PAY RESPECT - READ THE RADIO TRANSCRIPT 18:13 Worcester Fire Alarm announces: “Striking Box 1438, Franklin and Arctic.” 18:14:08 Engine 1: “heavy smoke showing.” 18:17:57 Car 3: “…strike the second alarm. We are going to have the second alarm companies stage until we have a place for them.” 18:20:27 Engine 13/Portable 2: “13 to Command, the fire is in the elevator shaft on the second and third floor.” 18:20:46 Ladder1/Portable 2: “This is Ladder 100. I’m on the second floor and I’m in a freezer room, and I’ve got a room full of fire up here. I need a line on the second floor.” 18:20:57 Rescue1/Portable 3: “… it’s not Worcester Cold Storage. It’s the building closest to the highway, we’re up at the roof, we have heavy smoke and embers showing.” 18:23:07 Ladder 1/Portable 2: “You are going to need that line up here to the second floor, chief.” 18:23:10 Car 3: “They are on their way up, M. is going up there with Engine 13, they got a 2-1/2 coming up there.” 18:23:22 C-300 (Car 3’s aide): “Chief, I’m on the C/D corner of the building over here next to 13. We have heavy fire coming out the first floor, its not coming out yet, it’s burning in and up.” 18:24:01 Car 3: “…we have a 2-1/2 going up the inside now to the second and third floor.” 18:24:08 Ladder 1/Portable 1: “We have a scuttle on the roof that’s been completely vented now.” 18:24:13 Car 3: “Okay do we have fire coming up through the roof yet?” 18:24:16 Ladder 1/Portable 1: “We have a lot of hot embers blowing through.” 18:24:28 C-300: “…I’m right here with 13 and they are hitting it from the inside, that is where that 2-1/2 line is going from Engine 12.” (1st Line)40 U.S. Fire Administration/Technical Report Series 18:24:45 Fire Alarm: “Command, be advised a citizen just reported to a police officer that there may be two people that live in that building.” 18:24:58 C-300: “…charge Engine 12’s line. Charge Engine 12’s 2-1/2.” 18:25:26 Engine 12/Portable 1: “…that 2-1/2 is off of Engine 1, not Engine 12.” 18:26:04 Engine 13/Portable 2: “Charge that now, please.” (2nd Line) 18:26:43 Ladder 1/Portable 2: “I’m on the second floor. Come up that flight of stairs and you go through a freezer chest, and I’m in the back where another freezer chest is. That’s where you’ll find it.” 18:27:41 Engine 6/portable 1: “… there’s two guys coming up here with a line now…” (3rd Line) 18:28:07 Car 2: “Command to Chief M.” (Car 2 assumes Incident Command and Car 3 becomes Interior Command.) 18:28:13 Rescue 1/Portable 1: “Rescue to Ladder 100, you got one line coming up and you are going to have another 2-1/2 coming up very shortly.” 18:29:06 Engine 12/Portable 1: “We are getting a 2-1/2 now, and we did find a staircase.” (Stairway 2) 18:29:37 Engine 6/Portable 1: “Engine 1 charge Ladder 100’s line.” 18:30:08 C-300: “300 is at the elevator shaft on the first floor with Engine 12 and 13.”; “They are hitting it with a 2-1/2 right now…” 18:30:45 Engine 1/Portable 1: “Engine 12, bring that 2-1/2 in here.” 18:32:06 Car 3: “Rescue, did you check on that rumor that we have a couple of homeless people living at the rear of this building?” 18:32:13 Rescue 1/Portable 1: “Checked the second and third floor, we found nothing, Chief. We are moving our way up.” 18:32:45 Engine 1/Portable 1: “Engine 1 to Engine 12 truck, charge that 2-1/2.” (4th Line) 18:33:20 Car 2: “…do we have fire on the third floor?” 18:33:28 Rescue 1/Portable 1: “We have heavy smoke, no fire.” 18:35:09 C-300: “300 to Command, we need a line on the third floor…” 18:36:29 Car 3 to Engine 2: “Come right in through the overhead door, we’re going to go with 2-1/2 to the third floor so you are going to need a lot of line.” 18:38:40 Rescue 1/Portable 1: “Chief, we are up on the fourth floor, we can hear fire crackling, but we can’t see anything. We are in the rear of the building on the C side.” 18:39:01 Car 3: “Okay, because it is running right up the shaft.” 