Fire alarm triggers flooding in Chelsea apartment, Chelsea MA
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire department responded to the Webster Block Apartments near Webster Ave in Chelsea due to a fire alarm and sprinkler activation. They found flooding on the third floor caused by a sprinkler discharge. The flooding affected an apartment, with water coming through an HVAC return and filling the unit. Fire crews are working to isolate the source of the water and reduce damage.
Audio|Heard on: Chelsea Fire Dispatch
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06:17
Transcript:
00:00
Command on Ladder 2.
00:03
Ladder 2.
00:06
Ladder 2, your location?
00:10
We're in the garage right now.
00:12
You stay stair 2.
00:15
That's the front room to stay at the stair 2.
00:28
Command the Ladders 2, yeah, it's going to be a water flow in CS2.
00:33
It's showing that it's a third floor north.
00:40
We're working our way up to the third floor, I know.
00:44
I want to commit.
00:47
Command answer.
00:49
I can hear the water gong sounded in the rear.
01:00
Thank you. May I answer.
01:05
Yeah,
01:08
we have a pool of water in front of door 327.
01:15
Shining law and figure out where it's coming from.
01:22
Do you see if you're all if it's in that is it in that apartment?
01:28
So investigated.
01:34
That's in the apartment 330.
01:39
We got a sprinkler activation.
01:42
Water coming through the HVAT return.
01:49
Do you have a cause?
01:53
Negative.
01:54
I can hear it in the walls.
01:57
Looks like the gas burner was shut off.
02:00
I'm trying to find the occupant.
02:02
It's the whole apartment flooding out right now.
02:07
Okay.
02:11
See you.
02:13
Can we have to file one?
02:16
Out one.
02:20
Captain, grab you guys, move up there with your squeekeys, try to isolate this and then see what's not in the water.
02:31
Do you want us to go in the rear?
02:36
Sure, yeah, just go in the rear, work your way up to sail well, see if you can isolate that floor.
02:42
And I'll try to stay about clearing this up.
02:45
Thank you.
02:48
Latitude of Command, well, we're going to need a meter up here.
02:53
Again, Named is up here.
02:55
It's in the wall coming out of the return.
02:58
We're going to try to isolate it.
03:04
Okay, Steve.
03:06
Commander Ladis 200.
03:10
200 has the message.
03:17
Let's have command to file up.
03:20
Answer and command.
03:22
Answer, command.
03:30
That's going to have sprinkler activation in the walls of the apartment 330.
03:34
If you're notified maintenance and we'll most likely need ISD on the team.
03:42
Okay, you're reporting a sprinkler activation in the walls of 330 to notify management and you need a member from ISC.
03:49
I have that 917.
03:54
Glad to do the command.
03:57
Okay, that's right.
03:59
I'm getting some heat signatures in a wall about 90 degrees.
04:03
Right around,
04:04
it looks like maybe that's where the boiler was or the gas burner.
04:13
You see, who are the meters on their way up.
04:16
If you need to open it up, just open it up.
04:20
All right, too has it.
04:26
Let's do this man.
04:29
Yeah,
04:32
we got the wall or the access channel open.
04:35
Finger activation above the furnace unit, an apartment, 230.
04:41
I just feel the power to the apartment.
04:47
Breezee, how's the boiler? Is it shut down?
04:52
Yeah, let's shut down what we got here.
04:54
So maybe the attendants shut it down.
04:57
But when I got in here, the gas burner is switched off.
05:02
All right, you don't need her up there, correct? I have her right here.
05:07
No, we're good.
05:09
We're just going to try to isolate it.
05:15
Go ahead.
05:18
Okay.
05:20
Step, we're on the way up there.
05:22
I give a little guys a hand.
05:27
Appreciate.
05:33
Guys, just so you know, I just signed with the alarm, still going.
05:41
Let's do the command.
05:45
Fair answer.
05:48
Yeah, we're having a hard time trying to find the ice leaking valve for this sprinkled head above the furnace.
05:53
I just checking the stairwell, a cage into the apartment, there's no shutoff.
05:58
We're going to search further.
06:03
Let's see. This is water flow in tier 2.
06:06
That's probably where the flow switch is.
06:13
All right, can you have a, we'll go, I'll get back a nice day over there.
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Chelsea, MA 02150
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