Fire crews investigate smoke and odor in basement, Phoenixville PA
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to near Church Street for a reported smoke condition. They found a haze and a faint burning odor in the basement, investigated the possible cause from a washer, confirmed no active fire, and checked nearby buildings for safety.
Audio|Source: Chester County Central Fire/EMS Zone
07:59
Transcript:
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Station 65.
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Station 61.
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Section 6138,
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being alerted, station 2 the engine.
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Squad 5 is responding to the ridge.
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Near Church Street, report of smoke as well.
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Box 6, traged.
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Tractor McClure, Squad 68, Toronto, 4.
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Power County Squad 68,
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652, Squad 5, and Rurkey 65 are in response.
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Rescue 65, for the be spoken to the hall of the flame scene, they are evacuating its own source, possibly coming from the basement.
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Again, I have a hydrant, middle of the two block,
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and one of the infection is getting injured.
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Christie.
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I'll just go out.
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This is in the 161 opinion response. 75 opinion response.
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Gee, we're going to be smoking a whole window flames, possibly covered from the basement. They're evacuating.
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They're not going to be in the middle of 2005 on Church Street, the second one in a chair, okay.
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I copy.
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$10.601 is around.
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Power, 162 of pain and response. The engine 2 of pain and response.
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Then you 8 in the paint response.
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The answer 3rd 23 is across.
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Glad to 163. Okay.
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Chaucer, squad 61 RELPRIZ.
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Squad, 611, okay.
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The officer is deputy 55?
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Yeah.
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So, my case your guys make back to the fire. They're attempt to locate the first minute.
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Hi, Tommy.
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She goes for Lever 16 for house.
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Tragick, you canada.
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It's 162.
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One's on the scene.
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Just worry,
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nothing to have them done from the outside.
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That's a rescue 65 on the scene, three-story and middle of the row. Nothing showing.
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The laying in, we'll be out.
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Rescue 65 and 6 is a 6-1, okay? Three-story mills a row.
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Nothing showing from the exterior engine.
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For us to 5, lane.
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Traffic 63 is around.
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Traffic 63 is around.
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The Deputy 65, I'm going to see.
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A salvage Churchry Command.
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The Hobbs Channel was available.
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Seventy-65, okay?
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Establish an original unit, responding, and on location near Church Street.
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Shropry, and Hopper.
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Mr. Marko's, Hockeyes, and on scene. Thank you, Roger.
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Okay. Secondary County, Squad 68, okay, second to register.
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SWAT-68. Come down here and take the roof.
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Steve Charlie's high prospect report on life.
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Time of the approaching instructions.
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Receive.
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Power 61 is a mainware of motion.
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Power 6115.
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Power 61 on Central California will be first arriving truck pig side A.
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Truck 61 will be cited.
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Swad 50, get yourself in a rear parking lot here.
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Command from the a year.
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I or 6-5-1-2.
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Good, sir.
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Sight heat in the basement, odor something's burning very faint.
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Recommend one-and-one one hold everyone outside for right now,
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other than that.
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Squad six, you want to arrive?
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Squads a few hundred pence.
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Copy.
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You get a tower sixty one that is rock on me.
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And swan six eight to me.
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Okay.
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The right now seems to be dissipating as well as the odor.
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Just from Church Street Command, with the exception of Rescue 65, squad, 68, 9-61, everyone else staged outside of the fire block and all the crews. We're investigating a haze in the basement.
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Church Street, commandant.
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It's a response to near Church Street.
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...executive, Power, 61, Montgomery County, Squad 68.
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Stage block out.
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Hold your cruise.
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Community interior, you got Rescify, Power, 61, and Squad 68 on the scene. I'm holding everybody else outside for a lot.
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All right, we're good.
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Sitting to the basement.
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The first floor was clear, no door at all.
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She was running that washer earlier.
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Okay, was the dryer running at all? Okay, was the dryer running at all?
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She had a little driver.
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Okay,
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we're leaning toward the washer at this point, but not sure.
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Veterans 681 on the scene.
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Hey, into 681 at the church again.
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Hey,
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end to 681 a picture again.
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Anyone check the exposure?
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Yeah, if you want to send a crew over there, how about it?
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I mean the aided since we first came down, as well as the odor.
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I just want to give it a once over next door of this wood.
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Okay,
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can you check the exposure just to make sure we have nothing over there?
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Okay, we'll leave the basement and head over.
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Self-exposure, bravo.
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Both have you been full of your crew.
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265-17.
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If you can get around the Prospect Street, you can come in back. All the alleyway and get a rear space meeting in.
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That would be good.
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Sorry, can you find that.
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If you could get to Prospect Street, come to the parking lot in the back to the rear.
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Yep, we'll do that.
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Yes, we'll do that.
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As a reminder, see that there's all locations changing on for your...
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You're okay.
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Dr. Largisbee-all-all-a-ta-2-4-1-249.
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We're putting the odor there. He's wondering in the first floor here.
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Okay. If we're confident not a fire, we'll produce this fact just to these.
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use the tower and to watch your state.
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Just let me know.
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Cast your traffic sexy field on location, it's the current bridge.
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What kind of the exposure building? You are a big steel vac.
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Traffic confusion.
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