Fire during demolition at Chonkotswalt Elementary School, Charlotte NC
Fire & ArsonA fire occurred at Chonkotswalt Elementary School during demolition work. The fire was confined to the exterior and did not spread inside the building. All occupants were accounted for. There were concerns about structural stability due to hanging steel beams. Firefighters established water supply and worked to suppress the fire.
Audio|Source: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Fire
09:31
Transcript:
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Tain-4, man, working fire.
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14-2-1, you can show us a pedal.
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24.
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24.
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Command all companies.
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The private hydrogen on scene is out of service.
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Next two engines,
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bring me a hydrant off of Greenwich.
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Engine one, switch over to C Charlie, you're on D Delta.
00:35
Service. The hydrogen in front of the school, the private hydrant's out of service.
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Next two engines bring me the hydrogen on Greenwich.
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6th Senior Drive, engine 18 on INDO, one shot,
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near senior drive, cross-rays or Twinfield Drive to Montana Drive.
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Dr.
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Kuroff, help engine one in the district.
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14.
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We're down the street.
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So on 14.
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Medics 71,
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Responding for a hemorrhage, (number withheld).
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Zion Avenue, (number withheld), Zion Avenue, Crossview, North Zion, Avenue,
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and Keller Hill Drive.
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Ops 4, Ups 4 for traffic, timeout 14, 18.
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Six stops.
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Tand and thirty-one.
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Ladder 39, F. Fox Trot.
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Childlockton vehicle, (number withheld), Candlewick Lane.
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Ladder 39 on F. Fox Trot. Childlockton Vehicle, (number withheld), Kandal Wick Lane.
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Cross streets are a Winnington Corp to Loughton Bluff Road. It's food line.
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Wilder 16's arriving.
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Lighter one's arriving.
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Rescue 11 is all the thing.
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The time for at all companies.
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If this whole building is being demoed, we're not going to commit any companies to get deep into it.
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I've got a good idea what we got before committed it real deep.
02:53
Man alarm, 19.4 in the second line.
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Two work, ma'am.
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Medic 54. Medic 30.
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Supervisor notification.
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700 group. Respond for a structure fire inside of a school.
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3.00 Greenwich Road.
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3.0 Greenwich Road.
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Chonkotswalt Elementary.
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Ops 5, Ops 5 for traffic.
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30 is and all it's five are we going to be first on scene for this one see much
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but you might want to yeah ladder one come on over set up on this side
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the battery one off the same
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manager one officer come make me on the 8 side
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I may be in third.
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19 in command.
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We got a hydrant ride at the entrance and nobody else going to be able to get in.
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It's going to be our only water source as well.
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19403,
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engine one is your truck to red line.
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Medics 71 coordinating as soon as responding to Zion Avenue. It's going to be at the Atrium Health One Health Antiquity Suite 100.
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Eighty-one-year-old male back pain with coughing ground vomit. No further information was provided.
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16 command.
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Tadine Fort, all combs. Tyn4 in the house command.
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Lider 16 Battalion 4.
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Go ahead.
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It's confined to the exterior here, just Rebel Paul.
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All right, Tom, you're fine at the exterior.
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Command end is 65.
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6,000. Try to relocate your apparatus around the Charlie's side.
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See if we have some better access for an engine back there.
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54, CIMS want to confirm we're on Ops5 for this.
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Rick's going to be located in front of engine one, lighter 16.
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Enion 28 on D-Delta, routine traumatic injury, (number withheld), Harris-Oaks Boulevard,
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Aege 28 on D-Delta,
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Routine, traumatic injury, (number withheld), Harris-Oaks Boulevard, cross streets are Harris Corners Parkway to Staceville Road, BITT, CMPD, North Division.
06:02
Okay, there's still quite a big trackers on their channel, so I'm just letting them do their thing. I'm going to interrupt them.
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And I'm coming from 74, so I'll be there shortly once you put everybody back.
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Copy that, I'll let you know here in a few seconds.
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Medic. 30 to 54.
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We're also on this channel. We're passing Billingsley now.
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It's mostly shingles and foam roofing.
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And it's all around concrete.
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Okay, copy, perfect. 19, you all fire attacks.
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Latter 16 is getting set up now. There's a fly by under one.
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Let's go ahead and hit with the area. Okay, we can make it down on that.
06:50
Business full of order.
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Suppression the engine one driver when you can charge that red line.
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Yeah, come on, I just got water. Give me a second.
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Command along.
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All right, command.
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All right, quick status update.
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We've got an exterior fire due to demolition,
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not extended to the interior of the building.
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Water supplies established,
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one line stretched with fire, aerial getting set up.
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Same for, command.
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Command officer, you're at your ten minute incident.
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124.
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Commandaglet.
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No access on the Delta side.
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Do you want to come back around at Alpha?
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Yeah, it's Apple.
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Just that's my alpha.
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Command to be 11. It's good luck.
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So, hey, command.
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Confirm,
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we got an all-clear. All clear. Nobody inside the building.
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Yeah, ten-four, we've made our way from the fire,
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we'll work away back to the rest of the other direction.
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Copy.
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Matt, 54 to 11.
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All right turn.
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Cran here says he just needs the one unit here. We don't need any other further.
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It sounds like, I mean, it's technically outside the building where they're demolishing, but I'll think everyone's clear from the building.
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All right, sounds good to me if you're good with it.
08:51
CNAID, if you copy that, you can't show everybody except CEMIC-54, 10-8?
09:01
Rescue 11, the plan.
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Come here, go.
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All right,
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if we're saying the fire's on the Bravo side of the building,
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this Bravo wing of the building closest to the fire,
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primary is complete,
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negative.
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We do have some big-time structural problems on this wall where they're starting to tear down. We've got some big steel eye beams hanging.
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Just need to make companies aware.
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Location mentioned:
Near Morning Mist Ln, Charlotte, NC 28273
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