Seneca Hose FD Commercial Structure Fire - 1436 Ridge rd

** West Seneca NY **
Lackawanna FD & Seneca Hose FD's alerted to a structure fire at commercial building with possible victims trapped on 2nd floor. Lackawanna Engine 3 arrives to a 2 story building with heavy fire on 1st floor #1 side. Seneca Hose 9 arrives and assumes command updates with a 75x30 building with heavy fire and a rescue underway for victims on 2nd floor. Lackawanna attack crews work 2 handlines as more crews arrive. Reserve 6 crew conducting further searches on 2nd floor updates with heavy smoke and increasing heat and preparing to bail out. Command orders all crews out of building for Defensive Ops. Multiple calls out for more manpower and water supply are answered by many surrounding departments. 3 Towers and 1 Ladder pipe
are put to work with Master Stream Ops. Command has a 90% condemned structure and will be an Emergency Demo later in the morning.
5 -1¾" & 4 -2½" Lines in use
Lackawanna, Seneca Hose, Reserve & Union Ladders operate Master Streams
ON Scene:
Lackawanna: Engines 3, 1, 33, 11, Truck 6 and Rescue 2
Seneca Hose: Engines 1 & 2, Truck 6 & Rescue 5
Union: Truck 2 & Rescue 5; Vigilant: Engine 1
Winchester: Engine 1, Squad 3 & Rescue 7; Windom: Engine 2
East Seneca: Engines 1 & 2, Rescue 5; Reserve: Engine 1, Truck 6 & utility 5-1
Armor: Engine 2; Newton Abbott: Rescue 3; Forks: Engine 1;
East Aurora: Engine 3; Hamburg: 7-1 with Air Trailer
Orchard Park RIT: Rescue 7
Staging: Doyle E-3, Sloan: E-2 & Blossom: E-1
Backfill: Lakeview to OPark, South Line to Union, Bellevue to Winchester then
Seneca Hose, Spring Brook & Jamison Rd to East Seneca
Erie County ESU: County Large Scale Trailer - ES- 14 & FC-2
Damages: $525K
2-23-2022 - Time Out: 16:50 hrs