Incident Diary: Banana Incident
On the evening of September 15th, 2014 at approximately
2149 hours, ME74 was dispatched to the area of 13800 block
of Slover Ave/Banana Ave for a reported “Improvement Fire”.
The initial CAD notes depicted several pallets and a tire on fire.
The temperature was in the low 90’s with moderate humidity
and no wind.
While en route, ME-74, under the command of Captain Myers,
noted heavy smoke showing from Cherry Ave/Jurupa Ave.
He requested the assignment be balanced to a full first alarm
commercial structure fire response.
The balance of the assignment consisted of BC-125, MT-77,
MS-77, ME-71, MT-71 and ME-72. An additional squad was
added to the assignment as per standard, adding MS-72 to the
response. I also moved ME-79 to Station 71. In addition, it
should be noted that BE-75 and BE-76 had just been assigned
to Strike Team 6270-C for the King Fire.
ME-74 arrived and was flagged down by a business owner
directing them to a lot directly off of Slover Ave, the sight of a
previous Pallet Yard fire several years ago. ME-74 proceeded
to the rear of the lot; however,