18:39:31 Car 3: “Put out an emergency broadcast to all companies operating inside to use extreme caution. There could be holes in the floor, and to use extreme caution as USFA-TR-134/December 1999 41 they are moving.” 18:40:46 Car 2: “Give me a third alarm.” 18:41:57 C-300: “We got the Rescue advancing a check on extension on the fifth floor. Now we’re on the fifth.” 18:42:09 Car 3: “Interior to Engine 2, just let us know what you got on the third floor when you get up there.” 18:42:32 Car 3 to Scope 2: “…start taking these windows out on the side.” (B side windows in stairway 3) 18:45:59 Engine 12/Portable 1: “Engine 12 to any firefighters in the second floor area, get out to the staircase, get out to the staircase.” 18:46:12 Rescue 1/Portable 3: “Rescue 600 to Command. We need help, on the floor, below the top floor of the building, we’re lost.” 18:47:07 Rescue 1/Portable 3: “Rescue to Command. Rescue to Command, we need help on the fourth floor, one floor down, we’re running out of air.” 18:47:23 Car 3: “Last message, can you repeat? Last message?” 18:47:29 Engine 1/Portable 1: “Engine 1 to Command, get everybody out of the second floor, back them out.” 18:47:44 Rescue 1/Portable 5: “Fire Alarm, Fire Alarm! Emergency, emergency! Clear the air, clear the air! Emergency!” 18:47:51 Fire Alarm sounds the Alert Tones 18:47:56 Engine 12/Portable 1: “Engine 12 to Command.” 18:47:59 Rescue 1/Portable 3 (Portable 5’s search partner): “I have an emergency.” 18:48:01 Rescue 1/Portable 5: “Command, we are two floors down from the roof, this is the Rescue Company, come now, come now.” 18:48:10 Car 3: “Where are you? Where are you?” 18:48:13 Rescue 1/Portable 5: “Two floors down from the roof.” 18:48:17 Car 3: “Who is this?” 18:48:25 Car 3: “All companies we have an emergency. Somebody is two floors down from the roof.” 18:48:30 Rescue 1/Portable 3: “Guys, we’re not the top floor, one floor down.” 18:48:39 Car 3: “What is your emergency?” 18:48:42 Fire Alarm: “Running out of air.” 18:48:49 Engine 1/Portable 1: “Engine 1 to Command, get everybody out of the second floor, too.”42 U.S. Fire Administration/Technical Report Series 18:49:20 Engine 1/Portable 1: “Engine 1 to Engine 12, …back that line out of there! Get out of that second floor.” 18:49:47 Rescue 1/Portable 1: “600 what’s your location?” 18:49:50 Rescue 1/Portable 5: “Two floors down from the roof. Two floors down from the roof. Please hurry!” 18:50:29 Rescue 1/Portable 3: “We need air, we need air. We’re sharing a tank right now, off of me.” 18:50:38 Rescue 1/Portable 1: “P., if you need air, come on down. Come down.” 18:50:43 Rescue 1/Portable 5: “We are lost, D. You got to send a rescue team up here for us.” 18:50:52 Rescue 1/portable 1: “What floor, what floor?” 18:50:55 Rescue 1/Portable 5: “Second floor down from the roof, two floors down, I think.” 18:51:04 Rescue 1/Portable 3: “We were on the roof, and then we checked the next floor down, now we are on the next one. Hurry.” 18:51:39 Car 2: “What is your location? What floor are you on?” 18:51:44 Rescue 1/Portable 3: “Get up here! Please.” 18:52:13 Car 2: “Fourth alarm, fourth alarm, notify Chief B.” 18:52:29 Car 2: “I just struck a fourth alarm. What floor are those men missing, trapped on?” 18:52:36 Car 3: “They are on the second floor down from the top. Two floors down from the roof.” 18:52:42 Car 3: “I have Ladder 2, Engine 3, and Ladder 1 going looking for them.” 18:52:57 Rescue 1/Portable 5: “Fire Alarm we have a second emergency here. Get people up on this floor now or we are going die! We have no air, and we cannot breath.” 