Fire Footage / Bradley Beach (tape 1)

That's about it. Did you go inside. And. It. Was just farm and spectators or just carrying them out to hear stuff. What else. Pretty pretty gruesome the most gory really going. It was it's it's a shame total shame people going out like that. OK. Could you still you spell your name. For I said Richard Warne going to spell the whole thing. Yes they are. And they were from Long Branch. OK. Thank you. Yeah. Why.

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hanging out the window. She was engulfed in flames. She was screaming and then she just fell back into the fire. And we did discover her and so the fire was put out we were able to get in and get the bodies out. So you actually went inside to bring people out. Yes. Oh I'd say about 15 20 minutes we would get a few people inside and it wasn't fire from inside and take a few bodies out. So you actually saved a few people. We had three people that we had got out and I don't know if they had lived yet but they were few and before the fire was really started and quite a few people did get out. A lot of flames a lot of smoke. Flame was mostly in front of the building and the smoke was just wrapping around the building make it hard to see and hard to find the people in the windows were people trying to come out the fire escape in the back. There was one woman just about out the window to the fire in the back row. There were quite a few people laying in the hallway and the one woman we were

able to revive her by doing CPR and I have no idea if she's still alive. Why don't you think most of the people tried to get out through the front door of the fire escape. Well we have one person we found about three feet in that front door where he was engulfed in flames just burned. And there was somebody halfway down the stairs and the fire was just all throughout the front of the building and it just got burned. It was just too quick and everybody panicked. Well they panicked put there really wasn't a lot that they could do. The flame just move too quickly. They went up to the third floor within a few minutes and. We were able to keep it in the front of the building but the smoke in the heat was just too much for that. So there was an explosion downstairs and fire smoke and then a second explosion in the same area. Yes. And it was right around the stairwell where they had found the bodies where the explosion was blew down some of the woodwork around the stairs which made it hard for us to get

up she had to go through the windows of my school. How long until everything was under control. I would say about half hour 45 minutes we had it just about down. And then we were able to go in and pull the rest of the bodies. Back. Perhaps one of the worst fears you ever seen her. Yes it is. It is. It's one of the worst and one of the most vigorous and the death toll that we've had. I understand some of the bodies were charged beyond recognition. Did you see them. Yes. It started put one woman out and this Candice started to come off. And it was just some of. We there were some where the arms were burned and some of the hands were burned. Just two Christmas song my I would say most of them died with smoke before they got burned. OK thank you. Could you spell your name. Keith. OK. That's the last name. D l l l

o d l l l l. And where are you from. I'm from Bradley Beach Fire Department. First Dates OK thanks a lot. We asked the House to try to get there. We got close to the porch and we tried to get up