Smoke reported at Merck Company building in West Point, West Point PA
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Fire & ArsonFire units responded to a smoke condition reported at Merck Company, Building 29, entrance three near Broad Street in West Point. The basement was flooding and evacuation was underway.
Audio|Heard on: Montgomery County Fire and EMS - Digital
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Transcript:
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Upper Gwynedd, near Sumneytown Pike for the building.
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Eighty, engine 76,
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squad 14,
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squad and ladder 62, ladder 83 building,
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Merck Company, near Sumneytown Pike.
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80, engine 76,
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squad 14, squad and ladder 62, ladder 83,
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the building,
00:32
Merck Company West Point site, near Sumneytown Pike, between Church Road and Merckgate 1, Fox 513, upper going in.
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734.
00:45
All I just type for another couple of channels here.
00:48
For the call, near Bentley Avenue, it's going to be one that's got you into the basement.
00:52
The basement's flooding.
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They're about to evacuate.
00:58
See it.
01:05
And you called by the command center reporting Building 29, entrance number three off Broad Street.
01:10
Smoke condition, they bleed the fires out.
01:15
Receives on gate number three.
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Location mentioned:
Sumneytown Pike, West Point, PA 19486
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