At 9:23 pm on August 31, 2009, units from Long Beach Fire Department responded to an apartment fire in the 500 block of Daisy Ave.\u00a0 Engine 3 arrived on scene within 3 minutes from the time of dispatch and determined that they had a rear apartment above garages well involved in fire.\u00a0 By standers in front of the address (533 Daisy Ave) shouted to the arriving companies that they believed there were 2 children still inside the burning apartment.\u00a0 Engine 3 crewmembers rapidly stretched a hose line and began attacking the fire while being backed up by Engine 2 and Engine 101.\u00a0 Firefighters from Truck 1 used chainsaws to open the roof in an effort to confine the fire to the area of origin and provide greater visibility to fire attack and rescue crews.\u00a0 Initial entry and extinguishment efforts were slowed due to a large amount of combustibles stored inside the apartment.\u00a0 A thorough search of the apartment was conducted simultaneously with the initial fire attack.\u00a0 Fortunately, no victims were found inside.\u00a0 Units responding to this fire were Engine 3, Engine 2, Engine 101, Engine 10, Engine 20, Truck 1, Rescue 1, BC 1, and Arson 4.\u00a0 There were no reports of injuries to citizens or to firefighters.\u00a0 This incident occurred in city council district 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At 9:23 pm on August 31, 2009, units from Long Beach Fire Department responded to an apartment fire in the 500 block of Daisy Ave.\u00a0 Engine 3 arrived on scene within 3 minutes from the time of dispatch and determined that they had a rear apartment above garages well involved in fire.\u00a0 By standers in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}