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Barn fire in Franklin County with tankers on sceneFranklin County PA

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Mercersburg Rd, Pennsylvania

A barn fire occurred near Mercersburg Road in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Multiple fire tankers and crews responded to suppress the fire and performed overhaul to address hot spots. The main fire was extinguished due to lack of fuel, and operations focused on managing remaining areas.

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Transcript:
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Commanding incoming tankers, you can commit the lane off of Mercersburg Road, come back to this split,
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and stand by for engine tanker 3 to back down out, and the tanker can come up in and supply tanker 9.
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Tanker 13 is on scene.
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Commandant G3, I'm sending 13's crew up to find you, you can put him to work out of your deal.
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Okay.
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One of the Delta sides.
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We have you a line pulled to the,
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we'll call it the Alpha side,
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where the bulk of the fire is right now.
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Frangling, Fongtanger 56 on the scene.
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Hold on Tanger 56, 1323.
00:56
Yeah, we're going to try to pull some Tens today here to see the fire.
01:02
Okay, as we get some manpower here, I'll keep sending them off to you.
01:08
Tanker Thirteen for me.
01:11
Go ahead.
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You want me to stay down here at the split, or you want me to come on back?
01:21
Stand at the split.
01:24
Copy.
01:30
207 from the 5th and 27.
01:34
Go ahead.
01:40
You're not going to make it back to Lane.
01:42
When you get here, just send your staffing back.
01:49
Okay, we'll still come back and where he told us too, and then...
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Hey, a little question.
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940 K. I'm coming up around.
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We have three packers sitting here extra.
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I just need to make sure nobody else comes back too late.
02:14
Okay, I have a different when my directions weren't clear enough.
02:21
Franklin from community for Yachti.
02:31
Command 9. Frank, the majority of the fire's out due to lack of fuel.
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We do have numerous hot spots and some overhaul to perform.
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I'm going to continue to hold all units.
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Command 9 advising the fire is out.
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1327.
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Franklin, I'm staying great.
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Lieutenant Ray 18, 1327.
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Command, do we need us to you today or not?
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At this time, I'd say even though we're...
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Just want to know what to bring up.
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Fire attack command.
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Go ahead.
03:22
Position that initial handline to the Bravo side,
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13 and 27's crews are Poulton 10 against the seat of the fire.
03:30
Also the property owner has the tractor here if we need to push anything.
03:34
Okay, fire attack, I'll leave that to your discretion.
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That long line, the orange line, it's a hundred footer.
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If you want to shorten that up at any point, we can accomplish that for you.
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That's perfect.
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943's Franklin, I'm on C.
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Small 13 of fire attack.
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We can get that line over here where we went into the barn.
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We have a lot of tin food,
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where it's still burning pretty good underneath of us.
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Okay, are you directly across from the handline that's in service?
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That's correct.
04:09
Yep, you all want to pull out of there, we'll attack it from this side.
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Between me and them, I don't know if I'm going to be a get where I'm staying.
04:27
Watch yourself, water's on the way.
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This Tanger 9 for off.
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That's a ticker.
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I'm out of water and I'm up with.
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Thirteen's free your lines coming back in the door of the danger.
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Okay.

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  1. Final Operations and Incident Wrap-Up
  2. Firefighter Injury and EMS Response
  3. Resource Management and Apparatus Release
  4. Fire Attack and Overhaul Operations
  5. Initial Response and Command Setup

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