White smoke investigated at retirement building in San Diego, San Diego CA
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to reports of white smoke on the third floor of a multi-story retirement building near Loring St in San Diego. No fire source was found after checking all floors. The smoke was dissipating naturally and ventilation was ongoing. An investigation determined no hazards or fire were present in the building.
Audio|Source: San Diego City Police and Fire Dispatch
06:51
Transcript:
00:00
Crews are continuing to investigate the white smoke on the third floor.
00:05
(name withheld) is at Fire Medicine Records.
00:06
Talk to refuse care.
00:08
Remington, I see Metro Copy.
00:09
Crews continue to investigate white smoke on third floor.
00:11
The chair is still on their way up, so we'll have the other medic unit walk over to the foot of the trail, the head of the trail at the top.
00:19
In 26, lobby, I see, on track.
00:23
See, you know, a black BMW SUV, you got some smoke from the rear.
00:27
I'll be investigating.
00:28
Engine[1] 16, Medical, 7 Echo, 7 Fox strut, near Loring St, Westry P-A-LMS Retirement, Cross Streets, Quincy Street, and Lamarck Street, Engine 16, 7 Echo, 7 Fox Strunt.
00:44
Go for Lobbye, Bravo.
00:45
Yeah, can you give me an update? What do you have on the panel?
00:48
An engine tank copy responding.
00:49
Silence,
00:50
still a pole station on the third floor.
00:53
Division 3 copies that direct.
00:54
I'm standing by the pole station.
00:57
Let me get this reset up the end of conditioning.
00:59
Still very light haze and is dissipating.
01:01
We've opened all dorms, rooms down towards where the smoke is accumulated,
01:07
all clear on primary and no source of fire.
01:11
We're just checking all the rest of the doors up here.
01:13
Okay, copying all clear on the primary and utilizing natural ventilation with just a light haze on the third floor.
01:21
Any additional resources or needs?
01:23
Negative Division 3 is given, and then I have the engine 10 firefighters on their way up to 7 and 8 to get equipped to get an update.
01:31
We're checking the seventh and eighth floors.
01:32
We're going to do a sweep of the entire building here.
01:35
Division three copies.
01:36
We're just going to get everything opened on this floor and then I'll update you a little bit.
01:39
I see Division 4.
01:40
Division 4 go.
01:41
Price the on-Tack.
01:42
I see the division for floors five, six, seven, and eight are clear of any smoke or hazards.
01:51
We copy that.
01:55
Identify how many floors, what the top floor is.
02:00
I see truck 45.
02:01
It's going to be 11-story building.
02:03
Truck[2] 45 has cleared floor 11.
02:05
No smoke. The roof is clear also.
02:08
Okay, I copy that.
02:09
Truck[2] 45, can you also address floors 9 and 10? Give me it all clear.
02:16
Break.
02:17
Division 4, I see.
02:18
TAC. Go for Division 4.
02:19
Okay, just need you to check one more floor, which is going to be the second floor.
02:23
Floor 2.
02:24
Copy that, checking 4-2.
02:26
Once we get your pull station reset, we will try an alarm reset through Lobby.
02:32
Let me know if you need anything.
02:33
We do have PD out here with keys.
02:34
We do three copies break.
02:35
Lobby, you can try a system reset.
02:37
Try Remington, I see.
02:38
Remington, I see. Reming through a PEC.
02:39
I see LLLON.
02:41
Engine[1] 25. Carbon an oxide alarm.
02:44
7 Juliet, 7 Kilo.
02:46
(number withheld) Chicago Street.
02:47
(number withheld) Chicago St.
02:49
Unit 7. Cross Streets, Jellet Street, and Ingulf Street.
02:53
Engine[1] 25. 7 Juliet, 7 Kilo.
02:56
This is going to be a smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe.
03:01
We were able to reach the owner of the car, access, turn the vehicle off, there's no hazard here.
03:05
I see from Division 3.
03:06
Smoke has continued to dissipate.
03:07
We've opened all the dormitory, all the apartments.
03:11
There's no source of fire or any other smoke.
03:13
Okay, I copy that.
03:14
Any indication of what the source of the smoke was on the third floor?
03:18
Negative. We've looked up into the drop ceiling as well as the oxygen season.
03:22
There's nothing. Most of it was accumulating when we came upstairs, kind of the center area where the elevator's dump off and it migrated down to the north side of the building.
03:30
And it's kind of hung there, and that's where it's dissipating from.
03:32
The other couple wings, they're clear smoke.
03:34
Okay, I copy and are you thinking we're good with natural ventilation or do we need to implement a ventilation plan?
03:39
Negative on the ventilation plan, natural ventilation will be fine.
03:44
The system's evacuating it pretty good.
03:46
We're moving smoke through and out.
Police codes explained
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[1]
Engine: Fire Engine
[2]
Truck: Fire Truck
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Location mentioned:
Loring St, San Diego, CA 92109
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