Small fire on church roof extinguished by crews, Fresno CA
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a reported fire on the roof of a church near Bullard Avenue. Upon arrival, they found a small surface fire on a blanket and extinguished it. Law enforcement was notified about a person seen on the roof. Access to the roof was challenging, but crews confirmed the fire was contained and no building fire occurred.
Audio|Heard on: Fresno City Police, Fire and EMS
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06:13
Transcript:
00:00
Bredis, be advised.
00:02
The person is reported to be on the east side of the building.
00:06
The church is on fire and the male is on the roof.
00:17
4.531, just rampo.
00:20
It appears to be a white male, it's old,
00:22
wearing pants.
00:23
It appears that a great evening on,
00:26
wearing a cactus coat pants.
00:30
Comey.
00:37
Fort Charles Ceylon.
00:39
For Charles Ceyman.
00:41
FST N-Round and can you help to check on their investigators since the cars only?
00:50
431 fires arriving.
00:53
Ready.
00:57
All apparatus and route to the Bullard incident, be advised law enforcement on Tina is now reporting a blanket on fire on the roof, negative on the building being on fire.
01:10
Engine 11 is arrived.
01:12
We do have a small fire on the roof and there is a person up on the roof.
01:17
We're going to have an access issue here and there is a fire.
01:27
For Charles Day 1.
01:28
All right hand.
01:34
Battalion 3 arrives.
01:35
Break engine 11, 293.
01:37
All established command, why don't you work with the Tower 11 to get access to determine the extent of the fire?
01:45
Copy that.
01:47
Working to get access.
01:50
Tower 11 arrived.
01:53
Tower 11, copy.
01:57
Tower 11, command, do you think you could access the roof with the aerial from that position?
02:06
Copy.
02:10
Go to shoot Fort North Calabaris.
02:17
7.
02:23
Tower 11, engine 11, uh,
02:26
from our recollection of this place, this is a little bit hard to get into from where we are here.
02:33
Knox boxes and stuff like that are hard to access.
02:39
Way down from the blue.
02:43
Copy.
02:45
Fort Charles 31.
02:52
I have F-15 and I'm like confirming you want their fire investigator to respond.
02:58
April.
03:07
Paul, units, this is command.
03:09
Go ahead and reduce code 2, stage out a bit.
03:12
It's going to get stacked up to the distance from location.
03:21
Is 13 station.
03:25
And just 13 copy staged.
03:29
Command[1] communication.
03:31
Go ahead for command.
03:33
Command[1], be advised.
03:34
P.D. is requested the investigator.
03:36
We're starting I-1.
03:46
Commercial fire for I-1, Zone 40586, Bullard cross of First, near Bullard Avenue.
03:52
Operations are taking place on Federal Fire 1, Tactical, and TAC 1.
03:55
We have law on scene requesting it.
03:59
There's no match in action with the phone number either.
04:01
All we got was the first name.
04:03
I just heard an update now that she stated she didn't have a place to go for now, but can be reached at (number withheld).
04:12
The time will copy.
04:16
Calaveras.
04:23
Thank you.
04:24
Tower 11, Engelven, if you guys can help us make access to the gate and then we're going to throw a ladder on that smaller portion and get up on top.
04:36
Yeah, we're gonna cut the lock on this gate and just drive in.
04:41
We'll have a copy.
04:47
Adam 31 to frame 31, me and every 31 were able to get in through the...
04:55
...to item 31, I copy.
04:57
President of Fire is cutting lock at this gate currently.
05:00
Copy.
05:07
Safety one's right.
05:12
Safety one copy.
05:17
20 arrived.
05:21
Tender 20, copy staged.
05:23
Tender 20, copy staged.
05:27
All units, this command is an update.
05:30
It looked like it was a surface fire on the roof.
05:33
Engine 11 got it knocked down at this point and we have deemed access to the once we get a crew up to the roof to confirm.
05:41
We'll advise on resource needs.
05:46
I copy. I got you out of the location host, sir.
05:54
Yes.
06:00
I'm telling him.
06:03
Go ahead.
06:05
Hey, I can't confirm if the suspect got down yet, I'm going to send a PD officer.
06:10
Fire in the bucket before we make access.
Police codes explained
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[1]
Command: Incident Command managing the incident
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Location mentioned:
E Bullard Ave, Fresno, CA 93710
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