Firefighters respond to rooftop smoldering in covered building, Bartow FL
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a covered building near US-17 and E Wabash St in Bartow, FL, where smoke and smoldering were observed on the rooftop. Crews accessed the roof with ladders and used drone and thermal cameras to check for active fire. They found hotspots mainly around the edges but no deep-seated fire at the center and worked to control the situation.
Audio|Source: Polk County Fire Rescue, Fire and EMS
04:59
Transcript:
00:00
I've got a covered building here just north of Ladis 23 approximately 100 feet.
00:05
It looks like I have some smoldering from the rooftop.
00:08
I need a crew to gain access to that rooftop and do some recon. I'm not sure if there's anything smoldering on the top of this.
00:17
I copy.
00:20
Command to Titan Five.
00:26
Go ahead.
00:28
Do you have that drone set up?
00:32
It'll be up in about two minutes, three minutes.
00:38
Command to accountability.
00:49
Command accountability.
00:51
Scott, Philly, Go ahead.
00:54
Hey, West Division's reporting we have a covered structure about 100 feet north of ladder 23.
01:02
There appears to be a smoldering on top of it.
01:05
If you could send a crew over there with a ladder, then let's check it out and see if I need to bend the line from a truck that's a swore on top of it.
01:14
Accountability, I copy. I'm sending engine two crew now with a roof ladder.
01:23
Accountability, West Division.
01:30
This Division command.
01:32
I'm sending engine two crew to you. Do you need any additional equipment besides the roof ladder?
01:40
Negative, you might need an extension last.
01:43
I'm going to redirect Ladder 23's, uh, 23's aerial,
01:46
get a visual on that rooftop if they can.
01:50
Copy, send the loud.
01:55
Ladder 23 nozzlement, can you, uh,
01:58
copy?
02:01
Copy, Junior, re-position.
02:06
Domino, Paine, Highway 17, 12, Wabast Street, East, Sack 4,
02:11
(number withheld).
02:16
Thank you, too. We're going to take that ladder off to 35.
02:24
...vision to Ladder 23 operator.
02:26
Do you have a visual? Do you see anything smoldering? Do you have a tick with you?
02:32
Negative on the E-tick. Currently, I don't see anything smoldering. It looks like it's all just from the most file.
02:44
The rescue tick, engine ticks for 1stine-1. Gunshot, BNRat of Stage 310 Creek Wood Run, Providence.
02:56
Tactics, 2319.
03:00
Sixteen on two.
03:06
16.
03:08
161 on 2.
03:14
Covering 2319.
03:18
At 310 Creekwood Run, standby for further break, 209.
03:23
2.09, we now receive the initial terms to those call.
03:28
The lake, Texas, 2320.
03:38
All units, be advised. We do have large machinery operating on the West Division.
03:47
Rescue 28.
03:50
Rescue 28.
03:53
Rescue 28, we're complete in heading to attack 2.
03:58
Complete, 2320.
04:00
1 in route.
04:05
Copy trying out to save for a possible shooting. 310 Creek would run.
04:09
Call their advisors,
04:11
people in the neighborhood yelling, they heard gunshots.
04:15
Unknown any further at this time, 2321.
04:23
Of our ladder,
04:25
they're able to advise that it looks like it's going to be the rim that's going to be the hottest around the edges, the inside, middle, it looks like it's calm down a little bit right now.
04:37
I got this.
04:38
Nothing deep-seated.
04:44
I'm just a team of command.
04:46
I've been truly deep-seated. I mean, there is a little of the hot spots around the entire rim of the seat pit here.
04:52
It's always shown hotspots around the entire rim.
04:55
The center of it is free contain. I have the thermal engine camera up here with me.
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Location mentioned:
US-17 & E Wabash St, Bartow, FL 33830
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