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Fire at chili's restaurant with smoke from rooftop unitsPunta Gorda FL

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Punta Gorda, FL

Fire units responded to a commercial building fire at Chili's restaurant near Morroc Circle in Punta Gorda, Florida. Smoke was seen coming from multiple sides of the single-story concrete building, including rooftop air conditioning units. Firefighters searched the building and found no active flames but smoke coming from the roof units. The power to the units was shut off during the response.

Audio|Source: Charlotte County Fire, Punta Gorda City Fire, and Punta Gorda Airport Fire
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Transcript:
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Italian 1, Battalion 3, Rescue 2, Truck 2, Truck 2, Truck 2, Truck 2, Medic 2, Engine 2, Engine 2, Response to Chili's near Morroc Circle,
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1431 Central, near Morroc Circle, for commercial structure fire for Gennon-O 7.
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Engine 1.
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Engine 3.
00:26
Engine 8th.
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Station 2.
00:34
Time to acknowledge.
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You can't cancel the Tadion 1.
00:36
Can you move engine 15 to Station 2, please?
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Copy in.
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Engine 15, acknowledge.
00:49
1026.
01:03
Truck One.
01:06
Truck One, go ahead.
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Truck One,
01:10
go ahead.
01:12
Truck one's going to be in-service headquarters,
01:16
going to Lashley for Marine Check.
01:20
Marine Check, 1027.
01:30
Central Prevention 2.
01:31
I got smoke showing from 41 and veterans.
01:35
Let's go ahead and take all units to TAC 3.
01:38
Copy Smokshund for 41 and Veterans.
01:41
Taking all use of TAC 3 at 1028.
01:48
Central Prevention 2.
01:50
Vention 2.
01:53
Engine 2 is arriving on scene, single story, concrete block commercial restaurant.
01:59
I do have smoke showing from the Charlie Delta and Bravo Corners.
02:06
I'm going to move over to TAC 3.
02:08
I'll have Chili's command on TAC 3.
02:12
Probably every on scene, single story from concrete block restaurant structure, smoke showing from Charlie and Bravo's dives.
02:18
We would do FireTack 3, 1029.
02:25
Dr. 3 on, Stanger.
02:32
It's central to the county one.
02:36
Was engine 11 out of service?
02:42
Negative?
02:44
Let's go move into county one for coverage place.
02:50
10-1.
02:56
Engine Leather, Engine Leather, Moot McIney, one for cover.
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Engine Lever.
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Engine One, copy.
03:11
We'll have our engineer to obtain a water supply, I believe, it's going to be on suspective.
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Command to truck, too.
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I need to do a ladder building, get up to the roof.
03:20
It might be the AC unit on the roof.
03:22
We might be where the fire is.
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Go ahead.
03:33
You have an engine and routes for our location from Empire.
03:40
City command from RG.
03:44
Unit call him to me and repeat.
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This is Reddy 2.
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We're going to be making entries for primary search.
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We're going to copy Reddy 2.
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Primary search.
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You're going to be Search Group 1.
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Command 2, Engine 2, you're going to be Fire Attack.
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Engine 2, copy Fire Attack.
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Central Front Command.
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Bevines, appears we may have a fire in one of the AC units on the roof.
04:26
I have truck to go into the roof now to check the AC units.
04:35
This is your heart page.
04:40
AC union, half truck two, going to check it out.
04:43
10-33[1]3.
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Command attack, group 1.
04:49
Joe at fire attack.
04:53
A quick walk through the building, sir.
04:55
I didn't see any active fire.
04:57
I have made access to the roof.
05:01
Here's two units.
05:03
Have some smoke coming from them.
05:04
I just shut the power off.
05:06
Everything else is coming out of the exhaust fans.
Police codes explained
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10-33: Emergency radio traffic only

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