Structure fire near south high street courthouse in Philippi, Philippi WV
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Fire & ArsonA structure fire occurred at a building near South High Street behind the courthouse in Philippi. Fire was visible on the second floor. Multiple emergency units responded and established command on scene.
Audio|Heard on: Barbour County Police, Fire and EMS
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03:9
Transcript:
00:00
Responding 1150, South High Street behind the courthouse, Philippi.
00:04
Structure fire, law enforcement device, fire showing on the second floor.
00:11
We copy.
00:24
Responding 1151, South High Street behind the courthouse,
00:28
while enforcement on scene-invise, fire showing from the second floor of the building.
00:38
Address Ava.
00:42
Markers-off here, 172.
00:47
72.
00:50
The response to the floor.
00:55
1152 responding south high street behind the courthouse in philipi working structure fire
01:08
When you get up here the fires on the second floor we can hook straight to the hydrant
01:13
Matt is safe
01:20
You might want to leave room for the tower
01:24
That's your safe.
01:27
Truck 4 is responding, Barbour.
01:29
Can I get the best access to this?
01:37
40T's on a scene with a working fire, K4 S command[1].
01:43
On C-053.
01:49
530, Barbara, on scene.
01:54
53-0153
01:58
Barber G4
02:02
G4
02:06
G4 truck 4
02:11
Got it
02:13
He'd you come all the way down past the courthouse Past BC Bank, come up high street that way.
02:27
(name withheld).
02:30
Chief Fort Barber.
02:33
Yeah.
02:35
There's a lot of city power for me.
02:37
Yeah,
02:39
Fort West is on his way.
02:59
We're all responding units upon arrival scene, switch to batch.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
command: Incident Command established/assumed
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Location mentioned:
S High St, Philippi, WV 26416
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