Past fire damaged electric bus facility in downtown Chattanooga, Chattanooga TN
Other CrimesThe transcript discusses a past fire at an electric bus facility in downtown Chattanooga. The fire caused damage inside the brick building, charring everything. The fire spread quickly and was difficult to control due to limited water availability but was confined to the building.
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but that was in my early supervisory stages when they first started the electric bus program downtown at the Chuchu.
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They closed up one night, closed the buses up.
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Next thing you know,
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they were on fire.
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That one they lost that little stuff that was up there in the front on the left-hand side of the chute.
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That is correct.
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That is correct.
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I mean, they burnt too.
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Seems like I remember something like that.
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I don't totally remember either, but it seems like I remember a little of that.
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So you just got to go down and see a big sparkly fire then.
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Because I'm sure they didn't have enough water around to really do anything other than keep it from spreading and let it burn down.
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Well,
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the building was brick, so that helped.
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But everything inside the building was charred.
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I bet the metal beams and all got pretty warm too.
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On the roof structure on it.
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Well, he said kept it confined.
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Yeah, you're right.
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I tell you what.
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I'm gonna tell you what. I'm gonna tell you how quick it happened.
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I locked the door down at that building.
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I got in the car and drove out towards Hamilton Place, and by the time I got to Hamilton Place,
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the regular bus trials, I was hollied on the radio, that there was a fire.
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I got back down there and it was a fire.
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It was a big barn fire.
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It's sparkling and spewing and making weird noises there, Reggie.
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T for ID.
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M4WE, Charlie, but your ID got in there.
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Was it a big sparkly and noisy fire there, Reggie?
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No, it wasn't sparkly, but it was, it was hot.
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I tell you that.
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It was a hot fire, man.
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Chattanooga, TN
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