Fire in trash chute at Page Towers Apartments, Cincinnati OH
Fire & ArsonA fire broke out in the trash chute between the second and third floors of Page Towers Apartments at 619 Central Avenue. Sprinklers extinguished the fire. Smoke was reported on multiple floors, but the fire was contained and under control. Firefighters checked the building and confirmed the situation was safe.
Audio|Source: Cincinnati Fire
07:39
Transcript:
00:00
Companies respond on fire ground B-boy 2 for a still alarm at Page Tower Apartments, near Central Avenue on the second floor, between West 6 and West 7th.
00:10
Automotive securities, state search smoke coming from the second floor.
00:15
Tension 14.
00:18
Engine 3, Engine 29, Truck 3, Truck 29, RAT 17, Heavy Rescue 14, Medic 17, District 1, and S-O-2.
00:29
No response, Fireground, B-Boy 2 for a still alarm, P.H Tower's Department, near Central Avenue on the second floor.
00:36
Gone in My Security,
00:39
reporting smoke on the second floor.
00:42
Fireground B2, RAT 17, please acknowledge.
00:54
Resckey, 14, one on scene, 13 is starting a high rise.
00:58
Occup, Sean, we'll have command.
01:08
Right, 13, 13th Street.
01:11
Okay.
01:28
Company is responding to Page Towers.
01:31
Getting an update is possibly in a trash can on the second floor.
01:37
And it's responding to Central Avenue that is possibly a trash can on the second floor.
01:51
Four chains are clear.
01:55
Just for one unseen, I'll be Central Command Hall.
02:00
That's clear. Just required.
02:01
Thanks.
02:06
Medi-35 respond.
02:08
Clifton Court Hall, UC, 2,800, Clifton Avenue, Cross Street, up.
02:12
Clifton Court,
02:14
responding for a 17-year-old female intoxicated, fireground is A-2.
02:18
Engine 34, Medi-35 respond, Clifton Court Hall, UC,
02:22
17-year-old female intoxicated.
02:25
She should be outside if you're fireground as A2.2.
02:29
919, we're coming down with that run with 34s.
02:34
919, that's clear. Maynac 35, you can disregard.
02:44
Go ahead now.
02:56
Command is going to be set up on the AZ corner across the street.
03:05
Engine 29 is going on line off of engine 3.
03:10
That's right.
03:14
Rescue 14B,
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4-1-2, 2.
03:18
Checking along, there's the garbage chute.
03:23
That's right.
03:27
We have two-fourteen B.
03:36
We've got sprinklers going off in the shoot 1142.
03:43
Commanded Truck 3, see if we can find out how to get to the riser fast. Right, go ahead.
03:57
That's clear.
03:58
We're on the second floor now. We're on the second floor now.
04:00
We'll head down.
04:09
I have 29s on 2, we've got a light base up here.
04:27
CO14B,
04:28
the fire must have been between two and three.
04:31
There's no sprinklers, above two going off in the garbage chute, just two and below.
04:36
There is smoke on three.
04:41
We've got to report on oxygen, and there's some on the night smoke.
04:47
Can you repeat that last transition.
05:00
Do you think we have this confined to that trash defector shoot and it is out?
05:14
FU14 to command.
05:16
It appears that the case.
05:18
There's no active smoke in the garbage chute, but every floor looks like it has smoke on it because of it.
05:27
The sprinklers are only going off on floor two and below.
05:32
There's nothing spraying down from above, but there's also no active smoke.
05:36
We're on Ford 1 to 5.
05:40
That's Claire.
05:46
Truck 29. If here's the fire was in a trash chute on two,
05:52
it looks good around in a trachute, so we just did get this sprinkler shutdown.
05:59
That's clear. Chuck Creek. Can you investigate how to get that shut down?
06:06
929, did you send your feet group down to the base of the trash chute unless it shows nothing at the base of that?
06:16
Rescue 14A, we're at the base of the compact,
06:20
right on the Bravo side.
06:21
We've got the bags that have burned up dugout.
06:25
It's all in the trash compactory.
06:27
It's all down here.
06:30
It's not much more of a hazard.
06:34
That's clarinet.
06:35
Fire is out within its trash chute.
06:41
Doctorate to Command.
06:43
We're working on getting into the sprinkler room right now.
06:49
That's clear.
06:52
Trump 29, we're going to report from a resident side that they got moderate smoke on 9. We probably need to send somebody up there to check on residents.
07:03
That's clear.
07:14
Heavy Rescue 14B, where you're working away updoor time.
07:24
14B, we're up the floor six.
07:27
There's light smoke on every floor.
07:30
We came back down to two and tried to get this sprinkler head off.
07:34
There's a standpipe when sprinkler controls in the stairwell we're in near the garbage chute.
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Near Central Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45202
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