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Small kitchen fire extinguished in Rockville homeRockville MD

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Galena Rd, Rockville, MD 20852

As discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a reported house fire near Galena Road in Rockville, Maryland. The fire started in the kitchen but was extinguished upon arrival. Firefighters confirmed no extension beyond the stove area. All occupants were safely evacuated, and no injuries were reported.

Audio|Heard on: Montgomery MD Fire-Tac Group Calls
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02:45
Transcript:
00:00
Montgomery County units responding to the house fire near Galena Road.
00:05
Updated running orders will be 21-5 Bravo 23, 18 and 26.
00:11
21-5, I'm gonna have mine at fuel.
00:17
Twenty-three to Eighteen, we're off Rocky Horse Road.
00:21
They dropped it in Macon and Rocky Horse Road, signal 11900.
00:25
Eighteen, good.
00:26
Montgomery T Tower 700 and twenty-three response check.
00:30
Paramedic Engine 700 and twenty-one's on the scene.
00:33
Galena, two-story single family, nothing happening in the south front.
00:38
Montgomery T Paramedic Engine seven hundred and twenty-one.
00:41
Original incident was for fire in the kitchen.
00:43
Now advising the fire is out.
00:47
Paramedic Engine 721, the incoming units.
00:50
36 is complete.
00:51
I got two stores in the rear.
00:52
No basement access.
00:54
No evidence of smoke or fire through the case windows.
00:57
Stretching a line through the delta side into the kitchen.
01:00
All occupants are accounted for.
01:02
All tactical command.
01:04
EMS 704 to tactical command.
01:06
All occupants out, accounted for, no injuries.
01:09
So total of 16 residents.
01:12
Tactical command's okay.
01:16
9704 is on the scene.
01:17
Hey, come up around me, Chief.
01:20
Put a fire out on the stove floor.
01:27
No extension, we controlled the gas.
01:29
I'm getting my driver to get here right here.
01:31
So we got and we've probably used a fan at that delta side door.
01:39
You good with one operator now? Can you confirm no extension?
01:45
Yeah, I'm good with that.
01:48
Nine seven four to Montgomery is coming to Lane Road.
01:55
One scene will be assuming the command.
01:57
It's going to be on the alpha side as reported, two or a single company.
02:00
Twenty one reporting higher outpitching.
02:03
We're going to hold the interior with 21 and Tower 723.
02:11
We have no fence.
02:12
We don't see it actually staged.
02:16
All ground is okay.
02:19
Paramedic Engine 700 and twenty-one.
02:22
Okay,
02:25
no extension.
02:27
All I can encounter for my recommendation is one hundred and eleven.
02:33
All right, command's okay.
02:35
Command and Montgomery units operating got fire out in the kitchen with no extension.
02:38
We're going to hold the assignment with Company 21 and Tower 723 to wrap things up.
02:42
The balance of the assignment can pick up and return to service when ready.

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Galena Rd, Rockville, MD 20852

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