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Fire near railway overpass in Montgomery CountyMontgomery County MD

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Montgomery County, MD

Firefighters responded to a fire near a railway overpass in Montgomery County, Maryland. The fire was mostly extinguished from a safe distance without entering the roadway. Traffic was temporarily stopped to ensure safety while the remaining fire was handled.

Audio|Source: Montgomery County MD Fire Rescue 7A3 Ops 3
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Transcript:
00:00
Engine 753 for Raville and 7.532 on 7 Albuquer.
00:06
Engine 73, Bravo.
00:10
Rail 704, 2 engine 753 Bravo.
00:13
Hey look, I'm just confirming you guys are going to be out of the roadway.
00:17
Putting water on this fire from a distance and not even close correct that's correct right now when you're standing on top of the overpass and there's a guarded roadway or guarded area if we need to be on the hill where we're not anywhere near the roadway.
00:44
Pimerick engine 740 on the way to you with a rail officer and the safety officer checked up on this run also, just letting you know about that.
00:57
Copy that, thank you.
01:02
Support services battalion Montgomery.
01:04
I'm taking the route for the time.
01:06
Okay.
01:09
Montgomery's okay.
01:15
Permanic engine 717 and how many go home me on the call as well is rail 714.
01:25
Okay, Parametic engine subsentine.
01:32
Parametic engine 740, Permanetic engine 717.
01:37
If you're on your way, I'm going to hold in quarters.
01:41
Sounds like it's not on the roadway.
01:47
Thank you. Thank you.
01:55
Rail 704 to support Battalion 700.
02:02
Good, Ken.
02:06
Hey, look, just for your situational awareness, you have a 17's engine coming with a rail officer.
02:11
I've been monitoring this since the start,
02:15
and they are not in the roadway, not near the roadway, however the fire is in the roadway, and they are putting it out from a distance.
02:24
So just situational awareness there.
02:30
I copy him that fire notice then.
02:37
Recovery to support services battalion do you want the lookout and traffic stops?
02:45
Yeah, start a minute gase this goes sideways.
02:50
Okay, okay, we're going to start.
02:56
Rail 7.08 to the battalion 740 is respondent.
03:09
Also unnoticed CSX as well.
03:15
Engine 753, Robin Montgomery.
03:17
We go ahead, establish commands.
03:19
The fire is farther advanced than the condition they call it.
03:23
You can start look out in both directions.
03:26
So,
03:32
7-08 command.
03:33
You're going to need to UTV there?
03:37
I don't believe so.
03:43
Sam Montgomery giving you an upbeat.
03:47
Great for a minute.
03:50
The vast majority of the fire has been extinguished.
03:53
There is one section of leave that we are unable to get to without entering the roadway.
03:58
We will not be entering the roadway until we'll look after in police and traffic is shut down.
04:07
The property is okay.
04:13
Montgomery Command, CFX is advising, traffic has been stopped.
04:20
Javier, thank you.
04:25
Support Service is the time, Montgomery, I'm on the scene.
04:28
I'll be assuming the command for 53.
04:30
In my vehicle behind their bumper, the top of the overpass.
04:38
Okay, support service, the time.
04:40
With command.
04:46
Rail 714 of command unless one of the other rail officers has a more exact location for you.
04:52
We're looking at mile post B a 24.
05:01
Repeat that now.
05:07
Mile post is going to be BA24.
05:14
I got me.
05:20
Army Command, your two lookouts is going to be at Mark Station, Germantown, 19,311.
05:26
Matini Hill Road and Mark Station, Davisburg.
05:28
Number five, South Solomon Avenue.
05:34
One of the units get in place.
05:37
I remember you on the air.
05:38
Looks like we will not have to enter the roadway to finish extinguishment.
05:44
If you overpass to look up, we need to send the stop and continue our plan.
05:48
Okay.
05:52
Yeah. All right, sir, thank you.
05:56
Paramay Tower 708 is at the South Summit lookout.

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