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Burn barrel smoldering on laurel street extinguishedReading PA

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Laurel St, Reading, PA 19602

According to the dispatch call, fire crews extinguished smoldering remnants of a burn barrel on Laurel Street in Reading, Pennsylvania. They informed a property representative about local burning regulations.

Audio|Heard on: Reading Fire / EMS
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Transcript:
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Car 4.
00:04
On Laurel Street,
00:06
the contents of a burn barrel that had not been completely extinguished earlier today,
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basically just smoldering.
00:13
Crew dumped the P.W.
00:15
extinguisher on it, it's probably still going to give off some steam if anybody else calls in, but there's no active fire left.
00:22
Spoke to a representative of the company,
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explained to him,
00:28
about burning ordinances.
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You can show myself and Engine 1 available.
00:35
Residual remnants in the burn barrel smoking.
00:38
Now the fire is out and extinguished by a P.W.
00:41
Did speak to facilities about the ordinance.
00:47
Units will be available at 1840.

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Laurel St, Reading, PA 19602

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