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Three Alarm Fire, Appleton St, off Willow
Woken by fire trucks at 2:30 in the morning. It's a three alarm fire on Appleton St. off Willow. Contained to the one house, plus a live wire down. From what I could glean from the scanner, everyone seems to have gotten out of the house, but some people were taken to the hospital.
Now (3:15am) at the one-hour mark, it's still an active fire, but fire command on site has declined help from an additional company, and are saying "condition the same, companies making progress."
At 3:20am calling for a "20-foot collapse zone around the building. Slate shingles coming off the room, eminent [immanent?] danger of the chimney collapsing."
(does that mean they evacuate the houses on either side, I would assume?)
From my house I can see that Willow is shut down, and the bike path, so expect a similar 4 block radius.
Now (3:15am) at the one-hour mark, it's still an active fire, but fire command on site has declined help from an additional company, and are saying "condition the same, companies making progress."
At 3:20am calling for a "20-foot collapse zone around the building. Slate shingles coming off the room, eminent [immanent?] danger of the chimney collapsing."
(does that mean they evacuate the houses on either side, I would assume?)
From my house I can see that Willow is shut down, and the bike path, so expect a similar 4 block radius.
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At 4:02am they're calling it "substantially knocked down" and are starting to recall some of the fire companies.
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Around 4:20 I saw the fire department detaching a hose from a hydrant. I still saw steam or smoke rising from the house, but I assume they know what they're doing.
I also saw about five people sitting in a police bus - one of whom I recognized as a displaced resident who I'd spoken to briefly about an hour earlier.
There are a couple of media vans here now, it looks like channels 4 and 5, so presumably we'll get some details tomorrow.
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