04/05/06 - Mount Vernon - 3rd Alarm (corrected)

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As luck would have it TBendick and I were at the All Hands fire in the Western Beef a block away when this came in.

After a short 1000 yard dash down the block, we started shooting right as the 1st line was charged.

Date: 04/05/06

Time: 16:57 hours

Box #: 1263

Address: 133 Franklin Ave X Adams Street

Building: 2 1/2 Story Frame PD 30x50

Fire Location: 1st Floor

Mount Vernon 4th Alarm Photos

Have a good one & Thanks again everyone for the help on the information!

Edited April 6, 2006 by ndemarse

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Here is another set of photos from the same job. Click on the photo to view more.

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Mount Vernon battles three fires in half an hour

By MICHAEL GANNON

THE JOURNAL NEWS

(Original Publication: April 6, 2006)

MOUNT VERNON — Three fires within a half-hour and one mile of each other kept city and several other southern Westchester County fire departments busy early yesterday evening.

No one was seriously injured in any of the blazes — a two-alarm fire at a Western Beef supermarket on Fulton Avenue, a four-alarm blaze in a home on Franklin Avenue and a small oven fire on Union Avenue, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Cicchetti said.

"It's not every day," Cicchetti said of the three closely grouped fires. "It's not a regular occurrence. But it's very taxing on the men."

Fire officials did not believe any of the fires were connected, though the supermarket fire could have been connected to a shoplifting arrest, the store's head of security said.

The fire in the store, which was the first blaze reported to the fire department at 4:25 p.m., appeared to have been deliberately set in an aisle containing paper products, such as paper towels, toilet paper and other items, said Frank O'Hara, the security director.

Store security apprehended a man pushing a shopping cart containing cases of meat, trying to slip out an emergency exit right at the same time as the fire, O'Hara said. Security turned the man over to police, and they said a second man might have helped set the fire as a distraction, he said.

The Fire Department received a second call at 4:51 p.m. to a two-family home at 133 Franklin St., just a block and a half away, Cicchetti said.The two-story structure was engulfed in fire when firefighters arrived, Cicchetti said.

"He said his back was hurt, but all in all, he's fine," Catoe said, declining to provide the man's name.

The man was taken to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, said Mount Vernon Fire Chief Al Everett. A New Rochelle firefighter cut his hand fighting the blaze, Cicchetti said.

The third fire was called in at 4:54 p.m., Cicchetti said. The small oven fire was put out in minutes, he said.

About 50 firefighters from Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Eastchester, Pelham and Pelham Manor battled the fires, Cicchetti said.