Structure fire prompts evacuation and water supply issues, Reading PA


Firefighters respond to a building fire near North Fish Street, Reading. Upper floors in multiple buildings are evacuated due to the active fire and issues with water pressure for firefighting.
Audio|Source: Berks County and Reading Fire / EMS
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Transcript:
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Majority on C0158. On the 5th Street side, big an announcement of all units inside on the top two floors of all buildings to evacuate those those fours. And then 5.0. All got me.
00:26
Operating near North Fish Street, box 302[1]. All personnel are to evacuate and not operate on the second floor and above for each building for CARE 050[2]. I just arrived to command. Yeah, you guys can't hold a Rawa. When they open up the supply for the tower, I lost lots of pressure back here.
00:55
Power driver. Do you need a hand up there?
00:59
Very second. Second dispatch. City of Reading, North Forest Street, 4-1 for an ALS trauma. 6521, you're second dispatch the city of Reading. North Forest Street, between Elvin-Buddenwood Street, 4-1 for an ALS trauma.
01:27
From there, it's a pretty advantage point to where the flyer is. They can start to hit that also. Got me. Where is car 4 and 9 all opts too?
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
box 302: Fire Alarm Box 302
[2]
CARE 050: Care assignment code, likely for EMS/fire coordination
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Reading, PA
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