- Engines 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 19 20 24 28 30 32 33 39 65
- Ladders 1 2 3 4 16 23 27 31
- Towers 26
- Rescues 10 89 (reserve)
- Battalions 3 4 5 7 8 21 (callback) 25 (callback)
- Cars 1 2 4 10 14 15 19 20 202 205 209 800 502 900 (SOC) 901 (SOC) 902 (SOC) 904
- Investigators 3 5
- Rehab 1
- Haz-Mat 13 32
- Tanker 37
- Brush 5
- Pineville Tower 1, Chief 9
- Wesley Chapel E310
- Midland Tower 1
- Others?
Mutual Aid Coverage:
- Carolina FD
- Concord E9 > Sta 27
- Cornelius H&L 44 > Sta 1
- Cornelius R3 > Sta 1
- Davidson Tower 1 > Sta 10
- Pineville Car 1 as Chief 9 > Southside chief
- Pineville E2 > Sta 39
- Pineville R8 > Sta 43
- Pineville Tower 1 > Sta 20
- Pleasant Valley (SC) Engine 1401 > Sta 19
- Pleasant Valley (SC) Ladder 1441 > Sta 32
- Harrisburg E2 > Sta 27
- Steele Creek E1 > Sta 24
- Steele Creek E2 > Covering Sta 37 from SCFD Sta 2
- Steele Creek L2 > Sta 26
- Others?
MEDIC units?
OPERATIONAL NOTES
- How many ladder streams? L1 L2 L4 (exposure) L16 L24 who else?
- How many deck guns?
- How many portable monitors?
- How many hydrants?
- Staging at Fairview and Piedmont
- Command post location?
- Rehab locations (2)?
- How many impacted exposures?
GENERAL NOTES
- Five alarms
- Dispatched 9:04 a.m. as vehicle fire in adjacent parking deck
- Fire spread to mid-rise apartment building under construction, Modera SouthPark at 7740 Liberty Row Drive. Seven-story structure with 180K/190K square-feet.
- 15 people rescued, including a tower crane operator
- Mayday issued, two firefighters rescued
- Two civilians treated and released with minor injuries
- One construction worker later found, deceased
- One more construction workers unaccounted for
- Over 90 firefighters on scene
- Ladder 2 damaged, among other apparatus
- Collapses on three sides
- Damage to nearby buildings, including rooftop fires due to spreading embers
- Damage to several cars in the parking deck, from the high heat
DETAILED NOTES FROM RADIO TRAFFIC
Also, ahem, selective notes. They're not comprehensive.
Listen at
youtube.com/watch?v=5-K7NZzufUM
- Dispatched 9:04 a.m.
- B5 E14 E2 E12 L16 - First alarm
- Vehicle fire 7741 Liberty Row Drive
- Unattached trailer mid-rise parking deck
- L16 first-arriving, heavy smoke showing
- L16 requests working fire for mid-rise assignment
- B1 E43 INV3 R10 Safety 1 - Working fire
- Request for two additional ladders
- L1 adds self
- Car 10 dispatched
- L2 dispatched
Second Alarm
- B7 E39 E20 E24 INV5 L24 Rehab 1 - Second alarm [09:20]
- Workers on scene advise that trailer contains liquid used for insulation. Haz-mat response requested.
- Car 2 dispatched
- Car 20 dispatched
- HM13 en route
- Car 19 dispatched
- Car 15 dispatched
- HM13 dispatched
- Caller in tower advises they can see the trailer fully involved, crews may be on the wrong side of the structure.
- Car 209 dispatched
- Attention, second alarm has been declared.
- Reports of two workers trapped on fourth floor. Request for 40-foot ladder.
- HM32 en route [?].
- Tower 26 dispatched
- HM32 dispatched
- L32 dispatched
- Car 205, Car 202 dispatched
- Seat of fire found [09:18]
- Car 10 now has command. Strike third alarm. Please set staging for both second and third alarms [09:20]
- Screaming/shouting. All companies, evacuate structure. [09:20]
Third Alarm
- B3 E19 E10 E17 L4 - Third alarm [09:20]
- Attention, third alarm has been declared.
