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Firefighters are battling a significant apartment fire on Farm Pond Lane in Charlotte, with a "second alarm" called to escalate response efforts. 

Evacuations are underway as crews focus on the most affected side of the building.

Multiple People Displaced After Apartment Building Blaze

Engine 14 to command, same traffic. You got anything else for us? Command post to all second alarm companies who are not committed, you're free to go back in service. Copy that.

Certain units are being released from the scene.

Suitable bag 38, copy 20. Command alarm. Go ahead, command. Notify the on-call EM person to call me on my city cell. We're going to need to stand up a temporary shelter. We've got more than 10 displaced. Alarm. Do that. I'm getting ready to go face-to-face with him. 506.

Efforts are underway to establish a temporary shelter for over ten displaced residents.

Savage to command. Go ahead, cap. Salvage operations complete. The entire building minus the fire room. Copy. Command to all company officers. All company officers, meet me at the command post for a hot wash.

Salvage operations are complete, except for the fire room. Firefighters are gathering for a debrief.

If there's any residents out there that cannot go inside of their apartments and are affected by the fire, just have them 25 me at the leasing office. Thank you.

Displaced residents are advised to meet at the leasing office for assistance, per police.

Ladder 23, chauffeur, command. Last unit for command. Ladder 23, chauffeur. Chief, do we have an RP here yet? Past 465 and Umpark is the office, and I got a lot of people displaced. I was going to see if we could get them inside. I've not been able to locate one. PIO's attempting to. If we need to open up the door to their office, put them inside, go do it. Okay, you have to pre-plan, maybe see if they're... There's a nice box with...

Efforts are underway to find a place for displaced residents to stay temporarily.

Search group to command, all units in fire apartments have been secondaried with negative results. Copy. Command alarm, secondary search complete, negative. 10-4, command, secondary search complete, negative, 553.

Firefighters confirm the secondary search of the apartments is complete with no additional findings.

Command to Ladder 1. Ladder 1, go ahead, command. Captain, gather up all the available companies that you can to start getting that secondary water supply back on the trucks. Copy. And let me know who you grabbed.

Firefighters are working to establish a secondary water supply to support ongoing efforts.

Ladder 1, I'm also giving you Engine 8. Engine 8, Engine 14, and yourself on the secondary search. Ladder 1, copy.

Units are conducting a secondary search of the building.

Ladder 23, Engine 29, going to be doing salvage on the building. Ladder 23 is in charge.

Firefighters are conducting salvage operations to protect property within the building.

Command a fire attack. What do we need as far as ventilation efforts on that floor? Ventilation's looking good. We're just hanging out, waiting on hot spots. Okay.

Firefighters report that ventilation efforts are effective, and they are monitoring for hot spots.

It's going to be at the joint between where the main body of the building meets and has the drop down on the Bravo side. That's where your fire problem is going to be towards the Alpha. 65 to command. Go ahead. We're out, we're far. The area that they're trying to get to, seems like it's got some kind of wood flooring in the attic. We're having a hard time pushing through right there. Fire tag, show me going. You direct on.

Last company, unreadable. Battalion 9 to command. Power kill to breakers. Battalion 9 to fire attack. If you hit this Bravo Charlie, that's most of the visible fire I see on the exterior. I don't know what the command's seeing. 10-4, thank you. You just sprayed about 10 seconds before. That's the only visible fire on the exterior right now.

Firefighters are focusing on the side of the building, where most visible fire is located.

Engine 8, second alarm, working structure fire, 5921 Farnpong Lane, on C, Charlie. Engine 8, second alarm, working structure fire, 5921 Farnpong Lane, on C, Charlie.

A "second alarm" has been called for the apartment fire, indicating increased firefighting efforts. Additional units and equipment are en route to the scene.

Companies responding, 5921 Farm Pond Lane, apartment 302. Caller's saying that the apartment is on fire. She is also advising that she's trying to knock on doors to get everybody out. Engine 3 is going to be a break. You're going to have a private hydrant in front of this address. Cross streets of Four Seasons Lane and Executive Center Drive, 65 still.

Firefighters are responding to an apartment fire, with efforts to evacuate residents underway.

Station reassignment, Engine 4, move to Station 4. Station reassignment, Engine 4, move to Station 4. Battalion 1, Battalion 4, Engines, 65, 3, 23, and 42, Ladder 23, Rescue 11, Safety 1, and Tower 3, Apartments Fire, 5921 Farm...

Firefighters have received a report of an apartment fire.

A 911 caller has reported an unconfirmed incident at 5921 Farm Pond Ln.

Multiple People Displaced After Apartment Building Blaze

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