Fire crews block traffic to access hydrant on Birney Ave, Lackawanna County PA
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Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a fire near Birney Avenue that required accessing a hydrant and water supply. Traffic was blocked on Green Avenue and Burney Avenue during the operations to manage the fire.
Audio|Heard on: Susquehanna, Wayne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming Counties Fire / EMS
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04:15
Transcript:
00:00
Scene 1808 Card 5 calling
00:11
Car 5 Water company to the TN and DPW 2 for salt Copy 1040
00:24
21 from engine 7.
00:31
Go ahead, 7.
00:32
Geez,
00:36
the initial walk around is showing a hydrant all the way up by the church or one block down to the yard.
00:50
21 to 7.
00:52
Kemp, go to Piston and Warner.
00:54
And we can come right through to the backyard.
00:57
Piston and Warner.
01:01
Copy that, Piston and Warner.
01:08
Tell me when you get there,
01:10
we'll get bodies to help you pull the line through.
01:18
Copy that, 21.
01:19
Okay.
01:25
Six.
01:31
Four on scene, 1811.
01:38
Car 5 call.
01:42
Car 5.
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Keep an LLK, it took the meter off the property.
01:50
Stand 4.
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...on. ...you can be able to...
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...froming 4.
02:03
...and get forward.
02:04
...and get forward.
02:08
Green Avenue block traffic.
02:12
It's not being 3-2-3-3-Burney Avenue block traffic.
02:21
Ingen 7, Permanion 04 Offices.
02:40
Engine 2. Go ahead.
02:48
Vision 2 is out of water.
02:50
Shutting down the line.
02:52
AJ, are we crossing the road on this? Do you want it to block it?
03:02
Agent 7 from Part 2, what's your location?
03:11
21 from 7.
03:15
Go ahead, 7.
03:19
Currently hand jacking through the yards, we have a good hydrant on Bernie.
03:24
We'll be laying in shortly.
03:35
Engine two charge the hydrogen.
03:37
You can charge the hydrogen.
03:39
So you can charge that hyzen.
03:46
You can charge that hyzen.
03:50
We'll get hooked off, we will.
03:52
We'll be about 30 seconds.
03:58
Two,
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seven, charge hydrant.
04:04
Copy, well, you know what's coming.
04:11
7,
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the 21,
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lines being charged.
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Birney Ave, Pennsylvania
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