Photo Story: N.H. Apartment Fire Reaches Three Alarms

Dec. 23, 2014

Manchester firefighters assisted a family from their apartment during a three-alarm fire early Sunday morning.

At 3:20 a.m. crews were dispatched to 65 Log Street for a reported building fire. The Fire Alarm Office notified the responding district chief that multiple calls were being received.

Engine 2 was first-due and reported heavy fire showing from the D-side of the building.

The District Chief arrived and quickly transmitted the second and third alarms. He reported heavy fire on the first floor of a large three-story, brick and wood occupied apartment building.

Firefighters found occupants who were still evacuating and searchers found two adults and a child sleeping and assisted them out a window to the parking lot.

Additional crews stretched several handlines to the fire apartment and they quickly knocked down the flames engulfing the apartment. They found extension to the upper floor and attic. 

As conditions in the attic deteriorated due to heavy fire, the District Chief ordered all firefighters to evacuate the building.

Firefighters used master streams and several handlines to knock down the heavy fire conditions in the attic. 

It took firefighters about two hours to bring the fire under control.

Two firefighters suffered minor injuries.

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