ladder 155 reported it is available from the fourth alarm.
- Radio Ladder 156 is responding to the staging area at Flatbush and Farragut.
- Radio Heard: "Ladder two, acting ladder one 10 to Brooklyn. Two acting one 10. We are on your frequency, Captain. 10 four ladder two. Listen to the field com. Field com. Field com for..."
- Fourth-Alarm Collapse Rescue at 1321 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn
- Radio The fire was upgraded to a fourth alarm for the building collapse at Flatbush Avenue and Bedford Avenue.
- Radio A third alarm was transmitted for the building collapse at Bedford Avenue and New York Avenue.
- Third-Alarm Collapse Rescue at 2625 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn
- Radio The third alarm is being transmitted to Brooklyn.
- Radio The fire was upgraded to a third alarm, and the Citywide Medical Branch Director asked whether additional unit support was needed.
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- Radio Heard: "140 to Brooklyn. 140, acting to Brooklyn. 140. We're B 10 eight from box 3741. We're returning to quarters 147. We're returning home, Captain. 140. Yeah, 140, go home...."
- Radio Units are continuing to search the rubble for victims; the current count is seven red tag, one yellow tag, and five green tag victims, with no black tag victims.
- Radio Ladder 10, acting as Ladder 113, reported that Ladder 113 is in the response area.
- Radio Heard: "Ladder 10, acting ladder 113 to Brooklyn K."
- Radio Heard: "Medical Branch Director, three. Medical Branch Director, Brooklyn box 3741. Direct to Brooklyn box 3741. See you live with the progress report. Medical Branch Director..."
- Radio Tack One reported its current location and ETA, and was instructed to transfer people to the command post.
- Radio Assistant Chief Sims reports the patient count and the incident status.
- Radio Assistant Chief Sims reports crews are still removing one additional confirmed victim and requests Ladder 140 as the FAST truck.
- Building Collapse at 2625 Bedford Avenue: One Black Tag, Four Red TagsFire and EMS operations are ongoing, with triage reporting one black tag, four red tags, and five green tags. The Medical Branch Director requested two additional ALS and BLS units, and staging is located at Foster and Flatbush.
- Radio The Medical Branch Director reported that ten units are operating, with one black tag, four red tags, and five green tags, and requested two additional ALS and BLS units.
- Radio Heard: "Manhattan asking for the Borough of Brooklyn. A 2nd alarm has been transmitted on box 3741, Bedford Avenue and Newkirk Avenue. A building collapse. Manhattan repeating..."
- Radio Units confirmed the location and the nature of the incident.
- Second-Alarm Fire at 2625 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn
- Radio A second alarm was transmitted for the building collapse.
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- Radio All Hands was transmitted for the collapse of a three-story multiple dwelling into an open construction site.
- Radio Heard: "TAC 1 responding on Brooklyn frequency. 3741. TAC 1. 10 four TAC 1."
- Radio Squad 288 was instructed to report to the command post and act as a FAST unit for the stock unit.
- Radio Squad 288 is responding to the box.
- Radio Division 11 and Division 15 report that a three-story building fully collapsed on an exposure two.
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- Radio An MCI 33 structural collapse was transmitted citywide for the box.
- Radio Rescue 22A is responding to the box.
- Radio All Hands is confirmed as working, and the location is given as Flatbush Avenue between 40th and Bedford Avenue.
- All-Hands Fire at 2625 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn
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- Radio All Hands was transmitted for the box.
- Radio Heard: "Rescue five, stand by, K. Rescue 10 four. Rescue five, you have a ticket coming over for Brooklyn. K. It's Brooklyn box 3741, address 2625 Bedford Avenue. That's going..."
- Collapse Rescue at 2625 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn
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- Radio A major emergency (collapse) was announced citywide.
- Radio The incident as a building collapse at the specified address.
Units on this call
Battalion 2 Battalion 10 Battalion 31 Battalion 33 Battalion 38 Battalion 39 Battalion 43 Battalion 46 Battalion 57 Division 11 Division 15 Engine 4 Engine 16 Engine 74 Engine 91 Engine 211 Engine 233 Engine 247 Engine 258 Engine 262 Engine 287 Engine 315 Ladder 2 Ladder 5 Ladder 6 Ladder 10 Ladder 11 Ladder 12 Ladder 18 Ladder 24 Ladder 26 Ladder 29 Ladder 85 Ladder 86 Ladder 104 Ladder 105 Ladder 108 Ladder 110 Ladder 111 Ladder 113 Ladder 114 Ladder 126 Ladder 130 Ladder 138 Ladder 140 Ladder 149 Ladder 153 Ladder 157 Ladder 170 Rescue 5 Squad 288
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Community
- Community update · @marcthenarc · Fire Buff As per Field Communications Unit, 10 victims reported, 1 Black, 4 Red, 5 Green Tagged, Search is still ongoing as of this time.
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