Friday, December 10, 2021

Re: Arnold PA ... fire in elderly highrise

timeline ... from the main fire radio channel

0000 sta 95 alerted

0230 sta 95 alerted 2nd time

0340 sta 95 alerted 3rd time

0426 ? eng 95 on air ?

0515 Eng 95 inservice (aka responding] with 4 (people]

0846 Eng 95.2 asks if Sta 95 acknowledged the call ... dispatcher
says yes and tells 95.2 to switch to Tac 7

1150 electrical fire ... 3 more stations alerted

note ... Sta 95 is actually Sta 95.1 and Sta 95.2 ... note ... not
all messages came thru on tape

1209 Interior Chf 95.2 .. dispatcher says '10.4 going to be a commercial fire'

1246 Eng 56.2 + Rescue 69 + Ladder 283 alerted

I think they use the same dispatch policy as prince George County MD
.... each station is alerted for 1 unit ... any other units that have
a crew can also respond from that station

1250 tone .. from dispatcher ... Command 95 reports a working fire on floor 3

1321 ... apt 2xx female cant get out per dispatcher

1339 get police down here

1600 message about floor 6 and county housing

1720 Eng 69 enroute

1811 Eng 78 alerted to fill in for Eng 56.2

1826 Eng 78 enroute with 6

bottom line ... 5 minutes to get fire unit on road ... maybe 7
minutes for 2nd unit ... 12 minutes to announce as electrical fire ...
12 minutes to send additional units ... 13 minutes to announce as
working fire but on wrong floor

next ... lets save the radio tape to wayback machine

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