Fire inside walls of Elmwood Cares Apartments, Frederick MD
Fire & ArsonA fire occurred inside the walls of an apartment at Elmwood Cares Apartments near Waverley Drive. Smoke levels increased and fire crews worked to open exterior walls and conduct secondary searches. All human occupants were accounted for; a cat and bird may be trapped in the basement.
Audio|Source: Frederick County Fire - Digital
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Transcript:
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...theirce delivery route, can be after your initial assignment is complete, and if you squad to replace, rescue squad 24, your writ is complete, 16-07.
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Okay, I'm direct.
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Division 1.
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Okay,
00:23
right now I'm gonna have yourself engine 111 and engine 291.
00:29
Do you need a special service inside or do you have sufficient personnel?
00:35
I take special services to secure utility.
00:42
Command to Tower One.
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The ambulance 19 responding, Elmwood Cares Apartments, near Waverley Drive, Building E E Echo, Apartment 103, Bat Payton, non-Bravo, 1608.
01:06
Amanda Tower One.
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Go ahead, Jim.
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I need you to control utilities.
01:19
Dr. 3.3, come up here in front of 23.
01:31
23, good.
01:37
Command to engine 502.
01:45
Go ahead.
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502, go over to where Battalion, 902 is.
01:53
He's going to be on the opposite side there.
01:55
They have a spot in the wall that we may need to open up from the exterior.
02:01
Okay, we're ripped.
02:04
Okay, disregard, maintain your writ position.
02:08
9-01, I'll get you somebody over there in a second.
02:12
We're to set up on the opposite side.
02:18
Yeah, truck 50, take care of that for me.
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Battalion 9-1, come in.
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Occupant is out.
02:27
It was a single occupant.
02:29
He does advisor may be a cat and a bird in the basement.
02:35
No humans.
02:38
Copy a no humans, a cat and bird in the basement.
02:50
Command to all other units responding on the box and arriving on the scene.
02:55
No other units commit to the interior, so put some personnel in there right now.
03:04
Command to Division 1.
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Division 1, go ahead.
03:13
All right, so occupant are all accounted for, with the exception of a cat and a bird that are potentially in a basement.
03:21
Just do a secondary with 291 unless you want me to assign another resource to you.
03:32
Okay, guys.
03:34
We have fire in the walls when we need, like the grove at the side.
03:38
Attics clear.
03:42
Okay, I copy that, it's clear.
03:44
I got truck 50 on the exterior and they're going to be working with battalion 901 to open up that brick facade from the exterior.
03:57
The end of the units responding for this house, we're going to call the front of the house.
04:08
Division 1 is going to be along the driveway in front of the Battalion 9-1 vehicle, the Battalion 9-1-2 vehicle, where Battalion 9-1 is located in the yard.
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That's going to be the Brumbo side, the side facing west to be the Charlotte side, and the carport is going to be the Delta side.
04:27
Battalion 1, you're going to be my Bravo exterior.
04:35
Bravo exterior to command.
04:38
We're starting to make a hole in the exterior wall.
04:41
The volume of smoke is starting to increase from the attic and along the Charlie Quad's correction, Bravo Quad.
04:49
Okay,
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Command Engine 23.
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Reputation, 11,
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16, 13.
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We and a paramedic engine, 23.
05:16
So you'll have you still aware.
05:18
Command, uh, Tower One.
05:26
Okay, did you control utilities for me already?
05:31
Okay, I'm looking for back.
05:33
All right, once you get those utilities controlled, I want you to do a secondary search on the number one floor and then the basement.
05:54
Ambulance of 690, transfer to Station 24, 1514.
06:06
Superior.
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No attention 23 is direct.
06:17
Hi, Dean, Frederick.
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I know there is a door to the MDC, but it's not working.
06:22
Can you have a resident come to the rear of the building on the site?
06:30
Power 6-3-12-1-1-1-11-4.
06:44
How are you on water?
06:47
And you take the 114 to 172.
06:50
We're still fine.
06:52
111 hasn't even taken any of your mind yet.
06:58
Right.
07:01
We're continuing with a pumphole operation then.
07:04
That's correct.
07:06
Right now we're only on one handline, intermediately.
07:22
Ambulance 229, second call, ambulance 299-299-du, (number withheld), Devil's Bridge Road, between Linehart Road and Old Frederick Road.
07:32
Just a patient non-emergency response.
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I'm Bravo, 1616.
07:40
I'm going to make you a rigged supervisor.
07:46
Mike, Reg supervisor.
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Command,
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the Truck 4,
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Agent 33, and Amalance 179, you'll be attached to the rig.
08:01
Chief One is the rig supervisor.
08:06
Four trucks, trucks.
08:09
Colin, you said you can follow up in the opinion of the secondary station.
08:14
Toppy utilities controlled and secondary friction underway.
08:19
Division one in the command.
08:21
Headiron and walls above this time.
08:24
Moving up the walls and check the basement and above, leaving the fire out.
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Location mentioned:
Near Waverley Dr, Frederick, MD 21702
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