Firefighters battle fourth-floor fire with roof collapse, Reading PA


Firefighters are working to put out a fire on the fourth floor of a building in Reading, Pennsylvania. Part of the roof has collapsed and is smoldering, creating a dangerous situation for the crews inside.
Audio|Source: Berks County and Reading Fire / EMS
02:33
Transcript:
00:00
Fireford and Morse credit engine nine driver. Founder engine over at Trixton Court. We're putting hoseback on it now if you were interested. We're still packing up seven. I'll make my way over there all we're done.
00:25
Right if you've got ready. Good. And if you're curl up here on the fourth floor, 117, so they can get to the spot where the roof's laying down, that's just burning underneath it. They get in a line that you get it. You're going to be an officer to eyeball that. Your last question, that one.
00:52
Car 421. You think you can get to that location and see whether that's feasible or not. First still work on the top floor, 113.
01:19
There's a crew that's already on the fourth floor of WN17, and they're starting to work underneath the purse that has loop that collapsed down that's smoldering the E-C-O-line. All right, let me figure something out. It makes easier I can drop down the windows.
01:48
Specter Wyat and off the ladder. Okay, whatever crew is in 117 on the 4th floor, I don't know how or why they ended up in there. But my kind of question is how stable that area is.
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Reading, PA
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