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July 4, 2010
Great footage with fire blowing out attic vent from www.newsworking.org

Text from newsworking:
Just past 0130 hours, Lehigh County Comm Center sent Fogelsville Co. 8 and Engine 26 (Tri-Clover) to 8124 Lark Street for a house fire. Multiple calls being received and Chief 8 (Guth) seeing fire on the horizon, he strikes the second-alarm.

1st arriving crews blitzed the bulk of the fire to make a quick knockdown, then interior crews went to work on the second floor to attack the fire in the attic. Aggressive interior work saved most of the roof. The fire was under control in about an hour.

Companies on the second-alarm were 25, 56, 17, 30, 1 (RIT) and Air 32. Cetronia 62 provided EMS at the scene.

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GRIM SEARCH FOR VICTIMS IN PATERSON

By Bill Tompkins – www.BTFirephotos.com

Heavy equipment has been brought in to the scene of a fatal three alarm fire in Paterson to assist in the search for additional residents that are not accounted for.

The Paterson Fire Department sent a full first alarm assignment to 467 E. 31st Street at 2:38 AM for a report of a working fire. Heavy fire from a 2 ½ story frame greeted the first arriving companies. Two seriously injured residents were on the ground in front of the building, having jumped from the upper floors. A second alarm was quickly transmitted as well as a request for multiple BLS and ALS units.

Heavy fire prevented a primary search of the fire building and as flames extended to the exposure buildings on both sides, a third alarm was sounded. An interior attack was initially attempted on the exposure “D” building, but as heavy fire took hold of the attic and the roof started to sag, all members were withdrawn. One ladder pipe, one deck gun and several handlines operated from the front of the structures and additional lines were stretched through yards to hit the rear of the dwellings.

Approximately one hour into the fire, a large portion of the original building collapsed sending an outside wall up against the “B” exposure building. After a quick repositioning of lines, that threat was taken care of. All heavy fire was knocked down by about 4:30, but the instability of the original fire building made searches impossible.

As of 12:00, one victim succumbed to their injuries at the hospital, one body had been recovered from the fire building, and three additional residents were still missing. The search is continuing, but it is slow and tedious. The cause of the fire is believed to be electrical due to several previous electrical violations.

By the end of the day the searches had been completed and the final toll was four dead and three more seriously injured. This was the largest loss of life due to a fire in Paterson since the Alexander Hamilton Hotel fire in 1984 which claimed fourteen lives.

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