Apartment fire with smoke seen on balcony at Haywood Ct, Charlotte NC


An apartment fire occurred near Haywood Avenue in Charlotte. Multiple fire units responded to the scene with smoke observed coming from the building and its balcony. The fire appeared to be on the second floor inside the building but looked like the first floor from outside. Firefighters used nearby hydrants and deployed several engines and ladders to control the fire.
Audio|Source: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Fire
03:22
Transcript:
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Battalion 1, Engines, 2, 44, 13, and 43, ladder 13, rescue 10,
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safety 1, and tower 18, apartment fire, near Haywood Avenue, on ECHO. Battalion 1, Engines, 2, 44, 13, and 43, ladder 13, rescue 10,
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safety 1 and tower 18, apartment fire, near Haywood Avenue, on Echo.
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Engine 1, Metagroutine Fallwood's Injury, near Eastmore Head Street, on B, Bravo.
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Engine 1, Metagroutine Fallwood's Injury, near Eastmore Head Street on B, Bravo.
00:54
Engine 10's on scene, we've got light smoke.
00:57
Looks like it's coming from the rear of the building.
00:59
Engine 10 will have command.
01:02
Definitely to take a man over.
01:08
Basement to this complex. She said if you're inside the building, it's on the second floor, but from the exterior, it looks like the first floor.
01:16
You've got a hydrant at near Haywood.
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Engine 43 is going to be Rick. Crossreve, our Bullard, and Joy, Penn Still.
01:35
Clarenge Juan, can you be?
01:37
Where you shut our bedroom, please?
01:40
The border one, closing the engine one's the door.
01:47
Ladder 2 alarm, you can put this on that farm and fire on a haywood.
01:51
We'll be closer in 18.
01:54
Ladder to switch over to E echo eggs with all you want.
02:04
Ladder 2, Battalion 1, the question is doing the fire.
02:08
We're a remount. We'll be a board.
02:11
Yeah, go ahead.
02:13
Battalion 1 to alarm, how many ladder companies do we have on it?
02:19
Adding ladder 2 makes 3.
02:21
They're quite a bit closer than Tower 18. Okay,
02:25
sounds good. Take Tower 18 off of it, please.
02:31
10421. Also, we're going to add engine 5. They just cleared that box right down the street. Rescue 1023, 4-story.
02:39
We do have a little bit of smoke on the balcony. It seems to be a fire fit. We'll advise moment there. The rescue head have command.
02:47
Alarm copies. Rescue Tim, a command.
02:50
I tell you one, the alarm takes the farthest engine off of it, please.
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Ladder 2, apartment fire, near Haywood Avenue, on the ECHO. Latter 2, apartment fire, near Haywood Avenue, on Ead Echo.
03:13
Park a lot with a second-engine standby hydrant.
03:17
Engine 13, don't see.
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Location mentioned:
Haywood Ct, Charlotte, NC 28205
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