- Station reassignment, L23 > Sta 16.
- Car 14 dispatched
- Staging at Fairview and Piedmont
- Car 16 dispatched
- Attention, all companies operating, evacuate structure [09:22]
- Car 4, E8 dispatched
- L1, set your aerial up.
- Station reassignment, E40 > Sta 24
- Request to start PAR [09:23]
- Station reassignment, E65 > Sta 16
- Request for ladder in-between buildings
- L24 has been set-up, opposite side of L2
- Station reassignment, E28 > Sta 20
- E6 dispatched
- Companies coming down balconies, use caution, lots of glass coming down
- E32 dispatched
- Attention all companies, this will be all-defensive. Also changing command structure, assigning new division. [09:30]
- Still have a crane operator trapped. "He's getting impatient."
Fourth Alarm
- B8, E5, E4, E3, L3, [09:31]
- "...bail out and we'll get you off to the side." [09:32]
- Attention, fourth alarm has been declared.
- Command receives mayday from L1. [09:33]
- Sixth floor [stairwell?]. Need two RIT packs.
- Car 800 dispatched
- All other companies than RIT, hold traffic.
- L1 is evacuating.
- L1, all personnel are out of structure. Mayday can be cancelled. [09:38]
- Car 21 with emergency traffic. Crane operator reports high heat in the cab. But there's a breeze [so he's getting air?] [09:39]
- Put L2 straight up, to protect the crane operator.
- Station reassignment, E40 > Sta 32
- Need to move L2, the heat is melting the lens
- Station reassignment, L32 > Sta 1
- Crane operator is 160 feet above ground.
- Partial collapse on delta side, fire building, impinging on parking deck next door. [09:42]
- Other collapse conditions note, possible partial collapse of crane.
- All companies on B side, begin evacuating that area. [09:44]
- Ladder 2 remaining in place. Only thing protecting the crane operator.
- Car 2 now command.
- Directions to move apparatus, shut down ladders, move out of collapse.
- B division to command, urgent traffic. [09:47]
- Collapse on this side, leaving Ladder 2 alone, flowing. Truck is being sacrificed at this time.
- Station reassignment, E27 > Sta 2
- Also unmanned monitors on B division.
- A side beginning to collapse [09:49]
- Crane needs water on it, near the base. Starting to off gas.
- Some cars on fire in the parking deck.
- Station reassignment, E33 > Sta 39
- E14 and L16 catching on fire. Working on moving.
- Station reassignment, E18 > Sta 18
- Collapse on C side now.
- INV2 dispatched
- Give me another alarm. [09:56]
- R10 personnel at base of crane, with rope and harness for rescue. [09:56]
Fifth Alarm
- B4 E11 E16 E28 L27 [09:56]
- Don't put the personnel on the crane, it looks like it's [something has fallen over, onto the crane?]
- Attention, fifth alarm has been declared [09:58]
- Attention "B" side companies, get ready for a collapse. Move out of the collapse zone.
- Recommend getting a helicopter from CMPD or NCANG for aerial rescue.
- Report of four people on balcony of hotel directly across, trapped.
- L31 dispatched
- E65 dispatched
- Car 7 dispatched
- Station reassignment, L23 > Sta 24
- _____ dispatched
- All companies, B/C corner about to collapse. [10:05]
- Can you notify water department, we need pressure boost?
- [ Discussion of crew inside exposure, with fire impinging ]
- We need to get water on that crane.
- We can see the crane operator, he's still moving around.
- We're in communication with the crane operator. Just keep it cool, he's flyin' high, he's doing good.
- Working on communicating with NCANG in Salisbury for helo rescue.
- All crane rescue/RIT companies change to separate radio channel
- Need water "all over" the crane, mainly on the operator. Once it cools down, rescue will go and get him. It's extremely hot, but its integrity seems intact.
- Crane operating has exited cab. Ready to climb down shaft. [10:11]
- "B" side companies, move to another channel (Hotel).
