Sprinkler activated in high-rise causing smoke alarms, Oakland CA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a high-rise building near Chester St after smoke alarms were triggered from the 9th to 41st floors. A sprinkler head activated near the trash chute, causing water flow in the basement, dumpsters, and trash chute. There was a smell of smoke but no active fire was found. Fire crews worked to isolate and shut off the water flow, investigating the situation as a sprinkler activation rather than an active fire.
Audio|Source: Oakland Fire Department
02:57
Transcript:
00:00
Truck one, engine one, you want to go to Oakland two?
00:08
Truck one, engine one on Oakland two.
00:18
Track 1, engine 1.
00:25
Yeah,
00:26
go ahead on attack 2.
00:32
Engine 1, truck 1 just came up on tack 2.
00:37
Copy, thank you. I'm switching over to tack 2 also, thanks.
00:41
Ladder 1's on TAC 2. Copy. Truck 1, stand by.
00:49
Truck one, engine one.
00:52
There's water flow in the basement, in the dumpsters, in the trash chute. We're trying to determine if it's a sprinkler or if it's a cleaning mechanism. But there was a smell of smoke. We got reports smoke on the 17th floor.
01:10
So somebody can go up and check out that see if there's still smoke coming from the trash chute.
01:17
Copy, it looks like we got smoke,
01:19
our detectors going off, anywhere from the ninth floor all the way up to the 41st floor.
01:26
Yeah, copy that.
01:30
We have water flow down here, there's no active fire in the trash bins right now.
01:38
Copy. Copy.
01:39
Just confirming that's the sprinkler on system worn off or the cleaning mechanism or unknown.
01:47
We're trying to determine the source of the water.
01:52
Doesn't sound like a sprinkler head.
01:56
Copy.
02:01
Also, I have to use a third set of keys in the Knoxbox.
02:12
Engine 1, Truff 1, we're getting reports from the maintenance on seeing that a sprinkler head did pop and is going down the ship crash shoot.
02:23
Copy, that's probably somewhere up higher then.
02:27
That's permanent. They're saying it's on level 1.
02:34
I mean this cruise tends to isolate the water shut off on the first floor.
02:42
And you want copies. Yeah, we shut down the sprinklers at the riser here.
02:50
But we're still getting water flow.
02:53
This is just for this first floor, I suppose.
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Location mentioned:
Chester St, Oakland, CA
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