Vehicle fire in alley threatens nearby garage, Longview WA
A vehicle caught fire in an alley in Longview, Washington. The fire fully engulfed the vehicle and threatened a nearby detached garage. Emergency services responded, evacuated nearby residents as a precaution, and successfully prevented the fire from spreading to the garage.
Audio|Source: Cowlitz County Public Safety, Columbia County Law Dispatch
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Transcript:
00:00
George for Longview, show me en route to the vehicle fire.
00:04
George Ford.
00:07
All right you're confirming it's in the alley.
00:15
Stay firm.
00:28
George Pipe.
00:29
And George, for a Longview, vehicle is fully engulfed.
00:33
You can't see as well as far as a roll straight into here.
00:37
It's encroaching on the structure here.
00:42
To George 4, receive.
00:49
Checking direct.
00:55
Law enforcement advising, possibly threatening a structure.
00:58
You want me to upgrade it? That's no.
01:03
I'm sorry, you said affirmative.
01:07
Yeah.
01:10
Repeat.
01:35
Letter E1-engineated Chief Fleet, one-form control, and respond to the alley near 1819.
01:42
Pull-involved vehicle fire,
01:44
threatening a structure, alley near 1819, control.
01:53
Control 1, J.A.1 is on scene, so verify size of them.
01:57
Go ahead.
02:00
Showing one's on scene, fully involved the vehicle next to a detached garage.
02:06
The main one's going to be in attack mode, stretch the handline for fire control.
02:10
C.O.U.L.U.O.U.O.3.
02:18
On scene, fully involved vehicle fire next to detached garage, engine 8.1 will be in attack mode.
02:25
Engine 1 will be command on control.
02:29
George 5.
02:32
George 4, George 5.
02:34
I am on the house behind the fire, just getting the residence up.
02:44
We're on the alley side.
02:52
We need to exhale anybody else, let us know.
02:56
We'll go knocking.
02:58
That's what I'm doing right now.
02:59
Quick sure, Carlos.
03:06
Stopping. Is it just a danger in the one structure?
03:11
So this garage that the car is empty, I verified that.
03:16
But just to be safe, I'm getting people out of the actual house behind the garage.
03:23
Copy. It looks like they're trying to extinguish it right now.
03:31
If you can talk to them, if they think that people are good in the house, then I won't need to extract them.
03:47
Control on, Chief A1, I was arriving on scene.
03:52
Chief A1. Chief A1.
03:58
Good.
04:10
Control 118 Smith.
04:13
Go ahead.
04:16
You got the fire knocked down.
04:18
Did not stretch the exposure.
04:20
You can cancel the balanced alarm.
04:21
Hold engine A1 and sheet 81.
04:26
Probably fire knocked down and not extend to the exposure.
04:30
Hold engine 81, chief 81.
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