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in a live. Now, I'm Austin Westfall. We want to start off with some breaking news. We are hearing out of Oregon that a small plane is crashed in the Fairview neighborhood. This is in the Portland metro area. our affiliate in the area Fox 12 says according to a statement from the port of Portland the crash happened around 10. a.m. local time near the Troutdale airport you're looking at video from the scene. We just heard from officials moments ago, who Are letting us know what they know so far about this situation. Let's watch. 10:20 this morning, we received calls of black smoke. uh, coming from the area just behind us here. Uh, we received started to receive other calls and uh what happened was there was a small aircraft that was flying over. and, uh, it crashed. at some point. during the crash, it hit a power pole. or powered. uh, causing it to fall over. and so the power lines fell into a uh, field of some sort and started a brush fire. Uh, that fire. Luckily was kind of adjacent to swampy area, so it didn't really spread uh, the impact of the, uh, aircraft the aircraft crashed into a building of town homes and that structure also caught fire. Um, I don't know it. It the exact uh, uh. I don't know if that fire is still active. Uh, we have we'll have aggression Chief Lewis that will uh, be able to give you guys a a, a brief. briefing on that. So, Correctional fire. Uh, is the lead Agency for the fire Portland, Fire and rescue also supported them FAA will be the uh, invest investigating Agency on the airplane crash. and, that's really all I know at this point. I don't know. I know that. there there are injuries. I don't know how many, I don't know how severe and I don't know about. fatalities. How do you know how many people are in the plane? We don't. We don't. and where it took off from. I don't have that information and all that information will come from the FAA. um, we haven't received that information, from the FAA, so, it's a built-in of town halls. Uh, uh, it it appears to be multiple units in the town hall or in the the building. Home units in the building. Uh, that caught fire. What about the people that have? so, The area was evacuated the residents in the adjoining structures were asked to evacuate. Um, we have uh, Trump Intervention Program volunteers that are here. uh helping those people navigate through. um being displaced. Um and I think we're trying to get uh some emergency services lined up for these people. Do we know how many people may? I don't have that number. know, you know how many people are without power right now? I don't. uh, I don't know that number I know that both PGE and uh, uh, for General have uh, Or I should say. I know that Porter General Electric has been uh notified. I don't know what they're status is. so, for us, we MCSO is just here really securing the scene. Uh, it's uh not a crime scene. Um, we are here to support fire and FAA. Uh, we have detectives here ready to help the FAA when they arrive to investigate. uh, this crash. um, my understanding is that there's uh, understanding is that there's, uh, Somewhat large degree field. and so right now we're collecting um, pieces, parts of the airplane, and all those things will be collected for the FAA to investigate Where is the airplane? Is it in the field or is it in somebody's house? Or the airplane landed on? or crashed into 1 of these town home structures? Some of it is, yes, like I said, the plane hit a power pole and so the impact of that appears to have uh caused some of the plain pieces. Come off. Uh, so there's like I said, there's really kind of 2 crash areas. so to speak. and debris kind of uh all around. and they just want to clarify this like cluster of town. They're connected. Yes. go ahead. and for the people evacuated. Are you guys going to help them? find support? yeah, so the tip volunteers are here. The tip volunteers. uh, Are very well connected to services. Um, we're also working on getting um uh Emergency Services. out here. Uh, I believe uh, from either the county or the city. Is SAA on its way or is it already on scene if it's not on it? It's not here. How long it's going to take for them to get here. uh, all very good questions. uh, they have not communicated any of those things to us at this point. That also, we don't, we don't really know for sure. and uh, like I said, that the FAA would have and again, I'll pull u some video. of what the scene looked like moments ago. were digesting this in real time. some sort of small plane crash into a neighborhood. Here's what emergency officials had to say It continues. reported a column of smoke. In this direction, west of the airport. Arriving, Crews found heavy fire involvement. in a row of 3 story. Condo units. So we had