Fire damages garage with unsafe roof in Luzerne County, Luzerne County PA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters respond to a large garage fire in Luzerne County with an unstable roof and heavy fire in the attic. Water supply issues occur when the hydrant breaks, prompting the crew to establish a secondary water source. Fire spreads in the attic and walls, and crews prepare to defend the area to prevent brush fire.
Audio|Source: Luzerne County Fire - Fire South and Operations Channels
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Transcript:
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Be advised the roof on the D 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.
00:42
226 to come in.
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Go ahead.
00:50
We're all on the structure. We couldn't get more than 3 feet in.
00:54
You have heavy fire in the attic blown out on our Charlie side.
01:01
All right, 10-4[1]. Are you, you're not in the building, are you?
01:08
Negative, we're on a lot.
01:11
All right, that's what.
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165 to 166.
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You're gonna lose your water again.
01:19
The cap blew off.
01:20
I'm going back to the hydrant.
01:25
What was that much?
01:29
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.
01:37
You're gonna lose water for two minutes.
01:44
Alan, we're going to have to get a different water supply. This hydrant itself broke.
01:51
Okay, operations.
01:53
We need to get another line from another hydrant.
01:57
Alright, ten four.
01:59
One six six to Luzerne. Give me an additional engine on this and let's find a secondary water supply.
02:09
Ted Ford.
02:11
Your best I can do is going to be 220 Rock Street in Houston is the closest, 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.
02:30
Next two engines the CAD pulls is 148 and 165.
02:34
I did hit the off-duty tones. You want to go with them or go to the last one?
02:40
Just go to the last one, have them come down Rock Street from Houston.
02:44
They're probably going to have to finish Houston's way. They're going to start it.
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And also go to my next new rip, please.
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And four...
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1666 Command was there.
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Command.
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Hi Greg, call the water company. The first hyphen is defective. Just let them know it's on Laurel Street for when you call me about.
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Also, utilities were also notified.
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104.
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166, command of return.
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One six six.
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Fred, you're saying the closest one is on Rock Street, there's not another one on a row.
03:44
Two-twenty-six chauffeur operations.
03:50
Got.
03:53
Okay, I don't know if anybody advised, you got fire out the rear of the attic space.
03:59
Yeah, once we establish the water supply, we're going to go defensive here.
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10-4[1]. Also, you might want to get a line out the back,
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or otherwise we're going to have a big brush fire.
04:16
All right, I can't get you anything right now so we get water.
04:24
Okay, we'll try to contain it here with a can.
04:29
Jeff, can we utilize the two and a half back there?
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Yeah, what's going on here is the fire is starting to run the walls
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because now it's starting to come out in the middle of the middle of the wall here in the rear.
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So if we get the two and a half, we can put some water in the static space.
04:51
I can't have a two and a half time to see.
04:57
Okay, one-six-six men.
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Go ahead.
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Closest hydrants, the one on Rock Street in Houston.
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The next one on Laurel Street is going to be past the credit union.
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We're trying to hit the one on Rock Street.
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Copy. You still want Losselin to come down through Houston?
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Yeah, the Air Force.
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Gotty, 152.
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I don't copy.
05:32
Coming down Rock Street from Easton.
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Tedford, I believe Houston is starting to hit the hydrant, but you're going to have to finish their connection.
05:41
Copy. Where is I turn out on the Rock.
05:45
In front of near Rock Street just past the entrance to the middle school, or primary center.
05:52
Copy. Copy.
Police codes explained
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10-4: Acknowledgement / Affirmative / Message received
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