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Small fire contained in appliance at apartment buildingVancouver WA

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E 5th St, Vancouver, WA 98661

According to the dispatch call, firefighters responded to a small fire contained in an appliance in a six-story apartment building near East 5th Street, Unit 610 in Vancouver. The fire was quickly controlled and extinguished with no further alarm activations reported. Multiple fire units assisted on scene and conducted a thorough investigation around the building.

Audio|Heard on: Clark County Public Safety - CRESA Digital
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07:29
Transcript:
00:00
Two, engine, three, truck, one, battalion,
00:05
One, fire contained in an appliance, near East Fifth Street, Unit 610.
00:14
Priority 3[3].
00:15
Engine 2. Engine 3.
00:18
Truck 1. Battalion 1.
00:21
Fire contained in an appliance.
00:24
Near East Fifth Street.
00:28
Unit 610. Map page 2126.
00:42
Uh,
00:43
Yeah, we're coming back from our call.
00:45
We just passed a car in the ditch of a 159th street and right around 1 3,700 block.
00:53
It's non-blocking, non-entry, and then they're getting their own tail.
00:57
So if you get any other callers on it.
01:02
Got that I'll let them know.
01:04
Thank you.
01:05
Yeah, it's a white,
01:08
uh, four-door Audi, I think, something like that.
01:12
Got there.
01:18
One's a trouble.
01:21
You can cancel, thank you.
01:29
Thank you. Thank you.
01:34
Special medic 16 and 191919, we've been captured.
01:42
Medicaid 1519 got to be canceled.
01:43
Medicsweek 16.
01:44
Code 3 is Found Melpane, 7809 Northeast Vancouver Plaza Drive.
01:48
There's nothing with traffic in there.
01:50
I step in you.
01:51
And 19, I'll have you take this with then call then Code 3 on a hard problem.
01:55
310, 4, 3 in L1.
01:58
950 and down.
02:10
Target, map page 2220.
02:20
Priority 3[3], engine 29.
02:24
Heart problems,
02:25
310, 4th Street, at Woodland Assisted Living and Convalysis Center.
02:32
Priority 3[3].
02:33
Engine 29. Hart problems.
02:38
3104th Street.
02:40
At Woodland, Assisted Living and Convalescent Center, map page 5224.
02:52
1614-19.
02:57
Like 161411-19, 2049.
03:03
Please, Mattis, 188, 15, 18.
03:06
If you thought, close, code 1, 2,0-12.
03:12
Scottix 15, 4-1, self-last, 2049.
03:19
5-1 to 21.
03:22
Okay. Go ahead.
03:25
Yeah, battalion's arrived.
03:27
We've got a large,
03:29
a six-story apartment building.
03:31
Nothing's showing.
03:33
The time I want to be 1street Command[1], investigating doing a route around 360.
03:39
Coming up.
03:41
Manage and twizrapped.
03:48
Copy,
03:49
Engine 2,
03:51
if you want to go ahead and make access,
03:53
the Alpha side[2] of this building is on the north side.
03:58
If you want to come up to the Alpha side[2] and make access, I think we're dealing with Apartment 610 and investigate.
04:07
Great. Coming around, yeah.
04:16
Office 5-1, 5th Street command.
04:21
Okay.
04:24
360 is complete.
04:26
The battalion is going to be parked on the Alpha side[2], which is the north side.
04:33
Yeah. Yeah.
04:39
Man, you got into three, we're level one going into the gate.
04:48
If you just want to stay a level one outside there on Fifth Street, so we get a report from Engine 2?
04:56
Copyful, Level 1 on Fifth Street.
05:01
Engine 3 from Command[1], did that gate reclose for it went through it?
05:08
It reopened again.
05:10
I think it's, maybe it has an Opticom, but it opened up again for us.
05:18
Proceed.
05:29
1636 in the air lifting 20-22.
05:35
1622, we're clear and returning.
05:40
2033.
05:42
2033.
05:47
It's 16,
05:55
76, 17, 17, 25th. It's 16776, 17, 25th Street.
06:02
Firecom, final Marshall, 4.
06:05
Go ahead.
06:10
Street,
06:11
Alarm.
06:17
They'd ask that small handle fire fire is out.
06:23
The engine two and first truck can handle.
06:28
Copy. Engine two is reporting.
06:30
Small fire and the fire is out.
06:31
Engine two and truck one can handle.
06:34
Engine two, do you have any alarms sounding in there?
06:42
Yeah,
06:49
they just started right when we went to somebody to manage that.
06:57
Break, Truck 1 command.
06:59
Go to truck one, command.
07:03
Yeah,
07:04
if you want to come up here, park on the Alpha side[2] and split your crew,
07:09
I'll have you go check out the alarm panel and have your team come up an assist engine two with ventilation.
07:19
Copy, split, and crew, alarm panel,
07:22
and ventilation.
07:26
Engine three from command, you can clear.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Command: Incident Command; the authority/position coordinating incident operations
[2]
Alpha side: Side A (front) of the structure
[3]
Priority 3: Non-emergency, low-priority response; routine or minor incidents without urgent risk to life or property.

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E 5th St, Vancouver, WA 98661

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  2. Alarm and Ventilation Coordination
  3. On-Scene Report
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