Fire alarm caused by washing machine odor in Purcellville, Purcellville VA
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire alarm at a residential building near South 11th Street in Purcellville was caused by an odor from a washing machine in the laundry room. The machine was powered off and ventilated to clear the smoke smell.
Audio|Heard on: Loudoun County Combined Fire Rescue
Listen to dispatch call
02:35
Transcript:
00:00
You're calling on a firehouse for a fire alarm.
00:03
403 South 11th Street
00:05
Okay,
00:12
give me a quick second.
00:13
I'll get a bill for you.
00:18
I'm from Fort Evansville.
00:20
Come in.
00:22
Go ahead, Fort Evansworth, man.
00:24
Face-to-face with engine 620.
00:26
They believe they've got source of the odor isolated to a washer on the terrace level.
00:31
Currently, units are checking the floor and above just to ensure that there's no other potential sourceness odor.
00:37
We should be around them.
00:38
Probably the next 10 to 15 minutes.
00:52
On the engine 602.
00:56
Okay.
00:59
I just want to verify that address with 40 be North 11 or South 11?
01:05
Corrected South 11th Street.
01:08
Okay.
01:14
I'm from engine 606.
01:16
Engine 606.
01:23
Can you have OnD FM contact me and please and put my number in notes?
01:27
F-10 phone message, FM610 phone message 0750.
01:42
Normal condition, side alpha, Bravo, Bravo, Delta, yeah.
01:57
7's Road. Command from Latin.
02:03
Come here, go ahead.
02:07
10 minutes in your incident.
02:10
Correct,
02:14
10 minutes. We are in building 13, odor of smoke and haze and the laundry room.
02:21
Currently the faulty flushing machine has been isolated, power secured to it.
02:26
They're going to go ahead and make sure that everything's ventilated.
02:30
We're going to be on seeing approximately 10 to 15 more minutes ensuring that everything is ventilated.
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Location mentioned:
S 11th St, Purcellville, VA 20132
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