Concord Mass Feb 8 2010

I happened to catch Concord Mass on 483.5375 as their 3 alarm fire

started yesterday.

1312 - 2nd alarm transmitted / paged

1313 - "Eng 4 enroute"

1313 - Eng 3 & Ldr 1 at scene - "heavy fire showing"

1314 - Eng 3 tells Eng 4 to establish a water supply

1316 - "Engine 3 charge the line when you are ready"

1316 - "Engine 3 charge the line'

1316 - "Engine 3 Pump calling Engine 4"

1316 - "Eng 3 charge the line" - someone in a mask

1316 - "Engine 4 amswering Engine 3" - siren in background

1317 - Acton Engine 22 signs on - Fire Alarm tells Eng 22 that

Patridge Lane is off Bedford St north of Concord Center

1317 - Ladder 1 call Command

1317 - Eng 3 Pump calls Eng 4

1318 - "Eng 4 answering Eng 3"

1318 - Eng 4 to Fire Alarm - Eng 4 at scene and laying line up from

bottom of the street

1318 - Ladder 1 tells Eng 4 to forget the line - "we have a hydrant in

front of the house"

1318 - Bedford Eng 3 signs on

1318 - someone loud in mask

1318 - someone loud in mask - maybe talking about water

1319 - Maynard Ladder 1 signs on

1319 - guy in mask again - too loud - something about water - possibly

a speaker mike rubbing against a speaker port on a mask

1319 - Eng 3 Pump asks for the message to be repeated 3 times

1321 - "line to rear" - too loud in mask - "I got a house key"

1321 - Bedford Eng 3 at scene and requests orders

1322 - "Artie charge the green line"

1324 - Acton Eng 22 calls Command

1324 - Ldr 1 open roof - above garage? - main house vs garage

1325 - "Command to Fire Alarm - call the Chief - I am not sure if he

will get this on his pager"

1325 - Fire Alarm to Command - "he is responding"

1325 - "400 calling Command" - 2 or 3 messages - little feedback -

something about front door

all messages were coming thru the repeater without static

1327 - "Command to Ldr 1, you areon the edge of the roof, step back"

1327 - 400 has fire in the attic and needs the roof opened

1329 - "Eng 3 to 400, where are you?"

1329 - 400 says he is on the 2nd floor

1329 - 300 tells 400 they are reentering via the kitchen

1330 - "Eng 3 to Fire Alarm"

1330 - "400 to Command" - we have heavy heat on floor 2 - what is the

roof situation?

1330 - "Command to Fire Alarm, third alarm please"

1330 - Maynard Ladder 1 at scene and requests orders

1330 - A1 signs on

1330 - need roof opoened Bravo side per 400 (400 is Eng 4 officer)

1330 - "3 Pump to Command, do you want the Maynard Ladder to set up

where I am standing?"

1331 - "Car 1 at scene" - Chief

1332 - Acton Ladder will open the roof over the garage - gained access

to attic - heavy fire

1332 - 22 do you want water?

1332 - "please open the roof" loud and clear

1332 - "you are all broken up, please say again"

1332 - "A1 at scene" - over 400 - double

1333 - "Engine 4 pull out, report to Command"

1333 - "22 ready for water?"

1334 - Acton L28 to cover station ???

1335 - Engine 7 responding

1337 - Acton Ladder to garage roof

1337 - "22 here comes the water"

1337 - Carlisle Eng 4 signs on - open mike briefly ?

1338 - Eng 8 responding

1339 - evacuate the building

1342 - eng 8 at scene

1344 - Acton Ladder 28 at scene - come up around the loop

1347 - Stow is covering Station 2 - there is 1 Concord private there -

Lexington is coming to HQ to cover

1351 - setting up for defensive ops - do not start defensive ops yet -

juest set up for defensive ops (per Command / Chief)

(1308 was the original tie of the call / time out - may not be

synchronized exactly with my times - maybe off by 1 minute)

1354 - "we have a clear shot at the attic" - someone in a mask

1355 - rear half is going - evacuate the bld

1357 - accountability check - Eng 22 OK - Sudbury Eng 3 at rear -

couple other officers said they were OK

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I know they hit the 2nd alam before Eng 3 reached the scene - it was

probably on his orders - he probably saw the smoke when on Bedford St

Concord has 2 stations - I think they typically have 3 people at Sta

2, and 5 people at Sta 1 - Sta 2 has Eng 4 - Sta 1 has Eng 3, Ladder

1, and A1 (ambulance)

Offduty people have pagers or home alert units apparently - A1 E8 E7

would have been staffed by off duty people - Concord has all fulltime

/ career / professional staff - no call men anymore I suspect

I would not have heard any direct coms at the scene because it is too

far from me - but I did not get the impression that anyone was using

direct

I did not hear Hanscom AFB FD nor Lincoln FD - they might have been

4th and 5th closest stations - first due Concord Sta 1 - 2nd due

Concord Sta 2 - 3rd due Bedford FD - something like that