As a firefighter currently, I watch every one of your videos!!! Thank you

JJ, Awesome shots of a sad day for the parishioners of that congregation! Thoughts and prayers to everyone on this Holy Day of obligation. I’am sure your day was made with the group photo of you and the Senior Staff in the “ Borough of Brooklyn “ ! TY for your service to all that follow YOU !!! 👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I love how you always get us the best possible view of the work being done. Those hero firefighters are fearless. By the way happy resurrection day

Excellent coverage JJ… sad day but a blessed day…what a Lt. to fall then bounce back looking for the mayday! God Bless the NYFD

Thank you so much, John, for the exceptional video. You work so hard to give us the most complete coverage possible. May God bless you and keep you safe. Thank you all of FDNY for the amazing work that you always do, In gaining control and extinguishing the fires. Thank you EMS for always being there to care for and treat all Members and civilians. The best care possible. Prayers to all parishioners and members of this congregation whose place of worship was damaged by this unfortunate incident. To all the injured today, prayers for a quick and complete recovery. Please everyone stay safe and healthy. Blessings to you all.

Thanks JJ for another very great job of covering FDNY fighting a major fire. Your roof coverage and narration of these events are always top notch coverage!!

JJ excellent video! I am glad that the FDNY was able to confine the fire primarily to the rectory. Thanks for your efforts, Ken K

Not having many big fires to cover is a good thing!

Caught this fir on my Scanner Radio app this afternoon when a 4th alarm was requested. Great capture...Thanks John That pipe you referenced is a Vent Pipe for Drain, Waste & Vent plumbing.

Sad indeed on Easter 😢 Sunday .. Best wishes and prayers for the Pastor n congregation .. Thank you, JJ and Happy Easter 🐣 to you as well !

A tough day for FDNY, this is another great video. Stay warm and well

No holiday for you ! Thanks J.J. For another great job!

Nice work jj, Sad to see, specially on Easter.

Yes JJ, you would be a super chief! Thank you, Happy Easter! God Bless you! Love from Maryland!❤

Thank you John for your hard work and dedication. Happy Easter to you and your family. God Bless and please stay safe, brother 10 -4

Excellent footage John! May God bless you, all the displaced parishioners, and the FDNY.

Prayers for the church and it's Congregation 🙏. Thanks JJ for a great video, nice roof angle..stay safe..great job 👍 FDNY..God bless

Happy Easter to you and your family JJ. Great job as always. Can’t see Dep Chief Pfeifer with out thinking of his brother and all the brothers and sisters lost on 9/11. Heroes one and all.🇺🇸🚒🐄

A really stubborn and complex fire!! Great video and excellent views!! Thanks, JJ and Happyu Easter!~

A fire in any structure is devastating in its own, but when that structure is a church, that takes things up a notch. Amazing coverage as usual John. The FDNY may as well go ahead and give you your own fire coat and make you their official cameraman. Great job by the members of getting to the church quickly and getting this fire fought.

Great coverage. Thanks for the effort to get a good video.

JJ your videos never disappoint I was listening to Brooklyn when this fire happened and for few hours it felt like the war years Brooklyn was crazy today.

Happy Easter. We really appreciate you covering the fires for all of us. Thank you

nicely done vid JJ, prayers for the congregation and those affected by this fire, "Our Lady of Pompeii we pray to you" 🙏

Great coverage JJ. Love the photos at the end😊

So sad on Easter. Thankfully no serious injuries. I like the group photos. Great video JJ.

Good coverage and thanks again John!

When you concentrate on covering disasters, sign of inactivity signals fewer disasters and should be welcomed by all.

Magnificent video JJ. Even though you arrived late you got a lot of action. I hope all the injured recover quickly.

excellent coverage .. thank you

Great job JJ. Happy Easter 🐰 to you and the NYFD

as always you do a great job you always explain whats going on any you been doing this a long time so you know whats going on and walk thru step buy step what and why happen as a retired firemen up sate keep up the good you do

Holy cow.. I was listening to this on my scanner app, now I have a visual to it. 😱

Great angle John...you're doing a great job.

Awesome video JJ. The brothers did a great job keeping the fire contained to the rectory. Nice photos with some top FDNY brass at the end!

Great to see Chief Pfeifer, what a man! Respect all of you. Greetings from Colombia.

