Fire crews battle blaze at commercial building, Harrisburg PA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a commercial building fire near Maclay Street in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Upon arrival, crews reported heavy smoke and an active fire inside the structure. A sprinkler head had activated, and teams worked to force entry through a gate to gain access. A nearby tree contacting power lines also caught fire, causing a small brush fire. Fire crews coordinated access and water supply as they worked to locate and extinguish the flames.
Audio|Source: Dauphin County Public Safety
03:48
Transcript:
00:00
All right, we do have spoken to the initial building.
00:06
And we got a sprinkler head off.
00:08
Stand by.
00:11
Chief, we've got a working fire here.
00:17
Where do you get at?
00:20
We're at the building.
00:22
Back towards the...
00:27
Come on back here, we need to force the door.
00:32
Chief,
00:34
we're trying to get this gate open all the way to get the truck in position.
00:39
Locks 1-3 near McLeigh Street Disrupture Fire Company 1,
00:43
356.
00:50
Squad,
00:51
come to the north end of the building and the alleyway.
00:55
There's a gate back here and I believe a hydro.
00:57
We can probably get you the land back here.
01:00
Corrections south end, correction south end.
01:04
Yeah, I think at this point in prison we have a fire.
01:06
We're not sure.
01:07
To what extent,
01:08
just semi-wagon for for now.
01:14
Two-six and ten and eight.
01:22
13.
01:27
Box 13, near Clay Street, logging forward to this for commercial structure power, 3.58.
01:35
Is you copy coming the alleyway off of the south end, the gate should be open.
01:39
There should be a hydrogen there.
01:42
Copy.
01:44
Cap, let me know what we got.
01:49
He has lots of smoke, no fire yet.
01:57
The guy's working on getting the gate on a standby.
02:06
26, Captain 3.
02:08
What do you have? Don't get you deep in there before we get some mortar back here.
02:15
I'm still trying to locate the fire.
02:17
I hear a sprinkler head off.
02:19
I'm about halfway into the road.
02:25
I achieve 38th on location.
02:28
I do have a tree that's touching up wire and it's burning at the top and the bottom.
02:35
And I do have a brush fire starting.
02:37
Can you go ahead and dispatch attack 38 and I'll give you a full number for PPNL? We're going to get them here quickly.
02:45
Chief three, (name withheld).
02:47
One second three, is that a working on, what's you got back there?
02:55
We're gonna split lay here, have the other unit pick it up off of the McLeigh Street.
03:06
Squad driver, you copy that.
03:08
They went to the split lane into them,
03:10
off in the back alley.
03:12
See it from the captain.
03:14
Go ahead, Cap.
03:20
The truck team driver,
03:22
myself,
03:24
and the candidate has owned that up.
03:26
We have a sprinkler head off, we have the center of the building.
03:29
We're still trying to actually locate the fire itself.
03:33
All right, Cam, I need to know what we're starting to work with.
03:35
What do we have, Vernon, and what area of the building we can start working at? It's like a position apparatus.
03:42
The candidate is working in a way in a little further.
03:45
We think the fire's not down.
03:46
We're about halfway through the building.
Disclaimer:
This transcript was automatically generated and may contain inaccuracies. Please verify the information independently.
Location mentioned:
Near Maclay St, Harrisburg, PA 17103
This shows a Google Street View of the area near the location, which might not be the exact address.
Correct
Incorrect
