[Scan-DC] Fairfax 2nd alarm gas-fed fire

[Andrew Clegg]

Thanks Jeff. Here's a news article about the fire:

http://www.insidenova.com/isn/news/local/article/250_evacuated_following_underground_fire/37919/


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Krauss" <jeff at krauss.ws>
To: "Andrew Clegg" <w4jecom at w4je.com>; <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Fairfax 2nd alarm gas-fed fire


> Andy,
> Yes, at least half the resources came from Arlington, maybe more.
> The fire was exterior, but now the ongoing evacuation is the big story.
> Several hundred senior citizens, ambulance buses from both Fairfax and 
> Arlington on the scene, plus lots of manpower.
> Still radio traffic on 4H operations, 4I command and 4J welfare.
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> Jeff
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> At 10:32 AM 6/22/2009, Andrew Clegg wrote:
>>Jeff,
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>>Was this possibly a shared call with Arlington? I was out and about this 
>>morning (without my scanner -- gasp!), and I found that Upton Hill Park in 
>>Arlington was closed off by police, and I saw Red Cross and 
>>command-post-type vehicles entering the park (which is not visible from 
>>surrounding streets). I walked up to the park on a bike trail, and found 
>>about a hundred senior citizens being sheltered there, with police taking 
>>names to get a count of who had evacuated safely. It appears that they 
>>came from a neighboring apartment building or senior center. I did not see 
>>any type of significant fire in any of the surrounding buildings, but I 
>>did not want to hang out there asking questions and risk getting in the 
>>way of PD. This was about a half hour ago (10:00 am).
>>
>>Andy
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>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Krauss" <jeff at krauss.ws>
>>To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
>>Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 8:28 AM
>>Subject: [Scan-DC] Fairfax 2nd alarm gas-fed fire
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>>>Fairfax FD working a 2nd alarm gas-fed fire in a high-rise apartment.
>>>2nd alarm requested after an explosion.
>>>Operations on 4H, command channel 4I.
>>>20 minutes into incident at 8:27 am.
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