FDNY Battles 3-Alarm Fire, 5 Stores Destroyed / Bath Beach, Brooklyn 1.18.18 

Your quite welcome! I am passionate about what I do, documenting the great work the FDNY does, and getting paid for it.

Adam West Thank you for keeping us safe. My family and I appreciate all your hard work and bravery. it was scary scene in the neighborhood indeed!. God bless FDNY and NYPD. may the Lord keep them safe. we truelly appreciate you. Kind regards

I’m just the video guy, m’am. Thanks for your kind words in regards to filming the video :)

Thanks tommy i knew you'd love it. I just the news stations could afford to pay for such quality video and not resort to freebie footage from crappy cell phone citizen video. I was dissapointed in the stations but I will never regret filming this fire, which I consider one of my best so far.

I went from crouching in front of a car to having my tripod sitting on the hood of a car, to having the tripod on the side of the building on a fruit stand lol

Adam, It' hard to understand why the local media would choose to use two bit cell phone footage over the phenomenal video footage you shot of this 3 alarm fire in Bath Beach. In the past I've seen your work shown on local television news stations as well as local news paper websites numerous times. I know this must be very discouraging for you but I hope you and your colleagues continue covering emergency incidents within New York City because your work is awesome and we all appreciate it very much. And I definitely agree with you. Just like I said in my original comment. I believe your video of this fire is some of your best work to date.

Thanks as always tommy you always give the best compliments. If you could say some kind words on the facebook ratings section too I'd appreciate it. Facebook.com/nyc911news

Adam, I just took care of your request and then some.

What other stores got burned out. I feel bad for the owners and the FDNY did a great Job in a bad stubborn fire. Thank you to the photographer You. Did a good job

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twofoottaylor1 the battalion chief is a force to be reckoned with!

I'm glad I was able to capture his acts of bravery and selflessness. Never seen nothing like it.

Adam West prayers to the Brother

I’m no doctor ....but he appears to have some pretty good 2nd degree burns on his face, ears, and neck. His PPE also has some charring. Id say he took a nice little beating inside.

J Walker I’m sure after a few days of silvadene cream he was right as rain. It doesn’t take much to second degree your face. That hood is no guarantee and if you have any gaps in coverage they will quickly be exploited in that heat condition....Especially with how that smoke was billowing and pushing violently under pressure. That was a deadly/scary condition. And you can see why. The fact they/ he didn’t pull out a little sooner with only having that one 2 1/2 operating and flowing and no change in smoke conditions initially scared the shit out of me. You can see it took a second 2 1/2 to finally calm it down and then that even took a few moments. That’s about as far as you can ride it and not get everyone burned up. Had someone came up and blown those front windows out at that point I think we may have seen an even uglier outcome. You can see the other chief finally screaming and hollering to back out. In other words we just watched a near miss. Also after he comes out. And this is purely my opinion. You can see he’s lost his wits a bit. And appears to have complete tunnel vision. and rightly so . You could probably do a quick search and find out about how long he was/wasn’t in a burn center for ? Anyways dude has my mad respect. We need more chiefs like him. Off related to this. The dept. I work for had some stations where guys were double hooding. They thought it was cool to see if they could distort their mask pieces and come out unscathed. Well after a few mask lenses melted from the same stations and a few burns it got out what these idiots were doing. They had to put out a dept directive. Stating no double hooding allowed. Imagine your dept telling you. You can’t be extra safe. But it was because guys weren’t trying to be extra safe. They were being extra stupid.

@@LoudlabsNYC What time in the video was the close call or incident with the battalion chief getting burned ? Idk how but I watched whole video and to my embarrassment i missed that ...And btw it was best Fire scene footage I have seen in long time maybe ever!! Awsome job brother! The quality of the footage was amazing as well as how up close you got was like being there , thank you it made my day ,felt like I was back on the job for an hour , I’ll never stop missing those kind of crazy nights with the brothers 🔥very few people have the privilege to have those memories 🙏🏼

They gotta search the building before putting water on fire.

They completely rewrote the rules after 9/11. They are still aggressive, yet extremely methodical as well. Also it was determined early on that these buildings were remodeled with 'lightweight' construction which I think should be outlawed.

Yep, I couldn't agree more. Searching the building first doesn't actually make sense to me. Put the damn fire out asap and it takes less resources to do the job. Look at the number of firefighters just standing about doing nothing ! Argh !

Why the sad angry comment ? It just exposes your deep seated jealously that you will never work in the FDNY ! Enjoy wherever in Europe you work and get such quick water on the 2 fires you will go to in your life !! Your ah hand job bro

So your that guy huh? Mr.perfect that watches a video and critiques it from your vast Fireground experience ? Oh no the little cute facts you learned in your little small town Fire academy . I know you never worked in an aggressive city FD that had real brotherhood cuz if you did you’d never post a sad comment like that & your not that bright because your asking a gentleman questions who filmed the Fire as though he is the Division Chief that was running this job ! Those Men are members of the FDNY and that seems to make u feel inferior or jealous prob both I’d guess ! So instead of criticizing the best FD in the world, just watch and keep your little comment to yourself and be in awe of a FD you could only dream of standing in front of a taxpayer pumping thick black smoke with bro ! Cuz trust me your comment didnt impress anybody dude , it just quickly exposed you for what you are ...A jealous, sad want to be who never got on the job