Building wall buckles and staircase collapses during fire, Sahuarita AZ


Fire crews responded to a building on W Camino Antigua where the easternmost exterior wall was buckling and the attached staircase collapsed. During the incident, a firefighter became lost, resulting in a Mayday call and emergency rescue operations.
Audio|Source: Tucson Police/Fire Citywide
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Transcript:
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Command safety. It looks like the easternmost exterior wall of the building is buckling.
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Command copies the easternmost exterior wall of the building is buckling.
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Command safety, crew of engine 9 is on the staircase attached to that wall.
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Fire, this is engine 9. The staircase on the eastern wall has collapsed, code red, and sector delta.
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Check Engine 9, Command, Fireline.
00:34
Fire Command.
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Command, engine 9 called the code red for the sector delta, staircase.
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Check fire, this is tangled with command, code red, and sector delta.
00:59
Engine 9, Command, is your crew accounted for?
01:05
Command, Engine 9, I have eyes on Pumper 9 and Firefighter 1, but I don't have Firefighter 2.
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Engine 9, Firefighter 2, Command.
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Engine 9, Firefighter 2, Command.
01:26
Fire, this is Tanglewood Command. Start on May Day, we have a lost firefighter.
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Location mentioned:
W Camino Antigua, Sahuarita, AZ 85629
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