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Smoke smell triggers alarm in san diego high-rise, San Diego CA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 08/27/2025 11:51 PM (PDT)

Near Broadway, San Diego, CA 92101

Fire crews responded to an alarm in a six-story residential building after smoke was smelled. The cause was a tea kettle left on the stove, and the alarm was reset once the risk was cleared.

Audio|Source: San Diego City and Poway Fire

02:39

Transcript:

00:00

Engine 201, Medical[1], 7 Echo[3], 7 Fox[4] strut, 900 to 999, 0 1st Avenue, Cross Streets, West East Street, and West Broadway. Engine 201, 7 Echo, 7 Fox Stunt. That's right, engine 1 copies, careful. Engine 1, I'll show you available. Metro, Angel 11 is at 10,000 6th, right until high-rise.

00:29

Audible alarm, nothing showing, investigating. Metro, engine 201 is in the area, attempted to locate. Edge 11 metro copies. 19 of a 6-story residential high-rise. Audible alarm, nothing showing, investigating. Engine 201 is under the location.

00:56

Engine 201, your patient is in front of the Corner Bakery Cafe on the first half flight. 201 copies. Truck 11 from Engine 11, okay. Cool for Engine 11.

01:24

502 possible source of your alone. It's 5.02. I copied out. We just showed up there. We do have a smell of smoke. We're investigating. Okay.

01:36

Truck 11, Birmingham, 11 on deck.

01:39

You know per truck 11.

01:40

If you guys can cancel the burn tea cattle, we'll just try to reset the alarm.

01:44

Okay. Engine 15. Rubbish Fire[2].

01:47

7 Juliet[5], 7 kilo.

01:48

Cable Street and Santa Monica Avenue.

01:50

Unitelly. Engine 15.

01:52

7 Juliet[5], 7 kilo.

01:53

Metro from Engine 11.

01:55

Metro from Engine 11. Metro from Engine 11.

01:56

This was a T-Cettle that was left on a soap top and burns.

02:00

I've kept the truck 11.

02:01

We're working out resetting the building, alarm system.

02:04

Ender 11 metal copies, some of the T-Kettle left on the snow top, council truck 11, working on resetting the building along system.

Police codes explained

The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:

[1]

Medical: Medical emergency (7 Echo)

[2]

Fire: Rubbish Fire

[3]

7 Echo: Medical emergency severity code

[4]

7 Fox: Fire response channel

[5]

7 Juliet: Fire response channel

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Location mentioned:

Near Broadway, San Diego, CA 92101

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