Two alarms were struck on English Oaks Drive on Tuesday night, March 11, 2025. Dispatched 10:40 p.m. for 6560 English Oaks Drive. Four-unit, two-story townhouse building with 5,600-ish square-feet. Built 1984, from tax records.
First alarm with E4 E16 E15 E18 L4 L16 B5 B4 R16 ISO14. Address corrected to 6535 by dispatch. Upgraded to working fire while units were en route, due to multiple callers, which added DC1 A28 B3 INV1.
Engine 4 first-arriving and reporting two buildings involved. They brought their own supply line. Second alarm immediately requested by company officer. Heavy fire in the front of the 6533 unit, also heavy fire found in the attic.
Plus fire on the left side (bravo) exposure, in a second building, the end unit of a six-unit complex. Address 6529. Fire also extended to the right side (delta) exposure, to the adjoining 6535 unit.
Second alarm added E17 E19 E23 L23 L6 Rehab 12. Staging for incoming units on Bent Creek Road.
After exterior attack, crews took their line(s) inside. Also some later transitional work. Ladder 4 also raised and readied, though no aerial stream was used. In the attic, one crew breached a fire wall between the 6535 and 6533 units to attack the fire.
Engine 18 established a secondary water supply. Medical monitor and rehab was established in the front of the structure (alpha). Decon was at Engine 4.
Command held one engine and one ladder from the second alarm companies and released the others, about 20 minutes into the incident.
Controlled at 11:05 p.m. One firefighter with minor injury, to hand, transported for treatment. Four residents displaced.
Crews were on scene from several hours. Incident closed per PulsePoint at 5:12 a.m.
Run Card
First alarm: E4 E16 E15 E18 L4 L16 B5 B4 R16 ISO14
Working fire: DC1 A28 B3 INV1
Second alarm: E17 E19 E23 L23 L6 Rehab 12
Special call: E23 (again), E28 for fire watch.
Plus assistant chief on call (training)
Medical: M41 M43 M48 M60 EMS84 D3 D6. (Truck 1 was also dispatched, but cancelled.)
