Fire crews battle large building blaze in Birmingham
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Birmingham AL Fire-Tac
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Engine 21 to Engine 6, we've lost our hydrant.
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Need to make sure that hydrant stays on the whole time.
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7 to command.
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Engine 7 is lost intake pressure.
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Engine 6 and 21's officer, what you got now?
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Fire division to command.
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Request a water coming to this location.
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Fire alarm.
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Dispatch water works.
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Engine six, drive with 20 one's office.
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Engine six, drive with 20 one's office.
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Conditions have gotten actually worse.
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Any more water?
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Receiving.
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Fire alarm.
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Five waterworks.
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Flow is at all pressure at this address.
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Need a rush on waterworks.
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Receiving.
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Fire division, we lost all.
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Pressure on this side as well.
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Received.
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21 to Engine 6 is looking better.
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6 received.
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Yeah, Truck 1's ready for water.
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Fire division command.
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All electricity has been de-energized.
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All divisions are here.
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Reporting all energy's been de-energized.
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That's affirmative.
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Truck
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one's got water flowing.
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Truck one's officer, well, truck one's hit.
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Do everything you do, keep that on that left-hand building.
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Truck one, you're both to keep that.
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Charlie Division, man, we're making progress.
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We got area operations in progress along with a dead guy.
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Fire Station, Command Charlie, watch the area.
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We're spreading up on this side.
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Command Charlie, can you aerial reach the whole building?
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Command Charlie Division.
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Got a good
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knock on this side of the fire.
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So we're gonna shut down aerial on this side.
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We don't have no water.
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We're just got to inch three quarters over here trying to stop the spread down to the.
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Commander Charles, we shut down our area.
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Did you get better pressure now?
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Command, we lost the hydrant assist.
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Command, engine six, we just came off the hydrant.
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I have a problem with the hose box in Luray.
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We're switching
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back to straight.
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And I understand.
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And you call this.
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Okay, come in.
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Sir, hydrant cut off.
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Do you have no water?
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We got water flowing.
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We just need pressure.
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Sounds like engine six changed over and they lost the hydrant too.
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We're gonna resume aerial with that.
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And squad one.
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Squad one.
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This is pressure truck two.
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Repeat command.
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Decrease pressure to truck two.
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Appreciate it.
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Turn on to command.
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This incident has now been going on for 30 minutes.
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Turn on to command.
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This incident has now been going on for 40 minutes.
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Command received.
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Still a defensive operation.
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Still requesting water works location.
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Received. Water works notified.
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Six command, we got the line swap.
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We can boost pressure.
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Hydrants is.
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Command received.
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