Smokey times on 8th St.
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November
Today, while Hoboken411 was coming back from a 20 hour break from this town, a few things happened, and luckily some astute and helpful readers sent some information through. Pics from Joe and story from Matt. Thanks, guys!
This fire took place on 8th Street between Park and Willow. It was originally called in as Still Alarm of Fire at 725 Willow. It was a 1 story residential with light smoke showing from the exterior. No visible fire from the outside. Attending companies were Ladder 1, Ladder 2, Engine 1, Engine 4, Engine 5, Rescue 1 and 155 ( the chief buggy).
They got the fire knocked down with one hand line. They had another stretched for standby. Engine 5 and Engine 4 both had a 5 inch line to hydrants. They set a ladder on the side and checked the roof and were going to cut into it to check the cockloft, but the chief said not to because it was a brand new rubber roof.
Instead they cut a hole in the ceiling of the fire apartment and checked from inside. They also used the thermal imagining camera. (those things cost 10K each!) There were no extensions into surrounding structures. Taking a look inside, it was burnt up pretty good. Female occupant made it out with purse and a towel, was later transported by EMS to hospital. She was walking around ok. Looked like she was just shaken up by it, or possibly some mild smoke inhalation.
November 12th 2006 - 22:19:41 |
I would really like to know how you get all your information at these fires, and know what the firemen are actually doing? Do you go inside the building? Are you on the roof? Do you hear the orders being givin? How do you get this information?
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November 12th 2006 - 22:29:06 |
It was mentioned above that the description of this particular fire was sent in by a reader who happens to be an aficionado of the fire fighting community.
As for most of this, the information was plainly visible by being present at the fire. You can see the trucks, how many hoses, what equipment they’re using and what tactics were being employed.
Hope that helps!
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November 16th 2006 - 00:29:51 |
I don’t know, I get the feeling your just waitng for someone to screw up, wether it’s the Fire Dept., the Police Dept, or which ever Dept. your covering at the time. Instead of getting behind them and the work that they do day in and day out. Be thankful there is someone willing to do what they do. Like I said, it sounds you have nothing better to do. Just remember before you comment, get all the facts first.
Because you are way off with your reporting.
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November 16th 2006 - 07:04:24 |
Nothing–
You write like a person with a guilty consience. If you have facts to correct, now’s the time to do so.
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November 16th 2006 - 08:20:12 |
Nothingbettertodo
What was negative in this particular report? Not a thing. Nothing was mentioned of any screw up’s so what the hell are you on about? The information is not that hard to get. You can pick up a scanner to hear the calls. You can ask the police/firemen at the sceen questions.
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November 19th 2006 - 12:12:59 |
Nothingbettertodo likes to leave negative messages to start arguments. Nothingbettertodo has Nothingbettertodo.
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November 20th 2006 - 11:29:23 |
We’ll have to wait and see, just make sure you keep your scanners turned up. I’m sorry for that comment.
Let’s see if this stays posted.
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November 20th 2006 - 11:39:21 |
Nothingbettertodo wrote:
411 allows it’s readers and posters to voice their opinion without being censored. (unlike other sites that delete your comments if they are derogatory towards this particular administration!) If I didn’t know any better, I would think that someone on City Council was nothingbettertodo!
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November 20th 2006 - 12:04:08 |
I would assume nothingbettertodo is coming from one of the sites you mentioned kooky- the type of site that deletes comments.
Anyway, 411 is a great site. Nothingbettertodo needs a hobby – or a job.
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November 20th 2006 - 17:46:39 |
The point I am making, which went way over your heads from the first comments about the fires, is that if you have the time to trot all over Hoboken, chasing fire trucks, following police cars, listening to scanners, then racing to the scene like some kind of WHACK JOB, now you tell me, Who Needs A Job? And who has Nothingbettertodo?
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November 20th 2006 - 18:01:46 |
Nothingbettertodo wrote:
You seem to have the time to read about it and post here. I think my time is well spent. Ask the thousands of people that read this site and find it useful and informative.
I think your words pretty much sum you up pretty well!
Now if you don’t like the site, you don’t have to read it.
Later.
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November 21st 2006 - 08:29:36 |
“way off with your reporting”
Let’s review: Hoboken411 has been an incredible resource this past year – far better coverage than any local “paper” (I use that term loosely due to the crap they publish). Case in point: the recent shooting. It might surprise you, but some people are actually interested when another person is MURDERED in their town. Interestingly enough, our own MAYOR has “no comment”. You talk about ‘getting behind’ the different government/public service groups in town and ‘the work they do’, but the simple truth is that it’s a much smarter move to get behind someone who’s actually getting people from the community INVOLVED in their community. There have been some great discussions on this board about how to make this a better town and a fairly genuine sense of community – which is a hell of a lot more support than any office associated with our joke of a Mayor has offered.
I’ll leave you with one final thought – see if you can process it: our community has seen how responsible our various services can be (anyone working the night shift for the HPD these days?)…do you really blame anyone for wanting to, “trot all over Hoboken, chasing fire trucks, following police cars, listening to scanners”? We need to make sure you scumbags do the goddamn jobs that WE pay you to do!
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November 21st 2006 - 10:25:34 |
Wait so he’s criticizing Hoboken411 for having too much information and being too good of a public resource?
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November 21st 2006 - 10:53:34 |
The name says it all: “Nothingbettertodo”`
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