10.09.11 - 4th Alarm FATAL Fire; Whitehall, PA

07:34 hrs - Lehigh County Fire Radio dispatched Engines 5, 4, 14, Ladder 6 and Rescue 8 to 5834 Coplay Road (The Blue Fox Hotel and Bar) for a structural fire with people trapped.
Assistant Chief Kunkle (4A) arrives and transmits heavy smoke showing from a 3-story mixed use (Bar 1st fl / rooms on the top floors). Police were already on the scene assisting in the rescues. People were trapped and jumping onto roofs to escape the smoke.
Rescue Engine 5 (4041) arrives first and stretches to the second floor to conduct a search. The searches come up negative and the crew doesn't find the fire.
A second crews searches the first floor to find a fire in the kitchen of the bar that occupies the first floor.
Two hand lines are stretched to the 3rd floor via the stairs.
Truck 6 went to the roof on side 3 to assist in getting a victim down off the roof who appeared to be injured from a fall.
The fire burned out of control for over 4 hours. 6 residents and 2 firefighters were transported to area hospitals. One resident was dead on arrival.