Fire crews battle structure fire in Somerset, Somerset PA
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, firefighters responded to a structure fire near S Kimberly Ave and E Main St in Somerset, Pennsylvania. Multiple units coordinated efforts for water supply and fire control using several hydrants. Command established divisions and communication among crews. No tankers were ultimately required. Local law enforcement assisted with traffic control.
Audio|Heard on: Somerset PA Fire-Tac Group Calls
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Transcript:
00:00
County 602 squad in with three.
00:04
Three.
00:06
Chief to Engine 1, when you take that hiker, make sure you lay it that I get other apparatus through there.
00:17
607's engine is going to be coming to the Charlie side.
00:23
Somerset Tower 601 responding.
00:27
Three.
00:30
Command to the tower.
00:34
Tower, go.
00:37
Come straight up Union Street, make a right on Kimberly Street.
00:45
Turn on the main and back down to the structure.
00:50
Received.
00:52
Chief from Somerset.
00:55
Go ahead.
00:57
Borough PD's en route.
01:01
Engine 603, approaching scene instructions.
01:06
Come on to Main Street.
01:09
The alpha side will use your manpower.
01:14
Breezy.
01:16
Somerset engine 603 on scene.
01:20
I see.
01:27
Command to Engine One crew.
01:31
Go ahead.
01:34
What's your car?
01:38
Car six.
01:40
All right, you're going to work that Charlie side once you get your water established.
01:46
Start working that second division.
01:53
Car 601 arriving.
01:58
Three. Command engine 607, you want us to come in doing a bypass?
02:04
Yes, where you were the other morning,
02:08
same thing.
02:10
Walked to Charlie side division two.
02:19
Copy Charlie side division two.
02:22
Command engine 620, ground Patriots.
02:28
Hi.
02:29
There should be a hydrant at Patriot Street and Kimberly Street.
02:37
Just slow down when you're coming through there, and I may have you bring a line over for Tower Three.
02:45
Let me know what you find.
02:50
Come in, take your one.
02:52
What's your direction first to come in?
02:57
Last call.
03:00
Six hundred and seven tanker one.
03:06
Manpower is all I am going to need.
03:07
No, no, no tankers will be needed.
03:12
Command of Somerset, you can cancel all tankers that are on this assignment.
03:18
They can drop their manpower off and then return.
03:28
Command interior, you say knockdown.
03:37
Repeat your last transmission.
03:46
Can't understand you.
03:53
Command the truck, hey.
03:54
Cut that back by ten.
03:59
Repeat, good.
04:02
Tilt the pressure back by ten on that hand line.
04:08
Hydrant from engine one.
04:12
Command to 623, did you find a hydrant?
04:17
We have one right here at the corner of Main and Kimberly.
04:21
You want us to hit that one?
04:24
I'd sooner take one off of Patriot.
04:30
Received, we're backing up to get the one off Patriot.
04:35
Command from Squad 602, we're coming by the feed mill instructions.
04:42
Last call.
04:49
Squad 602 by the feed mill instructions.
04:55
Good.
05:13
Radio chief to Somerset, lefty municipalities.
05:17
We are working three hydrants.
05:22
Received, chief.
05:24
Command, do you want us to hit this on Patriot and Kimberly?
05:29
Yes, sir.
05:33
Command 623, chief, do you want us to hit this? We're going to have to shut Patriot down.
05:44
Six-way three engine PD's walking their way over there.
05:54
Squad 602 unseen.
05:57
Very seen.
05:59
Engine 6.32 approaching.
06:04
Engine two, go across the road right there.
06:07
Once you get established 600 and twenty-three, just bring your apparatus over to where you were the other morning from the power.
06:18
Six hundred and one lead tenant from deputy chief.
06:23
Chief, we got a second crew going in the back.
06:29
Receipt, make sure we've got accountability going back there.
06:39
601 Lieutenant 2 from 601 Deputy.
06:44
Deputy, go ahead.
06:46
We got a hand line flown from the exterior division three Bravo side.
06:55
Copy that.
06:58
Battalion 603 and new crew are up there to assist us.
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Location mentioned:
S Kimberly Ave & E Main St, Somerset, PA 15501
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