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Explosion and smoke near fisher popcorn warehouseSelbyville DE

audio iconFire & Arson
Near Lighthouse Rd, Selbyville, DE 19975

An explosion occurred near the fisher popcorn warehouse. A loud boom shook nearby houses and smoke was seen. There is a smell of gunpowder and an electric wire is down. Fire and emergency crews are at the scene and have requested power company help.

Audio|Source: Sussex County Fire/EMS P25
06:52
Transcript:
00:00
9088[1] explosion near Lighthouse Road cross street Johnson Road smoothed goose lane 12 k885
00:09
25 subject following 2833 336 Liberty Lane first call 12 36 12 36
00:17
9032[2] Zingrichs.
00:19
9.032, 1236.
00:21
I have a control 75.
00:22
Control 76, 1236.
00:23
Control 76, 1237.
00:25
Control 76, 1237.
00:26
9-760[3] you to sign me to this call to backup 1-89.
00:30
Copy.
00:31
878. Good.
00:32
107 on board.
00:33
No, we're BOLF. Copy. 107.
00:34
One of something like Danny Coo.
00:35
The Oval we've got her now.
00:37
30 seconds, sir.
00:38
Copy. I'm going to need you to buy up to mercy maternity right there in Schaeford.
00:41
Adam 784, Sussex.
00:42
You can please some medicine service, thank you.
00:44
Copy one time. I have immediate ones around the Manico Capper 102 is on board.
00:48
Copy, medic 81, Medic 110.
00:50
Copy-0.
00:51
Start for receiver, backup for partner.
00:53
Okay. Okay. Responding.
00:54
Eighty-eight 33.
00:55
Yeah, pop, sober on fire, too.
00:56
129 Deputy IV.
00:58
The Deputy IV, 1239.
01:00
Point 903-4.
01:02
0903 with 4, 1239.
01:08
Units responding to the explosion near Lighthouse Road.
01:13
Second-party caller advised.
01:14
She heard a loud boom, shook her house.
01:17
She went outside.
01:18
She saw a smoke in the area of Fisher Popcorn Warehouse.
01:21
Currently, there is a odor of gunpowder in the air.
01:24
Close the hydrants at Lighthouse Road and Snow Gooseley.
01:27
Squad, 99-yard[4], right?
01:28
884 responding 18 was 6.
01:31
884, 18 to 6, 1240.
01:33
Okay, Tate, confirm.
01:34
Put them one-ton available.
01:35
That's fair. Touching the collection, you know.
01:36
143 for Deputy, all in the Commer Channel.
01:37
If I talk, we want.
01:39
Suss, one-o-one? Go ahead.
01:40
Confirming, full for a single.
01:41
Okay. Copy.
01:42
Suss 875.
01:43
Go ahead.
01:44
All right, self-com. You can go available, thank you.
01:45
Copy, return.
01:46
Copy. Justice, copy.
01:47
One of four on two.
01:48
Yeah, phone, four, four weeks.
01:49
Copy, one thing you can go to vote.
01:51
Copy. Five-nine. Five-nine, twelve forty-two.
01:56
Tower 88, Deputy 5.
01:58
Tower 88, Deputy 5, 1243.
02:00
Point 9-9 is legal location.
02:03
Copy 0.903, 1243.
02:05
29 in Sussex 70.
02:06
Sloat on it.
02:07
Flood on it. Flood 99.
02:08
Electric wire coming off the pole.
02:11
Those are a lot of view.
02:12
We're going to need a power company.
02:13
Let me get you a poll number here in a second.
02:14
Hold with the Rattain units, please.
02:15
You turn 906 as well.
02:17
Copy. E, 76 units, 960 you're available.
02:21
How are you doing on? 884 in the racks available.
02:26
Take my 9-06 copy.
02:28
One with 5, 1244.
02:30
Be available.
02:32
Okay.
02:33
Number.
02:34
9662[6]. It's going to be across the street from that pole right in front of fishing popcorn.
02:38
Copy DTL 59711[5] over 9662[6], across from this pole.
02:45
1245.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
9088: Explosion
[2]
9032: Unit/incident code (likely internal)
[3]
9-760: Backup assignment
[4]
99-yard: Unit identifier
[5]
DTL 59711: Pole number or utility reference
[6]
9662: Pole number or utility reference

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Location mentioned:
Near Lighthouse Rd, Selbyville, DE 19975
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Comments ⸱ 1

Kallie Burton-McDowellKallie Burton-McDowell

did anyone else hear this this morning i know i did

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