City of Troy: One Person Rescued and One Firefighter Injured At A Early Morning Third Alarm Fire

Just after 5:30 AM the city of Troy’s Fire Department was dispatched for a reported structure fire at 494 2nd Avenue . On arrival, firefighters had smoke showing from the structure and transmitted the signal thirty for a working structure fire. Firefighters made their way to the second floor where they found a individual that was still in the building and got them out to their vehicle. Firefighters were attempting to make an aggressive push to knock down the fire, but the fire took off on them.

Heavy fire began to blow through the roof of the structure where firefighters were venting the trapped super heated gases and quickly began to spread, and the truck company made their way back to the bucket. Fire quickly began to spread to the attached structure next door and command transmitter the second alarm bringing additional resources to the city of Troy. Firefighters on scene faced extremely cold conditions with temperatures hovering around 30 with the windchill factor. Hand lines began to rapidly freeze, and their air bottles were beginning to freeze to their air packs where they could not get them off to change the air bottles.

Conditions continue to rapidly change as firefighters could not keep up with a heavy fire load. Firefighters on scene attempted to make an aggressive interior attack on the adjacent fire building, but were pushed out of the building as the roof started to collapse. Firefighters went to a defensive operation for an extended period of time before making their way back inside. Command deemed the structure unsafe and had all firefighters. Continue extensive defense of operations for the rest of the morning. One firefighter was transported to Samaritan hospital with injuries, that firefighter is expected to be OK.