Fire crews respond to alarm at hotel near Broad St, Richmond VA
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, fire and rescue crews responded to a fire alarm at the Quirk Hotel near West Broad Street in Richmond. The multi-story residential-over-commercial building was evacuated after smoke or haze was observed from burned food in the kitchen. Detectors were activated, but no fire was found. Crews ventilated the area, cleared smoke, and reset the alarm before returning to service.
Audio|Heard on: Richmond City Fire Dispatch
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03:11
Transcript:
00:00
Engine five, engine six, engine ten, truck three, and battalion one.
00:05
Fire alarm near Broad St at Quirk Hotel.
00:10
Engine five, engine six, engine ten, truck three, and battalion one.
00:15
Fire alarm near Broad St at Quirk Hotel.
00:20
Cross streets are North Jefferson Street and North Madison Street.
00:24
On tactical.
00:25
Channel two.
00:26
Time out. Nineteen fifty-one.
00:33
Responding to one West Broad Street for the fire alarm at the Quirk Hotel.
00:40
Unknown point of activation.
00:41
Showing all companies are out.
00:42
Nineteenth fifty-two hours.
00:48
Engine five is on scene near West Broad.
00:50
Got a multi-story residential over commercial.
00:54
Engine five be investigating, have West Broad command.
00:57
Building's being evacuated.
01:02
Engine five on scene, multi-story residential commercial.
01:06
Nothing visible in building being evacuated.
01:08
We'll investigate with command at nineteen fifty-three hours.
01:10
Man from structure.
01:17
To Sparrow Street, come in.
01:21
Sparrow Street command, go ahead.
01:25
We're on that mezzanine level lobby with two detectors activated.
01:30
There's a haze.
01:32
Apparently they burned something in the kitchen.
01:40
Command copy.
01:47
Truck three operator from truck three.
01:51
All right.
01:58
Go ahead.
02:00
Bring a fan right in front of engine five.
02:05
Okay.
02:10
You from Battalion One?
02:16
Truck three.
02:18
Can you handle or do you need any more resources?
02:25
Command advised that truck three and engines five can handle.
02:35
Richmond copies engine five and truck three can handle.
02:38
All others return service nineteen fifty-nine hours.
02:44
Breaker on West Brockman.
02:47
Go ahead.
02:56
Releasing engine six.
03:00
Hold engine five, assist truck three with smoke evacuation and reset.
03:07
Received. Engine five and truck three handle. All others return service.
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Location mentioned:
W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220
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