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FDNY · STATEN ISLAND · Fire

Main Fire Knocked Down at Van Duzer Street & Court Street Blaze

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FDNY is operating an all-hands fire near Van Duzer Street & Court Street in Staten Island. The main body of the fire in the cellar has been knocked down, with slight extension to the first floor. Three hose lines are stretched to an operation, and primary searches are still in progress.

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Radio audio

Latest transmission
Transmission 1

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Updates

  1. Radio Battalion 156 reported the unit is available and asked to accompany a reliever if one is available.
  2. Radio Heard: "160. Joe, 10 eight for the all hands. If we're gonna relocate, he can send them home."
  3. Radio Battalion 22 reported the unit is available and instructed that units not relocated can be sent home.
  4. Radio Battalion 21 asked whether the incident could be reclassified as a suspicious fire with a gas emergency, and requested marshals respond for an unknown cause.
  5. Radio Heard: "Division eight. At all hands box 2664. Secondary searches throughout the fire building are complete negative. Division eight places fire under control, and then 21..."
  6. Expand 3 updates
    1. Radio The fire is declared complete and negative, and the chief assesses that it will probably hold.
    2. Radio Truck company is still operating, checking for pockets of fire, and conducting secondary searches on the first floor.
    3. Radio Heard: "Division eight, set up. Division eight, all hands box two."
  7. Main Fire Knocked Down at Van Duzer Street & Court Street Blaze3 lines stretched; main body of fire in cellar knocked down; slight extension to 1st floor
  8. Radio The main body of the fire in the cellar has been knocked down, with slight extension to the first floor.
  9. Radio Primary searches on the first and second floors are complete and negative; cellar searches are still underway; the fire remains doubtful.
  10. Water on Fire at All-Hands Blaze Near Van Duzer Street & Court Street2 lines stretched, 1 in operation; water on the fire; primary searches in progress
  11. Radio Heard: "Sent out to Division eight. Division eight, 20 minutes has been reached. The duration on the box tag. 10 four. Units responding to an operating box 2664. 20 minutes..."
  12. All-Hands Fire Near Van Duzer Street & Court Street in Staten Island
  13. Expand 7 updates
    1. Radio Heard: "Division eight set out. Division eight, Kate. All hands box 266. We have two launch stretch, one in operation. We have water on the fire and Stella. Primary searches..."
    2. Radio Engine 163 reported it is available.
    3. Radio Primary searches are in progress, and a unit asked whether water is on the fire.
    4. Radio Heard: "All hands. We have four online stretch. I have the deployment operation. 2nd line being stretch. We have the line. I'm waiting. We're going to make an entry and doing..."
    5. Radio All Hands was transmitted for the fire.
    6. Radio Units confirmed they are responding to the working fire.
    7. Radio All Hands and Working Fire were transmitted for the fire in a private dwelling.
  14. Radio A working fire was reported at a two-story vacant building, and the all-hands signal was transmitted.
  15. Expand 2 updates
    1. Radio The call was a private dwelling with smoke on the first floor.
    2. Radio Engine 155 is the second-due unit responding to a phone alarm box for smoke in the first floor of a house.

Units on this call

Battalion 22 Division 8 Engine 163

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