Fire crews manage active fire with chainsaw operations, Centre County PA
Fire & ArsonFire and EMS crews are managing an active fire near Tunnel Rd in Penn Township, PA. Crews are working to control the fire by closing in from the north side and widening the fire line. Chainsaw teams are being deployed to clear logs across the fire line for safety. The fireground includes safety concerns and ongoing operations beneath power lines.
Audio|Source: Centre County Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
One rope, Manson County.
00:03
Go ahead, Senator County.
00:06
Do you need Fort Street to respond or just want another five?
00:14
I think I'm going to want him to respond. We're going to have to probably ask someone here overnight on it.
00:20
Okay.
00:22
Okay.
00:25
I can't hear you got today. We do.
00:31
Fifty, two, Captain 18, too.
00:36
Good.
00:39
What's your location?
00:45
Just getting ready to start us off with.
00:51
Copy that. Let me know once you get back to, there should be a change ball along the railroad bed there.
00:59
Copy.
01:04
Captain 18, command.
01:08
Go ahead, Fran.
01:11
How are you making out with your arm?
01:15
We're just closing around the north side of the fire, headed towards the right flank.
01:23
I'm just underneath the power lines now.
01:31
283 circuit. Our ambulance 23-are you calling.
01:36
Now I'm calling 283.
01:40
My apologies.
01:44
283, go ahead, county.
01:46
Corners are out, it's Dickey, 45 minutes.
01:52
I acknowledge, thank you.
01:57
I forgot to take you too.
02:02
Go ahead.
02:05
We've got out with the other floor. We're sending them back through each, uh,
02:10
up the selection again to widen the line out.
02:15
So many of them. I was just going to suggest that good call.
02:19
Also,
02:21
if you want a safety key to bring up a chainsaw crew, there we've got to have some logs going across the fireline.
02:31
Yeah, I have one over here right now at this point in time that's compromised too.
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Tunnel Rd, Penn Township, PA
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