Sylmar apartment complex fire outside building


Speaker describes fires at a Sylmar apartment block, notes smell of electrical fire, checks inside and outside, and says one engine is on scene for an outside fire near Foothill and Grove. Mentions a nearby mobile home park and a morning commercial fire on Club Center Drive.
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Transcript:
in the 80s, that whole entire block of apartments burnt to the ground. And then about, what, a year ago, maybe two years ago, there's a fire on the north, south, east upper apartment. This is a small one. And now there's another fire that they just That block of apartments is doomed. I have the house open right now. I probably should have kept it closed because of humidity. I think I'm going to close it up anyway. Just turn on the air conditioner, fuck it, right? But anyway, yeah, I'm like, I smell electrical fire, so the first thing I do is check out everything here, right? You know, and I go outside and I smell it out there. I'm like, well, stronger outside than it is inside here. Kind of walked around a little bit, didn't see anything. But the apartments, I didn't look. (name withheld), is that foothill and grove? Yeah, yeah. Okay. There's only one engine on scene. And it's listed as an outside fire. So it's not internal to the building. On Sam Brina Road, it's got one scene. It's engine 161, M.E.161[1], 866 p.m. Let me see here. Looks like a larger building. Doesn't look like a house. You got pictures of it? Yeah, yeah. They're apartments. Do regular map, or I can do satellite view. That's pretty slick, (name withheld). A lot of tall trees right there on the corner. And I see it right there, and it's on the other side of the trailer park. Mobile Home Park. I'm looking at the satellite view, just on the kitty corner side of that across the street. Yeah, yeah. So, wow. This morning at 1 a.m. was a commercial fire on Club Center Drive in...
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M.E.161: Medical engine unit
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Sylmar, Los Angeles, CA
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