Water leak causes damage at educational building, La Crosse WI
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Fire & ArsonFire units responded to a fire alarm near Franciscan Way in La Crosse. On arrival at Marion Hall, they discovered a significant hot water leak causing damage on Division I. Firefighters worked to locate and shut off the main water source to stop the leak.
Audio|Heard on: La Crosse City Fire - Digital
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03:8
Transcript:
00:00
Italian 1, Engine 1, Quint 2, Quint 3, Rescue 1, and Rescue 2.
00:06
Respond to monitor fire alarm.
00:08
Near Franciscan Way.
00:15
You see, (name withheld).
00:17
Go ahead.
00:20
(Name withheld), Rescue on her out.
00:28
Engine 1, an alarm company could not give a location and they were going to be calling the respondent.
00:35
101, Cappies.
00:40
161 is on location, Marion Hall.
00:44
You got nothing showing,
00:46
you out investigating an incident.
00:48
Got it.
00:55
Engine one, brisk one, you guys got the Knox Rocks at your location.
01:01
That's affirmative.
01:02
It's up here.
01:05
Copy. If you guys want to investigate.
01:09
Command from Benjamin.
01:11
Go ahead.
01:17
It's located a hot water leak causing a pretty big issue on Division I.
01:22
Can you bring forward your two gas clamps, the small one and the blue one? We're going to try to stop this water leak for them.
01:29
Doesn't appear we have any other issues.
01:32
Let's do one copies.
01:37
Man, quick two's level one.
01:44
Tilly one's location.
01:48
Top.
01:52
The battalion one.
01:57
Go ahead.
02:04
Understand you've got a water leak causing issues on Division I.
02:08
Get yourself an inch of one in there trying to fix that.
02:10
If that's correct, you can't.
02:17
That's correct.
02:18
We've got a pretty significant waterline break.
02:22
We're attempting to find the main shut off,
02:25
trying to stop the leak.
02:26
No needs right now.
02:31
Copy no needs, I'll take command from out here.
02:38
Rescue One command?
02:44
Go ahead.
02:48
Am I good to clear off some rigs or do you want them to stick around?
02:53
Yeah, I think you can clear them off.
02:55
Engine One, Rescue One remain unseen, though.
03:00
Copy all units and clear.
03:03
Engine one rescue, one battalion, one working on team.
03:07
Thanks, Scott.
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Location mentioned:
Franciscan Wy, La Crosse, WI 54601
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