Hazardous materials incident near MLK Jr Way and Cherry St, Seattle WA
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a hazardous materials situation near Martin Luther King Jr Way and Cherry Street in Seattle. They established safety zones and advised all personnel to stay one block away from the hot zone due to possible stray electrical energy from an underground source. Air monitoring was conducted in nearby buildings to ensure safety.
Audio|Source: Seattle Fire / Seattle Police East / South Precincts
03:59
Transcript:
00:00
Ladder 4 from command?
00:03
Go Flatter 4.
00:06
Your location? Are you in the east or the west?
00:11
Letter 4 is an MLK and Cherry.
00:18
Command from West Division, I can take Ladder 4.
00:23
Okay, Ladder 4, reporting to the West Division,
00:26
reporting Injun 10.
00:29
Light of 40 should be good there.
00:32
We're okay.
00:34
According to 10.
00:37
Command from East Division, I have Ladder 3 with me.
00:40
They're doing air monitoring in a couple of buildings.
00:47
Command, understand.
00:48
Ladder 3 now reporting the East Division.
00:51
They're doing air monitoring in adjacent structures.
00:58
I from command report to the battalion two buggy.
01:02
He'll be my fit.
01:08
East Division from Command.
01:12
East Division.
01:15
Energy Group is recommending that all personnel are one block back from the hot zone.
01:24
due to possible stray energy.
01:26
All units that are operating near the hot zone maintain a one block distance.
01:33
All units from command maintain a one block distance due to stray energy possibility.
01:43
George John, can you please back on my test call please?
01:47
East Division from command sending you 1-85 member to be your fifth.
01:55
Okay,
01:56
yeah, East Division okay, one-eight-five member.
02:01
Also be advised, Channel 13 is up.
02:07
East Division, okay.
02:11
East Division, ladder three.
02:13
Both apartment buildings,
02:14
clear.
02:18
East Division,
02:20
okay.
02:22
Command from Safety 2.
02:24
Do you want eastbound East Cherry Street at this intersection blocked off?
02:33
That's affirmative.
02:34
Engine 10 should be blocking.
02:37
Okay, but less than that's okay.
02:44
Giffy from command.
02:46
Standby. Just come do a face-to-face with me at my battalion, buggy.
02:54
The TV1.
03:01
We're on location at Victor Steinbrook Park, Pike Street in Western.
03:07
We've got (name withheld) and I don't see her around, but she doesn't usually go far.
03:12
Do you have a phone number where you could call her back?
03:16
Okay, good much.
03:21
For dispatch, on scene time, 20 minutes.
03:27
Commando can understand, 20 minutes.
03:33
Copy that. There should be one.
03:39
Division from command.
03:43
It's division.
03:45
Are you utilizing engine 30? I'm going to begin demoving some of these units.
03:55
Division three, copy message for the moving violation of airport way south, South Edmunds, no X.
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Location mentioned:
E Cherry St & Martin Luther King Jr Way, Seattle, WA 98122
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