Active structure fire underway in Lebanon, Lebanon PA
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, emergency responders are conducting active operations to control a structure fire near S 9th St and Cumberland St in Lebanon. Multiple fire divisions are using handlines, master streams, and a blitz fire tactic. They are repositioning equipment to open windows and supply water while dealing with heat and falling debris in the basement. Additional engines and manpower are being requested to support fire suppression efforts. Entry on the Delta side has been stopped, and efforts focus on exterior firefighting due to safety concerns.
Audio|Heard on: Lebanon County Fire
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08:37
Transcript:
00:00
Can I get a status report on the Delta side operation?
00:05
All right, I got two guys on a handline, into three-quarter.
00:08
They're about three steps down in the basement.
00:12
We're just making sure everything's solid before we keep making our push.
00:16
All right, copy that.
00:17
Just can be aware of Division 1 for, I agree.
00:22
Yeah, I got that.
00:28
Command 15 from the system 31, please.
01:00
Seventy-48 to firefighter Colby.
01:06
Go ahead for firefighter counsel.
01:09
What's your status there, boss?
01:14
All right, so you got,
01:16
we're going to get to the bottom of these steps, it's all concrete,
01:19
we just move these doors open, but they continue to fall from the steps.
01:22
We're not making any other.
01:25
All right, copy.
01:31
This is a 501, truck 48 operator.
01:36
From the 48 firefighter Johnson,
01:38
but see you're aware,
01:40
whoever flowing from the Charlie side,
01:43
it's creating a pretty good heat tunnel coming back to help you help her step.
01:53
Truck 48 operator, assistant 50 and 1.
01:56
Can you move the truck forward here to hit this second floor? We need to open these windows to flow water.
02:05
I can do that if we get the handline shut down.
02:08
I just got to watch if these are either communication or high-tension wires.
02:12
Let me know because I was going to try to set up here.
02:16
It'd be great if you get on this corner here and we take these Division 2 windows and flow water in there.
02:22
You're going to need water to the truck.
02:28
Copy. Like I said, if we get those two handlines shut down, I can see what I can make work there, boss.
02:38
A45, Division 1 handline, the white handline.
02:41
Status report, please.
02:44
Deputy 48 to 3392, can you back out for a second? We got to shut these white lines down to move the truck.
02:55
Truck 58 is it nice and cummuling.
03:01
Deputy 48 to 3392, you copy that.
03:04
I want you to back out so we can shut that white line down.
03:06
So we can get the truck in position.
03:11
This is 48 from national island peace.
03:14
For master stream, so I set up.
03:22
The line,
03:24
deputy 48 to command 15, I got accountability in on now side D.
03:32
Right line is shut down.
03:40
14-1 assistant 581 can you get a 5-inch line then to truck 48 when they re-positioned so we can flow water All right now I have 90 pounds of residual they just pulled another one off my uh officer side
03:59
We can't head and we might have to get another engine to come off of 9th Street into you and supply truck 48 on another hydrant
04:09
I would do that.
04:14
G15, assistant 501, you copy.
04:16
Can we get another engine to come off a night street on a high street, come down spring to Feet Tower 48? 14 can't handle it.
04:25
All right, any available to come down High Street on the street on the street, grab a hydrant.
04:33
Engine 48 can cut back out of 8th Street and come down night.
04:38
All right, let's make it happen.
04:43
Command, truck 58's here, we'll get it.
04:46
We're on scene.
04:49
Engine 42 is already on night.
04:54
If you can make your way down here, please, that'd be great.
05:00
Commandant 14, is that 9th and Cumberland? I can do that.
05:05
Engine 42 is laying from 9th in Willow.
05:15
Okay, you do not need engine 14 then from 19th Kamala into the scene.
05:24
Deputy 31, I need a crew on the yellow line into the basement of 845.
05:30
I had city crews just come out and ask for their bail on a push.
05:37
Engine 14, shutdown both the handlines, both the handlines.
05:43
Both are shut down.
05:44
Both are shut down.
05:59
Can we go to force of warm, please? I need manpower, so squads and rescue.
06:07
Copy.
06:13
Number 36, if you copy, I want you set up for Master Stream dry.
06:18
Master Stream dry for right now, but when you set up...
06:25
I got out 336, set up from Massachusetts.
06:32
Deputy 48 to G15.
06:34
I'm going to get a blitz fire set up on the Delta side here then.
06:42
15 from Captain 48.
06:46
Deputy 48.
06:50
Deputy 48 from today.
06:58
Agent 42, Assistant Vipa1, is that you? Do you have static order?
07:07
Command 15 from the roof.
07:14
15 years for rehab.
07:16
They weren't responding.
07:20
All right, very good.
07:21
Have them parking the former parking lot.
07:29
Okay.
07:33
7048 to command 15.
07:34
We're not making entry on the Delta site anymore.
07:37
We're just going to set up a blitz fire.
07:39
All right, 7031.
07:43
We got some enemy turbulence still coming out of there.
07:46
Where do we got?
07:51
48 is this 501.
07:54
Go ahead.
08:00
The 5-inch lines for them to protect.
08:03
All right, we got ceiling fall on the first floor then over here with the Delta side.
08:09
I'll go to exterior operations.
08:13
Deputy 48 from the roof.
08:16
Go ahead.
08:18
We're not able to make it through the top of the roof.
08:20
We're going to come down.
08:22
All right, sounds good.
08:29
Wait, which way do they want us to come in?
08:33
I believe east of 8th Street on Cumberland Street is where you're going to be staging.
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S 9th St & Cumberland St, Lebanon, PA 17042
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