Electrical fire spreads in dwelling on Mountain Road, Germansville PA
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Fire & ArsonAn electrical fire started inside a house near Mountain Road in Germansville, Pennsylvania. The fire spread inside the wall and electrical panel. Firefighters arrived and requested to shut off power to the house. Several fire units were dispatched to handle the situation, coordinating access due to a long driveway.
Audio|Heard on: Northampton County West and Northern Lehigh County
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00:00
All fire units are general fire line for 4851 switch all comms off to you.
00:05
Coms will be off two for the Gwomen Fire 116.
00:08
We were a recall.
00:11
Number remand, 212.
00:18
This is a cold fire.
00:19
This is a cold fire.
00:20
I'll let the power show off here from the house.
00:23
Just another cold call.
00:29
I copy that's an electrical fire and you're turning up the power, what was there?
00:34
No, I need you make some phone calls to get the power show up to the house.
00:40
Okay, which company do they have?
00:45
Well, no, sure.
00:52
We think the fire's calls by the generator is running throughout.
01:03
If you can find out where the caller is,
01:06
we don't know if we have any evacuees or not.
01:10
Say more advice they're back there back there, but I'll call them again.
01:12
Bye.
01:14
Thanks, Chief Tim.
01:28
He gave the deputy test.
01:31
Did you get hold of them?
01:32
I thought it could go out of the contact, I thought it was on.
01:39
Negative, then we have a contact.
01:42
Okay,
01:45
receive.
02:02
Calling in the mouth building.
02:18
County, Mackey, Mount Road.
02:20
County, fire 48, fire 45, 47.
02:22
There's a second way for dwelling fire.
02:24
2428, you over road.
02:26
4-count-check, communications, ops-2.
02:28
Ops-2 for comms, 1150, for...
02:32
1050, for...
02:38
...transmast 2, BLI, 6,000, (number withheld).
02:41
No, 1-7-2-1-point-4.
02:44
Passplane 1 to St.
02:45
McQuarr-Cound.
02:47
Have a rebuild 66-1.
02:51
This one. Good, honey.
03:06
Yeah, go ahead.
03:08
Just talking down, they're on site.
03:12
Just say we're giving a cat of steam bath, and it set the alarm off there at the first building, not at the house,
03:17
at the first building where the Knox Box is located.
03:24
Okay,
03:25
I'll check with him.
03:29
Forty-53 counter responder station.
03:32
Another fifty.
03:36
County Quintone.
03:37
Quintet.
03:39
Quintet.
03:42
Bombing momentarily.
03:44
Time for Quintet.
03:47
County, 47-21 is responding with four.
03:57
155 County, 3891 all locations
04:02
1155
04:04
Guy about real quick
04:09
Mountain Road Commit.
04:10
Good.
04:12
What I said you, Mr. Watch with the business owner.
04:15
They got a new fire list in the car.
04:17
We're doing it. We're going to call for it.
04:20
You do call them on these hands.
04:22
I've been eating in a lot of couple of things.
04:23
I've been eaten in a couple of things.
04:25
Yes, thank you.
04:33
Lehigh County Station 10 responding to (number withheld) Mountain Road per chief 10 on scene, you can recall.
04:42
All right.
04:47
All due solar is over.
04:49
Root.
04:51
That's only 420-killer route.
04:53
We're going to do cop-op two for Com.
05:00
I'm 4040. You can show us from 5.
05:05
50.
05:08
631. Thank you.
05:16
556.
05:21
29 and 52 with 31.
05:28
3-0, 157. Track 2 for come.
05:34
Correction, opposite 2 for coming.
05:35
Correction, opposite 2 for coming.
05:41
That great deal, clear it out.
05:52
Hey, that's a thirty-one or five.
05:55
Okay.
05:56
10-50.
06:00
48,
06:02
48-82 to 4851.
06:04
All right, 451,000.
06:08
4851,000.
06:12
You can get a minute at the remote distance to this property here.
06:17
You know, that's just three six.
06:19
Thank you. All right now, please.
06:21
10, 4. Okay,
06:24
when you go one, it's going to happen.
06:25
Come all up to John, right, still here if you can.
06:31
If we can get 31 on the road, 31 applies to get up in here better than 32.
06:41
Review.
06:45
302 to 40 and 51.
06:46
I'm about 300,000.
06:48
What are the long drive way up in here? The long drive way up in here.
06:52
Be careful getting in here.
06:54
We got fire in the 8d corner or 8d side here.
07:02
It's in the electrical panel.
07:04
It's burning up in the wall here.
07:15
9665? Yeah, you could be 41 response.
07:18
Number 50. 75.
07:23
(number withheld) tell me,
07:25
which part is?
07:27
How is here?
07:28
1451, now 1432.
07:31
Stop up down on the main road.
07:32
Don't come down the driveway.
07:34
32 stay on the main road.
07:35
One is small a tank down in there first.
07:39
We're not sure if we're holding a birdie-hams around the road trip.
07:44
We've got 46th of tanker and maybe 4x4 tanker.
07:49
Let one of their tankers come up in here first.
07:55
(number withheld).
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Mountain Rd, Germansville, PA 18053
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