Sparks from chimney confirmed as normal fireplace use, Seattle WA
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to reports of sparks coming from a chimney near 31st Avenue Northeast. Upon investigation, they found no visible fire or hazard. The sparks were confirmed to be from a normally functioning woodburning fireplace inside the apartment building. The incident was closed as no emergency was found.
Audio|Source: Seattle Fire
06:57
Transcript:
00:00
Indian 39 dot,
00:02
(number withheld) near 31st Avenue Northeast.
00:04
Nothing visible showing from a four-story apartment building.
00:08
I can see from here it's still occupied.
00:10
We'll be investigating establishing 31 Avenue Command.
00:16
Engine 39 location, you are 31 Avenue Command.
00:26
Engine 40 is that on a hydrant.
00:30
Engine 40 on a hydrant.
00:39
Ladder 5 from command.
00:44
Under 5.
00:49
Go ahead and approach this from the north.
00:51
I've left through room for ladder five.
00:53
I'm probably going to have you stick the building.
00:55
We don't have anything visible, but it sounds like it's probably sparked from internal fireplaces in the apartment.
01:05
All right. We'll take the alpha seven.
01:07
We get there to stick the roof.
01:16
Engine 40 from command, is that used out on the corner to the south of 39th?
01:24
Affirmative. Why don't you just hold there for further assignment if needed?
01:33
Are you okay?
01:43
Battalion 6 from command.
01:48
Battalion 6.
01:50
The Senate come out and say that they saw what they described as sparks coming from a chimney.
01:59
So the tailboard of engine 39 is up on the roof through the interior ladder access and they're going to give me a report from the roof.
02:07
I'm seeing nothing.
02:09
from the front alpha or the Delta side.
02:16
I'm going to finish on my 360 here.
02:22
The giant six, okay?
02:24
As long as you got one of those engines ready to take a line up to the roof with a lot of five.
02:32
I'm on a hydrant.
02:33
I don't have any hoses deployed yet.
02:39
82, 824 Bay Street.
02:43
8294 Bay Street.
02:45
Unit 605, 51-year-old male fall,
02:50
arm injury.
02:56
Dispatchy, Gintosh, GENT.
02:57
Okay, Gintan, we get Cogreen.
03:00
Okay, Nogentan, Medic 1, Cogreen.
03:04
Medical 1 receives Cogreen.
03:13
We have to measure three here and a half hours.
03:15
We've got a water supply establishment.
03:20
Ward Street.
03:28
Inditude to Airview Avenue North in Ward Street.
03:36
Reported in front of Fred Hutch,
03:38
a secondhand call from office.
03:41
Correction, we have SPD on scene for a male with a foot problem.
03:51
Battalion 6 is out location.
03:56
Location.
04:01
Decation Battalion 6, firm command.
04:05
Battalion 6.
04:10
39th tailboard is reporting sparks from a chimney.
04:16
We're having to check the surrounding roof area to make sure that we don't have a problem.
04:21
But it seems that this is a normally functioning chimney.
04:26
It's okay.
04:28
I'll assume to the end and I'll let you go interior as you see fit.
04:34
I'll also fire up my tactical channel.
04:38
Detain 6, assuming 31 Avenue Command.
04:44
Command from Interior, tailboard is reporting that there's heat at the ship of the chimney,
04:53
no surrounding heat.
04:54
I think it's safe to consider this a functioning chimney normal and to close this infinite.
05:09
Ladder 1, code yellow rescue response, 8081 Avenue.
05:14
Ladder 1, code yellow, 8081F.
05:18
Second-hand call from the alarm company regarding person dropped in an elevator,
05:23
car 2, floor 2.
05:33
Ladder 5 from command.
05:37
Number five.
05:40
When you have a second, I take a rooftop survey.
05:49
I vote here.
06:08
Latter 5 from command,
06:11
sounds like we've located a woodburning fire on Unit 206.
06:21
Ladder 5, can you repeat that?
06:26
Unit 206 has a woodburning fireplace that's going, so we're probably seeing products of that on the roof.
06:38
Command 5, I would agree with that assessment.
06:47
And unless you guys see anything abnormal up there,
06:51
we'll pack it up.
06:55
Lighter 5 all the way down.
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Location mentioned:
Near 31st Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98125
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