Smoke causes evacuation at apartment building on Valley Avenue, Winchester VA
Fire & ArsonFire and emergency services responded to an apartment building on Valley Avenue due to reports of smoke and haze. Several apartments were evacuated while crews investigated a possible fire related to laundry equipment that had recently been repaired.
Audio|Source: Frederick County Fire, EMS and Mutual Aid
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Transcript:
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Garden Department south-russia nothing showing from the Alpha or the Bravo not evacuated I'll be out doing a 360 and I'm gonna have command of my vehicle on the Alpha-South
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Apartment structure and had not been evacuated, hopefully in your vehicle Saturday, 1150.
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Glad if you want to see.
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Direct.
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Second four,
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command.
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Go ahead, command.
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2018 to assist Winchester City, possible structure fire, smoke and side apartment building,
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Spun on fire to near Valley Avenue, 1115.
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Medical 112 are responding station completed.
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Medical 112, you're responding for a 79-year-nail, wake-oriented, fell from bed, laceration to his forehead.
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Use the front door.
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Negative.
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Okay. I'll be 17.
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7.1. Second.
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Second,
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Four, go ahead.
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Do you have a light haze in a common area?
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Okay, where's the locker room located?
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Second.
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That could be the Bravo or the Charlie Cawater, which side of the building?
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Dead center, Charlie's that.
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Okay.
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Headquarters Valley Avenue Command.
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Valet Avenue Command.
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Let me run down an apparatus I have responding, please.
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Me, one second.
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I'm on the phone.
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All right.
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Quint 18 and round, station that fire, ELF, funnel there, fire two.
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Okay.
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Three medics, three wagons, and an engine and a truck coming from the county and the fire marshal's been notified.
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Okay,
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Have all units not on-feed, reduce the non-emergency? And when you get a moment, I need the specific unit identified.
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Okay,
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Gordon, okay.
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Okay. That it's hard to arrive on, please.
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Direct.
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Two, 1119.
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Patient loaded.
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111 patient loaded 1119.
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I need to know what specific units are en route so I can determine what...
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Wagon 5 is not marked on the scene that I've heard.
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Medic 1 is still in route.
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The county has a truck and an engine coming.
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I don't know they're identifiers.
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Headquarters, Quinn 18 with 3 in Ralph.
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Copy, Quinn 18 is in route.
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Medical ones on scene.
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Direct.
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Command from Wagon 4.
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Wagon 4, good.
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Speaking with one of the tenants, they advised that the washer and dryer were both broken last week and just repaired.
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Any chance we can get a proper...
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Okay,
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Do you have any indication where the haze is coming from? Are you able to confirm that it's laundry room related to?
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Are you comfortable holding with city units?
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The headquarters Valley Avenue Command.
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Valley Avenue Command.
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We're going to hold the assignment with Wagon 1, Medic 4-1, ladder 2.
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In the bound...
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Command, Medic 4-1.
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Medic 4-1.
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The apartments 1, 2, 5,
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8, and 6 were evacuated,
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Valley Ave, Winchester, VA 22601
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