Lightning causes fire at house near Ritchie Rd, Roanoke TX
Fire & ArsonFire departments responded to a structure fire near Ritchie Road. The fire was reportedly started after lightning struck a neighboring house which caused visible sparks and raised concern for the fire spreading to nearby properties.
Audio|Source: Denton County Fire Departments
03:49
Transcript:
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Structure Fire[1], near Ritchie Road, between Howe Road and Ashland Lane.
00:05
Near Ritchie Road, timeout, 0549.
00:09
Respond on Roanoke Fire 3.
00:16
Electrical panel is intact and there are no pop circuits.
00:26
It's at the breakers that were popped.
00:29
See if we'll be here.
00:40
3-33 Richie caller thanks lightning struck the neighbor's house.
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She's seeing sparks.
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She's trying to get them to evacuate.
00:49
Medics 6-6-1-Hurgy.
00:51
Alas, Mason, 6-1.
01:05
Medic 661, respond on Roanokelira 3.
01:08
Structure Fire[1],
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Ritchie Road, between Howe Road and Ashland Lane, near Ritchie Road, timeout, 0552, respond on Roanoke Fire 3.
01:25
Do you just stick for me around?
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6661. 6661.
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6662 in the round.
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Go ahead.
01:47
6662 is around, structure fire, Ritchie.
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Copy.
01:55
I'm having difficulty bleeding, 7 on sets.
02:00
Thank you.
02:13
Station 680, Mutual Aid[2] for Structure Fire[1], requesting engine or a truck, near Ritchie Road, Storm on Verona Fire.
02:22
Station 680, Mutual Aid[2] for Structure-Files, Corona, requesting engine or a truck, near Ritchie Road, Spoloma, Roan Fire.
02:31
Kind of clear, 554.
02:37
To the structure fire, meeting medic is available, we'll be contacting that in County.
02:44
Alarm from truck 681 of 100 last year of a location.
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681 in route 555.
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If you'll continue in route to near Ritchie Road.
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See in a blue coat pointing up here to the left.
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You stop to talk to her.
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Yeah,
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nothing showing in three sides.
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You'll be out investigating.
03:32
Cheon-Pine, single-story residential, nothing shown in Breeside, crowd investigating 556.
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Alarm, truck 681, we're going to be on scene, too.
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Truck 681, Cheonteen, 556.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Structure Fire: Incident type indicating a building is on fire
[2]
Mutual Aid: Requesting assistance from neighboring departments
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Location mentioned:
Near Richy Rd, Roanoke, TX 76262
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