Structure fire with multiple units extinguishing blaze, Manassas VA
Fire & ArsonA structure fire occurred near Mathis Ave in Manassas, involving multiple firefighting divisions. Firefighters coordinated efforts to suppress the fire by cutting through siding and removing trash near the building. They used saws and handlines to reach and extinguish flames on the backside between a concrete barrier and the exterior wall. Sprinklers were shut off by responders. The operation required significant manpower and equipment to contain and extinguish the fire.
Audio|Source: Prince William County Police and Fire
07:11
Transcript:
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That exposure that I was mentioning
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About 825 degrees on the outside and it's burning through the siding.
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So I'm going to recommend that we get some saws out.
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Cut that sawing open and we'll need manpower to pull a trash out.
00:19
Okay.
00:20
All right to make it happen and I'll send you some more personnel.
00:26
Okay. You want me to take division, Charlie?
00:35
Negative, standby for that.
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17, six four tracts up.
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17, six, four, go ahead.
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Virginia tag, Uniform X-ray, X-ray, X-ray, (number withheld), Linton Hall in Rollins, Ford.
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Second, Lennon Hall and Rollins, 4, 21, 14.
01:04
1417 by Bravo for a sickness near Creole Court Cross Street Seminole Road Ambulance 514 engine 514 responding at 2140 callers advising
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that her son is, her 20-year-old male is not making sense and was unable to walk back to the home on his own, advised neighbor,
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helped him inside,
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leaves her son is intoxicated,
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requesting the patient be tracked out.
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Prince Wayne from Tyler, out of 438.
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Tower 438.
01:51
Yes, we have a police back out of location, please.
01:59
Okay, Ashton alone, 2141.
02:05
Correct.
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2141.
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Okay.
02:17
Okay.
02:18
Okay.
02:20
Okay.
02:21
Okay.
02:27
And your 525B from command.
02:44
Okay,
02:46
I'm going to make you Charlie Division.
02:48
You're going to have yourself, Engine 505, Truck 511, and the X-ray crews from Rescue 522 and Tower 501. On the Charlie side of the building, they're going to do some exterior work,
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and I need you to get two handlines in there to assist them with putting the fire out on the back side of the building there between the concrete barrier and the exterior wall.
03:14
Your 525 is okay. I'm taking Charlie Division.
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Command from Delta Division.
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Go ahead.
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For accountability reasons, the X-ray operator from Tower One is in the bucket, operating the monitor.
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You'll have the officer and the backstep that'll be assigned to the division, Charlie.
03:46
Okay,
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the officer and the bucket firefighter on the Charlie Division.
03:57
Can you check to see if they're going to need some more saws back there? Because I think yours is the only unit back there that may carry them.
04:05
If so, I could get a crew from out here to go pick them up.
04:11
Yeah, the crew from the ladder truck took two.
04:13
Probably going to need a couple more.
04:17
Okay.
04:23
Those are units back and around to the best western, near Balls Ford Road. I advise the patient as they come in a move.
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Delta Division, can you give a rundown on the units in your division?
04:40
Right now all I have is safety and engine 501 and engine 5.2. And engine 5.22.
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Copy the rip. Do you need anyone else? I have injured 5-07 here.
04:55
Neither.
04:58
Okay.
04:59
I will need somebody to locate the sprinkler room and shut off the sprinklers that are going off.
05:05
Okay, I'll send them to go do that.
05:13
Okay, Canon 44-3-2.
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1623.
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Good.
05:23
In reference to that subject, I believe it's going to be at (name withheld). I arrested him the other day. He was making constant statements of suicide by cops.
05:31
Okay, I'm (name withheld), suicide statements.
05:34
Oh, suicide by cops.
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Gallows services did arrest.
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Okay.
05:47
Okay,
05:54
10-01.
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The interpreter on the line, but the tenant has a knife currently has it.
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My friends through a domestic past, he'll be meeting with the boyfriend who advised his girlfriend is refusing to give him back his phone.
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man from 2522's operator.
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And then we got to fall through the trash that's on fire out of the building.
06:26
There's a wall between a concrete barrier and between the exterior wall where some trash is falling over that it's still on fire that I can't get to. I think the guys on side of Charlie cutting the hole to be able to get to it. You'd probably get some guys inside with some handlines and start searching for,
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doing some overhaul in there.
06:46
Yeah, we got that going from the outside.
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If you have all the pile taken out, go ahead and back out of the building.
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And you can report to Division Delta.
07:02
Okay, Division Delta, I'm going to start back dragging this now so we can spread it in so that the engine can start putting it out.
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Okay,
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Location mentioned:
Near Mathis Ave, Manassas, VA 20110
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