Sterling (Loudon County), VA - House Fire w/ Multiple Maydays

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347 Silver Ridge Rd x Seneca Ridge Rd

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347 Silver Ridge Dr · 347 Silver Ridge Dr, Sterling, VA 20164, USA

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Multiple firefighters trapped in the basement from a gas explosion. Some members have been removed and transported. Attempting to breach basement walls.

Mutual Aid from Fairfax County Fire & Rescue.

Medivac En route.

2106 Hours - 1 Member removed. Member is conscious/alert.

2115 Hours - Per command: 2 members still unaccounted for. Inside crews recommending pulling out due to unsafe structural conditions.

2116 Hours - Now reporting all members from the initial response have been either transported or are accounted for on scene. Command requesting all company officers to report to the command post.
 
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E611, Tower 611 and all of E618 were un accounted for per Firewire. There listening to it.
 
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Capttomo said:
Prayers to all the injured members for a full and speedy recovery. Reports that a 500 lb propane tank was involved 🙏🙏
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I was an acting officer first due to house fire 1 night when an andonded 275 gallon oil tank failed and blew. We just pulled up and I was telling my ff with my back to the house, to pull a 2 1/2 when I heard a boom and saw the flash reflection on the side of the rig. Blew the house off its foundation and shifted it 2 inches off it. I Don't want to think what a 500 lb propane tank would do.
 
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3rd alarm fire + Medical Task Force + Intervention Task Force
All times estimated, alot of unit info and incident info missing.

Initial Alarm - Gas Leak 7:38PM
E611 E618 T611

Structure Fire (Unknown Time)
CAN611 E611B A618

8:22PM
B601, H619

Fairfax County Mutual Aid 8:27PM
AE623 BC401 BC404 BC407 BC603 CAN611 DC401 E303 E404M E412M E425M E329M E439M E442M E611b E620 E622B LA436 M439 M625B MAB627 MA608 mR439M REHAB623 SAF403 T606B TEST600 TL429M TT425M TT606 TT620

Fairfax County Mutual Aid 8:31PM - Medical Task Force
A412 A431 AA609B AA615C E439M E620 EMS401 M425 M606 M613C M613D
 
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99% of the time you go on a run, extinguish the fire or tend to the emergency and return to Quarters. It's that 1% that when all hell breaks loose and some are transported to a hospital and some never return to home. It hit's us FF's when we hear of situation's like this that really strikes us hard. Unless your in the Brotherhood you have no idea of the impact we feel of this tragedy. Prayers for all the responders to this emergency and hopefully it will end well.
 
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Very true, unless you've done it, you really have no clue. That 1% of the time can be devastating for all and it's unfortunately what leaves gravestones in your head.
 
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RCL said:
I was an acting officer first due to house fire 1 night when an andonded 275 gallon oil tank failed and blew. We just pulled up and I was telling my ff with my back to the house, to pull a 2 1/2 when I heard a boom and saw the flash reflection on the side of the rig. Blew the house off its foundation and shifted it 2 inches off it. I Don't want to think what a 500 lb propane tank would do.
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Heating oil is not explosive. It has to be vaporized in order to ignite. The flash point is over 500deg F.
 
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Ward79 said:
Heating oil is not explosive. It has to be vaporized in order to ignite. The flash point is over 500deg F.
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The tank was in a crawlspace below the house. Apparently it had been abandoned with some fuel left in it, and from what the investigators told us later, it had been capped on all of its orifices and abandoned, so when it heated up there was no where for the pressure to go.
 
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