Commercial building fire with smoke in Hutchinson, Hutchinson KS
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire department responded to a commercial building fire near East 3rd Avenue in Hutchinson, Kansas. Multiple engines and trucks operated with both interior and exterior fire attacks. Light smoke was visible from upper floors and exterior siding required removal. Searches of the apartments found no people inside, and firefighters worked to control and extinguish the fire.
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Transcript:
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Engine 3, engine 4, engine 5, engine 1, engine 7, engine 6, truck 3, truck 1, battalion 1, chief 22,
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chief 23, chief 21, off 1, medic 2, near East 3rd Avenue, North Pershing Street, and North Cleveland Street, commercial building fire.
00:22
Near East 3rd Avenue, commercial building fire.
00:30
That's all units responding to the structure fire near East 3rd.
00:36
This is going to be an apartment A.
00:38
We do have PD on scene advising that there is smoke coming from the building.
00:48
Dispatch all units responding to the structure fire on Ops 1 near East 3rd.
00:54
This is going to be an apartment A.
00:56
We do have PD on-scene advising there is smoke coming from the building.
01:04
Okay.
01:09
Good forward to the late by train.
01:15
To dispatch truck three go ahead truck three is on scene of a two and a half story multi-family dwelling we do have smoke coming from the bravo side this is going to be light smoke coming out the second story.
01:35
Engine 3, I want you to go ahead and pull the line, go in for fire attack.
01:38
Truck 3 will be Search.
01:40
We do have residents coming out of the building.
01:42
I'm going to go ahead and assume 3rd Street Command.
01:46
We do have a hydrant on the corner.
01:48
All units will operate on Tack 1, stand by for a 360 follow-up.
01:53
This much as 10-4[1].
01:56
Yep.
01:59
Engine 4.
02:04
Tiny one dispatch, but only one's on scene.
02:08
I'll be assuming third street command.
02:10
Engine one, why don't you go ahead and get a water supply established to engine three.
02:16
I've got engine three stretching an engine three quarter line.
02:20
We do have light smoke coming from the building.
02:23
We've got truck three performing search.
02:30
Truck one, why don't you go ahead and start ventilation?
02:37
And the truck three.
02:40
Is the smoke coming from the roof line or is it looks like second floor fire?
02:48
Three to all units follow up.
02:51
Fire just appears to be just on the exterior of the building.
02:55
First floor seems clear.
02:57
We need to strip some siding back.
02:59
We do have like smoke coming out of this window on the Bravo Charlie Corner.
03:09
Copy truck through your traffic.
03:11
Is it on the first floor of the window or second floor?
03:17
Seems like it's kind of following between the two floors, so we're going to need to kill power, get to it here pretty quick.
03:25
I copy.
03:26
Engine 4.
03:27
Why don't you go ahead and pull a second line off of engine 3?
03:32
I've got engine 3 will be first floor fire attack, you'll be second floor fire attack.
03:39
Got to be second line.
03:46
Truck one, why don't you go ahead and start looking at the fire we have on the exterior while truck three is performing search?
03:57
Truck 1, copies.
04:03
Engine six, why don't you go ahead and establish writ?
04:10
Come up here and be on deck.
04:15
Copy.
04:21
Truck three to command.
04:23
We do have higher killed in the building.
04:26
The building.
04:28
Number three, you ready for water?
04:36
Stand it.
04:42
Hold that.
04:44
Engine 3C, the engine driver, can you go and send water this station three-quarter?
04:53
The engine three driver, go ahead send water to the station three-quarters.
05:02
Search commandant.
05:06
Go ahead, search.
05:10
Nothing found in the apartment B.
05:12
Second story has light smoke, just light smoke,
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not catching anything on the exterior wall.
05:21
Have you got the first floor search?
05:26
The apartment A was clear as well.
05:28
We're going to try and get the other side here.
05:35
Truck one, let's switch your status.
05:40
Truck 1, we're getting the siding pull out here.
05:43
We do not active fire, walking up the side.
05:47
We got the engine 5.
05:49
Why you pull another line to the rear to help combat the fire at the rear? It'll be the exterior line with truck 1.
06:05
Truck 1 is this in between the floors where you're seeing the fire creeping up?
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment/Message received
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E 3rd Ave, Hutchinson, KS 67501
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