- Station reassignment, E33 > Sta 10
- L18 > Sta 4
- Rescue is "fixing to climb" the tower. [10:14]
- Can we get water supply on another channel? [10:15]
- Station reassignment, Pineville E2 > Sta 39
- Station reassignment, Harrisburg E2 > Sta 27
- Exposure building (Hilton Canopy Building) is catching on fire, they're trying to evacuate people [10:17]
- Station reassignment, Steele Creek E1 > Sta 26
- Stop ladder flowing on tower. [10:19]
- Rescue 10 is attempting rescue of tower operator.
- CMPD helicopter en route as back up, landing zone identified, but they don't have any rope or mechanism to lift. - Need NCANG unit out of Salisbury.
- Station reassignment, [unintelligible] > Sta 42
- CMPD helicopter has landing. Request for NCANG has been declined.
- All units on Charlie, hold traffic unless urgent unless you're part of the crane rescue team.
- RIT packs, gloves, etc. all ready for crane operator, when he comes down. [10:29]
- Attention all stations/units, per Deputy Fire Chief, do not call into Fire Alarm (dispatch) on radio unless you have an emergency.
- INV5, dispatched
- Discussion of equipment for helo, if it's needed. [Sounds like they have a workaround, to perform helo rescue.]
- Mention of fire [on roof?] of Hilton Canopy Building.
- Mention of crane rescue crew, three firefighters. Changing/swapping positions [bottles? Equipment?] as they go up.
- Crews using extinguishers at rear of Hilton Canopy Building, need more extinguishers. [10:34]
- Highway Patrol has helicopter available, do they want them? Yes, have them come.
- Mention of a call that E40 was dispatched to, Carolina FD is handling.
- Crane operator is just outside cab, he exited as the cab had started burning.
- Is he coming down, or am I going up. He doesn't have any gloves and it's hot. If you can, go up and get him. [10:38]
- Reports of multiple spot fires in the building. Also, fire alarms throughout the building. [Hilton Canopy Building?]
- Crane operator has been reached, rescue company member "has got him" and on the way down. [10:41]
- Crane operator now safe, being moved to "C" side to be looked at by MEDIC. [10:43]
- Cancel both CMPD and SHP helicopters
- L4 setting up for exposure building
- Suggest repurposing L26 to hit sixth floor of exposure building before "it gets away from us.
- Another exposure building "just has smoke" [10:46]
- "Eight additional alarms from the alarm company"
- "Any company that does not have an assignment report to rehab"
- Car 13 dispatched
- L4 flowing into sixth floor of exposure building. [10:52]
- Crane looks stable, does not look like its leaning, etc.
- E16 removing smoke from their building.
- Two rehabs have been set up. [10:56]
- Crane company will bring equipment to measure the crane, to assess its stability and if it's a hazard.
- We are transferring from protecting the crane frame to protecting the "B" exposure. [11:00]
- Station Reassignment, Tanker 33 > Sta 43
- Station Reassignment, Tanker 35 > Sta 11
- Station Reassignment, Tanker 40 > Sta 6
- Station Reassignment, Concord E9 > Sta 27
- Station Reassignment, Cornelius E3 [H&L 44] > Sta 27
Additional Alarm
- B21 [?], B25, E1, E30, E33, L23 - Working fire, 6135 Park South Drive (fire on roof, nearby building)
- Tanker 37 dispatched - 6135 Park South Drive
- Station Reassignment, [garbled] > Sta [garbled]
- [garbled], dispatched - 6135 Park South Drive
- Brush 5, dispatched - 6135 Park South Drive
- B4, dispatched - 6135 Park South Drive
- Car 904, Rescue 89 [reserve] on scene - 6135 Park South Drive
- Davidson Tower 1 answering calls in city
- B27 in command on Park South [11:15]
- Rehab [at main fire] moving to separate channel
- Park South Drive, several spot fires found, requesting roof saws
[ Transcription stopped at 11:17:07, after Fire Ops 1B transmission lasting 17 seconds ]
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