Structure Fire at CCS

So there I was. Just leaving the bathroom on my way to the bay when I heard the pre-alerts saying there was a structure fire. I didn’t believe it. I looked around to see if someone was playing with a recording. But the I realized it was a real one. The tones went off and we got into our turn outs.

We were close to going to do some training in Rescue when the call came out. In fact we have A. Wilcox down with us for the training. He jumped in the Engine and Bien, Williams and I got into Rescue.

We followed the engine to the scene at CCS. I could see some light brown smoke coming from the area. It appeared we did indeed had a fire. When we got there A. Wilcox had the hose out and ready to go. Turpin had us back him up. That is when Dean Hare from the Daily News snapped this photo.

Getting ready to put out the fire.

Soon after this photo was taken the fire was out and Williams and I were sent to do a quick building search.

I tried all doors before I forced them. But I ended up having to force two of them. I paid attention to the door as I tried it. One I found the door locking system to be weak, so it only took a small hit with the shoulder. A second door was stronger so I used the halligan tool to get into that. There was no one in any of the room. After that it was pretty much over with for us, except for the clean up.

A. Wilcox took over on rescue for Williams. Bien and I took him up to the tower and worked on his engineer stuff until just after eleven o’clock. We got a ton of stuff done with A. Wilcox. I went home to get to sleep because I didn’t get a lot of sleep this morning and I had to get up for golfing in the morning. But we would get a call at three in the morning. After I got home I spent the next hour tossing and turning as I was thinking about various things.