Massive Fire in Salamanca, New York

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Huge Fire in Salamanca, NY (Western NY, Southern Tier) Friday May 7. Almost entire Cattaraugus County fire departments deployed to fight massive fire. See attached pdf file for department dispatches.

Clik on the links below for news articles and plenty of pictures.

Massive Fire In Salamanca-News Photo Gallery | WKBW News 7: ...

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Incredible pictures of Salamanca fire | WIVB.com

http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/local/Furniture-store-engulfed-in-flames

More Salamanca fire pictures page 1 | WIVB.com

http://www.wivb.com/dpp/search/More-Salamanca-fire-pictures-page-1

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What was the response to this? And what was in the building? Great shots!!!

Thomas

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What was the response to this? And what was in the building? Great shots!!!

Thomas

Almost entire Cattaraugus County fire departments deployed

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What was the response to this? And what was in the building? Great shots!!!

Thomas

From the IFFA Locals website.

Salamanca Fire Department is currently operating with 16 Full Time Firefighters and 1 Part time Paramedic under Chief Nicholas Bocharski. The Department provides Fire and ALS level EMS protection to the City of Salamanca, covering an area roughly 6 sq miles. Additionally, another 10sq miles of neighboring areas are covered for EMS only. 2 Engines, 1 Tower Ladder, 2 utility vehicles and 2 ALS Ambulances are available to Firefighters. Duty crews are 4 man strong, with minimum 2 man staffing. These crews consist of 1 Assistant Chief and up to 3 Firefighters. When duty crews are tied up at 1 or more calls and station coverage is needed 2 Firefighters can be recalled for duty coverage of the station (more Firefighters can be recalled as needed for manpower and staffing needs).

From what I can see they run a 4 man shift. This covers 2 ALS ambulances and the 2 engines and the tower ladder. It looks like there is a manpower concern with the duty coverage.

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From the IFFA Locals website.

Salamanca Fire Department is currently operating with 16 Full Time Firefighters and 1 Part time Paramedic under Chief Nicholas Bocharski. The Department provides Fire and ALS level EMS protection to the City of Salamanca, covering an area roughly 6 sq miles. Additionally, another 10sq miles of neighboring areas are covered for EMS only. 2 Engines, 1 Tower Ladder, 2 utility vehicles and 2 ALS Ambulances are available to Firefighters. Duty crews are 4 man strong, with minimum 2 man staffing. These crews consist of 1 Assistant Chief and up to 3 Firefighters. When duty crews are tied up at 1 or more calls and station coverage is needed 2 Firefighters can be recalled for duty coverage of the station (more Firefighters can be recalled as needed for manpower and staffing needs).

From what I can see they run a 4 man shift. This covers 2 ALS ambulances and the 2 engines and the tower ladder. It looks like there is a manpower concern with the duty coverage.

I'm confused. How do four guys cover two ALS ambulances and anything else? Even with one guy on each apparatus, they need two for the ambulances, and that adds up to more than four.

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I'm confused. How do four guys cover two ALS ambulances and anything else? Even with one guy on each apparatus, they need two for the ambulances, and that adds up to more than four.

If you go to their website, www.iaff2501.com, you will see that in 3 out of 4 of their groups, that 1 of the 4 of the firefighters is an asst. chief. In the 4th group there are 3 men and 1 is an asst. chief/firefighter (also the union president). If there is more than 1 call that needs coverage, the fire department will recall 2 firefighters. They have 5 asst. chiefs, 13 firefighters and 1 part time paramedic.

"Duty crews are 4 man strong," I think this is how they do it. All men on duty are "STRONG". There is no other explanation.

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Thanks didnt know how many departments were in the county.

Thomas

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If you go to their website, www.iaff2501.com, you will see that in 3 out of 4 of their groups, that 1 of the 4 of the firefighters is an asst. chief. In the 4th group there are 3 men and 1 is an asst. chief/firefighter (also the union president). If there is more than 1 call that needs coverage, the fire department will recall 2 firefighters. They have 5 asst. chiefs, 13 firefighters and 1 part time paramedic.

"Duty crews are 4 man strong," I think this is how they do it. All men on duty are "STRONG". There is no other explanation.

There are actually 4 different departments within Salamanca, only the City of Salamanca are IAFF, between recall and vollies calls get covered. The county is quite rural with approx. 38 fire departments, mutual aid is used frequently between them.

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Pretty good artlcle saying they had at least one suspect detained..

Interesting that the City Council was in the process of drafting a warning letter to the owners about trespassers when the fire broke out...

http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=76694

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Attached is the resource list reflecting the units assigned to this fire and for covers/related assignments.

It's a LONG list!

SALAMANCA.pdf

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WoW! That's a lot of fire!

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WoW! That's a lot of fire!

This building covered 6 acres of land, about the size of a small city block!