Fire crews respond to rooftop smoldering fire near W St Germain St, St Cloud MN
Fire & ArsonFire responders arrived at a building near W St Germain St with light smoke in a stairwell and a small smoldering fire on the rooftop. Crews accessed the alley and attempted to find roof access to contain the fire. First floors of nearby buildings were clear. Fire units coordinated to manage the situation.
Audio|Source: Benton and Stearns County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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We're going to be set up on the Charlie side of the building.
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(name withheld) O. 20 to 15.
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5-6114 and wrote a T-D with juvenile female.
00:08
12-suit-day.
00:09
Group report. I copy, thank you.
00:10
155, sounds like the address is updated to near W St Germain St.
00:13
Near W St Germain St.
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Near W St Germain St on the north side.
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Near W St Germain St on the north side.
00:17
Near W St Germain St.
00:19
3.77, can I have a line line.
00:20
Yeah, 155, St.Card 5, and Route 2, near W St Germain St.
00:25
Seventy-713, 20?
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Chat. Deverapal, David, 273.
00:28
This is here.
00:29
Under West, St. Sainterman.
00:30
All units, engine one made access to the rear of the building from the alley.
00:35
We've got light smoke in the stairwell looking for a roof access now.
00:41
I'm not sure if you have a law enforcement line or like a direct line to Excel place.
00:45
You know, let's get a little of them come out and reference this line.
00:49
The address is going to be 408 per street part.
00:52
I'll copy. I'll have one of my partners call them back and update the address.
00:55
49 status.
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I'm 102 and I'll be clearing.
00:57
I copy. I have a suspicious activity in pending when you're ready.
01:00
Let's send it out.
01:01
It's going to be outside of 901, 1st Avenue North.
01:04
Collar State is a Hispanic male with green hair wearing all gray throwing garbage out of his car.
01:09
Haven't been there for two hours ripping stuff.
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...get out of his gray slash blue BMW at his perk on the hills.
01:14
Negative on making access to the roof.
01:17
We made access in the rear of the building, in the alley.
01:20
The stairwell there is full of smoke.
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No smoke on the floor, but we're looking to find some roof access.
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Unavailable at this time.
01:27
Dispatch chief one confirming, is this the same building that dispatch is housed in?
01:32
Negative, it initially got put in for that address as a starting point.
01:36
It's been updated here, the Pickleloon.
01:37
Got it, sounds good.
01:38
Thank you.
01:39
Tower Ron, can you confirm that it is indeed Pickleloon?
01:42
I can't confirm.
01:43
We can't see anything from this side.
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On factory.
01:46
Go ahead towards Litchfield and stuff for me?
01:49
We can do that.
01:50
Ladder 2, Level 1.
01:51
8-4. They're responding on 5.
01:53
Command from Italian one, I'm going to be assuming command.
01:56
Inger1 copies.
01:57
Inger 1 is going to exit back into the alley.
02:00
Ladder 2. Set up in the parking ladder in front of me here so as you can get set up and put some eyes on this.
02:04
Ladder 2 copies.
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Laddering Charlie's side.
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Parking lot.
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Command from engine one.
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Engine 1 exited into the alley.
02:10
Can we have to gain access into the other buildings? See if we can get to the rooftop from there.
02:14
Copy engine 3.
02:15
Can you see if you can gain access to the building next to what were we're seeing as smoking fire? Each other copy that.
02:25
We'll attempt to access the building in the bus.
02:27
Give us one, but otherwise sometimes I don't.
02:31
Bobby just let us all.
02:32
17-8-15.
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56-117-1-17.
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1,500. Command from spot two.
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Command, go.
02:38
All the first floors on this block are clear smoke, so whatever it is, they're not up the floor.
02:45
Thank God these first floor on all those buildings are clear.
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Tower 1 from command.
02:54
Tower 1 go.
02:55
What's your location at Travis?
02:56
Tower 1 is on Westgate Germain, the opposite of the building.
03:01
We're just setting up to raise the ladder.
03:03
Copy. Thank you.
03:09
Dispatch Chief One confirming.
03:11
You copy. Add the working fire unit to the restriction card.
03:13
I'm sorry, can you walk in for dispatch?
03:15
Just that's Chief One, please have the Working Fire[1] Unit.
03:18
I got it. Working Fire[1].
03:19
Fire. At near W St Germain St.
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Holy Crew.
03:22
My partner was able to get on the line with Excel again.
03:26
They said they'd be back with an ETA.
03:28
Thomas. Somebody's on the command on a CIS.
03:29
A small smoldering fire on the rooftop.
03:36
We're going to get on, get on the roof.
03:38
The 7713 and 7714 status.
03:41
Go forth. Copy. Copy.
03:42
Command from Vision 3.
03:43
We're in the alleyway behind the building.
03:44
We could see crews on both sides of this fire in the...
03:49
and west of that location.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Working Fire: Confirmed active structure fire requiring full assignment and interior attack
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Location mentioned:
Near W St Germain St, St Cloud, MN 56301
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