Pre-arrival video: Three-alarm house fire in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
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We have come to expect early video of Eastern Pennsylvania fires from our regular contributor Bill Rohrer at NewsWorking.org. But this time the lead video goes to a neighbor who was rolling three minutes before the first fire engine arrived at 135 North New Street in the Borough of Nazareth, Pennsylvania. The three-alarm fire occurred Monday afternoon.
The neighbor shot about 12 minutes of video as the firefighters fought the fire and 90 degree temperatures. Below is Bill's later video and video from Lehigh Valley's Bravest.
Here's some of what Bill wrote about the fire that started in the garage and quickly spread:
Command arrives at the scene and has the garage, 2 cars and now the dwelling well-involved. He calls Hecktown and Upper Nazareth (52 & 54) to fill-out his first alarm. He also requested his company to hit the road as soon as possible with the first piece of apparatus. Ladder 50 was first to arrive.
As the fire progressed into the single-family-dwelling, command requested more companies.
Command requested additional companies throughout the duration of the incident for manpower as some firefighters were suffering from heat exhaustion.
One firefighter went down in the rear yard, bringing in more EMS units to stand-by. Firefighters worked the interior second-floor hitting the fire in the roof area. Numerous times, command ordered the evacuation tones. Once it was safe, crews would re-enter the dwelling to make interior progress.
