Apartment sprinkler activated by stove food causes water damage, Glendora CA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a two-story apartment complex near East Gladstone after an activated sprinkler system was reported. The sprinklers were likely triggered by food left cooking on the stove. There was no visible fire or smoke, but some water damage occurred. Residents were evacuated as a precaution since their rooms were not safe to occupy. The sprinkler system was shut down temporarily to stop water flow.
Audio|Source: Los Angeles County Fire - Command 30
05:26
Transcript:
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LA-engine 32 is at near East Gladstone.
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Two-story apartment complex.
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Residents outside, nothing's showing from the street.
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32 investigated.
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32, copy on scene, nothing's showing.
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Alley, Battalion 16. You can't cancel the battalion 2.
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Copy Battalion 2, cancel your response.
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Ninja 152 on scene.
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You have an assignment?
00:42
32, engine 855, we're on scene out front on a hider. 152, we're on a hideer.
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152, copy.
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Engine 32, engine 48, Atchersane, Simon.
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Engine 32, Coyle, 5-3 is on the other sound.
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Alley, engine 32,
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go ahead.
01:22
They'll answer 32 with a follow-up. Here's to be an activated sprinkler in one unit,
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possibly activated from food on the stove. We'll keep 32-152s and 852 just for,
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we're going to have a little bit of a water push issue.
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Otherwise we'll hold on to the complex for now.
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We can release the rest of the unit.
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LA copies holding station 32, engine 152, and engine 855, all the unions can cancel.
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And holding on to the comp plan.
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8532, command.
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Go ahead. Go ahead.
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We're going to have to shut down to a sprinkler to this building temporarily so we place that head. You can work on that with your crew.
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And I'll have 152 to silence the alarm and start bringing up queesies or anything else we can use for a water push.
02:23
Cabee, welcome.
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Com sprinklers.
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Digit 32 from Qualified 3. Do you have any neat for us?
02:37
Yeah,
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1-5-3 negative. The water's not quite deep enough to use the water back.
02:43
It's just kind of overflowing into the hallway here. But if you do have Pleadies, we can borrow those from you guys.
02:51
Yeah,
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copy. We got squeeze. We'll help you out.
02:59
32's 152. We're at the sprinkler shut off now.
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Copy.
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Let me know when you guys start sending it down. I'll let you know if we get anything release down here.
03:16
32 is 152 is still flowing.
03:25
It appears to be flowing down, so I think we're good. Thanks.
03:36
15332. When you guys bring up those Tweedies, can you grab an attic ladder and come on up?
03:46
Copy that, we're on a way up.
03:53
32s, 152, is this shutdown?
03:57
It appears we still got some residual, so it's not shut down 100% yet, but it's definitely dying out.
04:08
Hey, 32 is from Battalion 16 on command.
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Go 16.
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Hey 32, do you need me for anything? You need a safe card or anything? Are we good?
04:25
I think we're good.
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I'm going to go down and talk to the resident and the property manager right now and see if I'm about getting them in another place. Yeah, they won't be able to occupy their room here.
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Okay,
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give me a caller. Let me know if you need me to come in and bring you a safe card.
04:43
Copy, we'll do.
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3285.
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32-85.
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32 engine 85 on, man.
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Go for 32.
05:09
Confirming, you got the sprinkler shut down, 152 said they shut them down.
05:17
That's permanent. It looks like we just got a little bit of residual, but it is dying out, so yeah, we're doing that.
05:24
Copy, we're heading up with an attic ladder.
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Location mentioned:
Near E Gladstone St, Glendora, CA 91740
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