Vehicle flees after hit and run near West Fifth St, Chester PA
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TrafficAs discussed during the dispatch call, units responded to a possible hit-and-run near West Fifth Street Apartments in Chester. A vehicle was reported involved in a collision, after which the driver and passenger reportedly fled on foot. Emergency crews, including medics and fire personnel, were coordinating scene access and managing related roadway closures.
Audio|Heard on: Delaware County Fire - Ops 1
Listen to dispatch call
03:6
Transcript:
00:00
Just advising you I'm holding a hit and run just covered near West 5th Street Apartments Hill.
00:09
Yeah.
00:14
And you can clear out both that (name withheld) and (number withheld) and the stolen vehicle?
00:22
Nope.
00:27
Everyone of the cops step out.
00:32
All right.
00:37
20th Street?
00:42
Yes.
00:45
Can one of you step out and guide the medics in?
00:51
Yeah, scratch his head.
00:58
Automatic fire alarm, respond.
01:01
Arrive and operate on central fire.
01:07
Five Cherry Hill for the fire alarm,
01:10
coming from hallway smoke detector.
01:16
Twenty-one got it.
01:22
Arrival at ninety, any miles oh eight point eight.
01:28
Arrival at seventy-four.
01:35
Yeah, I'm twenty-six cars.
01:36
We clear.
01:39
Twenty-six car.
01:45
Still six hundred hours, no access from emergency vehicles being Seaford and Crosby closing all traffic.
01:50
Still sixteen hundred hours, no access for emergency vehicles.
01:57
Twenty-six alcohol is out.
02:01
Twenty-six okay.
02:06
Assistant fifty-three, so I'll see.
02:13
Assistant fifty-three, okay, seven forty-eight.
02:19
Engine fifty-three is responding with three.
02:23
Engine fifty-three, seven forty-eight.
02:29
Twenty-six to oh eight.
02:34
Oh eight.
02:38
Can I get a hook for one? Pen on Union, vehicles blocking the roadway is also disabled.
02:47
Is this from the crash?
02:53
That's correct, and the driver and passenger apparently fled on foot.
03:00
Send a hook.
03:02
All right, copy.
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Location mentioned:
W 5th St, Chester, PA 19013
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