Brockport Fire Department
Apartment Fire – High Street
December 7, 2008 - 3:30 PM

The Brockport Fire Department was dispatched to a reported apartment on fire on High Street, in the Village, at 3:20 PM, Monday December 8, 2008. 2C33 was on location at 3:23 PM and reported smoke showing. 2C13 arrived on scene and assumed command and assigned 2C33 to interior operations. Hamlin was requested to respond as the RIT assignment. Brockport’s Pumper 232 was on the scene at 3:28 PM followed quickly by Ladder 231, Pumper 234 and Rescue 238.

Pumper 232 located just past the fire building and firefighters stretched a line up a back, enclosed, rear stairway, into the room charged with smoke and knocked down a small fire on and over the stove in the apartment. A second line was stretched to the rear of the structure, as a back-up line, but not charged. A LDH line was stretched to a plug a few feet in front of 232 and a water supply was secured. A LDH line was also stretched to the ladder but it also was not charged.

Ladder 231 set-up in front of the structure and raised the aerial to the roof in support of roof operations. A saw was taken to the roof, over the fire area, but no ventilation holes were required. Firefighters placed an extension ladder to second floor window to provide a secondary means of escape. Firefighter also forced the door of the lower apartment to check for extension below the fire. Pumper 232 took a hydrant on the way into the scene, but this second supply line was not charged.

The fire appears to have been caused by a stove left on when occupants departed the building earlier in the day. The fire was held to the stove area with little damage. The ceiling was pulled in a couple of rooms to check for extension and to eliminate a heavy smoke condition in the attic. All units were back in service at 4:48 PM.

Photos and Story by Jerry Clement