Battery fire reported in basement at Rye residence, Rye NH
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According to the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a report of a battery smoking in the basement of a residence near Spring Road in Rye. Multiple departments, including North Hampton and Portsmouth, assisted and used fans to ventilate the area while removing the battery.
Audio|Heard on: Strafford County Area Local Police and Fire
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02:12
Transcript:
00:00
Received truck 2 on and responding near Spring Road in Rye for smoking basement.
00:11
Ride Smith.
00:15
Switch operations to V-Fire 21.
00:18
When North Hampton, C1 gets on scene, he'll be command.
00:23
RRIO3 will be off.
00:26
Copy switching to V-Fire 21 for operations.
00:30
O3 will have ops command and C1, North Hampton C1 will have regular command.
00:37
North Hampton C1, did you copy that?
00:43
North Hampton, T1,000.
00:53
New incident, disregard the recall.
01:05
Rockham's on with a recall tone for North Hampton.
01:08
That's Rockham's on with a recall tone for North Hanson, (number withheld).
01:17
Under-eye.
01:19
Just truck two, under-eye.
01:28
North Hampton C-1 Rock will be on-scene.
01:33
Copy North Hampton C-1, on-scene with command.
01:36
Right, command to Rockman.
01:40
Rockmans and Ryan, Command.
01:45
From operations, we've got a report of a battery smoking in the basement.
01:49
They're working on removing it now.
01:51
You can have...
01:53
Actually, I'm going to have North Hampton and Portsmouth with fans to the front door when they arrive.
02:01
Copy report of a battery smoking in the basement, working on removing it, request North Hampton and Portsmouth with fans.
02:10
Fans, fans to the front door.
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Location mentioned:
Spring Rd, Rye, NH 03870
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