This was a box with 6 engines assigned at St John and Apple, a vacant 2-flat. Heavy fire in the rear and attic … narrowly kept from consuming both exposures. Access to the rear in Detroit is very iffy as there really are no passable alleys. Some good use of handlines and a master stream minimized the potential of several buildings becoming involved. Some interesting chunky smoke pictures from the attic.
While sitting outside 50 we saw the smoke from this job in the sky. Eng 60 spotted it and beat us to the scene by a minute or so. Vacant, apparently started as rubbish but involved a good portion of the dwelling. Too bad it was so overgrown and we couldn’t see much. Nice photo of Eng 50 and some roof work too.
10/19/15 Detroit, MI – Firefighters arrived at 13134 Sunset to find a vacant dwelling with fire showing. This dwelling quickly became well involved. The wind driven fire produced large brands which quickly caught two vacant dwellings on Shields St. The brands also started a garage fire to the rear of this address as well as a dumpster fire against a commercial building on E. Davidson.
Detroit Box Alarm Edison and McQuade, four-flat dwelling. Firefighters from the 5th battalion had heavy fire throughout a four-flat dwelling fanned by thirty mph sustained winds.
This was the first box of the day on October 11, 2015 in Detroit. I was on the other side of town and it took a little time to get there. Engine 33 was only a few blocks away and had heavy fire showing from the attic. A real nice save as the frames on both sides were occupied and sustained minimal damage. It can’t be seen from the front but most of the house behind the facade collapsed in the rear and the damage was much worse than what it looks like. You can also see the old and the new engine styles with Engine 33 being the newer edition. Over the three days I was in town, there were at least 5 occupied structure fires, two of which had transports for civilians with burns or smoke inhalation. Overnight on the 11th, there were at least six Box Alarms that I could count but none of which were going throughout. On Saturday afternoon, Engines 50 and 60 had two workers within an hour and a half but I couldn’t get to either of them in time for anything of photographic value. Overall, a very busy weekend in Detroit but no commercial buildings and no alarms above the box.
