Sprinkler system malfunction causes water leak in building, St Louis County MO
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a sprinkler system malfunction at a building near Lake Bend Drive and Doherty Ferry Road. Water was leaking and spraying inside due to a faulty air compressor on the dry side of the sprinkler system. The crew worked to shut down and isolate the system to stop the water leak. No active fire was found at the scene.
Audio|Source: St. Louis County Fire and EMS - South
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1927. List assist.
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Cape Albion.
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Near Lake Bend Drive near Doherty Ferry Road.
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Cross street is Doherty Ferry Road.
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1927. Respond on South Maine.
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That's fine.
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1525802 driver stated that there is a little bit of water dripping out of that drain and that the ground's pretty saturated.
00:41
That's fair.
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The county from 1302.
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1325 is made entry into the building.
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We do have a small amount of water coming from a sprinkler drain.
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Do you have any contact info for a key holder?
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1325A to 1302.
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Go ahead.
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We've got water shooting out of the sprinkler room back here.
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That's clear.
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Thank you, 1302.
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The advice we have keyholder online, too.
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That's clear.
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Thank you.
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Time is clear any time.
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... 33,
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17, 20-minute status strike.
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Take care, patient care.
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That's clear.
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You also have a rear entry door right behind the sprinkler connection here on the Charlie side of the building, if that's helpful.
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I'm going to contact a key holder.
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1325 to 1302 they've got a bad air compressor on the dry side of the sprinkler system that was actually like a test force that was flowing I was able to just turn off that quarter turn valve.
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Okay, so we have the water secured?
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Mostly, I want to have to probably isolate this drive system from the wet.
02:55
Sounds good.
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I got a hold of the key holder, but was straight to voicemail.
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So we'll see if they call back.
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Let's go ahead and shut it all down if we need to.
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Yeah, I think I'm gonna probably just have to shut the whole thing down, everything equalized.
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Dougherty Ferry Rd, Missouri
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