Apartment fire prompts evacuation and rooftop rescue, Queen Creek AZ
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a fire in a multi-unit apartment building near South Old Ellsworth Road in Queen Creek, Arizona. Residents were evacuated, and an adult victim conscious and alert was rescued from a third-floor apartment using a ladder to avoid smoky hallways.
Audio|Source: Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management
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Transcript:
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2A1 Medical First Alarm near South Old Ellsworth Road engine 221 engine 421 engine 412 ladder tender 259 battalion 202 command van 201 and east deputy see deck 2
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Copy, all clear on apartment 201, no smoke, no extension.
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Fire command alarm, you copy?
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Hold Ellsworth Command's alarm.
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Hold Ellsworth Command's alarm.
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Hold Ellsworth Command, God.
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I'm just going to confirm that my first alarm unit's responding.
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That's affirmative.
00:56
There looks like the first two are en route.
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All the other ones are still in dispatch mode.
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And we have a Brazo-Lis hospital that is on divert and the others are open.
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Other trauma hospitals are open.
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Plans copies.
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The Brazos is on divert, all other trauma centers are open.
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There.
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Cager 256.
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Engine 256.
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You make your way down that hallway to 203.
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Primary objective is going to be searching rescue, check for extension.
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Copy. Made our way to Unit 203.
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Checking for search rest, search.
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Command engine 255, sector 3.
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Section 3, back to command.
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Go ahead.
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Give me a report from that third floor.
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That's permanent.
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We had light smoke on the third floor.
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We made our way down the hallway to apartment 302.
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We're in 302 isolating right now.
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We do have an adult victim that's conscious and alert.
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We've got the window open.
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We're looking at 294 right now, ladder 294.
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If they put up their aerial, they can grab this victim for us so we don't have to bring them in the smoky hallway.
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Command copies, you do have a victim in 302.
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You're sheltering them in place and you're requesting Ladder 294 to extricate that victim from the third floor so they don't have to make their way through the smoky hallway.
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Command Ladder 294.
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Ladder 294, I need you to set your aerial device up and I need you to do a pick from the third floor of apartment 302.
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Okay, what's the number of rest you on the apartment?
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Command Ladder 294, you are unreadable.
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Ladder 294 copies.
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We're sending up a stick for rescue on third floor.
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Copy. Let me know if you have any needs.
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Engine 256 is commune.
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Okay, I go 256.
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We have the primary all clear.
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We need at 203.
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We have medium smoke, no heat.
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We're going to work on ventilation at this time.
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Okay, primary, all clear on 203, working on ventilation.
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Power command alarm.
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On the way.
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Okay, at this point we have a primary all clear in 201, 202, and 203 working on ventilating that second floor.
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We've got a victim that has been sheltering in place with sector 3 and unit 302 that we're working on removing from the aerial apparatus.
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Copy that, you have an all-clear in 201, 202, and 203.
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You also have a victim sheltering in place in 302 that you're extricating with the ladder.
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Location mentioned:
S Old Ellsworth Rd, Queen Creek, AZ 85142
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