Smoke fills home from blocked fireplace, Ithaca NY
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a home near Trumansburg Road in Ithaca after smoke filled the house from a blocked fireplace. The logs were smoldering inside the fireplace, and there was no active fire. The situation was brought under control without further damage.
Audio|Source: Tompkins County Fire/EMS
03:27
Transcript:
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near Trumansburg Road, cross of Hopkins Place and Cliff Street.
00:03
A caller reporting that there is a log burning in the fireplace, and they are unable to get the smoke to evacuate through the chimney and it's filling the house.
00:13
That is for Ithagot, Engine 3, Engine 4, the truck.
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Bangs Ambulance, near Trumansburg Road.
00:21
Caller reporting that they are using the fireplace.
00:24
They're unable to get the smoke to evacuate up the chimney, and it is now filling the house.
00:29
The burning logs are consigns to the fireplace.
00:33
(number withheld).
00:41
Engine 1 is arriving unseen.
00:43
We got a two-story residential, nothing showing alpha.
00:49
Best access is going to be off Campbell Ave.
00:52
So come up Hopkins off Campbell.
00:55
We'll be in the offensive mode, investigating.
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Or just go.
01:05
Six-3 is in, six-three will be
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Tremensburg Command.
01:12
Offensive strategy, you got a two-story residential,
01:17
as you wanted to investigate.
01:23
All units.
01:26
Camp L-side is Alpha.
01:27
Camp L side is Alpha.
01:43
They put the fire out with an extinguisher or just moldering in the fireplace.
01:53
And copies, fire is believed to be out in the fireplace.
01:57
Do we need to get to the chimney?
02:03
No, I don't believe so.
02:05
We're gonna do a little bit more investigating, but it looks like it was a fake log, so just a near smoldering.
02:16
Copy that, (name withheld).
02:18
Engine three, why don't you hold downtown for now.
02:29
Truck, are you able to tell if there's smoke coming out of the chimney?
02:34
I don't have any visible smoke coming out of the chimney at the moment.
02:42
There is a little bit, (name withheld).
02:50
Okay, that's probably been working fine at the point.
03:00
The house does have a basement.
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Charlie's side has a pretty good drop-off.
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Otherwise, no other hazards.
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There's a walkout door on Bravo for the basement.
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Do you want to bring in the, okay, we'll just take these ashes and stuff outside and put it out, or it's going to keep smoldering in here?
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Location mentioned:
Near Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850
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