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Another Multiple Alarm Fire in Camden, NJ

An Eight Alarm Fire Hit Camden on Saturday morning

A huge fire early this morning has engulfed a three-story warehouse in downtown Camden, two days after another massive blaze in the city. The Camden County Fire dispatch office says about 20 fire companies were fighting the eight-alarm blaze at the Howland Croft and Sons warehouse in the 400 block of Winslow Street. There have been no reports of any injuries. Firefighters took the call on the fire at 2:24 a.m. Saturday. The building takes up a large part of a block on Winslow Street. Reports are the fire was brought under control at about 6 a.m. Thursday’s 12-alarm fire leveled an abandoned tire business and most of the two surrounding city blocks, leaving about 50 people homeless.

Photo by Ted Aurig

Eight Alarm Fire in Camden Saturday morning Photo gallery, HERE
PhillyFireNews.com Photo Coverage HERE

12-alarm Camden inferno: http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=BZ&Dato=20110609&Kategori=NEWS01&Lopenr=106090805&Ref=PH

Operational Conditions can Change in a Heartbeat: Remembering FDNY Black Sunday

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Take the time to read both NIOSH reports and remember the sacrafice…

Three veteran FDNY firefighters died in the LODD in Brooklyn, New York and the Bronx on Sunday January 23, 2005, a day that has become known as “Black Sunday” and called one of the saddest in fire department history. Two firefighters were killed and four others were badly hurt when they were forced to jump from a fourth-floor window of a burning building in the Bronx.

Later, a third firefighter died after tackling a basement blaze in Brooklyn.Lt. Curtis Meyran, 46, of Battalion 26, and Firefighter John Bellew, 37, of Ladder 27, died after battling the Bronx blaze on East 178th Street in the Morris Heights section.

Three firefighters were in critical condition at St. Barnabas, and a fourth was in serious condition at Jacobi Medical Center. Six Bronx firefighters became trapped in the building while searching for people on the fourth floor. When the fire from the third floor broke through to the fourth, they were faced with a horrifying choice. They jumped out a fourth-floor window, knowing that they would be critically injured.

Firefighters Jeffrey Cool, Joseph DiBernardo, Eugene Stolowski, and Cawley were badly hurt in the Bronx fire. They were trapped on the fourth floor and were left with the life-or-death choice of leaping 50 feet or burning up. The Brooklyn firefighter, Richard Sclafani, 37, died at a hospital after being injured at a two-alarm fire in the East New York section.

More Details at Buildingsonfire.com HERE
NIOSH Bronx Report, HERE
NIOSH Brooklyn Report, HERE
Transcript : Firefighter_Transcripts_BlackSunday

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Posted by Christopher Naum on January 23, 2011 • Filed under: Buildingsonfire.com, christopher naum, Commandsafety.com, Fire Dynamics, Fire Fighting, Fire Suppression, firefighting-operations, LODD, Strategy and Tactics • Tagged: Bailout, bailout Ropes, Black Sunday, Building Alterations, Buildingsonfire.com, christopher naum, Commandsafety.com, engine company operations, extreme fire behavior, FDNY, FDNY LODD, Fire Suppression, firefight LODD, firefighting, Illegal renovations, LODD, multiple alarm, RIT, search adn rescue, thecompanyofficer.com, Type III Ordinary Construction, water supply, weather

High Rise Fire Fighting Operations

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Houston (Texas) firefighters followed the “textbook approach” in fighting a blaze at a high-rise building on the 27^th floor Monday night August 30, 2010 when a 4^th Alarm was transmitted for operations at a high rise building fire, deploying nearly 175 firefighting personnel. Seven firefighters were injured with non life-threatening. A broken pipe hampered firefighting operations leaving companies without a water source for a half-hour before they could resume structural fire fighting operations.

The fire was located at the JPMorgan Chase building (formerly the Gulf Building) at 712 Main Street, a 36-story structure, which dates to 1929 and was once the tallest in Houston. Reports indicate the building was being retrofitted with a sprinkler system that had yet to reach the upper floors. Go here for a link to the building profile.

A Mayday call was transmitted due to a firefighter who became separated in a dark and smoky stairwell but was promptly located.

Additional links; HERE, HERE and HERE

For those of you operating in response districts with low and high rise structures, how effective are your companies and are they adequately trained to address a multiple alarm fire on an upper floor?

Notable References;

Highrise Office Building Fire, One Meridian Plaza, HERE
High-rise Office Building Fire One Meridian Plaza Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1991, HERE
LAFD, EXECUTIVE SUMMARY – FIRST INTERSTATE BANK BUILDING FIRE, Here
USFA Report TR-022 LAFD Interstate Bank Building Fire, HERE
Cook County, Illinois Administration Building Fire, 2003,NIST Report HERE
FDNY, New York City Deutsche NIOSH LODD Report outlines high-rise fire recommendations, HERE
High Rise Apartment Fire LODD, Texas, 2001, HERE
FDNY OPERATIONAL ASPECTS OF HIGH-RISE FIREFIGHTING, HERE
An Examination of FDNY High Rise Operations and SOP as part of a Risk Management Plant for Operational HERE