Large scrap pile fire at Indianapolis scrapyard, Indianapolis IN
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, a large scrap pile fire occurred at a scrapyard near English Avenue in Indianapolis. Firefighters faced access issues due to locked and electrified gates, which were managed remotely or by cutting the gates. The fire involved shredded metal about 25 feet tall and 50 feet square, with no major exposures threatened. Fire crews worked to control the blaze while managing limited access routes.
Audio|Heard on: Marion IN Fire-Tac Group Calls
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06:36
Transcript:
00:00
All you are responding to Kitley and English.
00:02
This will be at the scrapyard, J. Solotken & Co., east of the intersection south side of the street.
00:08
Callers are reporting approximately 40-foot-high scrap pile on fire in the rear of the building.
00:18
Control from engine 25.
00:21
Do we have any employees on the scene? There's an electrified fence here at this property.
00:27
That I don't know.
00:29
This came in from someone who is passing by.
00:33
Kathy, we'll advise when we arrive.
00:37
Go ahead.
00:40
Go ahead.
00:43
We're on the scene. We're looking at the one locked gate.
00:46
The one to the west of us, I think, is unlocked, but we again are going to have the issue with the electrified gate.
00:52
If we have any contact information, we should get a hold of them as soon as we can.
00:56
I think they can unlock this remotely.
00:59
I'm looking now.
01:02
43s or 42s.
01:03
Yeah, go ahead and cut that gate.
01:04
We've got snow in the parking lot over here.
01:08
Okay, there's clear.
01:10
All right, control update.
01:12
We've got two gates here at near English Avenue.
01:15
We're going to cut and gain access to the property.
01:22
Okay, I'm calling one of the responders now.
01:29
Viter 43 first row.
01:33
Battalion 4 arriving, I'll be assuming English command.
01:38
Forty battalion for assuming command.
01:44
25 from command.
01:45
Did you see anything coming in?
01:48
See it up there.
01:52
Copy that.
01:54
Yeah, we can see some smoke drifting over across the building at this point.
02:05
Control from the English command.
02:08
Get the IMPT for traffic control.
02:12
Okay.
02:14
Engine 20 stage to the west on a plug.
02:18
Copy 20 on a plug.
02:22
Engine 43, Gravite Hydrant.
02:26
Command engine 42, we're checking to see if we might have the gate code in one of our phones to turn this power off.
02:37
Clear.
02:39
Keep us updated.
02:41
He's disarming it remotely right now.
02:44
I'm on TX now.
02:46
Copy.
02:48
He confirmed it's now off.
02:51
He'll be there 17 minutes.
02:55
Copy on 17 minutes and gate is off at this time.
03:02
Engine 42, ladder 43.
03:04
Can we get back that way with that semi there?
03:08
I don't know if the ladder will be able to, but I hope there's a scale here we'll be able to go across.
03:14
We wouldn't be able to get back with this semi here anyway, and there's a bunch of stuff stacked up behind it, but we can go across the scale.
03:23
Command control, do you want this working for now?
03:26
Or you want to hold off?
03:34
Hold off for now.
03:36
Claire?
03:39
What's in Containe? What do you need, Jason?
03:43
Just states right now.
03:44
We're not even into the property yet.
03:52
That's right.
03:54
943 stay right there. Command Battalion 3.
03:58
Go ahead.
04:01
A little bit of fire stance on that west side of the property.
04:06
Copy that.
04:10
25 from command.
04:12
Or you're not going to be able to take the engine through there.
04:16
If we're trying to get a visual actually by foot, it looks like this is going to be back to the west on the property from the best we can tell at this point.
04:24
We're still trying to make our way back there though.
04:42
I believe it is, Chief.
04:44
Representative should be here in about 12 minutes and he would know better, but that's the only way we've ever come back here.
04:55
I don't think there's any way a ladder is going to come across there.
04:58
We're going to have to be really careful with an engine coming across that.
05:03
Go ahead.
05:09
Before I'm put back here, we're walking back to the southwest corner.
05:13
There is definitely a little fire and smoke, but I wouldn't bring any apparatus back here.
05:20
Chief, it may be access through the building.
05:24
To get back this way, I don't know.
05:28
Commandantalion, Terri.
05:29
West side's blocked by a train track.
05:31
There's no access for a truck.
05:35
Copy that.
05:38
Yeah, we're going to have difficulty getting the ladder back here no matter what.
05:44
From the west side, it doesn't look like it's threatening anything.
05:49
Clear on that.
05:53
Command investigation.
05:56
Go ahead, investigation.
06:00
Okay, we made it back to the pile.
06:02
It's about 25 feet tall by 50 feet square.
06:09
Shredded metal.
06:11
Doesn't really hear to be having anything around it that's going to be a big loss.
06:18
But you're going to have 5,000 probably feet of hose.
06:24
Or we could do a dump tank.
06:33
Copy the information.
06:34
We're on our way back to you now.
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English Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46219
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