Smoke fills business on Walker Road, cause unclear
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Fairfax County VA Fire-Tac
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Correct, Battalion 401 responding to (number withheld) Walker Road.
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Caller advising the business is filled with smoke, no flames seen, but also said it's hot inside.
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Building has been evacuated.
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Responding with Engine 412 and Truck 429.
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Roger.
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Six twenty-four.
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Engine 400 and twenty-five from engine 400 and twenty-nine.
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We're going to do secondary water at (number withheld) Bravo Georgetown Pike.
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Engine 442 from Engine 412.
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Gonna have you reverse lay from us.
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We'll use the fire hydrant directly behind the firehouse in the parking lot.
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Engine 442 copy.
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We're gonna reverse lay from you to the hydrants on the Charlie side of Station 12, correct?
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Affirmative.
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Engine 412 is on scene.
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Two-story commercial structure.
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Nothing evident inside.
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Alpha and Delta.
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Building has been evacuated.
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We'll be investigating.
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Fairfax County 401, copy your on-scene report.
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Two-story commercial.
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Building's been evacuated.
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Nothing showing. Alpha and Delta.
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Charlie 401 from Engine 442, recommend asking PD for traffic control.
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We're going to have Walker Road shut down once we complete the water supply.
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Fairfax, this is Charlie 401.
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Go ahead with that request, start PD for traffic control.
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627.
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This is 401 from Engine 412.
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Life complete.
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It's going to be an odd floor plan.
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One in the front, one in the rear.
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We are going to call the portion on the front alpha side, floor two.
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The rest of it, floor one.
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This is a landscape company style occupancy.
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We do have smoke throughout the building.
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No fire scene.
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We'll be investigating.
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Four one.
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From side delta,
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Charlie.
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All right, I'm direct.
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We're going to label the one and two.
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Floor two is going to be on the alpha side facing Walker Road.
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You have smoke throughout the building.
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Unknown source.
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We're investigating.
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Engine 442 is on scene completing the water supply.
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Reporting engine 12 for assistance.
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I'm correct, engine 442.
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All units on the box, safety message.
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This building has windows.
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They are metal casing windows.
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They're metal bars, it appears.
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Rescue 401 on scene.
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First special.
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Service parked at
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Great Falls Station.
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Battalion 401 is on scene.
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I have command.
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My vehicle on the outside of the structure.
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Direct 632.
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Engine 425 is on scene.
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42 at secondary water.
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Engine 412 from command.
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What's your location?
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Tower 425, one scene, 1st truck, splitting crews two and two out.
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Engine 412, currently looking through
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Charlie quadrants, Charlie and Delta.
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Roger, who do you have with you, Engine 412?
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Just in the moving of the line position inside Delta.
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Just a light haze throughout, possibly HVAC related.
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Nothing evident so far.
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All right, I'm direct.
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Truck 425, your location.
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Tower 425.
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Tower 425,
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gonna have you take a lap, take a special lap.
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Check out the HVAC units.
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Copy, special service lab, checking the roof.
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Rescue 401, link up with Engine 412.
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Floor number one.
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You're gonna have to enter through the Charlie side.
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Assist them with their search of floor number one.
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Copy. Rescue one, primary search floor one.
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Truck 429, send your interior crew through the door on the delta side.
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You're going to floor number two with your engine.
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Search floor number two.
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Truck 429, direct search floor number two.
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