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12-24-12 Chmney Fire With Extension, Continental Village

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None of those three agencies have a ladder, do they? Who would you call? Peekskill, Mohegan?

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I would have called Mohegan, specifically for their ladder 10 (75’) as I don’t think Peekskill’s tower ladder 45 or Mohegan’s ladder 35 could have made it in or up the drive way. This particular house sat on a mountainous 150 acres of property only accessible by a dirt driveway that was about a half a mile long. The driveway wrapped around the opposite side of the house from the chimney and was just wide enough for an engine, trying to get and raise a ladder up there would have been a nightmare.

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The other thing that must be accounted into ladder ops is obstructions (trees/wires) plus enough width for the outriggers

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And with the way I understand the description of the driveway, by the time Mohegan or Peekskill made it to the scene the drive would have been blocked by the engines and LDH.

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I would have called Mohegan, specifically for their ladder 10 (75’) as I don’t think Peekskill’s tower ladder 45 or Mohegan’s ladder 35 could have made it in or up the drive way. This particular house sat on a mountainous 150 acres of property only accessible by a dirt driveway that was about a half a mile long. The driveway wrapped around the opposite side of the house from the chimney and was just wide enough for an engine, trying to get and raise a ladder up there would have been a nightmare.

I could have been more specific, sorry. I meant what ladder would be called upon in this general area, not this specific fire.

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We generally do not use ladder trucks for our structure fires. Most of our district is made up of houses with driveways like this one or are set too far back off the road for a ladder truck to reach. A 35' extension ladder combined with a roof ladder works 9 out of 10 times for ventilation/roof work in our area.

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