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纽约Daily News
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Firefighters faced a perfect storm of conflagration as a smoky blaze tore through a Bronx tenement, killing 17 people including eight children, and by all accounts did all they possibly could.
It didn’t help that COVID-19 had thinned the ranks of responding firefighters, or that apartment doors may have been broken or left open, or that there was no sprinkler system in the building when火灾爆发了星期天。
“I talked to many veteran firefighters who said it was the worst fire they had ever been to in their lives,” Andrew Ansbro, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York, said Monday.
“The members that operated yesterday did so with the utmost heroism in the traditions of the FDNY. Unfortunately, not all fires have a positive outcome, and not everyone makes it out. It’s horrible. This fire is something that will live with them forever.”
Even when the oxygen ran out of their tanks, and they were on their knees trying to suck in air off the floor from below the thick, black smoke, the tired firefighters pressed on rescuing residents separated from their families, Ansbro said.
omicron Variant已经侧向他们的一些消防队，但在攀登角度梯子或曼宁沉重的软管之前没有188金博网网址多少人倒计头。
“数百名居民被淘汰了建筑物，这是一些耻辱，许多居民屈服于他们对毒性烟雾的接触，”消防官员总裁詹姆斯·麦卡锡说。“我们的成员遵循他们的训练，并尽可能多地挽救了这一事件。”
官员表示，一个空间加热器归咎于沿着E. 181st St. Tiebout Ave附近的1911号公寓楼的升降的早晨火灾归咎于临近的火灾。
The fire — the city’s deadliest since the 1990 blaze at the Bronx’s Happy Land Social Club — quickly tore through the building and sent thick black smoke through hallways and apartment units.
超过30人被赶到地区医院，威胁危及生命伤害。
The fire, which went to five alarms, was also one of the more difficult ones to fight. The cylinders that firefighters strap on their backs have about 45 minutes worth of air in them, with an alarm that goes off when they’re down to about 10 minutes.
But teams were ignoring the alarms, rescuing residents from every floor of the building, even as dense smoke darkened every hallway and stairwell.
“Many of the firefighters in this incident operated while those alarms were going off and pushing the envelope as close as possible to running out of air, and some did, just to try to save as many lives as possible,” McCarthy said.
Ansbro said firefighters have ways to conserve air and slow down their breathing.
“At that point they’re just tolerating an intolerable condition to get the job done,” he said
The heroism took its toll. One firefighter received oxygen treatment in a hyperbaric chamber and recovered. Another suffered a burn to his neck.
McCarthy说，消防员们对他们的作品面对他们的工作，但这一个对他们来说。联盟官员表示，他们鼓励成员寻求咨询，以帮助他们应对压力和生命丧失。
“这个悲剧，有很多因素涉及，”麦卡锡说。“试图指出手指不是我们在这里做的事情。我们始终倡导全体人员的发动机公司，以更快地获得软管线，并将有助于拆除受害者。
“Everything in our business is ‘seconds count’ and having more people on hand always makes a difference.”
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