Working chimney fire at structure on New Road, St Joseph County IN
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, firefighters responded to a working chimney fire at a structure near New Road in Indiana. Multiple fire units attacked the fire from the exterior and interior, focusing on heavy involvement on the side of the building with continued efforts to suppress the fire and check for hotspots.
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08:18
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 19 is clear, bringing the manpower up to the Delta's division.
00:09
Polgate 63 is on the same.
00:12
Polkate 163, you're an engine or a tanker.
00:22
863 is a rescue.
00:23
We got three packed up and ready to go.
00:28
A message is saved.
00:31
If you can find a driveway to stage your vehicle, prepared to leave if you have to cover calls for us, I appreciate it.
00:43
Command from 863, you said you want to stage and cover calls if you need it.
00:49
I'm sorry to your vehicle on the driveway back there if you can ready to get access out if you need to and if we need your manpower we'll call you off.
01:00
Claire, you're staging.
01:06
We've got heavy involvement on the chimney, the trolley side, we're going to attack it from the rear.
01:10
We'll begin with.
01:11
We'll make the green.
01:17
I'm square 18, heavy involvement on the chimney on the Charlie side.
01:21
He'll be attacking, you'll be attacking from the rear.
01:25
Squad 18 on the command accountability.
01:28
Squad 18 is on the opposite side.
01:31
Squad 18, accountability and command is going to be on the opposite side.
01:37
Engine 41 is unseen.
01:44
Sergeant 41 bring your personnel in some schools.
01:47
We're going to try and hit some overhaul.
01:56
Squad 42,
01:57
I'm ready for water in the two and a half we just pulled.
02:04
Clear taker 19, you will be on fire ground too.
02:14
Tanker 18 on scene.
02:21
Tanker 18, come up north side of the road.
02:25
Stayed behind the tanker, port-a-tank.
02:27
We prepare to dump on the next round.
02:35
Clear.
02:42
Bravo Division Command.
02:47
Bravo, go.
02:49
How is your fire condition, you're looking on that side of the building?
02:57
They've improved a lot, but we're getting his handline hooked back up here.
03:02
We still got some the Bravo corner, Charlie, still got fire.
03:11
Messages, Steve.
03:12
Do you need more manpower or are you good?
03:18
If you got a crew to come back here, we can get him on his second-hand line.
03:24
I got one Madison guy, I know two Madison guys on the line, not wrong.
03:33
That'd make you talk.
03:41
Dispatch battalion 18 is on the scene.
03:45
Tyn 18.
03:50
Tanger 91, level 1.
03:57
Command battalion 18.
04:03
So I'm trying 18.
04:06
I'm clear you're on the scene of a working chimney fire.
04:08
You've got heavy involvement on the Charlie side.
04:12
You're attacking from the exterior and you have engine 41 heading interior.
04:16
If that's correct, I'll take it from out here.
04:20
That's all correct, Stey and ask, commandee.
04:25
What else do you need right now?
04:32
Probable Division officer to assist with us some handlines.
04:38
Clear sitting room tower.
04:52
Command dispatch, this is your 7th, 10-minute notification.
04:55
AEP has a 25-minute ETA.
04:59
Messages to say you'd be advised all hands are still working on defensive operation.
05:05
Okay.
05:11
Anchor 171-17.
05:17
May the scene down here on New Road, if we are needed up there, they can clear us from the seed.
05:24
And we need it up there?
05:28
Negative.
05:31
Click.
05:37
Command 40, team.
05:41
Go.
05:45
I think we have most of the out in the exterior.
05:47
We're trying to mouth up our faucet, we're still hot.
05:52
I'm clear.
05:54
Engine 41, command.
06:00
Go on, I have.
06:03
What do you got going on in there?
06:08
So far, I'll always see it.
06:11
On the first floor and second floor,
06:15
it doesn't appear there.
06:17
There's much fire damage on the inside.
06:21
The chimney is just on a sunroom on the back side of the house.
06:27
It's on the first floor, lastly.
06:30
We're checking it out now.
06:34
I'm clear. Do you need a fan?
06:40
I'm finally now.
06:44
Clear. Engine 23,
06:47
make your way up and grab the fan off the squad, take it up and help the smoke evacuation,
06:53
and then assist engine 41 and looking for any hotspots or extension.
07:01
203s clears.
07:03
Do you want our rig down there or stay out on the street?
07:09
Fine, NACC.
07:10
Medic 19. We're nearby.
07:12
If you want to grab that fan?
07:14
Yeah,
07:20
that's fine.
07:21
Mediq-19 grab the fan.
07:22
Engine 23, you got plenty of room.
07:23
Bring your crew up anyway.
07:27
Okay.
07:33
141 squad 18
07:40
Go ahead, squad at 10
07:45
We still have some fire involved right above you guys at the peak.
07:48
We've been trying to spray it down but we can't get to the C-Syset.
07:54
We can't get to see if we can't. We'll open up in here.
07:56
We're going to be like.
08:03
I don't know if you're familiar now with the phil sites, but there's two phil sites, one of the Mangus Drive and State Road 4, and then one further to the east on the north side of the road at the Union Hall.
08:18
Clear.
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New Rd, Indiana
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