Fire caused by burning copper wire near Keating St, Luzerne County PA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to an active fire caused by someone burning copper wire near Keating Street. The fire is outside of Tavits, near the mountain area in Plymouth Township or Larchville. Brush trucks were dispatched to extinguish the fire.
Audio|Source: Luzerne County Fire - Fire OPS and County Fire
02:30
Transcript:
00:00
The standby, I just had a phone call from one of our firefighters that's in the yard.
00:05
They're thinking a gentleman is just burning copper wire and that's what's creating the smoke.
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One 19 the county.
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One nineteen hundred.
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One nineteen driving on train.
00:15
Engine company on the stand, 19-08.
00:17
Luzarin County from Brush Truck 1119 on scene also.
00:20
1908.
00:21
With Barrow Firefight, uh, Walk, No, Command. Go ahead.
00:22
I located the source of the fire, it's outside of Tavits, it's up Keating Street, right before you start heading up the mountain.
00:29
All right, is it in Plymouth Township or is it in Larchville?
00:34
That I'm not sure, but there is active fire.
00:38
We are going to need to extinguish it.
00:40
It's a pile of garbage.
00:41
All right, can we get a brush truck to it?
00:44
We could get brush trucked up to it.
00:47
All right, standby,
00:51
119 brush and 154 brush.
00:53
Cut up the Keating Street, take directions from there.
00:57
Dead form.
00:58
For 19 copies.
00:59
Larson's Captain said, Chiefs.
01:03
Go ahead!
01:04
I just got a phone call, too.
01:06
Flimitt Station 2 as Manpower, Sage, and with the brush trucks and things you need more.
01:10
All right, just tell everybody, Charlie, tell everybody to stand by.
01:14
We just have an open burning problem here, we're inside the yard, we don't see nothing in here.
01:19
Right now we just have a fire that has to be extinguished.
01:22
We're sending two brush trucks up.
01:23
Everybody else just stand by.
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Location mentioned:
Keating St, Plymouth Township, PA 18651
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