Fire and smoke in commercial building air handling unit, East Brunswick NJ


Fire department responded to a commercial building near East Brunswick, NJ with smoke inside. The smoke came from a burnt-out motor in a rooftop air handling unit. Stores inside the building were evacuated while firefighters investigated and controlled the smoke.
Audio|Source: East Brunswick, South River and Spotswood Fire / EMS
07:16
Transcript:
00:00
Alright, make your way down, right there for a quarter of you're going to see a hydrant just prior to it.
00:04
Stand by that.
00:16
Reefat headquarters from that's my command.
00:20
Go to headquarters.
00:27
Okay, Vice, we're in investigating the smoke condition, I believe it's from the HGA system.
00:32
We'll be ladder and building to investigate further.
00:38
Receive. Thank you 7.08 arriving.
00:43
Man, you have a thymophores? Where in the front.
00:49
8.02 you can come down to the hydrant down this way where you see that top bars.
00:54
708 make it way over to Long Fargo in that area.
01:02
Send your crew off the command post that 801.
01:08
708 copy.
01:14
9.50 from 9.04 and 5.3.
01:23
Rescue 9.04 is in service of 4.
01:31
That's more command of 7.09.
01:32
We're approaching from 18.4.
01:41
Semino-9, Stacey Act this road down to World Florida, I'll just stand by there for now.
01:48
The Texas Road well far and by...
01:52
High driving.
01:58
Okay. That's how right.
02:01
7.09, it's sitting here to rock.
02:04
Go up the half those way to walk.
02:11
950, you copy me, I'm private three.
02:17
Ma'am's made five, two.
02:21
Very flat two.
02:24
We're making the actors to the roof now.
02:29
We see, the smoke filling up in the building?
02:37
853 to come down.
02:42
Yeah, 853. Yeah, 853.
02:45
Yeah, we still have smoke coming out of the dockwork.
02:49
Please, see.
02:55
It's confined to the back to the grooming area.
03:00
Hey, too.
03:03
Headquarters from command.
03:06
Go to headquarters.
03:09
Chipmone in the cad, we've evacuated all the stores from Fedmark on down the floor to court.
03:17
Please, you.
03:18
Command promotion?
03:22
Yeah, Roos.
03:24
Command, do you happen to have a building manager that would know what RTEU number is that section of the building?
03:36
We're waiting on that, that point at that part for them just waiting on that.
03:43
We got nothing visible up here right now.
03:45
We're going to have to go unit by unit and see what they look like inside.
03:52
3C3. 853, fall in command.
03:59
You're calling 853.
04:00
You're going 853.
04:03
You're down on a floor, right? In the rear, in the DC corner.
04:10
I'm trying for it, we're just looking for the breaker, circuit breakers.
04:16
All right, I'm going to send in 709 crew.
04:19
I'm going to have them just pop some fuel back there.
04:23
Just want to make sure that's rolling on and get there.
04:28
Check it for that.
04:29
We're going out right now.
04:38
Go to the fire district, too.
04:40
Just the advice, they just got an alarm in for the east head of Japanese restaurant in the mid-saintable.
04:46
They did state that everything was okay.
04:48
If you guys had a video, then it's down control over there right now.
04:56
They came in as a panel smoke detector as well.
05:07
Command, 853.
05:09
Command, 8.53.
05:17
You have a key holder out there that could show us where the breakers are? You have a key holder out there that could show us where the breakers are?
05:31
853 is 950.
05:35
Good night, 50.
05:37
Lieutenant, I found the panel.
05:40
I'm in the back area where they hold all the animals in the back room.
05:46
I'm just trying to figure out from their paperwork now what controls the A-track system, if you want to get back here with me.
05:56
A5-3-16.
06:00
Command 3-2.
06:12
9.04 from command.
06:19
Go to 9.4. If you arrive, I want you to head over to the Chinese restaurant by ShopRite.
06:27
Before I check out, we're getting smoke alarms all the way down.
06:31
That'll be Golden East.
06:33
Make your way back to the scene.
06:35
Yeah.
06:38
Not a four receiver.
06:42
Come after me, 5-2.
06:45
Okay,
06:46
they're 5-2.
06:48
We got the unit on the roof.
06:50
It's a burnt-up motor.
06:56
This is no extension, correct?
07:03
Just to the insulation in the unit.
07:05
It's going to be RTU number 11.
07:10
Let's see. We have any way to pop any vents or skylight by that route for ventilation.
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East Brunswick, NJ
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