Fire causes residential evacuation near Brooklyn Street, Harvey LA
Fire & ArsonA fire in a residential area near Brooklyn Street is causing evacuation. Emergency teams are coordinating to help residents leave safely and set up shelter at the MLK playground. Some streets are closed and a bus is arranged for those needing transport.
Audio|Source: Metro New Orleans Area Fire Departments
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Transcript:
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The command of firearm, EMS is going to the east. Paws and being served, signal 321. Signal, 960. 7.4. EMS transport, 321, 1740. 1740. 168. Rout. Signal 962[1]. 716A route. The signal, station, I am clear.
00:29
Engine 36[2] responding to a medical. I attend these after the bullet arm ramp, exit 246 east. Zone 91.46 on first responder, engine 36, responding to a medical. I attendeece after the bullet arm ramp, exit 246 alpha east. Zone 9146 on first responder time, 1741. 9.31 to delayed radio check. 9.13. 2.1. Full out of 13.
00:57
Copy 931. 96610-4. Station 91, 930, delayed radio check. Copy 966 and 930.
01:23
627. 680. Go ahead. Check Chief is down here? That's a positive. All right, emergency management is down here about 627, look at point. All right, we just pulled up on this end.
01:50
She's going to go around and come on the other side. 680 to follow on. 680, 680, 683. 680, go ahead.
02:10
Norman, do you have any displaced residents that we need to put somewhere at this time? Not at this time. All right, yeah, Don wants to know if we have to go open the playground over at MLK or if we don't have anybody, we can just hold it tight unless somebody comes out and we have to bring them somewhere. I'm working on Brooklyn right now.
02:39
Over here, and what's going on over here. I haven't been down that way yet. All right. Where are the other three guys that we have available to three firefighters? You have about two blocks from me. If you want to utilize them to have them start helping you in your area, the evacuation area. That's a good idea. 6-8-3-609.
03:08
Go ahead. No, come down to Brooklyn. Probably on the way. Yes, sir. Aye. Let Norman know we're gonna, we want that evacuation distance. What's the next street east of you from Brooklyn? Probably Edison.
03:37
That's where we're going to want it. 6-8-3. We want to have our evacuation area to Edison coming back this way. You don't have to worry about any further than Edison at this time. Copy that. Correction, correction. Velvet Street. It'll be Velva. Edison's four blocks up. Just looked it up on a map. Yeah, Tommy, Ray, you got...
04:05
Brooklyn, the next one is going to be Yetter, and so you want to go as far as Yenna? Command 27. He wants the street in front of you, the next one from Brooklyn, which is Velva. Okay, well, it's not Delaware, it's Yatter. I'm sorry, it's Delver. No, my. He wants that area.
04:34
on the north side evacuated due to the wind. Copy that. I don't know, I recall us. Central 1749. 680, 683. You go ahead, 683.
04:59
All right, I got Don working on a bus. Some type of bus is going to try to make his way to Brooklyn and 11th. We have any evacuees, try to get them to that area. If they don't have transportation and we'll pick them up on the bus and we'll transform the MLK playground until we can figure out how long this thing's going to take. Copy that.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Signal 962: Unknown - likely related to fire or evacuation
[2]
Engine 36: Fire Response Unit
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Location mentioned:
Velva Ave, Harvey, LA 70058
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