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Smoke detected in second floor apartment in ColumbiaColumbia MD

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Little Patuxent Pkwy, Columbia, MD 21044

Emergency units are investigating smoke and a possible fire in apartment 6 on the second floor of a building near Little Patuxent Parkway in Columbia. The source of the smoke is not yet known. There is a light haze and a burning odor, but no immediate signs of fire were confirmed. The area is still being checked.

Audio|Source: Howard County Fire Dispatch
02:55
Transcript:
00:00
All right, the smoke on the apartment six is not getting better.
00:05
We're still looking.
00:11
5 APS.
00:14
21,
00:17
rate, 2146.
00:23
Command engine 7-1.
00:27
Go for 7-1.
00:30
You got eyes on the Terrace level apartment.
00:36
We're talking to somebody.
00:37
They'll use the name to the door.
00:43
Zero one's arrived. Four-vention.
00:45
We'll have the hydrant out on the Little Patuxent Parkway.
00:50
The tower's direct. 2047.
00:52
The taggy, fuel location.
00:57
292,
00:58
27. The road.
01:00
Tower 10, 2147. 2147.
01:02
10.
01:03
21-47. Time 1 survive.
01:07
The tire's correct, 2147.
01:09
47.
01:12
The tank two, command.
01:16
Command, good, the time two.
01:18
A copy, you're using 71, Truck 7, 141,
01:25
investigating smoke at apartment 6, unknown source yet.
01:30
I'd take the command, you can join your crew with the investigation.
01:36
Eric,
01:37
you got it. We're in apartment 6, second floor.
01:42
It's going to be quadrant two of the building.
01:45
We had eyes on the terrace. We're having a company check a floor above.
01:50
Got a light haze odor burning on the second floor apartment. We're still checking.
02:00
Okay. It's okay.
02:04
Command all units,
02:06
with the accession of 71, Truck 7, and 141, all other is tactically staged.
02:12
Don't commit to the structure until we get a return from Truck 7.
02:20
Command to engine 3-2.
02:23
Yeah,
02:26
Chief.
02:27
Is 4% still the highest LEL with that?
02:35
One two one's on location.
02:38
One, two, one, twelve, or not.
02:44
Zero percent on the LEL.
02:49
On the four gas, and the six gas, we've got three hundred parts from the lane.
02:52
So it's starting to dissipate.
02:53
Pretty sure we have it isolated to just know of an apartment A.

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Little Patuxent Pkwy, Columbia, MD 21044

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