Boca Grande's first unit was rolling within 90 seconds of the 5:12 am alarm, firefighter Jeff Knowles told the Boca Banner.

But time had already been lost. Based on the press release sent out by Fire Chief Dave

Firefighter George Flores dousing embers to prevent a restart in the top floor of the destroyed condo building.

Edmonds the first 911 call Saturday morning came between 15 and 27 minutes after the fire was discovered. Adding to that problem the address was mistakenly first given as 550 Gasparilla Road and additional time was lost. Then the 911 screen showed the address as 5000 Gasparilla Road and firefighters were redirected there before finding the fire at 5850 Gasparilla and were on scene at 5:28 a.m.; before additional calls corrected the fire's location. 911 uses phone records for locations and Marina Village's phones are registered to parent

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