Firefighters combat active building fire on Mechanic St, Worcester MA
Fire & ArsonAn active fire occurred inside a building on Mechanic Street. Firefighters reported hot spots in the ceiling with risk of roof collapse. They shut off the building's main power and established backup water supply to control the fire. Crews worked on accessing fire areas by pulling ceiling tiles and using various hoses and equipment to manage the situation.
Audio|Source: Worcester City Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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If you, if the ladder's not in use, you put that to the roof and see if we have reports of the part of the roof on a collapse.
00:04
Just do a roof report.
00:05
Yeah, we see. Come in to the ladder one.
00:06
The ladder one has that, yeah, going to the roof.
00:08
Command. All right, final.
00:09
No one was their Cranches 7.
00:10
They were trying to make them available from the structure.
00:12
Is that possible? Yeah, they did not respond.
00:13
They were fucked.
00:14
You can use them. Thank you.
00:15
One shot by silent.
00:16
Ladet's re-answered.
00:17
Yeah, why don't you change your position? You're not going to do any good.
00:20
Go back, go to the front stream.
00:21
We just...
00:23
Precate. Let'sry's on the way.
00:24
Rescue on the way. Rescue Mike, man.
00:25
Go ahead, rescue.
00:26
Yeah, if you get somebody to fill the power of the building, we've got a very large fusepan left here that's stripped and burnt.
00:31
We can't really get near it.
00:32
It appears, though, this might be in one of the HVS units.
00:35
So we get that power of field being a little bit further.
00:36
Yeah,
00:37
we got visual, we got visuals.
00:38
We got visuals. There's numbers and a burnt out feeling joy.
00:41
Commander Rush, you got somebody with a building with you or in there? High Negative, that guy left us were on our own.
00:48
Press me with me.
00:49
Commandant to Latter 7.
00:50
Ladder 7. Ladder 7 answering.
00:51
What are you going to the building? Find the main power to the building and shut it down.
00:55
Flat of 7 has it.
00:57
Command to fire alarm.
00:58
Power, man, command. National grid to the scene.
00:59
Risk.
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Power 1 to engine 7.
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Enter 7.
01:02
You just have and return to the district please.
01:05
I'm going to ask you to command.
01:07
Okay, receive, Chief. File one.
01:08
File one.
01:09
The latter four is on a rifle.
01:10
Receive 1657.
01:11
Session where the rescue is?
01:12
Negative, Chief.
01:13
We're going to need a horizontal sandpipe fed into the building for us to make it.
01:17
Do you need assistance?
01:19
That's permissive. We're going to need a crew grabbing a horizontal sandpipe all the way from the front of the first of our line all the way up.
01:28
Command to engine 6.
01:29
Agent 6 to command, water supply established, already helping getting the stamp pipe going for the boys.
01:38
Okay, assist engine four getting that line in place.
01:42
Roger, we're on it.
01:44
Race do you want to command a priority message.
01:45
Go ahead with your priority message.
01:46
Chief from the third floor utility room, pretty big room.
01:49
We have active fire up in the ceiling.
01:51
We have these hooks and axes, they call it a 12-foot ceiling.
01:53
We've got to pull some of this ceiling tiles down to access if there is active fire in the ceiling.
01:57
Okay, where in the building are you? The A-side being Mechanic Street.
02:03
A-side B Mechanic Street, we walked up to the C-side staircase to the gym, across the floor, back to a Mechanic Street, up one more flight, and that's the floor we're on.
02:14
Okay, receive.
02:15
Command to Engine 2.
02:17
Engine 2.
02:19
I want you to get a line going there with Engine 3.
02:22
Get it up and try to get up to that fire floor.
02:24
Okay, receive, Chief.
02:26
We're gonna piece in with our horizontal sandpike and our high-rise gear.
02:29
Okay, receipt.
02:30
Command some fire alarm.
02:31
The following is command.
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Location mentioned:
Mechanic St, Worcester, MA 01608
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