Firefighters battle house fire spreading from basement up, Genesee County NY
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a house fire near Smith Rd, Bethany, NY. The fire started in the basement, spreading through the floors up to the attic. There were holes in the floor and significant heat and smoke damage. Crews worked to control and extinguish the fire while assessing the structure for active flames. Fire investigation noted the fire likely began by electrical causes on the first floor.
Audio|Source: Genesee County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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For the fire in East Chauvey basement fire,
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according holes in the floor.
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Andrews your question to see in the house fire near Smith Rd.
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Shelby, Barry, Ridgeway, testing 40.
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Early's 1-901, they're working on getting this water established with dump tank now.
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I have a re-positioned this line.
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Control, Rickley, Pickytoosy's fine.
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Justin, we're repositioned in this line that was going to the Charlie door first floor.
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It's going Charlie basement now.
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I need a tick to the basement.
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Going in the front now.
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Shelby Tuesday, copy there's holes in the floor in the kitchen area.
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Please.
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Alabama, your tanker requested by Orleans for the structure fire of a home, fire mutual 8.
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May near Smith Rd between Shelby Bear, Top 9 Roe, and East Shelly Road. Timeout 1541.
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Okay, so we can concentrate on that area with a hole on the floor.
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But not much, right there by the...
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But you're going to want to come down here.
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All right, we're going to get some water on it. Try to get that wall opened up.
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Orleans 1, we're going to need crews for the second floor, ASAP.
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The floor. Second floor.
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All right, I just do the face-to-face with Middina 5. They're going to take that line and reposition, go to floor, too.
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Received, it's balloon frame. It looks like it's into that on the road side wall.
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Spurgeon Road and right-out, recommended on emergency response. I'm out to keep right-time.
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Stand by there.
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No, you're on fire control, you just switch to the left response.
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Menna 1-1-151.
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Go ahead.
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It's on the first floor. It looks like it started down here with electrical.
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Okay,
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this is running the wall right now. It's going up to the attic.
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Jake, did you find upstairs, okay?
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Stand by.
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First row, bury, bury 50.
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50.
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50, 9.
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Do you copy to enter off of East Shelby Road?
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Receive, enter off East Shelby.
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Registry 52, would you copy to enter off the East Shelby Room? 52 copies to enter off the East Shelby Room.
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52 copies.
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Fire control
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Manager,
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see if we can get access.
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Early's one bridgeway.
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One. You guys have a crew on quarters for an engine.
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We got a call for the firehouse, near Metal Lane for an issue with the range hood.
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I was requesting the fire department to respond. I told them to call 911.
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My partner's got on the line now.
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Okay,
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for the 911.
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This time so far that we're seeing on the camera, a sense of heat.
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We're still advancing on the second floor.
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Okay, Bravo, while right above the fire area on that first floor B side.
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We got it running the outside edge right now, I can see it.
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Okay,
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we got nothing.
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We're so advancing, like I said.
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We're working our way to the bravo wall.
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Go ahead and open that bravo wall right up long as you've got a hose line in place.
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Maybe get some people on the first floor to help us advance it.
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Receive.
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For the fire investigation, still range hood crackling, light smoke, no flying scene at this time.
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Near Metal Lane, train railroad, Paris, and Cauts 2 Drive. Time off 15 free.
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6016152. We can't access, but no patient.
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Even momentarily.
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Are you all sent on Tom?
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Yes, ma'am, thank you. We're good.
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Copy.
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We have nothing on the second floor.
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Receive.
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In responding,
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near Smith Rd.
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Control, can you start the investigators when you get a chance?
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Fire control, everybody's 30, who's the route to East Sheldon Road to the Silkway.
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That's a lazy smoke, not a lot of velocity coming out to the game one.
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Yeah.
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If you can get some eyeballs in the attic or scan it with a camera, it'll be great too.
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Jake, it's burned right through the ceiling. You're going to have holes in the floor,
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Charlie side,
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sorry,
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Bravo side,
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in between the two windows, first floor.
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I copy.
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We're going to have to ventilate and back up a little bit because we're not seeing any active fire.
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We keep running into the dead end.
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Haven't got that far.
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Every room we take is a dead on in the second floor so far.
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Orleans one interior second floor. You do have smoke the whole peak vent on both sections of the house now.
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Yeah, Justin, we're going to have to probably fight this from the outside. We've got a vent, the heat's getting too much on the second floor. We're not finding any active fires on the second floor,
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but we're pulling downstairs because of the heat.
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Location mentioned:
Smith Rd, Bethany, NY 14054
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