Firefighters struggle to reach center of building fire, Reading PA


Firefighters are working to put out a fire at a building near Penn Street. They have difficulty reaching the fire's center from outside, so they are applying water to control it while planning their next steps.
Audio|Source: Berks County and Reading Fire / EMS
03:24
Transcript:
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City of Reading, Penn's Common Coole, near Penn Street, BLI's Medical.
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In the media 692, Pender Station 68000.
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City of Reading, the Penn's Comic Flood near Penn Street, Tommy 2O 6, BLS Medical[1], so you'll find you.
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AMS monitor, the Advice County Intermediate 6.2-2 was sent, Pennscoming, Court, near Penn Street.
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BOS Medical Zero-0-0-0.
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Friday 3-9-5, shut down the hallway, right.
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10-4[2]K. BILS-RANDASED, charge your area off.
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Sorry, Andrew 1, I'm sorry, you got a flypipe.
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Agent 1, the water water is coming.
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5, 3105, shut down.
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Enter 1 to car 4.
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Did you guys make access to the cockpawp after 113? From the rear? Yeah,
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we're getting some water on it from here.
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It's like we've been seeing all night.
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We'll knock it back from the periphery and then can't get into the center where it's DC.
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You finally burned a hole through from the top, so from 501 it looks pretty good right now.
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Okay.
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How do you just want you to shut down on the ladder one? The latter one.
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Can you shut down?
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I'll find this.
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Call for a call one.
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Got it.
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Okay,
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and the fact is we're kind of in a holding action.
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We can very easily knock attack when it shows itself, but there are just areas in the center of the building we can't hit from the exterior.
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Okay, keep doing what you're doing for now, and then we're going to have to get together and look everything over and see what we can do as far as once we get to the mop-up stage.
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Okay. All right, get the water.
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Hold on, hold on.
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Go to the tower.
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I'm charging it.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
BLS Medical: Basic Life Support Medical Emergency
[2]
10-4: Acknowledgement/Message Received
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Location mentioned:
Near Penn St, Reading, PA 19602
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