[Scan-DC] Heavy fire in Montgo

[Doug Kitchener]

Me either, so I "called a friend" - what it turned out to be was a clutter / hoarding situation that apparently they were somehow aware of... trying to find out how they (dispatch) knew about it.  I was wondering if they meant "a lot of fire", which seemed odd because there was no Rapid Intervention dispatch, and usually in the case of a large fire they'd just say that, lots of calls, etc.  This one turned out to be an overloaded oil burner (initial dispatch also said "heavy black smoke from the roof).

Interesting, because they gave that "heavy fire load" warning at least twice; once at initial dispatch and once in the second vocal on the operations talkgroup as the units were headed to the scene.

DK



----- Original Message -----
> From: Ed Tobias <edtobias at comcast.net>
> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Cc: 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:01 PM
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Heavy fire in Montgo
> 
> Box for a house fire in Olney/Sandy Spring
> 18816 Rolling Acres Way 
> 
> Units advised by dispatcher: "use extreme caution.....very heavy fire 
> load."
> 
> Never heard that before.