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Fire alarm and smoke reported in residential building, Fort Washington MD

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Near Huntley Sq Dr, Fort Washington, MD 20744

Emergency response teams were dispatched to a multi-story residential building near Huntley Square Drive after reports of smoke inside and a fire alarm sounding. Fire units investigated the odor of smoke and confirmed the alarm was active in an apartment at the terrace level. Water supply was arranged from a hydrant behind a nearby shopping center to support the response.

Audio|Source: Prince George's County Fire and EMS
02:51
Transcript:
00:00
Talk Group 8 Charlie 3[1]321, Huntley Square Drive, Cross Street, Brinkley Road, investigation odor of smoke inside, box area 213, engine 821, paramedic engine, 842, engine 847, engine 823 as rapid intervention, truck 832, truck 829, as the search company, truck 825, paramedic ambulance 822 21, Battalion Chief 885, Battalion Chief 883, respond on Talk Group 8 Charlie 3.
00:46
3321, Sunlit, square drives,
00:49
motor smoke in a building, fire alarm sounding, box 2103. Engine 821, Parametic Engine 842, Engine A47, Engine A23, Rocket Intervention, Truck 832, Truck A-22, Truck A-29, Search Company, Truck A-25, Paramedic ambulance 8288-8-8-8-8-8, have been alerted to respond to self-group 8, Charlie 3.
01:16
Decation to engine 821, which are staffing?
01:22
Core.
01:26
I copy.
01:28
Communication to the site-in-chief 885 to have your staffing in the call.
01:40
Provising the fire alarm is going off in an apartment with the terrace level, engine 821.
01:48
Copy fire alarm in the tariff level.
01:52
Struck A32.
01:56
Trunk A-32, correct.
01:59
And the Pite Chief 85.
02:02
I copy.
02:08
Engine 821 communications.
02:12
Engine 821.
02:15
We're going to be laying out from the SCETS. 42 will have to pick up the hydrant back side of the shopping center.
02:24
I'll copy. From the step 42, pick up the hydrogen.
02:28
Hermetic engine 842. I didn't copy. Can you repeat?
02:36
Is the 821?
02:41
We're going to lay out from the steps that go up for the back side of the shopping center.
02:46
Pick up the hydrogen right at the steps from the side of the shopping center, not in the complex from the back side of the shopping center.
Police codes explained
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[1]
8 Charlie 3: Radio channel assigned for operational communications, often used for coordination during incidents or events.

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Near Huntley Sq Dr, Fort Washington, MD 20744

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