Battery arc incident at commercial building resolved safely, Colorado Springs CO
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a commercial building in Colorado Springs after a battery arc incident involving forklifts. Employees separated the forklifts safely. There was no fire, no ventilation needed, and no medical issues. The situation was resolved without escalation. The affected forklift battery was disconnected for repair.
Audio|Source: Colorado Springs Fire and EMS
04:47
Transcript:
00:00
Agent 6, Battalion 1, did I copy that you're on the FTC?
00:05
Agency 6, that's the promise.
00:12
Copy that.
00:27
With one detained, are you good with clearing engine 20 and just have AMR standby?
00:33
Yes, go ahead and clear engine 20.
00:37
Thank you, CRT2.
00:41
We'll have a good day.
00:44
Just Tony, I'll say it back in service.
00:50
Back the forklifts apart from each other.
00:53
Let's go ahead and keep everybody on scene for just a second while we try to separate the forklifts.
01:01
Command copies that. We'll hold everybody in staging.
01:04
Do you have a ventilation need?
01:09
Negative. Sounds like it's just the battery arc, so there's no actual ongoing fire, and we're right next to the entrance to the garden center, so we can open that sliding door, and there's really no ventilation needs right now.
01:25
Command, copy.
01:32
Truck 10, engine 6.
01:35
Truck 10.
01:37
And as we're looking at the FDC on this end, this is actually going to be the building south of Lowe's. Do you have one at your location, by chance, on that end of the building?
01:50
A firm, Alpha Bravo Corner near the Guard Center.
01:55
Okay, Engine 10, if we need to use it, you're going to be closer at this point.
01:59
Okay.
02:01
Engine, then copy of.
02:07
Bravo 11, Engine 20, (number withheld) Litter Little Timber Grove, Apartment 104 on a Medical.
02:17
Engine 21, you're responding.
02:23
Any unit that's not currently on scene at Lowe's can come code to.
02:31
Sorry, just that's actually in my seat.
02:38
Last year, repeat.
02:45
Amar 102, the patient on engine 11's call is now refusing transport.
02:53
Copy.
02:56
Suspatch AMR 22 are spotting immersion with engine 20 from Ruby and Austin Plus.
03:03
Copy.
03:11
Do you have somebody in there with you that can help with those forklifts an employee or is it your crew moving them?
03:20
We have employees here. We've got the forklifts separated.
03:25
There's no ongoing issue.
03:27
We can cancel everybody else. Engine 8 can remain unseen.
03:33
Command copies out. We'll hold Engine 8.
03:35
Return to everybody else.
03:39
There's much copy.
03:43
We can release Command 4.
03:47
Engine 8, Battalion 1. Engine 8 from Italian 1. Engine 8 from Battalion 1. Indian 8,
04:06
Battalion.
04:10
Engine 8. Yeah, Boone, I release Command 4.
04:15
Also, do you have any medical needs in there? I'm going to kick out AMR if you don't.
04:22
We'll go back to Fire 1 and we have no medical.
04:25
Just to click update chief, we've got both forks forklifts running. We're going to move the one that had the battery shorting issue outside.
04:34
We're going to let staff disconnect the battery and then leave them to make the appropriate repairs to the affected forklift.
04:42
We've got no smoke so no ventilation needs and no medical, so I think we're good to go here.
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