Tractor trailer brakes catch fire on Pennsylvania Turnpike, Westmoreland County PA
Fire & ArsonFire units responded to a tractor-trailer brake fire on the westbound Pennsylvania Turnpike near mile marker 61. Diesel fuel was leaking into the drain and the truck could be a tanker carrying chemicals or food-grade materials.
Audio|Source: Westmoreland County Fire
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Transcript:
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Westmoreland 911 Station 87 respond.
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Landworkers 61.1 Pennsylvania Turnpike westbound for a tractor trailer with his brakes on fire.
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Operations on fire attack seven seven All right.
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Received. Captain Forty Forty Fortis station.
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Go ahead.
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Make sure you have some pigs on that rescue.
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We've got diesel fuel going into the drain.
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Copy, Captain.
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Response on I-Wen station 87, respond to I-76 westbound the area, the 61-1-mile marker for tractor rails or brakes on fire, operation fire attack 7.
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Captain 87 assistant, you're on the air.
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Good. You come to the station?
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Small Ohio and Station 87 Respond, I-76 Westbound area, the 61-1-mile marker for tractor-trailer that breaks on fire operations, fire attack 7, EMS in the area with motor and natural gas.
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Page 87, acknowledges on 7.
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Station 8, server suites.
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That's right in turnplex stated that it was a tanker truck that was my fire on the shoulder over the roadway there and it looked like it could possibly chemical or food-grade tinker.
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That's received.
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Rescue 44 is en route.
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Rescue 44. Rescue 44.
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Rescue 7-03.
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Rescue 87
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