Firefighters check and ventilate house after structure fire, Galax VA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a structure fire in Galax, VA. They checked for hotspots and smoke inside the house, especially in the basement. They worked on ventilation and used water to extinguish the fire. The effort included opening windows and ensuring no further damage while controlling the smoke. The fire was controlled, and crews continued to monitor the area for safety.
Audio|Source: Galax Fire & Rescue
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Transcript:
00:00
Operations. Go ahead, body, he's working.
00:03
Sample operations. The basement is clear.
00:06
We're sitting top around for a bucket. We got heavy water from extinguishment.
00:10
Everything's okay down here.
00:15
There's any d'A 7.
00:17
We couldn't have any water.
00:19
We probably knocked it up. I don't know them to hold up.
00:22
Do we get some smoke clear? Don't do any more damage we have to.
00:26
Tell me that. There's just a vent right below you guys. It's all pouring down the vent, so we're just trying to get that.
00:37
Interior up on Delta 5, 5 man 2,
00:43
interior windows are open and somebody could get the X2 exterior wind of the plane and get a little more ventilation, don't we?
00:55
God, let's go!
01:04
Anything guilty and four in the basement.
01:08
Anytime everything is in for in the basement.
01:11
All right, 3.3 and 3.3, you got the ventilation's part of all are going right now.
01:29
Are we going to need AEP?
01:35
No,
01:37
we're going to take it for the season right now.
01:46
Stop if you can, Todd, but break her in the basement for you and kill that.
01:57
Garbage.
01:58
Copy that, you guys going to break the box.
02:03
07, copy. We're just on the break of the mic now, then, my.
02:13
07 operations, everybody on the scene, we've killed the main brakes.
02:21
Operations also be about we do not need the red line just so you need to sit down they can.
02:29
God, thank you.
02:30
Oh 7033.
02:47
Yeah, Kempore, copper is coming upstairs.
02:50
There's one line out here that is hotter than everything else in the basement.
02:55
It's only like 70 degrees, but it works up there close to where the fire problem was.
03:03
These boys out by underground that we're going on the ground. We're going to pass.
03:06
Stand for.
03:17
Good.
03:20
Charlie size, single level.
03:23
Looks like I had on extension.
03:26
A lot smoke pushing from the flu.
03:29
I ain't sure if that's open and we're just pushing it with fans or what they're just devised.
03:48
Command Operations.
03:51
This is (name withheld) house,
03:56
mother's house.
03:58
That flu has not been used in four years on the Charlie side.
04:08
Oh,
04:10
3rd operations committee in and there's been a legend of there.
04:14
It started to a countless behind the town, that's what I'm thinking.
04:19
Copy that. We'll be in the WIC in a second.
04:22
(name withheld) is coming in deep now.
04:29
30-7 operations. What do you have need for a firm to pull everything out of the basement?
04:40
Command off.
04:47
Good.
04:49
What three are you talking about. We're able to get in both sides from the Bravo and Charlie side, more straight back to the house goes into that single level back there.
05:06
0-1-08 and you got water gun at the opposite side. That's in here a little bit. I'll tell you what I'm seeing.
05:18
Remember when the fire can come to the windows over here.
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Galax, VA 24333
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