Fire involving garbage near homeless encampment in park


Audio|Source: Tacoma Fire
02:33
Transcript:
Safety 3 from into 16. This seems to be confined to the park at 6 in Pearl. Okay, sir. Ended 16, engine 9 is on scene. Understanding pass command, engine 9 will be Pearl. This engine, I'm battalion one, something. The Italian one is Pearl Street Command. Engine, now what you're pulling behind, engine 16, get them a water supply, or dump your tank into them, and block traffic. Command from engine 16, lower fire is knocked down. We have come back up and hitting the upper fire now. Upper fire is now knocked down as well. Command, see, both fires are knocked down. Command from Engine 9, I'm going to come up for a face-to-face. It's a possible homeless encampment fire. Okay. Safety 3 from Command. Safety 3. What's your location? Highway 16 westbound passing Cheney Stadium. Racy's, can you go all the way to Jackson and head back eastbound and then stop right above the fire as a lookout on Highway 16? Affirmative. Command from engine 16, the lower fire is run by a small homeless encampment. Command received, is there any tents involved? Command for 16, negative, just garbage. Command received.
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Location mentioned:
WA-16, Tacoma, WA
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