Cinema City 7
2-Alarm Fire
9-18-04

Not much flames, but a lot of smoke

Truck 9 using ladder pipe at front of building

Truck 9

Truck 8 was using its ladder pipe on the east side

Smoke coming from all the front doors of the old Cinema Theater

Front doors of Cinema 7

Hand lines at work on front of building

Line directed through main doorway

Large diameter hose was used to supply the ladder pipes on Trk 8 and Trk 9 plus the hand lines.

Smoke was showing from just about every where

Another picture of Truck 9

Firefighter going up Trk 9's aerial

Engine 9

Engine 9 was supplying Truck 8's ladder pipe

Smoke still pooring out of front of theater

Handlines continue to poor water through front doorways

Engine 8's pump operator views operations from top of rig

Engine 9

Front of Engine 9

Rehab area. Gatorade and coffee cakes provided by Signal 51. Signal 51 member Fred McClanahan bought out Kroger's bakery for the coffee cakes

Signal 51's Unit 51 was out of city doing hurricane Ivan work

It was a hot night and a lot of water and gatorade was consumed

Rehab area. Signal 51 members, Mike Gillispie and Russell Teustch watching over refreshements

Mike Gillispie responded as soon as 2nd alarm page was received

New air supply trailer was operational

It was hard pressed to keep up with supplying all the air bottles used

Air Supply trailer

The air supply trailer is brough to the scene by a district chief car.

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