Love your videos thank you

Great video John very difficult fire to distinguish FDNY did a great job containing it and putting it out

Great coverage.

Glad to see you are still at it John. Great filming!

Is that a fire wall between the buildings. I miss your post,but glad no big fires. That means everyone is safe. JJ being up on the other building the feet are dry 🚒👍🚒👍

Awesome coverage John. This seems to be a tough one for FDNY on Easter Sunday sadly. Hope no injuries at the end of this...🤗🤗

Wow john, this video was fantastic. You always do such a great job with angles..wishing those with injuries make a speedy recovery. Take care. 🇬🇧 edit:- Fantastic job by FDNY, EMS NYPD and all of the others supporting each other in this mammoth fire.

Happy Easter To You And Yours John!! The Zeal, The Giddiness, Your Young Child Awe Of These Videos Is Contagious!!! I Hope You're Well, And Dry!! Keep Um Coming Brother!!! P.S. Where Da R.A.C. At? Oh Dare Da R.A.C At!!!!!!!! LOL Take Care!!

Awesome video !! You always do a great job!! Them hose lines look charged there pulling up onto the roof that’s a tough one versus not charged .

Did you happen to see the name of the FF on the adjacent roof? Hossanah!

Happy Easter great coverage

great video as always... Your video fan from Cleveland Ohio

Great video as always

I always say it you are the best of the best my friend . Hope you had a great Easter. Stay safe .

Thanks for another great video JJ. I'm following you from Hazleton, Pennsylvania. My nextdoor neighbors son is with an engine company in Queens.

Great job as always. I'm glad you sound much better i was concerned for ya. That was so much asbestos.

I'm back Maj 👋 i have a lot of vids to get thru. You're getting the best angles as always, which means you're still the #1 NYC fire buff 😘

Happy Easter Jonathan and Skyler.

Great video John! Great views and angles. I was hoping to see Chief Moore on scene and about 10 minutes later there he was, seems to be everywhere. Stay safe John. 🚒🇺🇸

Happy Easter, JJ! Your coverage of this fire was exceptional as always! Glad that the incidents have slowed down. But, this certainly made up for it! We missed you. But, not the risks and destruction! Watch out for any sneaky Nor’easters!! ❤️‍🔥🚒❤️‍🔥

Excellent vid, as always, John! I was wondering if Chief Esposito was there and just as I thought that, he shows up and shakes your hand. That shows friendship and respect and you've earned that with all your great work. Nice shot there at the end with you and the chiefs, then Skyler and the chiefs. I enjoy your videos; you do a great job with different angles (including roof where I would NEVER go. lol). Take care of yourself and stay safe out there, my friend.

I take note of it sir. THANKS !

Oh my It’s really cooking. Happy Easter JJ

Very Nice! Happy Easter!

Excellent coverage my friend this was definitely a difficult one to fight saw some familiar faces that we haven’t seen in sometime now but once again you did a phenomenal job 2N2 1:00:07

JJ and Skyler, hope your both well. mate FDNY should just put some resources with you guys because when you bounce around you find some amazing vantage points, and tactically where you guys get too often a good hose line would be very effective :P stay safe brothers and carry on doing what your doing.

They rotate crews way too much, my city does not do that. They ( FDNY ) always let the fire get an advantage over them with stopping the water as soon as they get a handle on it. I see it over and over again. The fire is roaring again and have tons of guys standing around. God bless them. That’s my opinion.

Excellent video JJ You would make a great chief --- Debbie

Looks like a lot of firefighters got new coats. Great job covering this fire John.

5th alarm in a church on Easter. No words for that

Nobody does it better or more professionally than you, J.J.

Great job Awesome coverage JJ.Stay Safe Bro

JJ Happy Easter to upu and your family.

That firefighter that went through the floor and went up again was a very brave one wow, they did a great job there, very nice footage John thnx.

Church fires are never good (for the church) FDNY is amazing, thanks for the video!

Great video d MM stay safe and happy Easter

Great video jj happy Easter 🐰 🐣

Joseph Pfeifer ❤

Wonderful job j j

Happy Easter!John

Hi John. It's always heartbreaking to see a church go up in flames. I hope the parish is able to rebuild. Thanks for the great coverage as well. Happy Easter, my friend.

