Fire personnel investigate odor inside school building, Arapahoe County CO
Fire & ArsonFire personnel investigated an odor reported inside a school building. They checked classrooms, the HVAC systems, and the surrounding neighborhood for smoke or burning smells but found no signs of fire inside the school. The odor may have originated from nearby houses.
Audio|Source: Douglas County Fire Department 800Mhz
05:23
Transcript:
00:00
Command Safety 151, I'm directly behind you.
00:06
Command copy, Safety 151.
00:09
Come to the vehicle here, I'm just going to bounce something off you.
00:17
Finters Folk, you said it took a reset because they still got strobes out here.
00:24
They affirm is saying all systems normal.
00:31
Let me end quote with someone.
00:33
1.501.
00:37
Okay,
00:39
we're going to leave this classroom in your hands to a couple others.
00:44
Also going to take a look in that classroom where the student was reported off on the ceiling if you got that passed on to you.
00:50
Just to make sure nothing is coming from that.
00:57
Grant copies.
00:58
I also have Engine 153, their level 1, not a hydrant out here.
01:01
Do you need any assistance inside?
01:05
Yeah, I can take them inside.
01:07
I'm going to send one of the police officers to them and bring them back to you.
01:11
And then I could use a 360 safeties available.
01:17
Yeah, safety is working on a driving 360 right now, and he's also going to check to see if there's anything outside that might be getting inside.
01:28
Okay.
01:34
153 command.
01:37
Yeah, Chief, I'm direct. We'll walk up that way.
01:41
Yeah,
01:43
we'll just leave your engineer in the engine there, and that way if we do have to put hose on the ground, he's ready to go.
01:49
Corrections, she's ready to go, and then we'll just have your crew meet up with 0.151.
01:57
High companies, we're on the way.
02:03
Quint 151, Bravo. Quentin, 151,
02:10
Bravo.
02:13
Okay, so it looks and smells like all the HVAC systems are fine up here.
02:20
I did get a pretty good odor for a minute there and then it dissipated. I'm wondering if there's not something being burned up in these houses behind us and it just keeps coming this way every so often.
02:41
Can you have the on-call bureau call me?
02:44
Paper.
02:45
Smelling when you guys are smelling that, that might be what's happening.
02:49
We'll see what the safety comes back with.
02:51
If you're down up there, you can come down.
02:54
Got to be making my way out.
03:09
We checked three other classrooms.
03:13
We've got no odor.
03:14
We checked above the drop ceiling with no smoke, no additional odor.
03:20
The only recommendation I gave to the principal was to see if they could call the HVAC to run in the room that we're in now, the room, just to see if we can recreate the odor.
03:35
Makeup is you're working on getting the age back to kick on so if you can recreate the odor. Safety is going to go to the east and see if there's anything in the neighborhood up there. He wasn't smelling anything down low when your Bravo was smelling it up high. So maybe it is coming from the neighborhood somewhere.
04:04
Command safety, face-to-face with Engine 153 Engineer, they're not getting any orders at their location either.
04:12
Command,
04:14
Bobby.
04:19
And Quote 151, Alpha.
04:23
Quote 151. According to 151.
04:26
Yeah, when face-to-face with Engine 153, they're going to walk the hallway, just to make sure we don't have something somewhere else.
04:37
For man, copies.
04:38
As you watch your threes walk in the hallways.
04:40
Any other needs inside?
04:44
That's negative.
04:50
Thank you. Man safety.
04:54
Safety.
04:56
Safety.
04:59
Real strong odor in the area of Johnson and South Street.
05:04
I'm going to be out on foot.
05:07
Nothing visible from South Street driving.
05:13
Command, Kathy.
05:15
Johnson and South, you're out on foot.
05:22
151 command, did you get that?
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