February 12, 2007
ADDRESS: 1070 Delsea Drive (Delsea Plaza)
TIME OF ALARM: 01:32
INCIDENT #: 07-004345
Station 9-2 and Rescue 938 were dispatched at 01:32 to Frank's Pizza, 1070 Delsea Drive for a building fire. 9201 (B/C Thomas) arrived on location to find fire in a one story taxpayer. He stuck the all hands box at 01:38 adding two FAST Teams, (E911 & E511), the air unit (947), L936, two squads, the FMO, gas and electric utilities and placing the covers in the station.
The second alarm was requested at 01:38 bringing E731, E931, L946 as well as re-covering the open stations. An additional FAST Team (E631) was dispatched at 02:14.
The third alarm was requested at 02:18 bringing the cover companies (E941, Camden Co. E451, Camden County L82, Camden County R84) to the scene and re-covering the open stations,
With the manpower pool depleted, the fourth alarm was requested at 02:43 adding E1311, L516, and Camden County E33 from the covers. In addition, Camden County L51 (Gloucester City) was called in to replace L33 which was out of service.
Assistance was received from the following companies to cover the empty stations on the fourth alarm: Ladder 2246 (Sewell), Engine 2831 (Pitman), Camden County Quint 91 (Barrington).
The fire was fed by leaking natural gas lines that took 3 1/2 hours to be secured.
ALL PHOTOS BY JIM BONNER (VC-9)
