Dumpster fire sparks smoky scare in university parking garage, San Diego CA
At an underground university parking garage, firefighters found an extinguished dumpster fire confined to the container with light smoke and no structural damage. They are investigating a floor below to confirm no fire spread and have kept units available as a precaution.
Audio|Source: San Diego City Police and Fire Dispatch
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Transcript:
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Structure of Fire.
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8 Alpha[1], 8 Bravo[2].
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5173 University Avenue.
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Auburn Park, 5173.
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Unit Garage.
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Cross streets, 50th Street, and 52nd Street.
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Truck 45.
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8 Alpha[1], 8 Bravo[2].
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Engine 3. Medical 7 Echo, 7 Fox Stunt, 3301 North Harbor Drive, Lynchburg Field, Terminal 1 Curbside, Cross Streets, Stillwater Road, and North Harbor Drive WB off-ramp.
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Engine 3,
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7 Echo, 7 Fox Stunt.
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14, I copy.
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If you just want to come on up, go ahead and spot as you feel appropriate and we'll wait your vacuum fire attack.
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714 copy.
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Responding to University incident,
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we got reports of light odor smoke in underground parking, cruiser investigating going to stage.
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IC Engine 18 staged on the west end of the parking structure.
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Copy stage on the west end, um,
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addition to the alpha side is going to be a university for orientation.
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The station behind is an agency.
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I see I copy.
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We're at Charlie's side parking entrance.
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It's being copied and supporting a copy.
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I see United Five on team stays anywhere specific.
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You'd like us.
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Mike 5 just come on up to 50 seconds out of the way.
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Take sec, I see you, Bravo.
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I see it down for it to see.
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All right, copy, yeah.
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I'm going to hear back from FireTack.
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Go ahead and keep it and wait for FireTock to report.
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Keep IC for me.
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See, Bravo.
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Tech, go for ICA, Bravo.
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I see you from fire attack.
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Right now it appears that this is going to be an extinguished fire confined to a dumpster.
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Light smoke, the parking garage, no ventilation needed,
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no extension.
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We do have one floor below this initial floor.
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We are going to go down to basement to an investigate.
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Just confirm no extension,
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no other fire source comes forth.
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If I'm hearing an extinguished dumpster fire containment of the dumpster,
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what additional resources do we need?
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We can handle with engines and all the units can be available.
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Matt Tranj is well before I see you.
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This would be 8.5 southbound just south of Imperial.
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One car, uh, standing your life facing the wrong way.
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We're in that city.
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We're in that city.
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There's a couple of jobs.
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Let's smoke a little quicker.
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Very light haze down in the parking route.
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We're going to hold on to the truck and release the balance.
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Agency advice, I've got to eat direct on in case we lose comes.
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Air Attack 14 copies here.
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We'll bring you a floor.
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We'll keep the timer going.
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Just an update, we got an extinguished dumpster fire container of the dumpster.
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There's no extension that's in an underground parking garage all clear in the primary.
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We're going to hold on the truck 14 for ventilation needs and the rest of the balance can feel available.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
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8 Alpha: Dispatch determinant: Alpha (low-priority) response under protocol 8
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8 Bravo: Dispatch determinant: Bravo (moderate-priority) response under protocol 8
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Location mentioned:
University Ave, San Diego, CA 92105
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