Electrical fire at commercial building near East 1st Street, Mesa AZ
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to an electrical fire at a commercial building near East 1st Street in Mesa, Arizona. They coordinated shutting off power at the main electrical panel and applied water inside to control smoke and heat from an electrical conduit and parapet area. The fire was contained without signs of extension.
Audio|Source: Mesa Fire, Gilbert Fire, Queen Creek Fire
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Transcript:
00:00
Copy that. Hold off on that just for one second.
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Command to engine 2220.
00:05
Engine 2220.
00:06
Are you able to find an RP for this door that might have keys to open up this exterior door that likely can have an electrical panel?
00:13
Yeah, I'm on my way to there right now.
00:18
Have to safety.
00:22
There's no external lock on this door.
00:25
It looks like it can only be opened from the interior or forced?
00:30
To interior.
00:33
To interior.
00:35
Yes.
00:38
So, safety is reporting that they've got a door that they believe might access that electrical panel.
00:43
It's going to be located on the far west side toward the northwest corner.
00:47
Can you see if you can get a crew over there to see if there's access from the interior of that room?
00:53
No, we're right at the same area.
01:00
The sector go.
01:04
We still have no signs of heat.
01:07
We do have a hollow parapet extent about six feet above the roof line.
01:11
You can have smoke emitting from a crack in the special on the front alpha side,
01:19
just east and midline about that 12 feet off the ground.
01:25
I copy. My hope is that that's residual.
01:27
They're reporting that they've got a conduit that is smoking that hopefully is generating that smoke in that hollow parapet area.
01:34
I'm going to try to do my best here to hold off when I'm doing any damage unnecessarily.
01:39
What I'm really trying to do is see if we can get access to an electrical panel to control it so that they can start putting water up in that conduit.
01:46
I don't believe that this is going to get out of control and I want to keep you out there for the time being in the case that need to open up the backside of that parapet.
01:54
Okay.
02:02
I believe if we've located what is the main power source which is going to be located on the Charlie Delta.
02:08
It's going to be on the northwest corner, I'm sorry, the northeast corner.
02:11
It does have a padlock on it we're going to have to get cut off.
02:14
Okay.
02:16
I'm going to give you engine 2220 to assist you with that command.
02:19
The engine 2220.
02:22
2220 copies, direct.
02:24
I'm right here with S-A-P right now.
02:26
Great, thank you.
02:27
Let's get that open and shut off that power if we can.
02:30
ASAPE, please.
02:35
Add to interior.
02:37
Cool.
02:39
I'm not sure if you heard all that, but we believe we found the main breaker.
02:42
We're going to make access to it right now.
02:45
Once we get to that point, we'll coordinate that through safety and make sure that we've got that power completely secured.
02:51
What does that area around the charing with that electable conduit look like right now, we're still at the same spot where it's just smoking just a little bit correct?
03:02
Just the COVID, I have a firefighter say, the way you can.
03:07
Okay.
03:13
Copy. Cancel.
03:14
Okay.
03:17
Copy. Cancel.
03:20
Okay.
03:26
...sidefield again, and you guys are going to get Recruit Pellequin.
03:31
Okay.
03:37
Two.
03:41
Hey,
03:44
do me a favor, grab a tick and put it on that wall just above the second window off.
03:50
You see that knuckle area that's discolored?
03:54
You got one out front.
04:00
I'm standing here, 35 minutes on the time.
04:04
Copy 35 minutes in the time where we're still offensive working toward under control.
04:10
Oh, I'm copy.
04:19
Great to go.
04:21
If we're working on this lock, it's a boron lock, and it's tucked in, so it's a little bit of a challenge.
04:28
It's going to take us just a minute, but we're getting it there a little bit of the time, so I'll give you an update as soon as worth.
04:35
Okay, if you're not able to get it, I need to pull the ladder company off to go ahead and access that, let me know.
04:42
We just made the first time, we've got to make one more cut so we can hit it off.
04:46
Give it just a minute here.
04:47
Copy, thank you.
04:52
I want to see 22 this man.
04:54
Off 2-2-2-2-go.
04:58
We do have a small heat signature directly above a third window panel, about 170 degrees.
05:08
I'm going to talk with engine 220's captain and just see if that's consistent with the area that they're operating in.
05:18
So it's 172nd, Arizona 3, Edward 5, 86, 7, 6th.
05:28
Yeah, copy, I'm seeing that also, that's why I had input a tick on that location, thank you.
05:39
Battalion 204.
05:41
Move up.
05:42
360, East 1st Street.
05:44
Battalion 204.
05:56
Too sweet for getting a little bit more smoke.
05:58
Um,
06:00
just trying to keep an eye.
06:02
It's still okay, but we do have a bunch of insulation around this.
06:05
I'm worried about if we let it go see long, it's going to get one of the best.
06:10
Okay, based on that, we need to make a quick decision here then.
06:13
So we've got safety that's about to open up the door, but we believe will be the access to the main shutoff the breakers.
06:22
If you don't feel comfortable waiting another couple minutes, then we need to go ahead and access the panels you have on the interior and just shut everything down.
06:31
Safety command priority.
06:33
Safety go with priority traffic.
06:35
We got that panel open.
06:36
We just get your power.
06:37
Let's see if we're getting changed.
06:39
Okay, perfect.
06:40
Command to interior, do you copy?
06:43
I just copy.
06:44
We're going to go ahead and get some water on it.
06:46
Okay, outstanding.
06:47
Thank you.
06:52
14-heavy in Pala at us got the 11 of 26th.
07:01
Or is what we're seeing in the stucco and the exterior, they're seeing the back side of that.
07:07
I'm assuming that what you guys are seeing up there is residual from that, what you were smelling at the two HPACs.
07:13
If you can just keep eyes on that, out that they're getting water on it, make sure that that we don't have any change.
07:20
And if we do have changes, it's obviously positive.
07:22
Just give me a report from what you can.
07:25
God, but I maintain a visual.
07:28
We have no heat signature as a map.
07:34
is on the way.
07:38
Okay.
07:51
Copy that water on the interior space in that plenum area is actually communicating to that exterior what we can see so it looks like we're making good effect.
08:01
You're going to pull some of that insulation around just to make sure we don't have extension.
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Near E 1st St, Mesa, AZ 85201
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