Fire alarms sound in apartment building with light haze, Charlotte NC
Fire & ArsonFire alarms sounded in a four-story apartment building near Central Ave with some evacuations underway. A resident in apartment 106 reported unable to exit but no smoke or fire was visible. Responders found a light haze on the second floor, possibly coming from the laundry room. The situation was controlled with no active fire found.
Audio|Source: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Fire
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Transcript:
00:00
Easy 12 is on scene.
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Four-story apartment building.
00:02
All the alarm's going off, some evacuations in progress.
00:05
8012's got from here.
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We're going on to investigate.
00:07
Ten, four to twelve.
00:08
Command, four-story apartments, nothing showing, audible alarms.
00:11
Command. Alarm to command.
00:13
Flight alarm. Command, just for your awareness, one of the 911 calls we received was from apartment 106.
00:19
They advised they were not able to get out of their apartment.
00:21
They did also advise no sign of smoke or fire.
00:24
Okay, command copy.
00:25
229, it says they do have a smoke detector.
00:27
If you want that, correct?
00:28
That's correct. Also, no signs of smoke or fire.
00:30
The latter 6 news on thing.
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Agent 12, 4443 to command.
00:33
Go ahead, 4443.
00:34
We've got a light haze on the second floor.
00:37
Unable to locate the floor. Unable to locate the shore.
00:38
Alarm, command.
00:39
Go ahead, Lawrence.
00:40
Command, we've got the person from 106 back on the phone.
00:44
They're asking if someone to come and make contact with them.
00:47
Hi, medical routine and known medical.
00:49
Near Central Ave.
00:51
Good. Oh, I'm correct.
00:52
May have letter 16.
00:53
All the letter 16 goes.
00:54
Can you come off the two?
00:55
Definitely not, it is.
00:56
Flat or 16 copies.
00:57
We're heading up to the second floor.
00:59
On the command, would you like us to increase the response to a smoke odor inside?
01:04
Hold on for just a second.
01:05
I think we're getting somewhere in the laundry room here.
01:08
Ten more, sir.
01:10
Echo 13 and echo 17.
01:13
Never got a completion on that.
01:15
Okay, could somebody reach out to them tomorrow? That's a second, at least a second failed to notify from that crew in a week.
01:21
Copy that?
01:22
In 23, Army, upgrade medic emergency emergency traffic, please.
01:25
Okay, force, 23.
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65 pull-arm.
01:28
This is 65, go ahead.
01:29
Do we know who called us in?
01:33
This game running zero.
01:34
Sir. Sir.
01:35
Negative 65, Medics talked to the caller.
01:38
It didn't say if they were second or third party.
01:41
Copy that, but everybody can clear.
01:43
That way we met the subject leaving in the parking lot.
01:45
He said he was 10, 4, 4 every room.
01:47
665.
01:48
I'll tell you repeat the traffic.
01:49
You can put us under control.
01:53
10-13[1]-12, lap, 16.
01:58
We're working on getting an alarm balance right now.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-13: Weather/road report (often used for status)
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Location mentioned:
Near Central Ave, Charlotte, NC 28212
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