Excellent coverage of the fire..outside video

Liked and shared

hey Brother John...who was that rock star with all the chiefs in a still pic near the video's end...was that the chauffer of Sq99...well done bro..plz be careful

Hope you had a good Easter. We all love you stay well.

Thanks John. I especially enjoyed seeing the team work in pulling the 2nd line onto the roof. When did you get the dog? Very cute ❤

Thanks JJ for your coverage. Such a shame.

FDNY AWESOM GREAT JOB

Reading the news about this fire and all injuries were minor and it happened in the middle of Mass! Thankfully the heroes of the FDNY saved the main Church. The craziest thing was a mayday was called for one of the firefighters falling through the floor. He got out but when he heard the Mayday he didn’t know if was for himself and he wanted to rush back in…crazy! The FDNY truly are heroes! God bless all of them! From the article: Fr. Marin says when smoke began wafting into the service, nearly 200 parishioners evacuated safely while he went to try to put it out with a fire extinguisher - but the flames were starting to eat through the second floor, which was crumbling. "And the floor collapsed," Fr. Marin said. He tells Eyewitness News that is when he knew he needed to get out. Firefighters were there quickly and were having their own trouble with the collapsing second floor. One firefighter fell through a hole, prompting others to issue a mayday call, fearing he was hurt. "He didn't realize that the mayday was for him, so he bounced up off the floor, came in and wanted to run back up the stairs to address the mayday issue. But not realizing that the mayday was himself, he was unhurt, thank God, and he was able to continue to fight the fire," said FDNY Assistant Chief Michael Myers.

It truly was an Easter miracle that nobody was seriously hurt or even killed. Hope you had a great Easter, God bless!

Oh SNAP, JJ has a new fire!!!

A happy Easter John. Leo

Great video , but when they rotate the tower laddersthe fire went a lot bigger , i am thinking over here why do they rotate and not pit in futrher down first , they where getting a good handle on it.

Oh! This is Very very Sad ! :( Speedy recovery to the injuries!

Your move to the roof was a good one. It gave us a perfect view of where the action was. Unfortunately, none of the crews on the roof near the fire building had a good angle because of the angled roof that slanted the roof away from them and under that roof was where massive amounts of fire was burning. Only the tower ladders including 163 from Woodside, Queens could find appropriate angles to hit the fire directly......Well done, JJ.

GREAT COVERAGE! Stop apologizing. Furthermore, we know darn well you can be two places at once, it's how you get all the best footage. Terrible loss, especially on Easter Sunday. God bless the clergy and congregation at that church, and the community they serve.

Wow!!! What and Honor to get a picture with Chief Pfeifer!!

For those who don’t know, a rectory is the home of the religious people who run the church. In a non Catholic Church it’s the home of the minister and his or her family. In a Catholic Church, it’s the home of the priests and any monks or nuns associated with the church. Each of the windows on the upper floor could have been a home of a priest, etc. As this rectory was very large, I suspect it was also a community meeting space and perhaps an outreach for the homeless.

I was listening to the radio traffic here in Indiana.

I loved seeing that thin blue line flag flying on the back of TL 163

Thanks for another video. I gotta say. 32 minutes in and I find command confusing. Let’s move ladder 124 to another spot and put 120 in the spot of 124. Why not leave 124 there and put the other ladder where 124 is to go. lol. A different link came my way at on KZfaq. The Russian firefighter. An it is amazing to watch how they put fires out. No safety is how they go about it. They get as close as possible as well as walking on the roof that is on fire. But they sure get the job done fast.

to my understanding the reason the exterior attacks stopped and paused was becuase 1, crew rotations, and 2, there were crews inside the structure including one of the chief's, you can't be pouring all that water plus a high pressured tower cannon on the roof wile people are inside, from the roof, you can't see what is going on on the other side of the building., also don't just watch the video LISTEN to his radio, you can HEAR what the chiefs are saying, and 3. to see WHERE the fire is currently seated, as well as to see weather or not the fire is being gas fed by a natural gas line which is often the cause of the stubbornness of many fires and reoccurring flareups

Chief Moore got a promotion? Now he’s deputy assistant chief! 🎉

Why does it look like they brought up three charged lines? The weight of the water in the lines makes it hard then heck to bring them up