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Heavy smoke in four-story residential building triggers response 

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Bucks County, PA
Firefighters respond to heavy smoke on the fourth floor of a four-story residential building. They are ventilating smoke and managing residents by sheltering them in place to ensure safety.
Audio|Source: Montgomery County Fire and EMS East, Bucks Fire/EMS West
05:58

Transcript:
To Montgomery Town. Barbara House command? You're going to need some resources. I believe I'm going to be emptying a four-story facility here. My test is probably 50 to 70 people. You want me to start a bus out? Mr. twenty-five, she's twenty-five. Mr. C. We've got people in the far stairwell. You want to hold in here? Tell me if there's any smoke that I've got to come out of this. Send them off. 504 to Deputy. Deputy. Deputy, go ahead. I want to go to that roof. If we had my roof access, do that shoot. All right. The fourth floor, I think, is residual, but it's heavy smoke in the fourth floor. So anybody coming out there for me, it's going to be issued. The wrong start working on ventilation. The other snaked out of metal roof hatch might be ideal. Okay. Receit, sir. That's correct on the fourth floor. It's residual coming out of the trash chute. And we're trying to pop the roof hatch now to start the ventilation. Okay. I'm ordering that posture two for the county for resources. What else you see if we might be? That's just going to be the situation to shelter these people for the building. We're going to have to go floor by four. It's going to be a lot. Ventilation. All right. Is you smoke in their apartments or the hallways are just packed? On the fourth floor, it's just the hallways. All the doors are closed, so I don't know if they're sheltered around place where they came out. Proceed. I need resources at school lane exit or entrance back over here, the fire power, the airwell. I prefer to hold some of these people in here, so we're on the far end of the building. I'm bringing these people out is going to be more of an issue. Okay, so long as we're out of the smoke, I'm going to give you five guys for one more in that other fire tower. That sounds good. They're fine. If they're in the stairwell, they're fine. We have to be. Yep, the 25th. I'm on the top floor here, this FYI. They're going to start opening up the roof hatch on the other stair tower. If we can start getting the original... stairtire the line side is our pressurize our fan set up there to pressurize that stair tower we might be able to start clearing it out when we're ready okay so the plan is going to be to keep the people in their apartment and try to federate the hallway anybody that's in a wheelchair to get the fire tower we need to get out is that the plan Correct. The Lancaster Avenue, stair tower, there seems to be just us. Also, we're not, we're just warm water into this track route, but the pressure we have from the standpoint is so possible. You're pretty sure okay or not? I just didn't get that real quick. We don't need eye pressure. But it's not great. We're just dumping water into the trash chute right now. Thank you. We're ready to give you water when you need it. If I got this trash chute vent, open up, no snow coming out of it. If you want to vent, download, we can. Get up, get up here. It's all right. We're gonna shelter in place. We're gonna shelter in place. County is working on a clock. Should we hold that off? Let's keep our bus covered. Yeah, we're not going to need it. We're going to need fans if you can start working on fans for each floor so we can start systemic ventilation. Okay. Overhouse committee. If we receive that, we can hold off on the bus. Overhouse made, okay. Also, 228's going to have convenience, I'm going to have them out for a minute.

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