Fire near Oakland airport activates BART sprinklers, Oakland CA
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, an outside fire near Oakland International Airport appears to have activated sprinklers on the BART track system. Fire units are coordinating with BART to manage water flow and assess potential damage.
Audio|Heard on: Alameda CA Fire-Tac Group Calls
Listen to dispatch call
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Transcript:
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So this fire was a pretty substantially sized outside fire and it tripped at least one or two of the sprinklers on the BART track system that goes to the airport from Coliseum BART.
00:14
Can you contact BART and see what they want to do about this or if we need to send a truck company out?
00:22
Copy. So the sprinklers are going off right now, and you need to know if they have like a tech or something that can take care of it.
00:29
Yeah, they're definitely flowing.
00:33
And they're probably 40 feet off from San Leandro Boulevard.
00:35
We'll have to access it through the, you know,
00:41
air, whatever that the platform is going to go onto the airport.
00:44
But we're still committed to the fire.
00:46
So we would need someone to come down here and shut the water off and maybe have a truck get up there and change them out if they don't have a roof.
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This transcript is automatically generated by AI from live dispatch audio. Dispatch communications may include background noise, overlapping speakers, or rapidly evolving situations, and automated transcription may not capture all details or context.
Location mentioned:
Oakland International Airport Station, Oakland, CA 94621
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