Garage fire behind buildings near plumb street, Reading PA
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, a garage fire occurred behind buildings near Plumb Street and South 6th Street. Multiple fire units responded to the scene. The building was declared unsafe with an open roof. Access was gained using bolt cutters on a rolling gate to reach the fire.
Audio|Heard on: Reading Fire / EMS
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06:49
Transcript:
00:00
Dispression talks.
00:02
I have a garage on fire in the rear of the 200 o'clock.
00:06
I want everybody to approach south on six from chestnut.
00:17
Copy.
00:23
Say you can...
00:42
Box 305, the address of the fire to the rear, near South 6th Street, garage on fire.
00:49
Attention engine 1, engine 5, tower one, ladder 1, ladder 1.
00:51
Rescue on engine 9, the safety,
00:55
medic 3.
00:57
Respond, box 239.
01:01
Fresh from Pox 305-0-2-33 South Strict Tony Spruce in Chestnut for a garage fire.
01:06
All units, three-spawning.
01:08
You are to come south on 6th Street from Chestnut, 2021.
01:11
I don't know where we're here.
01:17
They also got one wrong.
01:19
I'm going to block here.
01:24
Okay. You want me to start getting a line moving somewhere? I don't know where if it's access is garage to be.
01:31
I want to try and do some docs to see how we can get access to it.
01:39
Slide a 3rd radio on EMS.
01:46
Whenever EMS, you know, we have coming to this, this is an active user.
01:51
It's MEC-7 and they got everything you relayed.
01:55
Thank you.
02:00
I'm going to radio.
02:06
Three, I might have three to the one.
02:07
We're also going to be on.
02:14
Two or do you want to move it to one?
02:17
Uh,
02:19
well yeah, let's go to one.
02:20
Put the tones out, please.
02:24
All units to the box, which are the fire ops one.
02:31
One.
02:36
I'm not sure if you copy car nine, you're saying about the little hydro location for you.
02:43
Nine, the radio.
02:46
Nine, go ahead.
02:50
With the exception of engine one, engine three, tower one in the rescue, all the units to stand by the apparatus so I can give a better look at this.
03:02
He is going to 339 South 6.
03:05
The exception of engine 1, engine 3 in the rescue.
03:08
Pull the gap for out, the orders for car 9.
03:10
23 and 83. 9.
03:15
9x 7's on.
03:18
Kevin X7. Kevin X7.
03:21
Where do you have a car night? Three Kruman.
03:36
Okay.
03:42
I have a small fire.
03:44
On the roof of a roof of a garage is active a large industrial complex here.
03:50
We're just trying their date access.
03:55
Okay. What's going to be our best route for a line if we need one? We're in a rear yard somewhere around near south 6th.
04:02
Yeah,
04:05
that is our best access.
04:07
And I want something changes drastically we're not doing a line.
04:14
Okay. And how did you get access to that garage from 7th?
04:21
I don't have anything better than that backyard that you're in.
04:28
Okay.
04:29
I mean, we got some smoke pushing from all around here, but I can't see any actual fire.
04:38
Yeah, I think I might just actually be the vegetation burning on the roof side of the building there.
04:47
I did 3 to Karnine.
04:49
Got it back break.
04:55
I've accessed off of Plum Street.
04:57
We'll need bolt cutters to get through a rolling gate.
05:01
But I can see the roof in question from my vantage point.
05:07
Wait is our resident bolt cutter expert.
05:11
They're on their way.
05:17
We're driven a nun.
05:22
Go ahead.
05:25
We're going to have to gain access to that garage.
05:29
Power 1 driver reports you can hear and see what he thinks fire in the lower level.
05:38
Yeah, I think that's actually the fire on this side that you see it.
05:41
There's a fire on the exterior, but we're going to get access from this side.
05:44
Well, you know.
05:47
Okay, I'm coming around.
05:52
Chief, you advise, garage, just blacker-ed it.
05:54
It's near Plum Street,
05:55
building unsafe for use with an open roof.
06:02
Okay.
06:05
Find our radio, can you update the address to near plumb, please?
06:11
How do you tell it off at the end? Is that near South 6 or?
06:16
near plumb or for radio you can show myself in the mountain to you so I'm not seeing
06:31
okay car four nine digit three I just look at your driver if I see it now I was looking for your driver if I see him now
06:47
Yep, we're all making our way.
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Location mentioned:
Plum St, Reading, PA 19602
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