Fire and water flow in fifth floor trash room, San Diego CA


Firefighters responded to smoke and water flowing from the trash and recycling room on the fifth floor of a building near Eighth Avenue Drive. The water flow is affecting multiple floors below. The source of the fire or smoke inside the trash chute is being investigated.
Audio|Source: San Diego City Police and Fire Dispatch
02:22
Transcript:
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Engine 3 and Engine 5.
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Vegetation, Initial Attack.
00:04
8 Golf, 8 Hotel, XSd Alpha Golf 3, near Eighth Avenue Drive.
00:11
Fire alarm station.
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Cross streets, cobblestone Drive, and Juniper Road.
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Engine 3 and engine 5.
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8 Golf, 8 Hotel, XSD Alpha Golf 3.
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Indian 45, truck 45, 7 kilo.
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(name withheld), Medi-12, any DBL is available for this double 3.
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45, truck 45,
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7 kilo.
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Kila. Go for engine 45. Go for engine 45.
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Go for engine 45.
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25.
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Are you having any luck? Do you need some assistance?
01:01
It looks like we have a water flow going on in the actual elevator, not an elevator shoot, but in the trash chute on the,
01:11
looks like on the south side of the building, we're trying to make our way to the seat of where this started.
01:18
So if you grab your firefighters in the Knox Box and start making, and I'll come down to meet them in the lobby.
01:30
I copy, so meet you in the lobby.
01:35
Ranger 45, 55 firefighters.
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Brinsur 45.
01:46
Trash flood or the water flow is coming from the fifth floor in the trash recycle room.
01:57
Controated active water flow,
02:01
smoke, do we have any for additional exclusion on the fifth floor?
02:09
There's significant water flow affecting all the floors below and there is smoke production coming out of the trash recycle room.
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We're going to try to ascertain what is burning inside or if it's where it's coming from. Stand by.
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