At 6:15 AM a major collapse response was dispatched to 71 Reade Street for a reported building collapse. Upon arrival Battalion 1 transmitted a 10-60 for a pancake collapse of the building. Squad 18 operated for over 4 hours.

A parking valet mistakenly drove a car out of the 4th window of a parking garage at 3:30 pm. The 2009 Mercedes-Benz GL450 fell 3 floors, landing on the roof of the building in the rear. The vehicle had to be hoisted by crane to remove it from the roof.

Squad Co 18 members carrying flags to remember the brothers lost on 09-11-01

A three-alarm fire broke out last night on the second floor of a 30-story office tower under construction at 510 Madison Avenue at 53rd Street.

A phone alarm was recieved shortly before 10:30 PM and went under control at 2:00 AM the next morning.

Busy day in the neighborhood. Of the 5 fires Squad 18 responded to, one was a first due job, another a 2nd alarm, and another in Brooklyn. Additionally Squad 18 responded to the plane in the hudson, aboard a high speed ferry.

Squad 18 was turned out on phone calls for a top floor fire at 526 East 11th Street. Fire was located in the cockloft and bulkhead of the non-fireproof old law tenement.

With the winter season upon us the falling snow, salt and accumulating water cause numerous manhole fires. This is due to the corrosion of the insulation on the high voltage wires and transformers under the street.

Squad 18 was turned out at 2113 hours for smoke from a manhole, at the corner of West 10th and 6th Ave. Upon arrival a heavy smoke condition was emanating from the transformer vault. Additionally smoke was showing from one of the buildings. Fire was first discovered in the basement of 108 West 10th. Fire was also discovered in 102, 104, 106 and 110 West 10th street in basements first and second floors. A second alarm was transmitted around 2200 hours.

These buildings are a part of an extremely unusual, interesting and historic triangular shaped corner of the West Village as they are bounded on one side by Patchin Place and Mulligan Place on the other.

Mulligan Place is an alley that is identified only by cast iron script on top of its narrow gate on Sixth Avenue north of Tenth Street. The four buildings in this cul-de-sac were built in 1852 as second-class boarding houses for waiters (primarily Basque) working at the nearby Brevoort House hotel. These vintage homes were built on the property of Samuel Milligan, the original owner. Milligan's daughter Isobel married his surveyor, Aaron Patchin, who is remembered by Patchin Place.

Patchin Place, on West 10th Street (formerly Amos Street) just west of Sixth Avenue, is more conventionally laid out that its partner Milligan Place in that it's a straight cul de sac without Milligan's odd angles. No one except Patchin Place residents get to see it because of the locked iron gate, but Patchin Place affords one of Greenwich Village's most picturesque views of the old Jefferson Market court, formerly adjacent to a women's prison and today a library. Famous residents of Patchin Place have included poet E.E. Cummings and authors John Reed and Theodore Dreiser. Patchin Place also contains NYC's last functioning gaslamp (below). The lamp dates back to the gaslight era and has since been electrified.

The members of Squad 18 would like to thank everyone who has helped and expressed their concern for the members who were involved in the recent accident. The members who were injured are all doing better, and will hopefully all be back to work soon.

An elevator in midtown dropped two floors with 6 occupants. The elevator car was secured using rail clamps and slings and the occupants were removed via the roof hatch to the second floor.