Fire damages roof at building on E Susquehanna St, Allentown PA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to an active fire at a building on East Susquehanna Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Flames were reported in the roof area. The fire required multiple crews and equipment such as chainsaws, and a second alarm was requested to control the fire spreading on the roof.
Audio|Source: Lehigh County Fire and Northampton County Fire Tac-5
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Transcript:
00:00
Might well open up the third floor.
00:08
You're going to knock it up from our end, we're going to get it to the roof, open up and out.
00:19
We need to get up into the roof.
00:22
Smoke coming out that you use is really pushing.
00:34
You can charge that line whenever.
00:41
We're in the rear, on the second floor rear roof, Charlie's side.
00:46
We've got fire in the roof.
00:48
Stormers on fire, we got fire in the roof.
00:52
That's the original building or is that 107?
00:58
Original fire building.
00:59
We have some wind conditions just pushing it.
01:03
Copy that.
01:04
It's to the roof, them all the way to the back side.
01:15
They're heading there now.
01:23
Six times from 43.
01:27
Six days.
01:30
Send out, so we're crew, let's get a second line to that location.
01:39
All right.
01:45
You're referring to the roof strike at the door open.
01:50
All right, top you off.
01:53
We want to call on and if you come out and get that line that's in the month.
01:58
Yes,
01:59
sir.
02:03
Man six-day.
02:09
That's part of the roof open,
02:12
definitely fire, drive, driving across the roof.
02:15
We continue to open it up.
02:17
We're going to need some overhaul tools and not brings out of the lineup.
02:21
Copy that.
02:23
9-8, did you copy?
02:26
We need to bring the hook.
02:30
We need increased pressure on the primary attack line.
02:33
And we're going to need a chainsaw to the roof in the back area.
02:39
Copy that.
02:46
Truck 2 to copy chains off the roof.
02:50
Yeah, we have two.
02:52
Go ahead, Nottie.
02:55
Where do you want for hitting this and they're wrong?
02:59
Bring you to the 7th floor and the exposure, felt like.
03:04
In 107?
03:07
107, correct.
03:10
104.
03:13
6-4-46.
03:16
6-4. 6-6. 6.
03:18
Be advised, once you got into that roof area, the smoke out here has definitely changed color.
03:31
Okay, well,
03:33
the facts kind of the store off.
03:38
We're putting the frame of the water in there now.
03:42
Okay, whatever you're doing is working.
03:50
They could use a hand on the third floor, the primary fire belt.
03:56
I think we're going to need to pull most of the ceiling down there and make sure that we got all of them.
04:05
After that.
04:10
Here's got to what we can't do.
04:19
Go ahead, troops.
04:22
Nine crews on their way out.
04:24
They're going to assist with whatever you guys meet up there.
04:28
Yeah, we're going to go in and release 14.
04:31
I don't know if you have another engine company.
04:34
You might want to add one more.
04:36
The truck working on the roof, we're going to relay 14.
04:39
We got active fire side charlie in the roofline.
04:42
We might need one more energy company to get around here.
04:46
Hi, Traparact.
04:48
Tom, two-fety-three.
04:51
Forty-three.
04:53
Tom, let's just bring this up to the second one, please.
05:02
Forty-eight.
05:05
Forty-eight. Forty-eight is on scene.
05:09
Let's get some traffic control.
05:11
Canterbury and Susquehanna.
05:18
Thank you. Closed that line off the rail.
05:27
City of Allentown, 1.03 East South Wohanna Street, Crosher, South Albert Street and Constitution Drive.
05:32
Second alarm to longfire.
05:33
Air 32, City of Valentine.
05:35
1.03, East Los Hohanna Street, Cross Street of South Albert Street and Constitution Drive.
05:39
Second one is blowing fire.
05:52
Go night there.
05:55
We get the small ladder,
05:58
like the fold of the ladder, or a small brink ladder to the back of one-seventh,
06:02
and to the such a floor road.
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Location mentioned:
101-103 E Susquehanna St, Allentown, PA 18103
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