NEWARK, NJ - Three alarm fire destroys a large apartment house on Roseville Ave. Three-Alarm Fire Destroys Apartment House Roseville Ave in Newark December 1991 ALL COUNTY NEWS #fire #housefire #newarkfire #structurefire #newarkfirenews
Interior firefighters are kicking some butt on this fire!!! Definitely some salty hardened tough firefighters in these days! Great job back in the days NFD!!!
Very good video for 1980s. All I can say its a miracle there were firefighter maydays or worse fatalities, You finally reach a point in balance in the risk/threat of search and rescue versus firefighting (offensive vs defensive) efforts. When fires started becoming evident free burning throughout structure would have went defensive even if momentary with master straight-streams directed at ceiling where free burning occurring. The conditions showing indicated substantial fire load, super heated, burning at multiple points vertically and horizontally and ready to accelerate. Thankful no firefighter injures/fatalities! Allen P Fire Captain (Retired)
It's no miracle there were no maydays or fatalities at that fire. It was skill, knowledge, and experience. In those days that was a pretty routine fire for urban (ghetto) firefighters. As long as you owned the stairs and the hallways, you still owned the building. If you went to outside streams on a job like that, you'd lose the whole building and be there all night because those buildings are too highly compartmented with too many voids. The outside streams would only get the front rooms. Meanwhile the rest of the fire is extending from room to room and running the voids. There's only two choices in those buildings: get in there with agressive lines and fast, agressive truck work, or stay outside and kiss the whole place good-bye. If you pull up and give it a quick blitz while you stretch, that's ok too, but you gotta get in quick and once you're in, there's no in and out, in and out. If you give any ground on your interior attack, you're done. Those buildings are loaded with people. There MUST be an agressive interior attack. There's a major search problem, a major forcible entry problem on the apartments, and a major extension problem. I don't know where you worked and what your fire experience was, but those guys didn't think twice about going into a fire like that. They did it all the time, were extremely experienced and competent, didn't get hurt or killed, and knew when it was time to go. The proof of the pudding is that the whole fire was extinguished from the interior except that one top floor corner. No miracle.
True. With fire above n the cock loft, I’ve seen building facade pieces fall and take fire escapes right off the building. No firefighter is worth trying to save an already lost structure. Exterior attack.
A better Fire Department back then. Affirmative action, lowering of standards, cutting manpower have all taken its toll. Still, pound for pound one of the best Fire Departments in the nation🇺🇸