initially 2. And then later 3 and 4 units. involved in the fire. Initial report was possibly a plane crashed into those apartments. We've been able to confirm that that has happened. We've been in touch with. the NTSB also, Seattle office. and they'll be sending a team to the scene. Our fire investigators are there. Now they're working. hand in hand with mult County, Sheriff's Office, the Rope off the area protect any evidence that may be found. Additionally, we have 2. transmission lines from Portland General Electric that are down. uh, Nobody is confirmed that they were struck by the aircraft. that's an assumption that's being made. We just don't have that. information confirmed yet. initial reports says that there were 2 occupants on the airplane. and we're missing 1. presidential occupant from the condo unit. The uh, the fire went to 5 alarms. so, uh, generally speaking that's uh, each alarm has 4 engines and a ladder crop. So when we go to 5 alarms, we're talking almost 20 engines ladder trucks. 5 or 6, Chief officers and a bunch of ancillary equipment. uh, rehab units. and Air Supply, and those type of things. So, um, it's more than today, It's not as hot as it's going to be later this afternoon. But when you're wearing, roughly 75 pounds of Fire protective clothing, that's made to insulate you from. uh the weather, it gets very hot very fast. So a lot of the crews we needed were so we can uh, rest and Rehab not overheat our firefighters sure we have enough resources for them on the sink today. You said 4 initially. there was 2 and spread the 34 I think now it's going to displace 5 families. It may be a 6 1. They're going to look that over. See whether or not they can return to their presence this evening. uh, 2 people have been treated by AMR Medics, There's 2 of those on the scene along with namr supervisor uh, the first 1 was uh, treated and refused transport, the second was just being looked at when I walked up here to visit with you, so I don't know the outcome. and how is Generally a residential fire in the 3-story, uh, condo unit for us is you go in the front door, you go up the stairs and you put out the fire wherever it's at, this particular fire was well involved. Uh, there's collapsed in the initial airplane strike. so you couldn't get into the units. So a lot of it was uh, the units on the either side. we were able to attack from inside but the unit for the most impact was was a defensive fire for that unit from outside. overhead water from the lavender truck. No information on pets. so, when I By the time I arrived there it didn't look like it was a fuel fed fire. but certainly on the initial dispatch and smoke column rising from the from the look like there, could have been hydrocarbons involved and how important is it to have support? During. Situations like this. Well, uh, Certainly. uh, Gresham is okay for taking care of Gresham. For 1 alarm beyond that. We need our uh our partners. and throughout the region, whether it's uh, Clackamus or Qualcomm value Portland. Aggression we use automatic vehicle locator. So we get the closest appropriate piece. no matter whose fire it is or where it's located. So, there were Portland Crews on the initial dispatch, and then, by the highwind, second alarm, we had committed everybody from Gresham, some more from Portland, we have an engine from Vancouver here and I've been progressing fire 22 years now. first time we've had a grand Vancouver engine in the in the 1 of the Cities now. It's important to note that we're in the city of Fairview. region, Fire department provides Fire Protection. through contract with Fairview How long did it take you guys? I don't have that information available to me, uh, engine 74 is like right over there. So couldn't have been very long. I do not have that information. Somebody might, I don't know. any sort of warning that trouble. The initial report from Troutdale Tower was report was no made a no call for emergency. Uh, my knowledge. We have not found any of the victims. Power lines. Fortunately, for us, the lines. That are in the right away for quick transmission lines. So there's not like there's residential or businesses underneath them. now. did spark a little bit of a wildfires from grass fire in that area when they fell. but it wasn't really a big threat to, uh, firefighters or the community because that's an isolated area to begin with. No, report Firefighters. Thank you. L, e w, i s. 2 t. Reported. Columnist smoke. Okay. so we wanted to bring you a little bit of what we know so far about this developing situation. in Fairview Oregon again Fox 12 our affiliate in the region saying that a small plane has crashed into a residential neighborhood. near Troutdale airport. We'll bring you updates on live now. as this story progresses, let's take a break.