Electrical burning smell investigated near Maryland Ave, Harrisonburg VA
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to reports of an electrical burning smell near Maryland Avenue in Harrisonburg, VA. Residents and officers noted the odor had been present for hours. Multiple locations around Maryland Avenue, nearby apartment buildings, and railroad tracks were checked. No active fire was found, but the burning smell persisted. Firefighters conducted extensive investigations including checking near buildings, streets, and railroad tracks but did not find the source of the smell.
Audio|Source: Harrisonburg Fire & EMS
05:52
Transcript:
00:00
Injord's on location, we'll have the hydrant.
00:02
I need some eyes on T.
00:03
Battagin forward to engine one.
00:05
Go ahead. Do you want me to take command and what do you want checked?
00:08
Check the north side near Maryland Avenue, make sure there's nothing there.
00:13
We're currently in front of near Maryland Avenue and still haven't found anything.
00:17
I'm taking forward to radio.
00:18
Okay. I'll be assuming command.
00:20
Engine 4, can you check near Maryland Avenue, please?
00:22
The time force will me come in, the time force will me come in,
00:25
the time force will me come in?
00:27
Command[1] Radio.
00:28
Correct. Can you call the caller back and have them return to the scene or put them through to my cell phone?
00:32
Please direct, have the call back the caller and have them connected to your cell phone.
00:38
Or return to the same.
00:40
Inj.5 command.
00:41
Go ahead.
00:42
If you want, we can walk a couple of these houses here on the northwest side of Main Street, north of Maryland.
00:51
Check those if you like.
00:52
NJ1, can you repeat? Command[1], this is Engine 5.
00:54
If you like, we can walk these houses that are north, west, along Main Street, north of Maryland Avenue.
01:02
Check those.
01:03
Okay, Steve by H5.
01:04
Engine 1, did you do a full walk around at 15?
01:07
Engine 1, Uprader, Command[1], I just completed that walkground 15.
01:11
Wasn't nothing shown.
01:12
Command[1].
01:13
Command[1], go ahead.
01:14
There's a...
01:16
Agent one officer, command.
01:17
Go ahead.
01:18
Have a slight smell of electrical in front of near Maryland Avenue.
01:21
Residents advised they smelled an electrical smell hours ago.
01:25
We're just going to investigate this area real quick.
01:28
These people down here are saying the same thing that they were smelling it for hours.
01:31
Engine 5, I think you can just hold up on checking north.
01:33
Engine four officer to command, we've checked near Maryland Avenue around the building, there's nothing, but we have some residents in parking lot that reported smelling over something burning hours ago.
01:44
It was just slight.
01:45
One officer, come in.
01:47
Go ahead. The part of the block we investigated is negative.
01:50
We came back from a call several hours ago and could smell an odor of something possibly burning.
01:58
We was unsure of what it was or where it was, but it could be related to that.
02:02
Command[1] Engine 4 or Engine 5, whichever one of you can do it easier.
02:05
Cross the tracks and checked the church.
02:07
The caller was crossing the railroad tracks when he smelled it, but he said it's coming from one of these apartment buildings where Engine 1 is.
02:14
Command[1] 4 will callers, we'll take it.
02:16
Tire 1, Officer, Command[1].
02:18
Go ahead. The rear of area is clear.
02:23
I'm going to walk down the railroad tracks back towards Maryland Avenue, just to confirm behind these apartments.
02:30
Yeah, that's a good idea.
02:31
I was getting ready to have somebody walk behind everything along the track.
02:34
That one off your command.
02:35
Go ahead.
02:36
Man, you might want to send somebody down to the West Weaver Walker Street area.
02:43
It appears to be a little bit hazy down towards the South Avenue side of the tracks looking from this direction.
02:49
Okay, main engine two.
02:52
We'll head back that way.
02:53
Tower 1, Officer Command[1],
02:55
or to Engine 2, there's a house just past Walker Street that generally has a party there next to the railroad tracks.
03:05
You might want to check that area right there, good, and behind that two-story house.
03:09
Okay.
03:10
So we just smelled it standing here beside Tower 1.
03:13
It definitely smells like structure fire or electrical burning.
Police codes explained
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Command: Incident command established/IC designation
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