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FDNY · BROOKLYN · Fire

Fire Placed on Control at 495 East 7th Street in Brooklyn

By NYC Alert · ·

FDNY is operating a working fire at 495 East 7th Street in Brooklyn. The incident is located in a seven-story, 160-by-90 class 3 apartment building, described as a new law tenement. The building has one enclosed stair at the center and no well hole. Units have completed a secondary search with no victims found, and the fire has been placed on the control.

Location
495 East 7th Street
FDNY alarm box
Box 2510
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Radio audio

Latest transmission
Transmission 3
Transmission 2
Transmission 1

Public FDNY / NYPD radio, kept for 7 days.

Updates

  1. Radio Units reported the fire is under control and are going available.
  2. Fire Placed on Control at 495 East 7th Street in BrooklynSecondary search complete negative; fire placed on the control
  3. Expand 3 updates
    1. Radio Heard: "Division 15, Brooklyn. Division 15, okay. Box 2510 on the end to control. 10 four. 1423."
    2. Radio Battalion 48 reported the secondary search was complete and negative, and the fire was placed on the control.
    3. Radio Units reported the status of the exposures and that they are 14 minutes into operations.
  4. Radio Primary search on the fire floor and the floor above is complete and negative.
  5. Radio All Hands was transmitted for a fire on the third floor of a seven-story multiple dwelling.
  6. Working Fire at 495 East 7th Street in Brooklyn7-story apartment building, 160x90, class 3, new law tenement; 1 enclosed stair at center; no well hole
  7. Expand 9 updates
    1. Radio All Hands was announced citywide for a fire in a multiple dwelling.
    2. Radio All Hands was transmitted for a fire in a multiple dwelling.
    3. Radio All Hands was transmitted for a fire on the third floor of an occupied apartment.
    4. Radio Heard: "Stair at the center. No well hole. 13 apartments per floor. Long stretches. Access to the rear behind stairs. Razor wire fence on the exposure two side. Take the aerial..."
    5. Radio The building has 13 apartments per floor, long stretches, rear access behind stairs, and a razor wire fence under exposure two.
    6. Radio The building is a seven-story multiple dwelling, 160 by 90, class three, new law tenement with one enclosed stair at the center and no well hole.
    7. Radio Heard: "10 four. 10 157 year designated fast truck. Medical branch resources are responding and squad one replacing 252. 10 eight 10 four. We're going to 252 year 10 eight, 252...."
    8. Radio Heard: "Squad one, tickets on the way. 10 75, box 2510. 195, East 7th Street, Castelli Road, Avenue C, Charles Fives, on the 3rd floor. Squad one. One 10 four, on the way."
    9. Radio Heard: "43, darling. Stand by. Oh, 33 Adam, 33 Adam. Send it. M Sky 21, East 7th Street in Cortella. You switch over to Citywide. On. Charlie."
  8. Working Fire at 495 East 7th Street in Brooklyn
  9. Radio Heard: "1075 transmitted Brooklyn box 2510195 East 7th Street, Katella Road Avenue C, Charles Fire at the 3rd floor of a multiple dwelling."
  10. Radio All Hands was transmitted citywide for the fire in the multiple dwelling.
  11. Radio A working fire was transmitted for the box.
  12. Fire Reported on Third Floor of Building at 495 East 7th Street in Brooklyn
  13. Radio Units reported a fire on the third floor.
  14. Radio Units reported a fire on the third floor of the building.

Units on this call

Battalion 48 Ladder 157 Squad 1

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