18:53:13 Fire Alarm: “What floor are you on? What floor are you on?” 18:53:16 Rescue 1/Portable 5: “We don’t know. We don’t know. We were on a wall. We have no air. Please.” 18:53:37 Rescue 1/Portable 3: “We are, you go up to the roof, you walk down the stairs, not the first floor from the roof, the second one down.” 18:53:49 Car 3: “…activate your PASS system, activate your PASS system so we can hear you, activate your emergency alarm.” 18:54:57 Engine 13/Portable 2: “1300 to Scope 1, drop one window down, and open that window up. You’ve got men inside.” 18:55:23 Car 3: “…Activate your PASS emergency.” 18:55:30 Rescue 1/Portable 3: “They are activated.” (This is the final audible transmission from the Rescue 1 crew.)USFA-TR-134/December 1999 43 18:55:32 Car 3: “Okay, Ladder 1, Engine 3, Ladder 2, they have activated their emergency alarms up there.” 18:57:41 Engine 3/Portable 1: “Chief, we made it all the way to the top, and we hear no alarms on this side of the building.” 19:03:35 Ladder 2/Portable 1: “Chief, are all people accounted for, out of the building? Ladder 2 and Engine 3 are on the fifth floor, we’re still searching.” 19:04:50 Ladder 2/Portable 2 to Portable 1: “What is your location on the fifth floor?” 19:04:53 Ladder 2/Portable 1: “Good question.” 19:05:14 Ladder 2/Portable 1: “I believe that we are in the front part of the building.” 19:08:28 Car 2: “Do you need relief for Engine 3 and Ladder 2?” 19:08:34 Car 3: “Engine 3 is already exiting.” 19:08:53 Ladder 2/Portable 1: “Chief, get a company up the stairwell to the fifth floor. We can’t locate the stairwell, or give us some sign as to which way to go. We are running low on air, and we want to get out of…” 19:12:06 Fire Investigation Unit: “Chief, we are going to have to get another line in the back. A 1-3/4, we have another fire in the ceiling here.” 19:12:35 Ladder 2/Portable 1: “Send somebody up the stairwell to the fifth floor. Stand in the doorway and start singing.” 19:12:45 Car 3: “Slow it down a little.” 19:12:47 Ladder 2/Portable 1: “Get somebody up in the stairwell to the fifth floor. Have them stand in the opening and yell. We can’t find the door back to the stairs.” 19:12:59 Car 2: “Repeat the message, we can’t understand you. Repeat the message clearly.” 19:13:05 Engine 3/Portable 1: “Engine 3 has the message. Chief, we are going to the fifth floor, to the stairway, to lead them.” 19:15:18 Car 2: “Command to all companies, close down operations, we want to give a yell in there, you see if we can hear from them. Close down operations.” 19:15:56 Ladder 2/Portable 1: “Ladder 2 to Command we’re done…” (This was the final transmission from the four member search team.) 19:16:17 Car 1: “Get the building owner down here immediately.” (The Department Chief has arrived on the scene.) 19:17:37 Ladder 5/Portable 1: “We’re on the roof at the stairwell.” 19:17:42 Car 2: “Are you going to make any holes in the roof whatsoever?” 19:17:51 Ladder 5/Portable 1: “Negative. Chief, everything is coming out the stairwell and the elevator shaft.” 19:18:09 Engine 3/Portable 1: “…I’m in the doorway on the fifth floor.”44 U.S. Fire Administration/Technical Report Series 19:18:19 Ladder 4/Portable 1: “Command, they’re calling Ladder 4. We are not…we are on the third floor.” 19 :19:13 Ladder 4/Portable 1: “It was Ladder 2, not Ladder 4.” 19:20:14 Engine 15/Portable 1: “Change that 2-1/2 line for Engine 15…” 19:20:27 Car 2: “Command, all companies stay by the stairwell.” 