Apartment fire near West 61st St and West End Ave controlled, New York NY
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, a fire occurred in an apartment near West End Avenue and West 61st Street in New York. Firefighters knocked down visible flames, completed primary and secondary searches with no occupants found, and brought the fire under control. A lithium ion battery fire was extinguished and a hazmat team was called to remove the battery.
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03:48
Transcript:
00:00
Division 1.
00:01
Box 257. All visible fire has been knocked down.
00:05
All primary searches are complete negative.
00:07
Secondaries underway.
00:09
Trucks are still opening up.
00:11
Fire is now full.
00:14
104 Division 1.
00:15
Time matter report is 2-15 hours.
00:17
The duration of fires 27 minutes.
00:21
Division 1, 104.
00:25
2215 the time is spatch up 315.
00:35
It's Huitumannan.
00:37
2-2.
00:41
Cancel EMS-patient RMA and walked away.
00:50
104.
00:57
215 to time 215.
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The time 215.
01:05
And Agent 4, Lactin 3-3.
01:12
24 What's the location?
01:18
We are on West End Avenue and West 61st Street.
01:24
10-5?
01:27
West End Avenue and West 61st Street.
01:33
That's war.
01:39
Class 3 284 Terminal 2.15 Christie Street between Stanis Street and East House Street for Class Jail-on.
01:47
Class 3, United Box, 24, Terminal 28, the address 215 Christi Street between Stanis Street and East House Street for Class Jail-on.
01:58
2.17, the time 315.
02:02
Battalion 6 to Manhattan.
02:06
Battalion 6?
02:08
Could you have a hazmat unit respond to this box? We had a lithium ion battery that was on fire.
02:15
It is extinguished in a sink right now.
02:18
Just need somebody to remove the battery.
02:20
All right, Temple, standby.
02:27
Now at the battalion 6.
02:31
Battalion 6.
02:33
The battalion 6 be assigned engine 4 for your hazmat tech unit,
02:37
hazmat 1 in the hazmat battalion.
02:42
Time 4.
02:48
2219 in time.
02:50
315. 315.
03:00
Command.
03:03
Division 1.
03:05
257. Secondary search is a complete negative.
03:08
Probably will hold.
03:09
10-4[1], Division 1.
03:12
Probably will hold time is 2-2-1-9 hours and duration of fire is 3-2-32 minutes.
03:18
Division 1, 10-4[1].
03:21
2-2-12 at a time, 3.15.
03:31
217.
03:35
Division 1.
03:36
257, under control.
03:40
104, Division 1.
03:41
Under control time is 2-2-2-2-2-1.
03:43
The final duration, the fire is 3-4-34 minutes.
03:47
Division 1, 10-4[1].
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment—message received, understood, or OK.
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Location mentioned:
W 61st St & W End Ave, New York, NY 10023
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