Fuel tanker leaks gas during vehicle fire on bridge, St. Petersburg FL
Fire & ArsonA vehicle caught fire on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge involving a fuel tanker that started leaking gas. Emergency responders are on scene managing the hazard and evacuating nearby residents.
Audio|Source: Pinellas County Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
FHP[1] is advising one of the vehicles is currently on fire and there's a fuel tanker on scene that is leaking gas.
00:12
Can we please send a responding hazard unit?
00:18
Understood,
00:19
responding has that unit.
00:22
Dispatched engine 21, did you copy direct?
00:26
The engine toilet off.
00:30
Engine 17, dispatch.
00:32
Engine 17, go ahead.
00:37
FHP[1] that we're going to be heading up the wrong way once we get to the bridge.
00:45
Understood, we'll notify FHP[1].
00:51
Okay.
00:53
Basically, I could pop are coming out of testing fault.
00:58
Cut.
01:03
We're just continuing, climbers.
01:15
Fire attack off, Rescue 20, Traumatic Injuries, Walmart 6850, Gulfport Boulevard South, grade 665B, rescue 20, fire attack off.
01:28
Fundstar to 328, where you're passing the scene of the accident going southbound hour, Franklin, doesn't appear that any vehicles on fire, multiple people standing around the truck.
01:46
About Howard Franklin or Sunshine Skyway Bridge?
01:52
32A, we're on the Sunshine SkyW, Rescue 42 a patient.
02:02
Understead Rescue 42 is patient, your Sunstar is 499.
02:07
Engine 21 this,
02:10
engine 21. Engine 21.
02:13
We confirm that this tanker is more on the north side of the top of the bridge or the south side.
02:26
It is northbound at top of bridge.
02:31
Copy.
02:35
G2A's engine 21. It's going to be northbound just before it's top the home.
02:40
Anti-EMS is going to be first off, please.
02:46
Copy advice if we're going to need another engine company up here.
02:55
13, the medic 7.
03:00
Mattix 7. Matt 7, what's your location?
03:07
The Nav intro.
03:10
Is that chat that I've responded?
03:18
That's not 5, it's not responding.
03:21
Do you have any units on scene taking command yet?
03:25
That's a negative.
03:29
Copy that, you can show Engine 5, Truck 1, and Matt 35,
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responding to the Skyway bridge.
03:38
Understood.
03:43
Your 5-1, firetack, call.
03:50
Command L-11, whatever you're hitting seems to be working.
03:56
I want to copy. Keep you at the same spot.
04:03
And just that's two residents have been evacuated due to the leak.
Police codes explained
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[1]
FHP: Florida Highway Patrol
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Location mentioned:
Sunshine Skyway Ln S, St. Petersburg, FL 33711
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