There was another fire yesterday at what is left of the Cabrini Green Housing Projects. I had the unique opportunity to arrive on the scene with the First Due Companies. The following images will give you an idea of the coordinated effort needed to fight a fire.
1. The fire is in a 7th floor apartment. Engine 4 must pull down an alley adjacent to the fire building, but nowhere near a fire hydrant. The engine carries 500 gallons of water but they will need more than that. Engine 14 gets a hydrant and this firefighter drags the hose to connect with another supply line for Engine 4.
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2. The Engineer from E4 (the firefighter who drives the truck and operates the pump) runs back to the pump panel after dropping his supply line to be connected by the firefighter in the previous image. He will connect the supply line to his engine and the engineer from E14 will send water. You can see the smaller hose, charged, coming off of the back of E4. That line is being stretched to the fire floor by other firefighters, ready to put the fire out.
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3. Water is now on the fire. The fire broke the windows, allowing heat and poisonous gas to vent from the building.
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4. White smoke and water. A good thing. The fire is essentially out. Thick, black or brown smoke indicates that the fire is burning out of control.
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5. Firefighter using an axe to break out additional windows to allow for more ventilation.
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6. Fire is out. All in a days work. This sequence took place over a period of about 11 minutes.
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Additional images from this fire can be seen Here
