3RD ALARM: Allentown Firefighters Battle Apartment Building Fire on 17th Street

At 17:00 hours Allentown transmitted box 2416 17th and Hamilton for an apartment building fire located at 6 North 17th Street sending Engines 10, 4, 9, Truck 1, Engine 11 (F.A.S.T.) and Battalion 2.
Moments later, fire dispatch advised of possible entrapment. Battalion 2 special-called Truck 2 for the 2nd truck on the box. Engine 10 arrived and reported heavy smoke showing and signaled a working fire in the roof of the 3-story Queen Anne style building. Engine 10 stretched two hand lines to the 3rd floor.
Battalion 2 struck the 2nd alarm after arriving sending Engines 14 and 13. As crews discovered heavy fire in the walls of the 3rd floor and fire above them, Battalion 2 had the 3rd alarm transmitted, sending Engine 6.
Engine 10 positioned on 17th Street while Truck 1 positioned on Hamilton Street. Truck 2 came in behind Engine 10 and backed in on the yard to the rear of the building. Truck 2 reported heavy smoke pushing from the roof. Primary searches came up negative.
As crews found fire on the 2nd floor, command had fire dispatch hit the tones to evacuate the building. The roof was slate which made it more difficult to do roof ops. The temperatures outside were around 30 degrees with windy conditions. The fire burned for more than two hours before firefighters could bring it under control.
The building was built in 1924 and is over 4,700 square feet.
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[@tony98685]

Nice footage. I caught the first part of your live and went back and watched the rest of the live later. Quite a fire

[@ronfreniere8769]

Yeah you could tell that it was windy, hopefully there were no injuries to anyone related to this incident.
Thank you to all firefighters everywhere for protecting the citizens of your coverage area.

[@neilroberts7589]

Great work, love the videos

[@jeffreyreinhard7542]

Good Job On Video Bill

[@cheebandfc]

NICE WORK FD saving that beautiful old building!

[@nayanpanchal39]

Great video billy

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

I warned them very early on that they need to get master stream on this quick or the whole roof would be involved.
Sure enough they were very slow with the stream and fire starts showing on Bravo side.
Then the whole roof gets involved, just like I predicted!

[@FireRescue80]

Nice video bud.

[@samrock7632]

Looking at the steep pitch on the slate roof and temps below freezing with all the water, not a safe place to be up on. AFD got a good workout on this one, glad they didn't have another worker going at the same time. Thanks for NEWSWORKING bringing us another great video.

[@jeffreyreinhard7542]

Good Job On Video Bill