Fire crews respond to person on power pole, Los Angeles CA
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, firefighters responded to a person who had climbed onto a power pole near Wall Street in Los Angeles. They coordinated with the Department of Water and Power to shut down the electricity, assessed rescue options including airbags, and controlled the scene for safety.
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04:11
Transcript:
00:00
Truck 33 from IC,
00:02
grab some of your members.
00:05
Go behind the house and see if you guys can assess for an airbag.
00:10
Engine 14,
00:12
need you guys to go ahead and assist with crowd control.
00:14
Let's get some fire line tape up in case he does start walking on these wires coming this way.
00:20
We're going to be east.
00:23
Engine 14 copies.
00:27
33, copy.
00:31
USAR 27 from IC.
00:36
Yeah, go ahead for USAR 27.
00:40
Roger, you guys on scene?
00:44
Negative, we're still en route.
00:45
We're about 5 min out.
00:48
Okay, I copy.
00:50
ESR 88, you guys can just stay staged.
00:53
You'll be my ESR group.
01:00
Battalion 5 from Battalion 13, go ahead and make yourself available.
01:08
Last message for Battalion 5.
01:13
Battalion Five from Battalion Thirteen, you can go ahead and make yourself available.
01:16
I'll let Metro know right now.
01:21
Copy.
01:24
All I see from Life Force Thirty Three.
01:29
Thirty three's go.
01:33
As of right now, there's no room for a bag around the pole area where he's at.
01:38
I think it might be a good idea we're going to try to get a pole member if we can get DWP to shut down the power in case he ends up touching the wire.
01:49
Okay, I copy all.
01:53
There's no room on this side either, on the north.
01:59
8033, are you able to see a phone number on that side at all?
02:06
Uh, I don't think so.
02:07
Give me a second.
02:10
No, I got nothing.
02:14
Copy. I'm trying to find one on this side.
02:18
Life Force 33 from Engine 14.
02:21
I have a power pole,
02:22
the one off of just east of you on the main street.
02:29
Power pole number on Wall Street, just east of the pole that he's on.
02:42
Truck 33 from Wall IC.
02:45
Since there's no area for airbags or a rescue at this point, are we going to need heavy rescue three?
02:55
I see from Life Force 33, no.
02:58
We won't need them.
03:03
Heavy Rescue Three from Wall, IC.
03:05
You guys can go ahead and make yourself available.
03:09
Heavy Rescue Three, roger.
03:14
Life Force Thirty-Three from USAR group, do you have a rescue right underneath you or with you there?
03:24
USAR group, Life Force 33.
03:27
We do have Rescue 21 here with us.
03:34
EMS 13, you're going to be medical for that Rescue 21.
03:41
I see from Life Force 33.
03:44
If we can get the pole number off of the pole that's on Wall Street, that runs right in parallel with the pole that he's on,
03:55
that he's just to the west of, there's no pole numbers on the one in the backyard that he's on.
04:04
33's Roger.
04:05
We got the pole number over here.
04:06
We're good, thank you.
04:08
One able, can you come to your command post? Do a face-to-face with me.
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Wall St, Los Angeles, CA
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