Friday, March 18, 2011
A busy week continued for Storm King's bravest on Friday March 18th as the department responded to its 2nd structure fire of the week shortly after 2pm. This time the fire was located in the City of Newburgh on Williams St. Originally the call was for Tower-413 to respond to Newburgh's Station 1 for stand by duties but was quickly moved to the scene as the fire grew. Also responding to the scene was Car -1 (Armitage). When T-413 got on scene it set up shop in a vacant lot where crews then split up into two. One group heading up to the roof in the bucket to open up for ventilation while the other preformed a search of an exposure building that caught fire. After the search came up negative, that crew then preformed overhaul inside the structure, while the bucket crew began hitting hot spots on the roof. Storm King units were back in service around 5pm. Unfortunately there was one fatality in this fire as a little girl perished. One other child was saved from the building by her uncle and was given life saving CPR by Newburgh Fire Chief Michael Vatter!