Firefighters battling fire at hoarding affected home, Hughestown PA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters are responding to a house fire near Rock St in Hughestown. The fire is in a heavily hoarded home, making access difficult. The roof over the garage is unsafe to enter. Firefighters are facing water supply problems due to broken hydrants and lost water pressure. No one has entered the building beyond a few feet because of heavy fire in the attic and unsafe conditions.
Audio|Source: Luzerne County Fire - Fire South and Operations Channels
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Transcript:
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One, forty-three-hundred.
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On the scene.
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257.
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165-166, 166.
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Charge to Hyger.
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Oh, I'm trying to get the cap off.
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Give me two seconds.
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Ten foot.
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166 chief to the attack line.
00:39
Okay,
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I'm having a hard time getting water, so I'm going to have to let you know.
00:48
Chief,
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I'm going to get a two and a half to five and come off one of the two and a half.
01:02
To the F-4 to command.
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Operations from the Division 2.
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For the F-4 operations.
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In the extreme hoarding conditions, we take it in the door.
01:20
All right, 10-4[1].
01:23
Don't go in there yet, we're having water issues.
01:29
All right.
01:35
226-148
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226 for the command.
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26, me calling.
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226 showford operations.
01:54
I see. Okay,
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be advised the roof on the D side side over the garage is unsafe.
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The roof on the D delta side, 10 floor.
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165-166, we're opening the hydrant.
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Headforth.
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All units from operations, still we get water, nobody enters the building.
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226 to come in.
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Go ahead.
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We're all on the structure. We couldn't get more than 3 feet in.
02:53
You have heavy fire in the attic blown out on our Charlie side.
03:00
All right, 10-4[1]. Are you, you're not in the building, are you?
03:07
Negative, we're on a lot.
03:10
All right, that's what.
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165 to 166.
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You're gonna lose your water again.
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The cap blew off.
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I'm going back to the hydrant.
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What was that much?
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The 5-inch cap that we couldn't get off,
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just blew off, halfway back up, so we're gonna get this from back up.
03:37
You're gonna lose water for two minutes.
03:44
Alan, we're going to have to get a different water supply. This hydrant itself broke.
03:50
Okay, operations.
03:52
We need to get another line from another hydrant.
03:56
Alright, ten four.
03:58
One six six to Luzerne. Give me an additional engine on this and let's find a secondary water supply.
04:09
Ted Ford.
04:10
Your best I can do is going to be near Rock St in Hughestown unless you want to pull it from Laurel, but it'll be farther away.
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Okay, one-sixth command.
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God.
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Next two engines the CAD pulls is 148 and 165.
04:34
I did hit the off-duty tones. You want to go with them or go to the last one?
04:39
Just go to the last one, have them come down Rock Street from Hughestown.
04:43
They're probably going to have to finish Hughestown's way. They're going to start it.
04:47
And also go to my next new rip, please.
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And four...
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1666 Command was there.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgement / Affirmative / Message received
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Near Rock St, Hughestown, PA 18640
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