Fire alarm investigated at VCU Children's Hospital, Richmond VA
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a fire alarm at VCU Children's Hospital of Richmond on East Broad Street. Multiple engine and truck companies were dispatched. A burning smell was reported from a hallway, but no fire or visible smoke was found on arrival. The situation was under investigation, and the scene remained stable.
Audio|Heard on: Richmond City Fire Dispatch
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02:51
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 1, Engine 11, Engine 13, Truck 2, and Battalion 3.
00:05
Fire alarm.
00:06
Near East Broad Street at VCU Children's Hospital of Richmond.
00:11
Engine 1, Engine 11, Engine 13, Truck 2, and Battalion 3.
00:17
Fire alarm.
00:18
Near East Broad Street at VCU Children's Hospital of Richmond.
00:23
Cross streets are North 10th Street and North 11th Street.
00:26
On Tac Channel 2.
00:28
Time out. Fourteen forty-seven.
00:35
Companies have marked a route to near Albemarle for the structure fire.
00:40
Information coming in, reporting a burning smell from the hallway inside.
00:44
Companies showing a route at fourteen forty-eight.
00:53
Unit nineteen to Richmond, we’ll have the hydrant right in front of the residence.
00:58
Received at hydrant in front of the residence, fourteen forty-eight.
01:07
All units be advised we spoke to this person on the phone and it’s a smell of something in the residence, not a fire yet.
01:18
Special copies.
01:20
Resident advises just a smell, not a fire.
01:27
Truck 7 from Truck 3.
01:33
Truck seven, go ahead.
01:36
Are you coming in off Patterson or Grove?
01:41
We’re coming in off Grove.
01:46
Engine twelve is going to take a second hydrant at Oak and Grove.
01:54
Twelve with the hydrant, Oak and Grove, fourteen forty-seven.
02:02
Five copy, Oak and Grove.
02:11
Nineteen’s on scene.
02:12
I got a two-story residential structure, nothing out of the ordinary.
02:16
Nineteen’s actively to have command truck.
02:19
We left the front of the building open for you.
02:24
Engine 19, we’ll see two-story, nothing visible.
02:28
Nineteen has command.
02:29
Fourteen fifty.
02:35
Engine one’s on scene, high-rise hospital.
02:37
Nothing visible from the alpha side.
02:38
Engine one has Broad Street command, investigative mode.
02:44
Engine will proceed.
02:45
High-rise hospital, nothing visible.
02:48
Engine one has command and investigate.
02:50
Fourteen fifty.
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Location mentioned:
Brook Rd, Richmond, VA 23220
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