Active structure fire with downed power lines prompts evacuation, Virginia MN
Fire & ArsonA structure fire occurred in Virginia, MN, causing evacuation of occupants including two cats. Fire crews searched the affected areas and worked on fire suppression. Several power lines were reported down on and around the property including near a garage and in the alley. Firefighters made people aware of the power line hazards and withdrew teams from unsafe areas. Ventilation and further investigation were performed on the affected structures. The situation involved coordinating staging areas and responding units.
Audio|Source: North St. Louis County Sheriff, Fire and Roads
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Transcript:
00:00
Command from Engine 2 on 3.
00:10
Do you have an assignment for Engine 2?
00:15
Engine 2 from operations.
00:18
Report to the Front of Engine 1 and 1.1 to have one of you become staging officer.
00:24
Engine 2 coffees reporting to the front of Engine 1.
00:31
Command, chew on the engine, we have water on the fire.
00:40
Operations from Angela.
00:43
Operations, go ahead.
00:51
Division 2 and the added space of the second structure.
00:55
I'm going to clear the back side of the Division 1 on the Charlie Delta corner when we saw fire on the next door.
01:04
Can you repeat?
01:11
I'll come out for a face-to-face.
01:15
Good copy on the face-to-face, I'm right by engine 1.
01:29
10-4[1]. They're evacuated except for there's two cats in that property right now.
01:42
We're coming up off the street where we're blind us.
01:49
We're evacuated.
01:54
401 H4.
01:56
Okay.
01:59
Based upon conversation with the sister, they're all accounting for the four-year-old, the husband, and the wife.
02:06
Ten, four.
02:08
Okay.
02:11
H1, we're going to have a lot of the communities, and four.
02:20
First amendment.
02:24
Answer two copies.
02:31
Answer two from operations I'm coming to you.
02:38
Got me.
02:45
Giving staging from Virginia Ladder 1 on F4, we're at the intersection at 22nd Street and 10th Avenue.
02:53
Where would you like us?
02:57
Virginia,
02:58
if you can come down 9th Avenue, going from Howard Street, come up for the same engine two part behind that, that's what staging will be at.
03:10
Copy, staging on 9th Avenue.
03:19
Committee Committee Command, you're on fire.
03:28
Academic 5.
03:31
Transportation 5, go ahead.
03:33
Transport complete, UMTium.
03:36
If the EPA is correct, it would be about 10 minutes till North gets there.
03:42
Copy then.
03:45
1906.
03:50
In command, John Sawyer.
03:56
Operations, go ahead, QI.
03:59
I got two holes lines on the seaside down.
04:05
Operations copy is two holes on the seaside.
04:12
Command from operations.
04:20
Command from operations.
04:22
Operations, go ahead.
04:26
After primary search of the Bravo side exposure, we do have an all-clear,
04:32
ascending in two teams,
04:35
total of four staff members for further investigation on that Delta side of the exposure.
04:42
Understand.
04:44
Call clear.
04:46
Rollsend. Getting in a stand, another car.
04:55
Two on fire to ops.
04:59
Operations, go ahead.
05:02
We do have power line down on the garage in the back here.
05:07
And the Bravo side power lines down in multiple utility lines in the alley.
05:15
Copy, power lines down on the Bravo side, Charlie side, and utilities on Charlie side in the alley.
05:21
They are working on getting PUC here.
05:27
Copy. Copy.
05:30
Randy, do you think those lines need to be marked right now?
05:36
They're not on the alley, they're on the buildings,
05:39
but they are down.
05:45
Okay, I understand.
05:51
We've got people coming in behind the gate and they're on the back side of the school.
05:54
We can maybe plug that area.
06:05
Two on the ops.
06:13
Operations for Angela.
06:18
The power line is on the ground after the garage and between the structure and the garage.
06:24
I made everybody on the back side of the property aware.
06:29
Okay, operations copies.
06:31
The power line is down in between the garage and the structure.
06:35
You pulled your team back.
06:38
We'll address it as soon as we can get to a few, so you should be your short.
06:46
Copy.
06:50
Operations from Angelo.
06:54
Operations, go ahead.
06:57
We're working on Division 1 of the second structure.
07:00
We're not having any heat things through.
07:03
We're going to work on ventilation from the Charlie side Division 1.
07:11
I copied you're going to work on ventilation Charlie's side Division 1.
07:14
I didn't copy if there was any extension on that Delta side of Division 1.
07:19
As of now, we have four sentences.
07:23
All the time,
07:25
operations.
07:27
Operation copies.
07:28
No extension that you can find at this side.
07:36
Any specific ways?
07:41
We can touch base then once I get here for a case.
07:44
You can figure out where we need them.
07:46
Never. My phone is all not.
07:52
Operations, go ahead.
07:58
Jason, help us out.
08:02
John E.4, sister three.
Police codes explained
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10-4: Acknowledgement (OK / Message received)
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