Fire at scrapyard near Knopp Ave with people trapped, Louisville KY
Fire & ArsonMultiple fire departments are responding to an active fire near Knopp Avenue. People are trapped inside the affected buildings. The fire is spreading with fuel involved and impacting a scrapyard nearby. Fire crews are working to cut off the fire spread and rescue those trapped.
Audio|Source: Louisville MetroSafe Suburban Fire 5 - 8, Okolona Tac 80
08:52
Transcript:
00:02
That's right, Ray. The rescue group is heading back there right now.
00:05
Engine turning is closer to 45-664 or 45-47?
00:10
Check on both until I don't other companies get back to you.
00:15
4547, 4564.
00:16
Both have a course of people trapped.
00:20
This is any command.
00:21
We just passed through this. We're walking up now.
00:26
Most division leader,
00:28
Louisville 25, we do not have access to NOP from Great Lane. Best access is going to be probably restroom to through ABLE or through an adjacent property office. No.
00:41
2.5 is okay. What have they got to do to get back there?
00:44
Let me know if you don't need any more help.
00:47
4547, 45664.
00:57
She found the radio. You're on a file with 4564 or 4547.
01:02
I've done to shelter place and look for us.
01:05
We're looking through the building.
01:09
Engine 20 acts to the company that use the blitz charge.
01:13
I cannot charge that blitz. I have 20 on my compound gauge.
01:18
My intake holds this off.
01:24
Six yet.
01:30
Okay.
01:36
Sharon, now that I'm aware of.
01:39
All right, myself,
01:41
and one engine from Jefferson Town with the engine 54 or short, and we're going to laptop engine, or station 76, for covers.
01:49
I'm okay.
01:54
Tenth of a mile on your left.
01:57
It's going to be 4547 and 4564.
02:02
All right please, I'll go.
02:04
We have a great place. North Division.
02:08
Go ahead.
02:13
We're never going to get to 3564 Knop.
02:17
4564 Knop goes with 25 tracks in the building there.
02:26
The city company and engine 77 is walking down Melton and going to cut across them to get another side of the fire break.
02:34
Radio 2 command.
02:40
G4 L of Calvines.
02:42
Okay.
02:44
Ready and out of loop. I've got to join the air with thermal. There's a link to the view circulating.
02:48
City command post for a link to the view for lateral pipe operators.
02:56
He's trying to the engine 20 W.
03:03
Are you doing a half an issue?
03:08
That's correct.
03:15
Radio two remains.
03:19
All right, I've got one report per arson said near Knopp Ave is currently on fire.
03:24
Near Knop is on fire.
03:30
I get that.
03:31
Okay.
03:33
The massive is you all that.
03:38
Engine 7,001 grade lane at the corner of grade lane and Knopf, if they search the negative.
03:55
2497 to battalion three
03:58
Point 186, the radio on fire 6. Point 186.
04:06
Show us on service station 86.
04:10
Point 1826 at 1820.
04:18
Radio to commands.
04:23
Point 79 to command.
04:30
Chief 803D, Chief 8. If you can coordinate the way you want those two companies with command, we'll get them back to you.
04:40
First 79 command. You guys, you won't be swifted out to a smoothboard.
04:47
The next five one seventy-nine.
05:02
Airport C2, Card 6-1.
05:11
Airport C2, Congress 6-1. The 23 is Shepardsville, Quint.
05:22
You drop your nozzle straight down, go right,
05:27
and put all those cars out below you.
05:32
No one of the officer command.
05:33
I have Shepherdsville heading to Knop Avenue address with fire impingement and people trapped.
05:44
Motion 73W to Chief 81.
05:48
Chief 81, go ahead.
05:52
We're going to have one obvious 1080 in the scrapyard right here across from our engine.
06:00
I'm okay, are y'all on the other side of the engine down by itself?
06:04
We've got 73 and 62.
06:07
We've evacuated everybody coming in from the waste means and side of the Wasteenstein 3 Waste Man Street to Everwood.
06:15
I'm okay. Can you work on fire operations down there?
06:19
On the north side of the street, the direction that that area, or that, what, master street flowing?
06:25
Yes, we can handle this operation.
06:28
Scrapyards are decently involved. We're going to try to cut the fire off on the right-hand side of the middle-cloth building.
06:36
Ready, Winston-73?
06:40
Go ahead.
06:41
Where did you advise that 1080 was?
06:48
Yeah, I think we're going to have multiple.
06:50
I think we've located at least two that I'm gathering from this point on Melton, haven't it?
06:55
Okay, do we have an address on Melton for those? The engine 71.
07:01
Can we just east of Abel?
07:03
I don't know if there's any address is down there, all the buildings are gone.
07:08
Over 71.
07:11
Turned every last.
07:19
Quina 87 and Battalion 3. Go ahead.
07:26
Those solar tanks over by the junkyard, they have a fragment pigeon on them now.
07:31
We'll be all the ratios with Quino 86's ladder pipe if we're good to move about 20 feet to the left.
07:38
That's correct. Personnel are moving out of that area now.
07:44
Westside division leader companies in this area.
07:49
We have fuel fire running on the surface towards the building south side of the Knopf Avenue.
07:56
You get water or foam on that right away.
08:02
We're getting lines in place now.
08:04
231 in that 10 is going to be in the rock attached to 4566.
08:11
You know what now in there. 456, this is about that in there.
08:15
That's going to be at Knop Avenue and Gray.
08:19
Inbreast is the name of the building, Blue Metal Class building.
08:26
Chief 93 Command,
08:28
Engine 90 and the Ovalona unit with Captain Hakeem.
08:33
They're on the way back to the fire.
08:38
Okay,
08:40
let's look at that exact location.
08:43
I have no clue.
08:45
They just left. ...Core to Columbia Avenue at 1828.
08:49
We'll be line up by about 10 feet to the right.
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Near Knopp Ave, Louisville, KY 40213
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