Investigating electrical odor in mall near Lord & Taylor, West Nyack NY
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, fire department is investigating an electrical odor detected in the common area of the mall near Lord & Taylor and Macy's. Crews are checking stairwells and escalator areas to find the source of the odor. The alarm activation came from level 2 stairwell 16.
Audio|Heard on: Rockland County UHF Fireground Tact 1
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03:52
Transcript:
00:00
All right, we'll bring them in.
00:01
All right, we're on the second floor by Waterdale or pilots downstairs on the first.
00:05
We have orders on fold.
00:13
Command to 24-2.
00:17
Good.
00:20
All right, the tower ladders make their way in.
00:24
Is it inside border and tailors, or you're just investigating an order now?
00:32
We're investigating the odor in the mall, common area, outside of Lord & Taylor between Macy's and water tailors.
00:40
All right, ten four.
00:50
24 high-rise pack.
00:58
Nate,
01:01
we're bringing in the high-rise pack now, I'll be cured.
01:05
All right, do you ride back?
01:08
Yeah, 10-4[1] out of his stamp pipe.
01:11
All right. The strongest down here by these duct, the air analyzes for the heat.
01:19
Kyle, do you have an odor up on the 3rd or no?
01:25
Study could have been that poor by all or no,
01:28
uh, just when I was coming up the emulator, that's it.
01:31
All right, because I really only smell it in that corner by the ready machine, not.
01:35
I really saw it, okay.
01:42
I take that back.
01:43
I have it up here as well, so it's got to be coming from down below if I spell it up here as this.
01:48
Okay.
01:55
One and two.
02:01
Go ahead.
02:02
Yeah,
02:04
Kyle, I have a strong odor of electrical right in the middle of these escalators as well.
02:11
Yep.
02:13
I'm trying to get security silences alarm.
02:16
Their office, whatever they have there, is not working, so they've got to go somewhere else to try and silence it.
02:20
The original activation came from level 2 by Lord & Taylor and stairwell number 16-16.
02:33
All right, it's not four.
02:35
Do they know where the firewall 16 is so we could just check that and cross that off?
02:40
And then we can find out exactly where the pets went off.
02:46
The guy that I'm walking with doesn't know where he is.
02:50
Stairwell 16A is this one between Lord and Taylor and the common area.
02:56
Brendan, wherever you're walking, is that one stairwell 16 on the door there?
02:59
Yeah, 16A and 16B are right here.
03:03
Okay, so whoever is up before there,
03:06
just check those heads above you.
03:12
I have no odor inside of 16 rooms.
03:22
24-9. 24-1.
03:26
Yeah, close name.
03:28
No accident it has on the second floor.
03:31
All right,
03:34
simple.
03:41
All right, no odors inside of 16 A, B, and C.
03:50
All right, we're too.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-4: Acknowledgement / Message received
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Location mentioned:
Palisades Center Dr, West Nyack, NY 10994
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