Linden NJ 3rd Alarm Structure Fire HEAVY FIRE

At 0545 on Jan. 26, 2008, Linden Fire Dept. was dispatched to 1521 Roselle St. for a structure fire with entrapment. Linden Deputy Chief arrived and reported a 2 and half story taxpayer with heavy fire on the first and second floor, and the attic. He also reported he had occupants jumping out of the second floor. Three tower ladders and tele-squirt were setup to knock the fire down.

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[lom3ardo]

Just curious. Why no interior attack?

[THOSEGUYSFIRECO]

This video was taken aproximately 5 min. after arrival of the 1st due companies. This was the fire conditions they were presented. The fire orginated on the 1st flr charlie side. same location as the only stairwell to the 2nd floor. While companies with handline attempted to knock down the fire on the first floor from the outside, the company advancing a handline found that the interror stairwell was burned out.

[ffjsb]

@nsrailfann4life91 You are totally incorrect in your theory. The more water you spray on a fire (that actually makes contact with burning materials), the more steam you produce. When steam is produced it can expand up to 1700 from the amount of cubic ft. of water applied. Fire will only burn through a roof if the structure is consumed by fire. If the roof is still intact, fire and smoke and gases will vent through ANY opening availible, regardless if it is higher.

[93CFD]

@raceboy84u2 a flame about an inch tall...

[PowerCallsSoundDumb1]

talk about a stubborn fire

[raceboy84u2]

cause of fire?

[ffjsb]

@joeyp1974 You're not going to get a fog stream in a 3' window unless you got the nozzle right in the window. Which exposes your ladder tip or platform to being damaged by collapse. You also need to have a solid stream often to compensate for the wind, a fog stream does not have much distance or penetration. If you are fighting a fire from the outside, that means you have gone defensive and you should not be in the collapse zone, ergo you are not going to have the reach with fog so use straight.

[ktownlegofighters22]

its ripin

[nsrailfann4life91]

The more wate you spray on the fire, the more the heat is going to try to escape which is why it kinda grew. When you ty to kill a massive amount of heat, it always seeks an escape point so it will often burn hrough the roof of a structure since heat rises. I was a victim of an electrical fire in my old house. I was scared crapless. I was able to get out of the house luckily.

[YIRMASTER]

In that area they probably should have let the crackhead junkies burn.

See kids, this is why you shouldn' t be smoking crack in your parents attic

[Sheskills]

Yo.i rememer that.shit wuz crazy.felt the heat down the block.the peeple almost die.shit wuz series!we had to move from over there.dat neighberhood got plague wit guns and drugs.

[cottojn]

not cool. fire can be deadly i hope your ok and the insurance paid to get it fixed.