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Electrical fire reported at high-rise apartment on East Main St, Richmond VA

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Near E Main St, Richmond, VA 23223

Fire department responded to an electrical fire in a high-rise apartment building near East Main Street. Reports included a burning plastic smell and smoke possibly from an elevator. Multiple crews handled the incident.

Audio|Source: Richmond City Fire Dispatch
02:58
Transcript:
00:00
(number withheld), East Main Street.
00:01
Engine 8. One of the exterior chimneys requests and RPA respond for the person outside the building 24 yards.
00:09
Timeout, 2040.
00:10
201-engine 1-truck fast a route, (number withheld), East Main Street for the hazmat smell or odor.
00:15
All of the resident, it's smoke.
00:17
3 to the engine company in front of Richmond-A-Milk.
00:20
16, go ahead. Pull across, arm, engine, block all traffic coming this way.
00:23
Cut.
00:24
Engine 20, motor vehicle accident.
00:27
West 27th Street and Sense Avenue.
00:29
Engine 20. Motor vehicle accident.
00:32
West 20. West 20. We'll be investigating.
00:33
This is an unfortunate story.
00:34
One is good.
00:35
First McCabe's engine one is on same multi-story apartment building, and our copy engine one will be investigating 242 hours.
00:41
Safe you on, for Richmond.
00:42
Safety one.
00:43
Yeah, it's just making you aware we got a second call for an electrical structure fire, (number withheld) East Main Street, also burning, plastic and elevator.
00:51
What's the address again?
00:53
(number withheld) East Main Street Barrow and Tax Channel 4.
00:56
Just making it wear. Safety one cop.
00:57
Go ahead for one.
00:58
Just be advised we're also receiving a structure of bioelectrical at the same location.
01:03
8 from 11 received.
01:05
So be aware it looks like engine 1 is at the same location on a different tack channel.
01:10
Copy, I thought that's what I was seeing.
01:12
Are we being added to the call?
01:13
Supertitan 1 all scene (number withheld) east main got a high-rise multi-family I'll be talking with the engine one to get an update and see if it's going to be related to their call all units that are proceeding in just stand by and I'll give you an update here shortly

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Near E Main St, Richmond, VA 23223
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