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Call In Brownstone Type Frame
FDNY Squad 252 Website,
www.squad252.com
Monday, December 31, 2007
Approximately five hours into New Years Eve Squad
Company 252 was sent on phone calls to Box 0674,
540 Willoughby Ave, Marcy Ave to Tompkins Ave, for
fire reported in a private dwelling. First due companies
quickly transmitted the 10-75 for a fire in the basement
(1st floor) of a brownstone type frame. As Squad
252 turned onto the block Command transmitted a second
alarm for fire which had extended to all four floors
of the building. Upon checking in with the Chief
for an assignment, members noted thick, black smoke
billowing from the three top floor windows. The first
due aerial ladder was in position at the "dead-mans" room,
as the chauffeur performed an aggressive search on
what is considered one of the most dangerous floors
to be on as a fire victim and firefighter. Suddenly,
with little or no warning, the top floor flashed-over
and forced the chauffeur to the middle window. Unable
to get to his aerial because of the fire that now
enveloped all of the rooms on the top floor, the
chauffeur was forced to begin exiting the window
and attempted to deploy his Personal Safety System
(PSS). Members, from other companies, in the street
began to reposition the aerial, as the tower ladder,
which was just getting into position in the front
of the building, swung in to help the member in distress.
Thanks to the quick thinking of both the brother
in trouble and the brothers in the street, very serious
injury, or worse, was averted. A speedy recovery
is hoped for this very well respected senior chauffeur.
Squad 252 was ordered to the top floor of Exposure
2 to check for fire extension. Upon inspection,
brick nogging was found between the fire building
and Exposure 2 and appeared to be doing its job.
The Exposure 4 side, however, was not as fortunate
as fire extended to the cocklofts of both the Exposure
4 and 4a buildings. Members made their way from
the top floor of Exposure 2 to the roof to assist
companies in vertical ventilation. With heavy fire
on the top floor of the original fire building
venting from the front and rear three windows,
the scuttle, the skylight, the chimney and the
ventilation holes, Command pulled all members out
of the building. The tower ladder was placed into
operation and began knocking down the fire. At
the height of the fire a third alarm was transmitted,
three buildings were involved in fire, and the
top floor of the fire building sustained a partial
collapse.
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Brooklyn
Firefighter Saved By Rope
BY MICHAEL WHITE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, January 1st 2008, 9:10 AM |
A firefighter
trapped on the top floor of an engulfed row home
in Brooklyn was able to save himself Monday with
his personal rope, authorities said.
It was the first instance
of a firefighter using the device to escape a
building since the ropes were issued by the FDNY
after a 40-foot plunge killed two of New York's
Bravest and injured four others in January 2005,
FDNY brass said.
"It's a great
success story. The guy was able to go home," Battalion
Chief Steve Raynis said of the 50-year-old firefighter,
Ray Pollard.
"Without the
equipment, within seconds he would have been
killed up there."
Pollard entered the
top floor of an unoccupied Willoughby Ave. home
about 5 a.m.
He was searching for
victims when a collapse left him trapped in a bedroom,
according to Raynis. |
Iudici for News
Firefighters battle blaze at home on Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn.
Trapped smoke-eater
Ray Pollard was saved by his personal rope.
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The 24-year FDNY veteran
managed to hook the high-tech device to a windowsill.
After attaching the
rope, he lowered himself far enough for his fellow
firefighters to grab him, Raynis said.
Pollard was treated
for a burned left hand and was later released
from New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell.
Three other firefighters
suffered minor injuries in the three-alarm blaze
in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Fire marshals deemed
the fire suspicious.
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Emergency Escape Tool Helps Save
Brooklyn Firefighter
January 1, 2008
New York,
NY -
Nearly three years after two New York City firefighters
jumped from a burning
building and plunged to their deaths, a 24-year
FDNY veteran yesterday became the first to use
a widely
hailed safety device to escape from a Brooklyn
house fire that almost engulfed him.
Raymond Pollard,
50, of Brooklyn, reppelled away from searing
flames that had trapped him near
a fourth-floor window of an apartment building
on Willoughby Avenue,
fire officials said. The fire was reported at 3:41 a.m. Pollard drove
the second unit to arrive at the scene, Ladder
Company 102 from Bedford Avenue.
Within 10 minutes, officials said, Pollard broke
three fourth-floor windows facing the street
and entered the building to look for occupants.
When he moved to the hallway, fire surged up
the stairway and over his head, blocking his
exit. He moved to the next room, where the fire
forced him to retreat to the window.
"Just as the fire was blowing over his
head, he took the hook out and jammed it into
the windowsill," said Stephen Raynis,
safety command battalion chief.
Pollard reppelled two feet below the ledge and
firefighters slid a bucket ladder toward him
and lowered him to safety, Raynis said.
Around 5:50 a.m., the roof collapsed onto the
fourth floor.
Pollard, who declined to be interviewed, was
treated for second-degree burns on his left hand,
officials said. Three other firefighters suffered
minor injuries.
The emergency device, called a personal safety
system, was developed by FDNY members in the
wake of the deaths of Lt. Curtis Meyran and firefighter
John Bellew, who jumped from a window of a burning
Bronx building in January 2005, when they could
not find the fire escape. Four other firefighters
who also leapt from that building were critically
injured.
The lifesaving invention consists of a forged
aluminum anchor hook that can penetrate brick,
a 50-foot rope, a descending device operated
by a trigger, a carabiner, and a waist belt with
leg loops.
Since January 2006, it has been distributed
to about 11,500 FDNY members, including all 8,500
firefighters, officials said.
Fire marshals deemed the fire suspicious and
are investigating.
Fire escape
Trapped by a fast-moving fire inside the fourth
floor of a building in Brooklyn, a firefighter
yesterday used a new safety rappelling device
to escape.
As flames shot over his head out the window,
he hooked the rope to the window frame and lowered
himself 2 feet below the ledge. His colleagues
used their ladders to bring him to safety.
Copyright (c) 2008, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.
Written by Newsday
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