Fire in gutter near Raleigh Road prompts power shutdown, Cheektowaga NY
Firefighters responded to a fire involving a gutter with flames and smoke near Raleigh Road. The power was shut off to the entire building to safely inspect and stop the heat trace in the gutter. Crews checked the building for fire spread and ensured residents' safety before allowing them back inside.
Audio|Source: Cheektowaga Depew Lackawanna Fire
05:11
Transcript:
00:00
That address near Raleigh Road on the south.
00:07
Lovie 9 water spending.
00:16
DPUA fire control, command.
00:22
Go ahead, command.
00:25
Hold with the first two DPU trucks out,
00:28
so engine three in the next truck on the road,
00:31
along with the Belvue's engine.
00:36
The fire engine one responding.
00:46
Keep your fire, all units responding into one engine three in Bellevue, into one engine three in Bellevue alone.
00:54
All the units remain.
00:59
Steven Hazzarello, dispute.
01:03
Yeah, I'm sorry, you're en route.
01:09
Man, under three.
01:14
All right.
01:18
Charlie Corner.
01:20
I got visible smoke and visible fire in the gutter.
01:24
He's extinguished yet and...
01:25
Look for the power source.
01:32
Pew fire and his three is on location.
01:41
Extreme caution to the residents are all in front of the building there.
01:50
The LV2 response to fuse switching over.
01:54
Open 2 responding, switching over.
02:01
Our bell is your engine 2 responding.
02:07
...responding 1635.
02:09
Engine 1. Engine 1, auto hydrant,
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and stand by it,
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send the rest of your crew up to engine 3 and assist.
02:27
At this time, we're not going to need the supply, but I just want to be ready in case we do.
02:36
I don't think one herds, but we're coming in the back side of Raleigh by Indian.
02:42
Copy. Just posted as you can.
02:45
Just send the crew.
02:52
to him.
02:54
I just want to get this, I want to check and make sure we have no extension into the building itself, the roof and stuff.
03:00
And we need to get by the power source to get this heat trace inside the gutter disconnected.
03:06
We need to cut power to it.
03:16
Chief DeWal, you can show Bellevion location for the fuel.
03:20
That's clear.
03:26
Location.
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Nine obese command,
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engine, engine freeze,
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lieutenant will be operations.
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1639.
03:49
Carta 33. C3.
03:58
C299. We can't find a receptacle for the gear line, but we can cut power to the entire.
04:11
We're going to have to do,
04:12
why don't we sell power to the entire building?
04:15
And once we do it, once my crews do a 360, the entire building, make sure that we've got no extension,
04:22
we can bring the residents back in.
04:25
We want to get them out of the weather if we can.
04:28
Yeah,
04:30
we just caught power to the entire building.
04:35
Copy.
04:40
C2, bar control,
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command.
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Command.
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Kidney CD137A,
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and also give me nice, but careful location please.
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as well.
04:59
We had to cut power in the entire building so we can find how we can isolate just the heat trait to eliminate the possibility of fire.
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So...
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