Lithium battery explosion causes garage fire at home


Audio|Source: Portland Area Fire and Rescue
02:57
Transcript:
C7's arrived. We've got a two-story wood frame residence. There's nothing showing at this time. C-710 if you arrived, can you make contact with a citizen there and do a 360? C-7 copies, or C-710 copies 360. C-7 copy arrived. Two-story wood frame residence, nothing's showing. It's 937. I think 312 arrived. 312 arrives, 9.30. Just proceed past us here, 4 turn around and head out. Stage there. Command, 2.7. Yes, command, go ahead. Talking to the residence here, confirmed lithium battery, it blew up. They do have it out now, but... I recommend a engine company to bring a cannon. I copy. Engine 72 from command. Teach you to go investigate. Sounds like we got a lithium battery in the garage. 72 copies. Agent 71's arrived. All companies are command. Assume level one staging on Roberts. Stand by. Medic 310 is on scene. Command, C7-10. There's command, go ahead. Yeah, we have a laptop on the back porch. No extensions recommend recall in the box. You can keep one engine company. Command copy. And do we have any injuries at all? Negative, no injuries. Command copies and dispatch from command, we're going to recall box 72-63. We're going to keep engine 72. All their companies can clear. You can have back ops four. They'll go back to ops one. There's a recall box 72-63 at 1373, Southeast Liberty. Engine seven-two remaining ops four is cleared. Signed for you. The aggression has been recalled. 172 is handling everyone else returning service ops for us in all under news. This information is 940. Information on a recall of box 7263, Structure Fire reported at 1373, Southeast Liberty Avenue. Keeping engine 74 working. 4 is clear at 948.
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Location mentioned:
Near SE Liberty Ave, Gresham, OR 97080
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