Structure fire with roof operations near Winchester Rd, Memphis TN
There was a structure fire near Winchester Road in Memphis, involving multiple fire units. Firefighters operated from the roof and raised aerial trucks to address the fire, which included a small fire in the parapet wall. Power to the building was cut to assist firefighting efforts. Emergency personnel worked to clear employees and customers from the building before continuing with fire suppression and overhaul operations.
Audio|Source: Memphis Fire Department
07:33
Transcript:
00:00
Indication of any fire or broken side.
00:06
There's a smell of a little haze on the right over the side.
00:11
We're going to the roof now, chief.
00:15
Everybody hold tight just a second.
00:17
See, this is 35A.
00:19
I'm on the roof now.
00:21
Got a little small roof on the outside.
00:23
Stay tight, I'll let you know.
00:27
Check. I don't want to stay on standby.
00:35
They put truck 17 behind 35s raised to the parapet wall.
00:46
Jack, you want truck 17 directly behind you.
00:50
They're blocked in right now behind engine 55. All right, it doesn't matter. You put one of the trucks over here, I don't care which one.
01:01
Jack, Chuck is getting set up right now.
01:08
He needs a 4-1 D1 those are clear at the center.
01:16
Our conditions are adding the building right now?
01:23
Man, we don't have any handlines on this side.
01:26
We're just going to flow this truck, hopefully knocking a bunch of it down.
01:32
Dick. Keep them out here with me.
01:39
Engine 41, go ahead and get on the plug, see some new water supply.
01:47
Then, engine 8, stop the county, too.
01:50
What do you want us to do again?
01:54
Stand by outside that,
01:57
south side gate, where my truck is far.
02:04
Okay, standby.
02:10
Some kind of wine going through it. We're getting the wall open now.
02:14
We don't need to use anything yet.
02:18
Jack is 35A. You're good at the trucks right now being raised. Did you call for the outside team so you cut the power to the building?
02:28
Yeah, let's go ahead and fill the power.
02:31
I need that trouble is on the trolley side.
02:35
Correction, I guess it would be the...
02:39
Be actually the Bravo's not worth 35 here. We need their access, not for roof access.
02:45
We need to work off of.
02:51
Reposition your equipment behind engine 35.
02:57
Sure, 2427.
03:02
Okay, we're going to cut the power to the buildings for 113.
03:05
If you're inside,
03:07
keep the management to start clearing out for customers.
03:12
Everybody out.
03:15
Command 53-8.
03:17
I'm on the roof with Agent 35.
03:20
We have employees up here. We're telling him to get a lay out now.
03:24
Jay, Chris wants to go inside to start helping clear out folks.
03:31
Okay.
03:37
Command, 55, we're not going to light it from, we'll get it right out.
03:44
35-9 or 53 driver at work and not getting every time.
03:50
Check, how good.
03:53
Engine 35A, truck 27 is going to be making their way around the back of the building behind your pumper to raise their aerial too, okay?
04:02
Sick, I got the wall over.
04:04
I'm going to have to have that arrow on outside to be able to get it from the other side of the other side of the paragraph.
04:12
Truck 17 outside, a meter is a continuous meter, 31.
04:22
Okay, you got to continue here.
04:34
Operation is one driver. I'm with security guard.
04:37
He said the rep is pulling in now.
04:42
Jack, is he going on the north back?
04:46
Jack, he's on coming this north gate over here, my ma'amper.
04:51
All right, directing towards Division I.
04:58
Yes.
05:08
35A. I heard you're busy.
05:11
They put the manager's on the route.
05:14
If you have somebody a name to give me,
05:17
who he's in contact with, I can get everybody out of here.
05:22
He's supposed to be turning somebody down.
05:26
Okay.
05:30
Forty-one flood across Winchester.
05:34
We're still looking for a plug on this side in Parliament Lock.
05:39
Check, just let's make sure in Truck 27, get run off the back, skip them raise,
05:45
and then whenever Engine 41 get cleared from there.
05:48
If you can get on a toulogging and a parking lot, just if it works, it gets me going to hook it up.
05:55
Sir.
05:58
Backwood.
05:59
Bring me a pump into that ladder inside the building.
06:03
Okay.
06:10
Check this match, engine 31 district.
06:13
Agent 31 and service, 2011.
06:18
Engine 26, versus fire to call 3336, Regis Street, Nick Fraser Boulevard, 2011.
06:28
Engine 41, do you have MPD en route to stop traffic?
06:35
Negative. Don't take the plug across the street just yet on Winchester. See if there's a plug anywhere else in the parking lot.
06:43
Okay.
06:48
1035A we've got a pumpkin on the roof we've knocked every good thing that was over and down we're good we won't need a close have risky going send one man up with their battery all right we're just trying to cut some of his hair for the way if you need a train saw on the roof rescue ones you copy direct if you can get your electric chainsaw up there
07:14
Jack, they're all the way up.
07:17
Josh, you know what's coming up to you.
07:19
Okay,
07:22
just make sure to adjust your electric saw.
07:25
Command, very small fire in the Paris wall.
07:28
It looks like it's called by two wires going from the inside to the outside.
07:32
We won't be anything else.
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