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TITLE »  BFD fights tough fire in Brooklawn. Thursday, February 7, 2008 The story on this incident is coming soon. Until then, please see the below articles that were published on the incident. Pictures of the incident provided by 1RBN.com and PhillyFireNews.com PAFireNews.net's report on the incident. Date: 2008-02-07 Time: 07:05:00 County: Camden Town: Brooklawn Address: 414 Haakon Type: Two Alarm Dwelling Fire Details: FM-51 arrived to find a 2 story dwelling with heavy fire 1st floor and extending to the 2nd Floor. 3440 advised all hands were in service and the fire had extended to the D delta exposure and was now threw the roof of the original fire building. Requested the 2nd alarm struck and went to defensive operations. Command reported they had numerous lines in service as well as Ladder 33 and Ladder 73's main along with Squirt 32 with the bulk of the fire knocked down in the original fire building and they had heavy smoke from the attic of the D exposure. Requested an additional Engine (Chews Landing 821) and ladder (Gloucester City Quint 51) above the 2nd alarm. Used all hands. 1st Responder News's report on this incident. (1RBN.com) Stubborn two alarm blaze in Brooklawn By BILL BATES Senior Correspondent 1st Responder Network Story Number 020708125 BROOKLAWN, NJ - At 7:02 am as this correspondent was just pulling in to the local WaWa (less then a quarter mile away) the Task Force 33 (Bellmawr Park) tones were dropped for a reported dwelling fire across from the Red Carpet Inn on Route 130. Police arrived to confirm heavy fire from the front of the dwelling on the corner of Route 130 South and Haakon Road. Heavy fire was visible from the first floor and was quickly spreading to the second floor. Bellmawr's Squirt 32 was first due followed by Mount Ephraim's Rescue 45 and then Bellmawr Park's Ladder 33. All units quickly went to work. Command 3440, Camden County Fire Marshall Robert Medlar quickly utilized all hands as the fire was quickly spreading. Command struck the second alarm as the fire was through the roof and was spreading to the delta exposure. Interior crews were quickly backed out and went in to defensive operations as all residents were accounted for. The charlie division wall caved in causing the delta wall to collapse towards the charlie/delta corner of the dwelling. Bellmawr's Ladder 33 was operating on the alpha/bravo corner of the dwelling as Westville's Ladder 73 was operating on the charlie division. Units from Bellmawr, Mount Ephraim, Gloucester City, Runnemede, Barrington, Audubon, Chews Landing, Gloucester County - Westville and Deptford, were operating on scene as the blaze was placed under control just above the one hour mark at 8:04 am. Crews cleared the scene around 11 am. No civilian nor firefighter injuries were reported. The blaze is being investigated by the Camden County Fire Marshal's Office. Back Home

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