Fire crews control fire near Porter Ave, Westmoreland County PA


Firefighters are using water trucks and handlines to control a fire near Porter Ave, Pennsylvania. They are managing tankers to maintain water supply and focusing on hotspots. Press is present at the scene.
Audio|Source: Westmoreland County Fire
02:35
Transcript:
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Handlines to the trailer available.
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Deputy 14,
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you've got every truck filled.
00:14
Correction, Deputy 74, you got every truck filled.
00:21
Deputy 74 from Chief 74.
00:25
Deputy, go ahead.
00:28
We've got all these trucks filled up with water right now.
00:30
We're going to start knocking some of this stuff down except for all my handlines that are here, the client's filling the main pumpers.
00:39
Okay, that's received.
00:40
I'll start getting some of these tankers now.
00:42
Seven's leaving their air and tankers leaving now.
00:44
We'll pull up one of the other ones, just to top off Calumet, and then we'll send everybody else out.
00:51
She's going back to three.
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Deputy Chiefs Achieve's Chief Seventy-Seventy-4.
01:00
Do you want to come around this side?
01:03
We're at on the right side with Connor McCaffee.
01:07
Yeah, we're the rest here.
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We see it.
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There is one-o-one.
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You can hold your ATV in your trailer for now.
01:25
After you see.
01:27
I'm going to say a 7G to 74 deputies.
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Seven, Chief, go ahead.
01:38
Did you want one of these other tankers to come in and take our place?
01:43
The department, if I was just going to say that on the radio.
01:46
Send whatever one else the rest on it can be sent back.
01:49
Thank you.
01:51
Okay, the next one in line would be Everson.
01:54
And also, I told them to stay down here by this ambulance.
01:57
You have some press here.
01:58
I told them to stay here by these mailboxes.
02:03
Okay, that's good as well, thank you.
02:06
Deputy 74 from Chief 74.
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Chief, go ahead.
02:13
Be advise, you might want to keep one or foster two tankers on location if we should do the recovery and working on hotspots.
02:20
This is case we start running low water supply.
02:24
Yeah, we'll have that, Chief.
02:25
We'll be sitting on two up here.
02:26
And just so you know, also, Cress is down, kept them down by the mailbox by Porter Avenue, but they're on scene.
02:34
Good place for them.
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