Small apartment fire on Minnesota Avenue SE
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Washington DC Fire-Tac
03:19
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00:00
Box alarm, engine 30, engine 19, engine 18, engine 15, engine 10, truck 17, truck 15, battalion 3, battalion 3, squad 3, ambulance 2, ambulance 19, medic 27, responsible structure, minutes for 17, 27.
00:13
Caller advised a window showing flames in the rear.
00:19
A tree.
00:21
No further.
00:31
Engine 19, Battalion 3, myself and Truck 17 here at Minnesota and A.
00:35
Don't see anything.
00:36
Can you give me a call back?
00:38
That's correct.
00:39
19, stay 2nd due.
00:43
Corrected address is going to be (number withheld) Minnesota Avenue.
00:48
Battalion 2 is on the scene.
00:50
Send me command.
00:52
30's laying out at Minnesota and A.
00:58
Copy 30 , engine eight, you got it.
01:02
Engine eight's picking it up.
01:04
Ten, get out of the way.
01:06
Fifteen, 19 split lane, Minnesota A Street.
01:10
Take it somewhere else.
01:11
We got.
01:17
Squad three, squad three, wagon driver, bring the saw around.
01:20
You got boys in the window on the delta side.
01:26
Truck 17 to command.
01:28
We forced entry into (number withheld).
01:29
That's in the delta quadrant on the (number withheld) floor.
01:32
It's full smoke, we're unable to identify yet.
01:35
Okay.
01:37
How many windows in from the end did they have a fire coming?
01:42
Squad three, easy.
01:45
That's squad three.
01:47
They boarded up window on the inside.
01:49
Small fire.
01:50
Looks like no one's there.
01:52
Okay.
01:53
Inside of which apartment? On which floor?
01:58
TV is on the (number withheld) floor.
02:03
18 going to 2nd floor, apartment (number withheld).
02:09
All right, 18,
02:10
confirm that you're on the (number withheld) floor and what apartment are you in?
02:16
18 is on the (number withheld) floor,
02:19
apartment (number withheld).
02:22
Truck 17 to command, it's in apartment (number withheld).
02:25
One boarded up window on the AB corner.
02:28
The board is off and it's already out of the way.
02:32
(number withheld) in this apartment.
02:34
Okay, Battalion 3 is making their way down there now.
02:36
Battalion 3, you're going to have Division 1, yourself, Engine 30, Truck 17, and the rescue squad.
02:43
All other units back out of that area.
02:48
19 confirmed that there's no basement.
02:55
There is no basement from the interior.
02:58
We're operating on the lowest level.
03:00
It is apartment (number withheld).
03:03
It's going to be in the shelter closet.
03:06
It looks like it was a fire on the exterior, boarded up window.
03:12
We have light smoke conditions on the interior stairwell.
03:17
We're getting the apartment opened up now.
03:18
Yeah, ventilate.
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