House fire with suspected arsonist inside in Tacoma, Tacoma WA
Fire & ArsonA house fire occurred near South 7th in Tacoma. The fire is fully involved and spreading to nearby buildings. The suspected arsonist may still be inside the house. Fire crews are working to protect surrounding properties and evacuate residents. Police were not yet on scene due to other emergencies.
Audio|Source: Tacoma Fire
08:49
Transcript:
00:00
All you interest father, house fire, again, standby, several blocks out.
00:04
Arson, this is still on scene.
00:14
Tacoma Engine 4 is on scene and command of near South 7th.
00:24
I have fully involved 25 by 25 potentially two-story.
00:30
Engine 4 will be attacked,
00:34
pulling a line extending.
00:37
I have all other units,
00:39
Fit Nixon, provide a hydrant and truck assess.
00:47
Engine 4, engine 9, hold back, TFC, advise the arsonist is still in the house.
00:53
Do not enter the structure.
00:55
It's going from 10.1, do you have additional information? Are we clear to enter? Are we still standing by?
01:03
All units should be standing by.
01:05
PPD is not on scene.
01:10
Don't receive. The time one is establishing near South 7th command.
01:14
Engine 4, engine 9.
01:15
I'm going to have you move away from that location.
01:18
Engine 4 received moving away from location.
01:32
Engine 4, once we are cleared, I will have you prepare for a fire attack.
01:36
Engine 9, you have a hydrant just to the south of your location.
01:41
I'll have you prepared to take that hydrant.
01:45
Prepping the hydrant.
01:52
Other crews, when you arrive to stand by, go ahead and show ride on your MDCs.
02:03
GOMA from command confirming PPD is aware of the nature of this call and the urgency for their response.
02:10
Command Coma, we're on the line from now, just confirming.
02:17
Battalion 1 can engine 9 hand jack this to force?
02:23
Command from engine 4, can we at least do exposures?
02:32
Engine 4, do you believe that from your location you'd be safe if the arsonist is still in the house?
02:39
Affirmative.
02:40
We're going to pull on the exposure.
02:43
Bravo site exposure.
02:46
Affirmative.
02:47
Engine 9 provides a supply for engine 4 and engine 4 protect the exposures.
02:52
Engine 4 are any additional companies safely able to move in and assist with exposure protection?
03:03
Command, Tacoma.
03:04
And engine once available to assist engine four.
03:11
Tacoma.
03:13
Go ahead, Tacoma.
03:17
TBD is aware of the call.
03:19
They have nobody in route at this time.
03:20
They have a burglary going on in the North End, and all companies are on that.
03:30
Great Steve.
03:32
Toma, this is fully involved.
03:33
We have multiple structures.
03:35
We're going to go ahead and commence with exterior operations using extreme caution for the residents.
03:41
Engine 4, we're going to have you provide exposure protection.
03:43
Engine 1, we're going to have you move forward and assist with that exposure protection.
03:48
Let's see.
03:50
Engine.
03:51
Stand by.
03:54
Engine 2, what's the location?
03:57
Engine 2, directly behind Ninja 1.
04:00
Engine 2, can you check the alley and see if there's any way you could hand jack some lines up there and work on exposures from the alley side?
04:12
Affirmative.
04:17
Command from the pain, too.
04:22
Go ahead and tie to you.
04:25
Yeah, I mean now, you've got some of our folks removing people from their Bravo exposure.
04:31
No obvious delta exposure.
04:33
You've got good vertical burn.
04:34
So I think it's just that Bravo exposure and then defensive on the House of Origin.
04:38
Good,
04:41
Steve, primary concern, Bravo exposure.
04:45
Any opportunity for getting an aerial master stream deployed here?
04:54
Man from MediC4?
04:57
Go ahead, MediCorps.
05:01
We have evacuated two occupants from the Bravo exposure near.
05:12
Conscious Person, Pacific Crest Apartments, 3401, Pacific Avenue, Unit A, as in Alpha 1, Time 1935.
05:26
Medic four received a sign that evacuation will be moving to the Delta side.
05:32
Safety3, your accountability and the time to you are a safety.
05:41
Command EMS1 is in C.
05:42
Okay,
05:47
Steve. EMS1, can you give me the best possible 360 of this structure while keeping out of safe distance?
05:57
EMS1 received, I'll be on foot.
06:02
Command for MediCorps?
06:04
Go ahead, MediCorps.
06:07
The Delta Exposure House Number (number withheld) has a single occupant that cannot egress.
06:17
Command received, do you need assistance for their egress?
06:22
That's negative.
06:24
We've got approximately 15 feet between the fire building and the delta exposure.
06:30
It seems safe at this time.
06:34
Grander Steve, engine one from command.
06:36
Are you still assisting engine four?
06:39
That's affirmative.
06:41
We're going side B, side I see.
06:46
Can you repeat that? You're doing what on side B?
06:53
We are doing exposure retention side D.
06:59
The command party traffic from safety, battalion,
07:04
too.
07:07
Retirement to your traffic.
07:10
Yeah, this has got great vocal burn.
07:13
The crew's getting a good knockdown.
07:15
There's going to be aware of possible structural collapse of the second floor.
07:19
It's pretty well involved and looks like it's starting to go a little bit.
07:27
We have received all crews,
07:29
ensure you keep back, the collapse zone.
07:32
Also safety, do we have any information on the possible arsonist, and if they are still in the structure, and do we have any search needs currently for the structure?
07:43
No additional intel.
07:45
If those folks could get just a little knock on that,
07:48
on just the...
07:50
Yeah, there they go.
07:52
Just haven't hit that fire if they can on the roof line.
07:54
It will help it out.
07:59
Engine 9 is available with water established.
08:06
Gratheed, standby engine 9.
08:09
Engine 4, command, from your vantage point, what additional needs or additional lines do we need for our exposure protection?
08:17
We're going to need an additional line on the Delta side,
08:20
Bravo side.
08:23
And received.
08:24
Engine 9, we'll have you deploy a line to the Bravo side for exposure protection.
08:30
Line bravo size exposure.
08:32
My line?
08:37
From command,
08:38
would it be worth trying to set up an aerial master stream?
08:44
Negative. We got to get a good exposure control and they're getting to knock down the origin.
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Location mentioned:
Near S 7th St, Tacoma, WA 98405
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