19:20:50 Car 4: “Deputy, be advised Millbury Fire is responding the scene, they do not have a radio, they are bringing a thermal imager, Okay.” 19:21:40 Engine 16/Portable 1: “Command we have fire coming out the second floor in the front.” 19:23:31 Car 1 to Car 2: “…how you doing with that line? We are kind of pushing back in on you. Do you want it backed off, do you want it backed off?” 19:23:41 Rescue 1/Portable 7: “Engine 12 charge that 2-1/2…” 19:26:57 Car 1: “Give me a fifth alarm on this right now, a fifth alarm.” 19:28:45 Fire Alarm: “Car 1, it’s going to be Engine 5, Engine 9, and Ladder 6 are your fifth alarm companies.” 19:28:53 Car 1: “10-4, tell them they are to be the RIT Team, and they are to assemble and meet up with Car 200 …on the left side of the building.” 19:31:47 Car 1: “…I’ve got a thermal imager down here from Millbury, and I want to send it in. I am bringing down an aerial scope on this side of the building, on the east side of the building. And we want to give a couple of guys down here to take in with them.” 19:32:07 Car 3: “Okay, nobody in without lifelines, though. We want lifelines on everybody. We have ropes tied off upstairs.” 19:35:54 Engine 7/Portable 1: “We need some guys in the stairway on B side off the loading dock, there are two 2-1/2’s up there, and a lot of fire, and three men up there.” 19:36:06 Safety Officer: “…All fourth alarm off duty men meet behind the Rescue.” 19:37:17 Safety Officer: “All companies, REHAB is behind Ladder 5 in front of the building, REHAB is behind Ladder 5.” 19:38:32 Car 3: “Ladder 2, Lt. S.” 19:38:39 Car 3: “What’s your location?” 19:40:35 Car 1: “…I don’t want any individuals going in this building unless they are teamed up with two or three people.” 19:43:06 Car 1: “…I have Engine 8 going into operation on the diner side of the building. The D side of the building.” 19:44:10 Rescue 1/Portable 7: “We are never going to make the fifth floor from the stairway.”USFA-TR-134/December 1999 45 19:44:13 Car 3: “Okay, don’t risk it. Don’t risk it, back down, Back down.” 19:44:20 Rescue 1/Portable 7: “…we can only make four floors.” 19:45:00 Scope 2/Portable 2: “The Millbury guys went in by the stairway. They could not make it at by the window.” 19:48:04 Engine 9/Portable 2: “Engine 8 Group 4 the structural integrity of the building has been compromised. Keep everybody away from the building.” 19:48:17 Engine 9/Portable 2: “The 290 side of the building is in danger of collapse.” 19:49:08 Car 4: “…where is Millbury with that thermal imager…We are on the back stairs here….It is very hot on the third floor, we’re trying to make headway, we could really use…” 19:49:47 Engine 8/Portable 2: “We are coming up with the thermal imager now.” 19:51:04 Fire Investigations: “…the fire just vented through the roof on the C side. Heavy, heavy fire vented through the roof.” 19:53:12 Ladder 1/Portable 1: “There is a crack in the wall. Right over the ladder in front on Ladder 4. At the top floor, it is about a 6 foot crack.” 19:53:50 Car 4: “Chief, be advised the imager has stopped working.” 19:54:02 Car 4: “We can not make it to that floor. There is to much heat…we are going to need lines up there again.” 19:56:14 Car 3: “We’re backing out the back. We got a report that the walls were weakening in the front. We are trying to back the lines out, so we can use them. It is through the roof in the back, and its going like hell right up the side. I think we are almost ready to go to an exterior attack.” 19:58:10 Car 3: “Command to all Companies evacuate the building…sound the evacuation signal…evacuate the building.”
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