Large shop fire with explosions near Sterling Hwy, Soldotna AK


A large residential shop near Sterling Highway caught fire and had explosions. Firefighters responded with a defensive attack and requested water supply staging due to the fire size and vehicle exposures nearby.
Audio|Source: Central Emergency Services Fire and EMS
03:31
Transcript:
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Station 1. This is near 102 mile of the Sterling Highway. It's a shop on fire.
00:04
The junkyard's there. There's going to be a lot of vehicle exposures.
00:08
Phase 2, engine 1, medic 1, medic ones en route.
00:17
Engine 1, and route.
00:23
Engine and Medic 1. This is near 102 mile on the Sterling Highway. Is your southbound? It's going to be on the left-hand side. The address is (number withheld) Sterling Highway break.
00:37
Copy. Thanks, Stu. Could you mutual 8Kina, tanker?
00:51
Base two. Chiefs is interrup.
00:55
Chiefs interrupt. Chiefs inmate.
00:58
Chiefs in a minute.
01:02
Clear CPCH for in and rounds with that fire.
01:05
Right.
01:06
Fire one mic free wants to grab engine two.
01:09
Permanent.
01:11
Injured forward out. Got it.
01:17
Trini one route.
01:23
95 an hour.
01:25
Mattifone around.
01:31
Well, they are checking.
01:38
Firewind, copies.
01:43
Face 2, Fire1, confirmed header.
01:49
I want to repeat your last?
01:52
Confirm structure fire header.
01:56
Copy anyone see the header.
02:02
Base 2, Marshall 1 in route.
02:06
Marshall 1 in route.
02:12
Base 2, 23, that patient 1 needs to show engine 2 en route to reflection microse.
02:20
3 said Station 1 take an engine 2 to the fire scene.
02:28
Two engine one's on scene.
02:31
Got a large residential shot fully involved at this time with explosions.
02:39
Be fire-intact mode defensive at this time. Duce and a half off engine one.
02:44
Need water supply.
02:45
Stage on the Sterling Highway for all water supply.
02:54
Copy engine 1's on scene, a large residential shop.
02:58
Chief 2, I just covered you. You're on scene, who else?
03:02
Correct, medic 1, Chief 2 are on scene.
03:06
Medic 1, Chief 2 on scene, and Engine 1 was advising all units with water to stage on the Sterling Highway.
03:18
Space 2, Fire 1. Bevise, all incoming units, going to be an initial gun attack going to the deuce and a half.
03:28
All right, while you're just a little garbled, I copied initial attack, what was the rest?
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Location mentioned:
Near Sterling Hwy, Soldotna, AK 99669
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