Electrical box fire near Starbucks escalates to structure fire, Vista CA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to an electrical box fire near Starbucks at the intersection of Melrose Drive and Sunset Drive. The situation escalated to a structure fire call at the nearby AutoZone due to electrical burning smells inside the building. Utility company and traffic control were requested to assist at the scene.
Audio|Source: San Marcos Public Safety
05:21
Transcript:
00:00
We have a struck electrical box right to our right by Starbucks right here.
00:05
No vehicles in sight.
00:09
Battalion 121 copies.
00:11
I'll come to your location.
00:17
And just for you guys are enrauded.
00:19
Now AutoZone is calling in.
00:21
Battalion 121.
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Engine 121, Battalion 121, Battalion 121 on 3 Charlie.
00:37
AutoZone or the electric box.
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The stallion 121, R.A.
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121.
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Engine 125.
00:54
Copy. You're going to check out his own.
00:55
I'll check.
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Electro Box.
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237, you can cancel.
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Truck 237. You can cancel.
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Two one, R.A.
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121.
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Go ahead.
01:13
We have an active electrical box fire.
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It's arcing right now.
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We're just setting up for a perimeter.
01:28
RA 121, Vitaine 121, copy,
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active fire,
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arcing in the electric box.
01:35
It's a set up a perimeter 100 feet from each side, and I'll start SDG&E.
01:46
Northcom, Battalion 121.
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The Italian 121.
01:54
Northcom, Italian 121, we have an active hazard.
01:57
We have parking and fire inside the electric box.
02:01
Start SDG&E and start a second engine.
02:09
The Italian 121 from engine 125.
02:14
Engine 125, go ahead.
02:24
Let's Allen 121 from Engine 125.
02:26
We're at the AutoZone.
02:27
We have an active smell of electrical fire.
02:32
Let's upgrade this response.
02:39
Battalion 121 copies.
02:41
I'm going to go ahead and upgrade yours to a structure fire as a separate call, and I'll remain on the electric fire with R.A.
02:49
121.
02:52
Copy.
02:56
Northcom, Battalion, 121.
02:58
Battalion 121.
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Northon, Battalion 121.
03:04
Let's start a second incident,
03:07
have that be a structure fire at the Auto Zone.
03:09
Keith Battalion 121, RA 121, and Engine 121 assigned to the electric bolt.
03:20
Northcom, Battalion 121.
03:29
North Carolina 121, start OPD to the electric vault incident for traffic control.
03:36
Battalion 1.20 copying,
03:42
starting SPSO for the electric box car control.
03:48
Northbound Battalion 121, if SDSO is willing to help that be great,
03:53
but this call is just inside the boundary of ocean side.
03:57
Sorry about the correction.
03:58
OPD not as you-2.
04:13
I was trying to confirm, are we responding to your location for the transformer or to the structure?
04:21
The transformer,
04:23
when you get here, block the far right lane about 100 feet north of the electric bolt.
04:39
I just see that two separate responses here, so I'm not sure it's pretty too wrong.
04:51
Northcom engine 125, we're on scene of a one-story medium-sized commercial structure.
04:58
We have a light smell of electrical burning inside the structure.
05:04
No smoke, no flames, we'll be investigating.
05:08
We'll establish cannon.
05:15
By Cochew, one-story medium-sized commercial building, light-smellable electrical smoke from the inside no broker-point seen investigating.
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Location mentioned:
Sunset Dr & Melrose Dr, Vista, CA 92081
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