Fire caused by frayed cord at public library, Bel Air MD
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a fire at the Bel Air Library on East Pennsylvania Avenue. The fire was caused by a frayed cord from a Christmas tree and was extinguished shortly after arrival with no further hazards.
Audio|Heard on: Harford County Fire and EMS
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03:42
Transcript:
00:00
Bel Air Library, 100 East Pennsylvania Avenue, Bel Air, Maryland.
00:09
(name withheld).
00:14
(number withheld).
00:16
(number withheld).
00:21
(number withheld).
00:26
Keep you're wondering.
00:29
You're wondering around as you have to take.
00:35
Can you have to take. Can you have by this vaccine.
00:38
The second vision.
00:45
(number withheld).
00:49
Non-combustible library, one side, dealt over nothing happening, otherwise further.
00:56
Locker on (number withheld).
00:59
Routine arrived,
01:01
nothing out of note, all three sides.
01:04
I'm sorry, library, non-combustible.
01:06
My (number withheld).
01:09
Everyone, right.
01:14
We may have five just back.
01:18
Go ahead.
01:21
Clear when ready.
01:23
I'm clear.
01:27
You're clear, (number withheld).
01:30
Tell me five years, can clear when ready.
01:34
Nice, far, close.
01:35
Clear. Clear.
01:36
Tower.
01:38
And... Go ahead.
01:41
That's a minute.
01:42
Command.
01:48
Tower Sturg and Route 3.
01:53
L.S.G.A.L.S.
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RIS. RISC.
01:56
(number withheld).
01:59
Tower 3 and route with 3.
02:04
Power 3. Power 3, (number withheld).
02:10
(name withheld) officer keep command and I'm going to have to attend to a patient here.
02:22
The Bel Air Library command nothing evident in one side alpha and delta.
02:30
Next sheet then rise have them check right away and driver.
02:38
Five persons seen with fresh burn subject near East Pennsylvania Avenue.
02:52
Fire caused by a frayed cord from a Christmas tree. Fire was extinguished quickly.
03:05
Fire caused by a frayed cord from a Christmas tree.
03:10
Fire controlled at twenty hundred hours.
03:16
Three of us.
03:24
All clear at the library command dispatch.
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Command is terminated.
03:27
Fire was on the ground with no further extension.
03:30
Cleaning up now, no further hazards.
03:33
Switching back to channel one.
03:38
We're asleep.
03:39
No further extension, cleaning up at twenty hundred hours.
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Location mentioned:
Bel Air Library (100 E Pennsylvania Ave), Bel Air, MD 21014
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