Fire caused by overheated AC motor on restaurant roof, Los Angeles CA


Firefighters responded to smoke at a restaurant in Los Angeles. The fire was caused by an overheated air conditioning motor on the roof. The fire was put out quickly, and no further danger was found.
Audio|Source: Los Angeles City Fire
03:17
Transcript:
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roof alpha. Roof, Alpha. We're good with it. We're going to fire that lower up again.
00:02
There's no indication of any smoke in the AC ducting, attic clear,
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just a light lazy cold smoke in the Panda Express.
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I'll throw from Ruth copy.
00:14
If firing the blower up it doesn't show anything else, we're just going to call it an overheating AC unit.
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I see Alpha is copy.
00:24
The Alpha copy, let's find out for certain.
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7. 038574-9504-950s west 182nd Street.
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3-entry intersection of wheelchair and flower.
00:32
That's true, we can take Ducine with an AAC Furn drill.
00:35
Root from Alpha.
00:37
No for room.
00:39
Any more smoke from that age? We got the Pandit Express that's clear.
00:43
More smoke.
00:44
Allison from Rift.
00:45
Same here, no smoke.
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AC unit is cold.
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Copy that isolated to it overheating AC unit.
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AC unit. I see Alps did you copy that to the IC[2] unit? Hour shut off at the AC unit.
00:58
Allison, we're welcome.
01:00
Go ahead.
01:01
See, an arm we can handle.
01:02
Feeding motor that has melted some of the wiring.
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Fires out[1].
01:05
Sound 427, light 1435 to handle.
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Alpha, copy.
01:08
The ID, Alpha, you copy.
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Copy, Task Force 27[3], Lightforce 35[4].
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All other resources, you can make yourself available.
01:16
Metro Quang IC[2].
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I see. Quang IC[2].
01:18
The source was an overheated air conditioning motor on the roof.
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We're going to hold Task Force 27[3], Lightforce 35[4], releasing all additional resources going back to 7, and we'll hold on to the TAC channel for a minute.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Fires out: Fire extinguished
[2]
IC: Incident Commander
[3]
Task Force 27: Fire Unit
[4]
Lightforce 35: Fire Unit
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Los Angeles, CA
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