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FOAM
ENGINE GOES TO WORK ON SUDLEY VACANT |
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March 04, 2007
– Just after 1700 hours this evening, Prince William
County Fire Communications began receiving multiple
reports of a building fire to the rear of the
Chatsworth Park Apartments, in the Sudley section of
the county. At 1709 hours, box alarm 11-11 was
sounded for a house in the area of the apartment
complex, bringing Foam Engine 501 as the third due
engine company. It wasn't long after they hit the
street that a large column could be seen in the
evening sky. Without a good address, the Chief began
diverting companies to several different roads in
the immediate vicinity of the apartments. Foam
Engine 501 arrived first on side A to find a two
story detached home well off, and took their own
hydrant. The crew pulled a 2 1/2 inch line with the
Blitz Fire attached and placed that in service in
the front yard. In less than a minute they had
knocked most of the fire back into the house. The
crew advanced the Blitz Fire and an 1 1/2 line
through the front door of the home. The Blitz Fire
put a good knock on the hallway while the lineman
with the 1 1/2 went to work on the front rooms. In
the meantime, the front porch lit back off and while
the Foam Engine’s crew worked to extinguish that the
2 1/2 with the Blitz Fire burned through. They
ditched the 2 1/2 and found an unmanned 2 inch line
in the front yard. The crew made their way back in
with both lines. As all this was going on, the crew
from Engine 511, who had responded to the dispatched
location and were thus out of position, worked
swiftly to stretch a 3 inch leader line to the rear
of the home through the thick woods bordering the
apartment complex. After extending that with a
hi-rise pack, they also made entry into the home and
assisted the Foam Engine with extinguishing a large
volume of fire on the first floor. As the Foam
Engine’s crew tried to make the second floor, it was
realized that several of the stairs had burned
through. They brought in a 14 foot ladder and made
their own stairwell to the second floor were they
extinguished the rest of the fire. Companies
operated for quite some time after the fire was
called under control, tearing open every part of the
home which was heavily cluttered with junk, most
likely belonging to several squatters. The primary
search, completed by Truck 511, was negative. Though
no official determination has been made as to the
cause of the fire, on lookers reported several
suspicious juveniles fleeing the area directly
behind the home shortly before the fire. An
excellent coordinated effort on the part of all
companies on the box brought this fire under control
quickly, without any civilian or firefighter
injuries. |
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