Firefighters respond to fire at Hot Springs apartment


Firefighters were called to an apartment building fire. They worked to locate keys, shut off water, and suppress the fire inside. Two crews were searching for keys while ensuring safety and managing the situation.
Audio|Source: Garland County Fire Departments
05:52
Transcript:
5A dispatch rescue 2 will be responding to that. Some minutes. 5 to 805. Go ahead. I need two more people packed that if we have them. 904 and 906 are backing out. We're leaving up. Operations[2], all companies, we're taking up to two inches and leave one inch and a half on both sides, on side C and A. Take up all the other lines. We've got one company inside apartment 16 right now looking for keys. Just follow it when you come back up. I got (name withheld) and another one packing up. Safety to B-side. Keep doing what you're doing. You're blowing fire off the socket. Copy that. 4A. Operation. Operations, go ahead. We're unable to locate the keys. Can we also see if we can secure the water to this building? We've got water running inside the building. Affirmative. I'll see if I can get safety to that. Safety, can you see if you can secure water to this building? I see moving to CESA. The operation. I believe we've located the shutoff for the water room back. Operations hold up DNA. We got two crews in there. We got one looking for keys and one's going to topside looking for another animal. I was referring to the shutting the water off to the mill and I believe we got the water shut off around back here. Affirmative. Operations to the bucket. Truck 10[3], can you keep eyes on that crew? We got a crew that's going on. Your right side apartment. Permanent. All right side. See, we found those keys. Somebody bring us another small ladder, even a roof ladder of work, to the Delta side, midways down by the power pole. Operations to IC. Four B's entering the building with two men. Top floor. Just want to have to get you a ladder off another truck. Operations to one B, go and knock the door down. If you knock the door down, you can climb over it maybe. It just was. Don't get too in debt. But just knocked the door down. Shakety, the 905[4]. That orange line is deep in the middle of the house in the middle. And that, uh, where I was showing you where the soffet was on fire, you've got active fire in the windows now. Copy that. For me, you guys, be careful. Don't get through them, Dad. Just look what you can see. Rescue 2[1] is on scene, 350 Lakeland. We'll be out to 5'5. Where do you need the small water right, 905? 4A if you guys just hold up at the door and the system. We can pull the nozzle back then I was going to go in that window there. We'll wait. Operations, I see, we're not going to be able to search that floor. The whole ceiling's down. They have to climb over stuff. It's unsafe to search that top floor. Operations, Truck Pee and you guys can resume water exercise on the top side. Nine o'clock the safety, I'll be inside. Copy. I'm reaching all teams. We're taking up all the lines that one inch and a half on both sides of the building, the longest line. Yeah Jason, if you can reach that ceiling, it's right above you there at the end of that hallway. I'm so excited we're sending you water. Yeah, to go any further, I need some guys with some packs on the nozzle's right already. Hey, you can use some holes to hang it. Two hundred a day. 225, your location? Yeah, I've seen some guys. 200, 225, 229. Go ahead. What's y'all's location? Up here by engine two. Come down here, needing firefighters. Six to ice. Ah, sir, go ahead.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Rescue 2: Rescue unit responding
[2]
Operations: Incident commander/fire operations
[3]
Truck 10: Ladder truck/fire truck
[4]
905: Fire unit identifier
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Location mentioned:
Near Lakeland Dr, Hot Springs, AR 71913
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