Electric vehicle fire at auto salvage yard, Annville PA


Firefighters responded to a fire involving an electric vehicle at an auto salvage yard near North Mill Street in Annville. The fire involved one vehicle near a building, with another vehicle nearby. Multiple fire units and tankers were deployed to control the fire. Hazmat officers were notified due to the electric vehicle's batteries potentially exploding. The exposures to nearby buildings were controlled.
Audio|Source: Lebanon County Fire
06:43
Transcript:
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North Annville Township near North Mill Street, Weber's Auto Salvage Yard, a vehicle fire.
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6704[1] ops number three.
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Seventh, Pia RELT.
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Anchor 671415.
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C.
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C6. Go ahead.
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I replaced the whole box.
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Your tanker got out from the Bell Grove Station.
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We also have a utility out of the water work station.
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Your additional apparatus was engine 58, wagon 58, P.T.
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43 and Tanker 14[3].
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Okay. Copy that, and I'm on the scene.
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I got one vehicle fully involved,
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about 50 feet from a building,
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a second vehicle about 20 feet away.
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At this point,
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the exposures are controlled.
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So just keep reflecting at this point.
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Okay, I'm going to give these other additional units sometime.
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Copy. Do I get it to the box?
00:42
No, just keep replacing what's on the box until I get an engine and a tanker on the seat.
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Go forth.
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Watch my fire ground then.
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Officer retreat, sir.
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Copy that.
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County, firepieces 1040 responded.
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Okay, switch the fire, please, one, sir.
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County, Chief, 6.
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Go ahead and start me three more tankers.
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It's going to be an electric vehicle on fire.
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Rishi, do you want the hazmat duty officer's notified?
01:03
Yeah, go ahead and notify him.
01:05
Uh, you can call me on my cell phone.
01:07
Reach you.
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Yeah, I'm telling you are 14.
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14, I copy.
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North Annville Township, 795, North Mill Street, the Weberstereau, auto, salvage yard, additional three tankers requests for an electrical vehicle fire.
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60704, 1418.
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15 with 4.
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Copy, is your wagon going to get out?
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No, it doesn't look like it.
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Awesome, thank you.
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North Annville Township, 795 North Mill Street, Weber's Auto Salvage Alert.
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Replacement units for a vehicle fire, 6704[1], engine 9, or wagon 58, 1419.
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K-K43, we'll be getting out a few minutes.
01:47
Copy. Chief, if you want to use the pack of the Bronco for Command 2, you can.
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Okay.
01:51
Do you know what the first piece coming in is?
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Is that the engine 58?
01:54
Okay, if we pull engine 58 and we can just use the tanker to nurse it.
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Yeah. Weber Street, Commanding County.
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River Street at Hill Church and, I'm sorry, Mill Street at Hill Church and Mill Street at 422.
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Engine 58[2] from Mill Street Command.
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Go ahead for the engine.
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You're going to be the first engine in.
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Take the driveway, stop short.
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You're going to be the attack engine.
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I'll have the tanker nurse you.
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Copy that. We'll be in about three or four minutes.
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Chief, I think it's the EV batteries that are actually exploding.
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Tanker 14[3] while we can arrive.
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Tanker 14[3]. Stand by one minute.
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Deputy, you want Tanker 14[3] in there?
02:35
Thank you, according to three in there.
02:36
Okay, I copy.
02:37
That works, bring them in.
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Tanker 14[3], pull in a drive.
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You're going to be that first engine, our first piece in.
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I'm going to use your attacker for the attack.
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Drive is the first driver.
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37 to command for assignment.
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Tanker 67, stop short of the driveway.
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We'll have you nurse.
02:51
Actually, go ahead and go in the driveway, tie in the tanker 14.
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Copy. Engine 58[2], change of an assignment.
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Stop with utility 58 or 67 there.
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Send your security to attack.
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Command 6, can you repeat for engine 58?
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Yeah, stop short, stop with utility 67 there, send your crew to the attack.
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I got tanker 14 in as the attack engine right now.
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Stopping.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
6704: Ops Number Three
[2]
Engine 58: Fire Engine Unit
[3]
Tanker 14: Water Tanker Unit
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Location mentioned:
Near E Main St, Annville, PA 17003
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