Fire Units Coordinate Road Reopening on Route 322, Hummelstown PA
Road ClosureFire units coordinated hose lines and traffic control to manage a road closure near Hummelstown/Middletown Road ramps on Route 322. They communicated with PennDOT to reopen the road after the incident, and advised waiting vehicles to resume travel.
Audio|Source: Dauphin County - Fire (Dispatch, Firegrounds, and Fire Police)
03:43
Transcript:
00:00
County engine 71, show us on scene.
00:03
Command 88, when we get there, we'll stretch a 3 inch to your engine.
00:09
Copy.
00:11
Chopin.
00:15
Chopin, 91.
00:18
Go ahead.
00:24
Did 47-48 clear.
00:29
47 did I did not hear 48 clear.
00:37
Utility 48, are you still on scene or did you clear?
00:43
I'm picking up one more piece of gear and then I'll be clearing unless you need me.
00:52
Can you just hang tight for just a little bit more, and then you can let PennDot know that they can reopen?
01:07
County, Tanker 54 with 2.
01:11
Okay, yeah, just let me know when to tell them that.
01:15
I'll be close by.
01:17
Tanger 504-2, Fire Off 3.
01:20
Okay, and also,
01:23
after the Hummelstown exit, there is a line of tractor trailers, if you can let them know that the road's open once we give you the word.
01:34
Okay.
01:36
Yeah, that, Pam.
01:39
Copy that.
01:41
Utility 54 to 911, fire please.
01:47
Go ahead.
01:54
We're sitting up here at the on-ramp at Hummelstown and Middletown Road, so if you need us to drive down there, we're setting right here waiting for PennDOT to come back to make sure nobody runs over the triangular humpty hump here.
02:11
Okay, so you have not cleared.
02:14
You're still there.
02:15
Do you copy that? We're still on location.
02:24
All right.
02:26
Utility 48 is going to let Penn dot know when they can reopen.
02:33
When Traffic 91 gives the word,
02:37
you guys can go down and tell the trucks that they go back on the highway.
02:51
991-9 from utility.
02:54
The state's backing up the ramp now.
02:57
We'll probably leave here momentarily.
03:04
Okay.
03:07
Well, if you can hang around where the chucks are,
03:11
that you can tell them they can reopen.
03:14
And they can get moving.
03:17
Okay, and you want us to go down onto 322, right?
03:20
That's correct.
03:21
And that way you can tell the chucks to get moving.
03:27
Command 88 and Sanger 54, where do you want them? All right, we're going to head down there now and we'll wait until we hear the word.
03:35
Right, now you can pull it the side by engine and see, send your man from the front of my engine.
03:43
Okay.
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US-322, Hummelstown, PA
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