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Smoke reported in building at forest city apartmentForest City PA

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Main St, Forest City, PA 18421

Fire and emergency services responded to smoke inside a building near Main Street in Forest City. Residents were evacuated as crews investigated the source of the smoke.

Audio|Heard on: Susquehanna, Wayne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming Counties Fire / EMS
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08:13
Transcript:
00:00
For police on the scene, there's a smoke condition of the building, the starting evacuation of the apartment.
00:26
A wrong number.
00:56
Open mic on orange, watch your mic.
01:09
43 ladders on the way with six.
01:15
181 County.
01:18
181, go ahead.
01:21
We're out of the station.
01:24
7-4 and roll out the station, 28.
01:29
Wayne, 42 will send us on the scene.
01:35
Point County, 41 Rescue, second request.
01:39
Near Main Street, 4 city, across the center street and downtown street.
01:44
Proposal structure fire, smoke through the building.
01:47
Point County 41 Rescue.
01:50
Second request,
01:52
Near Main Street, Forest City
01:55
or possible structure fire smoke through the building, 2029.
02:01
Rescue. Rescue.
02:06
We've got a crew.
02:07
We'll be on the road here in a minute.
02:08
I'll like you know when we go out.
02:10
The first of all, boys, boys, twenty-nine.
02:17
Four.
02:24
43 chiefs to the 41 rescue.
02:28
41 rescue.
02:33
I'm going to take the front if you want to grab the plug.
02:38
Copy that. All right.
02:44
Sending.
02:47
What do the rescue?
02:54
O-W4.
02:55
No, it's 4, 2030.
03:01
Wayne, 43 Ladder Run scene.
03:06
Nothing evidence inside it.
03:11
Forty-two ladder on scene, 2030.
03:23
Wait,
03:25
got a six, you on a...
03:26
...you want to...
03:28
...you want to get around 5.
03:36
...2030.
03:41
One rescue Wayne.
03:44
Wait,
03:45
got to explore the rest.
03:47
Stand by and that plugger for a second.
03:49
We're on power up.
03:51
We're going to have a full commission on Division 2.
03:55
41 rescue on scene.
03:58
Forty rescue you're on scene, 231.
04:03
2031.
04:04
2031 chief.
04:11
Thank you for you on chief.
04:13
All right.
04:14
Side, see, nothing showing.
04:17
I know, I find the second floor.
04:21
You want to see.
04:24
You want to see.
04:25
You want to see.
04:43
43 chief, 41 chief.
04:46
Hi, John.
04:49
County,
04:50
you're going to go.
04:56
County, you're going to rescue.
05:07
County, you're going to arrest you on.
05:13
Union Del Rescue in your grad.
05:16
We're responding with 5, switching.
05:19
7-4, responding with 5 and switching in 2033.
05:25
Chief 18, Coney.
05:28
Chief 18, go ahead.
05:31
And out to the scene.
05:35
7-4 and rot the same, 233.
05:39
...thing with 5.
05:42
One nine in Wayne County.
05:50
41-9's in route.
05:54
Post all in the vision tilt.
05:56
Forty-two calls up and up there.
06:00
It's all right, I think it might be a cocaine incident.
06:06
CEMC.
06:08
C. C.
06:10
NIC3, arriving CMC, 2034.
06:17
On ladder, 43, command, 41 command.
06:22
WRIZE-3, command.
06:31
Wakeout, aliens operating 607, mainstream in four cities.
06:36
Use Fireground-3 for operations, Fireground 3.
06:42
Letter 501 to 41 or 43 command.
06:51
Letter 18, go ahead.
06:55
Johnny, you want to show us in REL, and let Wayne know please, we'll be switching over.
07:00
7-4, letter 18, showing you on roll, switching over, notifying Wayne, 235.
07:12
Ladder 51 to 41 or 43 commands.
07:16
41 rescue either 41 or 43 chief.
07:26
We got ladder 51 coming in looking for an assignment.
07:33
Okay, got it, Josh.
07:35
41 rescue to ladder 51.
07:38
Ladder 51. All right,
07:41
proceed down Main Street.
07:42
You can get at a reduced rate.
07:44
You're going to see 41 rescue on the left-hand side of the roadway, just pulling behind us and hold your personnel on your engine for your ladder for right now.
07:54
All right.
07:57
Engine 61 is just ahead of it.
07:59
They're also looking for an assignment.
08:03
61-4, if you had copied.
08:05
Same thing, pulling behind 41 rescue.
08:07
It's going to be on the left side of the roadway.
08:09
Left-hand side of the roadway behind the rescue, 10-4.

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Main St, Forest City, PA 18421

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Incident Timeline

  1. Fireground Communications and Assignments
  2. Ongoing Operations and Additional Arrivals
  3. Units Arriving and Smoke Condition Confirmed
  4. Location and Mutual Aid Clarified
  5. Initial Dispatch for Possible Structure Fire

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