Fire erupts at Portsmouth home, spreads to garage, Portsmouth RI
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Fire & ArsonNear Sherwood Drive in Portsmouth, a structure fire erupted at the rear of a single-story home and spread into the garage. Fire crews quickly responded, evacuating all occupants safely and deploying multiple lines to fight the blaze.
Audio|Heard on: Portsmouth Fire Department
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03:50
Transcript:
00:00
Fire alarm reporting a still alarm.
00:08
Car 2, engine 3, under 1, towel, out of 1.
00:10
Batch number 10, Sherwood Road reported structure fire.
00:15
On stairs, 0,926.
00:22
File, the law and companies responding.
00:24
In your near time, it's going to be inferred near Sherwood Drive, should be just north of Sherwood.
00:33
I just can't have that near Sherwood.
00:42
The fire...
00:43
The fire at the rear of the building.
00:44
Stretched one on scene.
00:46
One story we would.
00:47
They're working for an infrastructure fire.
00:53
The fire at the rear of the building.
00:56
Stretching across way.
01:03
See, Inger 1, I'm seeing, Cartier here I'm same with Commander 928.
01:14
Engine 3, grab that hydrant and give them a few of lines.
01:19
We got that.
01:29
We need a fire alarm.
01:32
Answer, for man.
01:35
All right, one story, word working fire.
01:38
Fill it in with the assignment and he arrest you to the scene.
01:41
All the occupants are out.
01:43
So, one story would train,
01:45
occupied.
01:47
Side A is the street.
01:49
Side B is a driveway.
01:51
Side C is a rear yard.
01:53
Side D is another yard.
01:54
There's no one of the problem.
01:56
Fire on the outside of the house is extended into the garage.
02:00
Number five, car one, and car six.
02:05
Proceed for me.
02:13
They're not a page, call five guys into the station.
02:16
They have a middle-pound engine relocate off station right now.
02:19
See, Adrian.
02:23
Mr. Chairman, Recall 5, the Middontown station.
02:37
Try long, have that Middletown engine cover the scene.
02:41
Giving up first little engine to the station for staging at this point, all right?
02:52
Also, half of our Rhode Island energy come to the scene, cut the power.
03:00
Okay, middle town to the scene, I'll get personal for coverage and Rhode Island Energy for the power.
03:09
The building official know as well, please.
03:12
We've got two lines stretch, two in operation at this point.
03:15
All our hands are working.
03:22
Command Waste as far as the hours.
03:29
Commandant file, on.
03:37
All right, both lines are operations, they're making good progress.
03:40
It's how you do to get up into the cockwalk for the garage.
03:43
We're killing the main power from the circuit breaker panel.
03:46
I still need Rhode Island energy.
03:47
And that middle town engine is at the scene.
03:49
They're going to go to work when they get hit.
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Location mentioned:
Sherwood Dr, Portsmouth, RI 02871
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