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Defensive firefighting at fully involved structure fire in Topeka, Topeka KS
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a fully involved structure fire near Southeast 5th Street and Locust in Topeka. They employed a defensive strategy due to the large blaze visible from a nearby bridge. Multiple fire units worked to establish water supplies and suppress the fire.
Audio|Heard on: Topeka and Shawnee County Fire Departments
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08:5
Transcript:
00:00
Three reports.
00:02
Large fire seen from bridge.
00:13
All units and route to the structure fire updated address, it's going to be near Southeast 5th Street at the corner of 5th and Locust.
00:30
Agent 3 is on scene.
00:32
Fully involved pressure fire.
00:35
This will be a defensive fire.
00:37
Engine 3 will be in command.
00:42
Go ahead and drop a line.
00:57
Six next fours are off in the line.
01:07
On to go ahead.
01:16
You have engine six sketching line.
01:20
Looks like truck freeze assisting, that's correct, you're okay.
01:25
That's correct.
01:26
I'm working on a 360 right now.
01:29
We have fire all over.
01:30
I look at a safe passage.
01:33
10-4[1], there's no explosion on the Bravo side, is there?
01:38
Negative. We're playing it all the way around.
01:44
Take command from here.
01:46
The 2nd 1 to dispatch.
01:56
Tadion 1, 2, trek 3, you're pulling a second line off engine 1.
02:01
Engine 1 is level 1.
02:09
Command to Engine 1, come up and go on deck.
02:13
Engine 1 on deck.
02:22
4 is level 1 in the east alley.
02:29
Ninja 3, Ranger 4.
02:30
Can we make that alley?
02:33
We got a hydrant right behind us.
02:40
NCRI with M4.
02:41
Not higher.
02:42
They're coming in an alley.
02:45
Yeah, if we need it, let them do it.
02:49
N4. N4, good at us.
02:54
Fire patrols the Hydrant.
03:00
Turekine level one.
03:04
The top nine.
03:12
Go ahead.
03:15
Come up and going, Jack.
03:19
Careful.
03:31
Engine 6, command.
03:36
Go ahead.
03:39
Water supplies established engine 3, awaiting reassignment.
03:47
Come on up and go on deck, I may have you grab a third one and off of engine three.
03:56
Then four, engine six on deck.
04:02
I'm telling you one, guys.
04:04
I am going to be Fifth Street, Five Street Command.
04:09
Can I have a Level 1 command page for a working structure fired defensive?
04:16
665%? Probably wouldn't hurt to give me an investigator page also.
04:21
Thank you.
04:23
10-4[1]-65.
04:31
Lieutenant for Captain.
04:41
Command engine four, Officer.
04:44
The engine four, Lieutenant, they're still making the connection, so don't charge it yet.
05:02
If we need another line,
05:08
go ahead and get it.
05:11
I think I told sixes to pull it, so if we need it, I'm pull it.
05:18
For commandant, I've got truck three at the front door with an inch of three quarter and the engine three quarter and the engine three on the Delta side with a two and a half.
05:31
Okay,
05:33
you guys can pull whatever you need to pull or if we got enough, that's enough.
05:37
Just let me go.
05:45
Anything pulled to command or any forecatchez.
05:49
Tiger is secure, I have not charged it yet.
06:00
Thuckel Levin is level 1.
06:05
The truck 11?
06:08
11.
06:11
If you guys can lean back to the north,
06:16
you might be able to, I don't know, you'll get close enough.
06:19
I'll use it for Air Bonals.
06:26
Get over four engines LDH, they haven't charged to get.
06:31
To be close enough to get it so your drivers not go back and push for bottles.
06:45
Come in with 184.
06:47
184, that is.
06:51
I'm going to have to have safety.
06:58
Thank you, Patty.
07:00
Thank you.
07:12
Car 152, go ahead.
07:15
If you get a chance, you can see, you can locate the elder, for this residence on 5th Street, can happen around.
07:28
Unoccupied or owned, but I'll look for an owner for the property.
07:34
Okay.
07:37
It's 58.
07:55
You're in the three driver.
07:59
Digit three drivers.
08:00
Thank you three driver.
08:03
I'm a couple down.
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Location mentioned:
SE 5th St, Topeka, KS 66607
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