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Chimney fire with possible firebox blaze in Bucks County, Newtown PA

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Penn St, Newtown, PA 18940

According to the dispatch call, fire units responded to a clogged and actively burning chimney with a possible fire inside the firebox near Penn Hill Drive in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Firefighters discussed clearing the firebox and managing the situation on site.

Audio|Heard on: Bucks County Fire - East
Listen to dispatch call
02:17
Transcript:
00:00
Our reported near Penn Hill Drive, up in the Shaminy Street.
00:04
8 Chimney.
00:06
Andrew 24 is around.
00:08
Engine 244. Engine 24.
00:10
Sorry, also.
00:12
Okay.
00:14
Okay.
00:18
Where's every box?
00:20
Deputy Seven.
00:26
Okay, near Pendo Drive.
00:28
No claim to this time, we can have a Sergeant Command, not a roof.
00:32
Next to me.
00:34
Okay.
00:35
Okay.
00:40
I have a personal engine.
00:42
I have my own hydrant in front of the engine about 100 feet.
00:45
Vision 244.
00:51
Special service has wrong seen?
00:54
Special service, 244.
01:01
(number withheld).
01:03
Any night.
01:05
Next to the power line.
01:23
Take it.
01:25
I'm sorry for 44 bucks.
01:26
I'll be shut up in the end of command.
01:29
Okay.
01:34
Interior Command.
01:39
Engine 7, engine 21, tower 8.
01:43
Security Command. Security, Command.
01:52
Probably the box is definitely really clogged up.
01:55
What are we putting the tarp down or we begin cleaning out the firebox itself? It's probably the easiest for the truck company to just come on and change it out of the bucket.
02:07
Do we reduce this week?
02:10
Probably not yet.
02:11
Still clog and you can hear burning inside of the attack.
02:15
Okay.
02:16
Tower 8 with 3.

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Location mentioned:
Penn St, Newtown, PA 18940

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