Smoke detected at senior living facility HVAC unit, Carmel IN


Firefighters responded to smoke detected by rooftop HVAC unit 7 and duct 43 at a senior living facility near Fairfax Manor Drive. They used a thermal imaging camera to check for heat or fire but are investigating if it is a false alarm.
Audio|Source: Hamilton County Fire & EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
Staff members are saying that is the panel that's typically used, my part department personnel.
00:07
We're going to go to the riser room to see if there's anything in there.
00:12
Okay, I'm clear.
00:19
1373 command
00:24
I have just information, my earlier traffic about the storms in the area, I just checked radar, they're all west of us still, you should be good.
00:40
Okay, you want us to go ahead and investigate the roof in or no?
00:44
Yeah. If you could get up there and see if the rooftop units are numbered up there.
00:53
Okay, clear.
01:01
Engine 346, Medic 346, Interperson as a result of a fall, near Fairfax Manor Drive, number (number withheld), at Rose Senior Living, Crossoff, Grandview Drive and Grand Boulevard, timeout 2322.
01:24
Medic, 381, Latter, 384, EBO 308, cardiac arrest, near Begin Boulevard, number 82, Henry, timeout, 2327.
01:37
Timeout, 2327.
01:40
It's on Mark and Tal at Meyer on Team 10.
01:48
341, Medic 341, 6% 12,999, Pennsylvania Street, number D-304, at Adjustic Care, Crossoff, Fairfax Manor Drive and Carmel Drive.
02:02
Timeout, 2327.
02:14
Disregard Ladder 84, put us on the cardiac arrest.
02:18
Can you send me a screen?
02:22
2320.
02:27
Can't let me 3-73.
02:29
Go ahead, Ladder.
02:37
I'm not sure if you can confirm this, but are we sure that it's not units like single digits instead of 47? Could it be 7?
02:50
I'm guessing that would be accurate.
02:53
I can't imagine there is more than 10 units up there, is there?
03:01
There might be 10 or 12, but not much more than that.
03:05
These are, they're like R-TU and then 0-1 or 0-2 or.
03:15
Well, can you check them with a thermal imaging camera just to see if we've got anything going on with any of them, especially seven?
03:25
Yeah, I'm doing that right now.
03:28
and maybe throw four in there just to be sure.
03:36
It's in Routherbeacon Boulevard, just information we're attempting to get the patient on the floor or unsure if we can, possibly an elderly wife.
03:48
That's 373, engine 373.
03:52
Go ahead.
03:55
I have RTU 7 and duct 43.
04:01
Fire 43 duct, smoke RTU 7 is what it's reading.
04:07
Okay, amen 7 right now, checking it out.
04:17
Engine 73, do you have a thermal imager in there that you could just kind of scan around the ceiling? Ladder 73, could you give us a general area of the building up there?
04:32
Unit RTU 7 is almost dead center.
04:37
We're about, I would say,
04:44
40 yards behind the main peak in the center.
04:49
Perfect, thank you.
04:52
Indian 73, if you could just kind of take a look at the ceiling over there to make sure we're not anything high.
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