Active structure fire extends to adjacent units and attic, Mesa AZ
Fire & ArsonAn active structure fire occurred in Mesa, AZ, with fire crews initially attacking the fire inside. They faced fire extension into adjacent units and the attic. Conditions worsened with smoke and heat, causing crews to request additional handlines and ventilation. Due to intense fire and poor visibility, crews transitioned from an offensive to a defensive strategy and exited the building to focus on containment and extinguishment from outside.
Audio|Source: Mesa Fire, Gilbert Fire, Queen Creek Fire
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Transcript:
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Have a primary all clear.
00:01
We'll need a replacement company for engine 218 as soon as possible for low air.
00:09
Copy.
00:10
Let's turn interior over to engine 2203.
00:14
Engine 218, exit the structure with your three members.
00:22
Interior copies engine 2203 to take over, engine 218, head out.
00:29
Command the E-Sector engine G03.
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E-sector.
00:36
Take care.
00:38
We have dark-ray smoke about three feet off the ceiling.
00:41
Consulate 108.
00:42
We're doing fire extension into this unit.
00:44
We're opening with the walls to getting access to the fire at this time.
00:47
We need a second company and another handline to back us up in this unit.
00:54
Copy that. I'll get you to that as soon as you can.
00:56
Is there any fire above your head?
01:01
That's a firm that looks like there's extension above us.
01:05
Copy, I'd like you to pull out of the Ace hardware and reassemble it, try and go into the subway that's just to the south of that.
01:18
I want it all clear of that subway, all clear of the Ace hardware.
01:28
Copy, we do get all clear the Ace.
01:29
So I exit the structure.
01:31
Correction and exit the same way can go to the subway.
01:36
No response 201 and engine 204.
01:46
Rehab sector.
01:48
No response to 01 copies rehab sector.
01:56
Command engine 204.
02:03
To come forward, I'm going to make you on deck with rescue responsibility, get the rick bag out of the BC vehicle.
02:15
There's a tool for grabbing.
02:16
Coming forward, or rusty sector, grabbing the rick base.
02:22
Command the well sector.
02:26
What sector?
02:28
He can, please.
02:32
We have moderate smoke and low heat and sweep 110.
02:35
If we have extension of the walls in this unit, we're over in the walls and trying to gain access to the fire at this time.
02:42
We could use the second company of back itself on the interior.
02:47
Copy that. Have you cleared the unit, do you have a par in unit 110 and other units to the west?
03:00
We have a primary all-clear of Unit 110.
03:02
We're working on the other units for the west.
03:06
Copy. Stay in Unit 110, try and fight that fire.
03:10
I'll get somebody else to do the all-clear on the other unit.
03:14
We're on the University Command.
03:15
This will be a 10-minute-lap-time notification.
03:21
Command copies,
03:22
University Command Copies, 10 minutes, we're still in the Offensive Strategy looking for an all-clear on the involved Unit 109.
03:31
We do have extension into the attic.
03:35
Yep.
03:40
Command to Interior Engine 2203.
03:44
Interior.
03:48
See can, please.
03:51
We have zero visibility, high heat in this unit.
03:55
We are not making much progress.
03:57
We can use ventilation and another company with another handline.
04:03
Command copies.
04:05
Command to alarm.
04:10
Alarm, go ahead.
04:13
Emergency traffic[1].
04:16
Go do, do, do, do.
04:17
Go ahead with the emergency traffic.
04:20
Command all units on the fire ground.
04:23
Exit at all interior positions.
04:25
Ladder 201, get off the roof.
04:28
We're going defensive.
04:33
Longed our units on the fire ground, they are transitioning from offensive to defensive.
04:37
Transition out of the building.
04:39
Ladder 201 is to exit the roof and roof on the floor.
04:43
Letter 276,
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engine 278.
04:47
I'm seeing.
Police codes explained
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Emergency traffic: Radio channel limited to urgent or emergency communications only.
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Mesa, AZ
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