Fire alarm triggered at vehicle maintenance shop, Charlottesville VA
Fire & ArsonA fire alarm was triggered at a vehicle maintenance shop. While investigating, responders detected the smell of gas in the kitchen but found no fire or dangerous conditions. They took steps to ventilate the area and address the gas odor.
Audio|Source: Albemarle County Fire and Rescue
04:14
Transcript:
Square 11. Fire alarm[3]. Vehicle maintenance. (number withheld). (number withheld). Respond on Alpha Tech 2. Squad 11. Fire alarm. Vehicle maintenance. (number withheld). (number withheld). Respond on Alpha Tech 2. 161, you responded to Almar High School. (number withheld), cross streets of Hydraulic Ridge Road and Old Oak Court for the General Fire alarm activation. Close to hydrant is going to be in front of the school closest to (number withheld), 11.1. Squad 11, you're responding to the county vehicle maintenance shop (number withheld). Crow Streets of (number withheld), for the fire alarm activation. A lot of the company states it's going to be a water flow alarm. Your closest hydrant is going to be on the alpha side of the parking lot. One notice. Any two alpha from command. Can you set down that intersection, please? Command for the interior. Interior can you repeat. A city gas been notified. Hey, yeah. UCCC. Brookshark Bay. Go ahead. Interior from command. Can you guys give me a part? We're part four. We're not getting high rees, IDLH[1]. We're out here with Power 121. We're getting the smell inside the kitchen. We just can't locate where it's that. Permission to shut off the main outside of the building. Hold off on setting off the main if you're not getting any elevated readings and just an odor and we'll await the gas division. And ECC[2] from command, no need for an incident timer if we have no idea at LH. Thank you. Okay. Yes, their lease been located. It's behind the stove right now. We're going to try to mitigate as possible. Understood, thank you. San from interior. Can we get a fan brought up to apartment 17? We've isolated the interior gas valve. We'll try to ventilate and see if that works before it to shut down the manifold outside. Understood. 121 out we'll get you a fan. Closing the valve to the kitchen stove, using the stove mitigated, no readings on the meter at this time. We're still working on ventilating. We'll hold this on it. Understood, thank you. You should have a fan for it.
Square 11. Fire alarm[3]. Vehicle maintenance. (number withheld). (number withheld). Respond on Alpha Tech 2. Squad 11. Fire alarm. Vehicle maintenance. (number withheld). (number withheld). Respond on Alpha Tech 2. 161, you responded to Almar High School. (number withheld), cross streets of Hydraulic Ridge Road and Old Oak Court for the General Fire alarm activation. Close to hydrant is going to be in front of the school closest to (number withheld), 11.1. Squad 11, you're responding to the county vehicle maintenance shop (number withheld). Crow Streets of (number withheld), for the fire alarm activation. A lot of the company states it's going to be a water flow alarm. Your closest hydrant is going to be on the alpha side of the parking lot. One notice. Any two alpha from command. Can you set down that intersection, please? Command for the interior. Interior can you repeat. A city gas been notified. Hey, yeah. UCCC. Brookshark Bay. Go ahead. Interior from command. Can you guys give me a part? We're part four. We're not getting high rees, IDLH[1]. We're out here with Power 121. We're getting the smell inside the kitchen. We just can't locate where it's that. Permission to shut off the main outside of the building. Hold off on setting off the main if you're not getting any elevated readings and just an odor and we'll await the gas division. And ECC[2] from command, no need for an incident timer if we have no idea at LH. Thank you. Okay. Yes, their lease been located. It's behind the stove right now. We're going to try to mitigate as possible. Understood, thank you. San from interior. Can we get a fan brought up to apartment 17? We've isolated the interior gas valve. We'll try to ventilate and see if that works before it to shut down the manifold outside. Understood. 121 out we'll get you a fan. Closing the valve to the kitchen stove, using the stove mitigated, no readings on the meter at this time. We're still working on ventilating. We'll hold this on it. Understood, thank you. You should have a fan for it.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
IDLH: Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health (used by fire/EMS to designate hazardous conditions)
[2]
ECC: Emergency Communications Center
[3]
Fire alarm: Fire alarm activation
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Location mentioned:
Near Lambs Ln, Charlottesville, VA 22901
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