Sprinkler failure causes water flow in apartment building, Everett WA
Fire & ArsonA fire alarm was activated at a six-story apartment building. Water flowed from a broken sprinkler head in apartment 112 and spread into the hallway and other units. Responders are investigating and working to shut off the water supply to stop flooding.
Audio|Source: Snohomish County Fire Event/Secondary Response
05:59
Transcript:
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Unseen of a large six-story apartment complex. We have alarms sounding and people evacuated and confirming this is D delta building, is that correct?
00:14
Section is a large six-story apartment complex with alarm sounding and people evacuating. The original caller was in D-David-1112.
00:25
The other person that had the S-I-R, said A-R-N-C, the way building.
00:32
Copy that. We're going to be investigating. Let's go ahead and establish a corner command.
00:37
Copy, corner command.
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I'm 46.
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Medi-6 level 1.
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96-1.
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Engine 4 Level 1. Engine 4 Level 1. Angel 4 level 1. 86 level 1.
01:10
Go to floor from command. Can you go to floor five? That's where the reported alarm started.
01:20
Engine four, four, four, five to investigate.
01:24
A-6 from France.
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A-6. A-6.
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Go ahead and start on floor one with an investigation.
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Is the floor one investigation?
01:41
Ladder 5 on me.
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Cowie.
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Ladder 5, level 1.
01:50
Okay.
01:53
Council 5, level 1.
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Okay.
01:59
Ladder 5 from command.
02:07
Ladder 5.
02:13
We're getting reports of a water flow in the southeast corner of the complex on the first floor, if you can investigate that along with 6th.
02:26
Southeast corner of the first floor with a... In two one of those four.
02:32
Okay.
02:34
The tiny one arriving.
02:36
Copy.
02:37
They go on the one.
02:38
Okay.
02:41
Engine 1 is in command.
02:43
Do you want to go to the second floor?
02:44
Yes. One of the units do I have? Yeah, Medi5.
02:50
Medi 5. Why don't you take the third floor?
02:54
Four, please.
03:00
Engine 1 to the second floor.
03:07
Hey, six, we got water on floor one, room 112.
03:14
Copy that, is it coming from a sprinkler head?
03:21
Now we need to shut down the water to room 112.
03:30
Copy that.
03:32
Next being unit, can you go to the alarm panel and silence it for us?
03:38
Command from Quarters, or a Quarters command from Battalion One.
03:44
Go ahead, Detain One.
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I understand you've got Engine 4.
03:56
working.
03:58
What I'm going to need you to do is give me a rundown of what floors you've assigned each unit to. And I did copy 8-6's traffic about water flow on in room 112.
04:09
But give me a rundown of where everyone is and what they're doing.
04:13
Copy,
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command. Floor 1 is going to be the second floor above the complex, so on and so forth.
04:21
I have ladder 5 also going to floor 1,
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and then engine 4 is going up to floor 5.
04:30
And you assigned some medic units and aid units.
04:35
Which of you assigned besides 8 6? Medic 5 is assigned floor 3.
04:44
So Corners Command, I have engine six on floor one, which is the floor above the parking garage.
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I have ladder five on floor one.
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I have engine floor, engine four and floor five,
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and medic five on floor three.
05:04
Is that all correct?
05:07
I believe so, cheap.
05:10
It appears to be a sprinkler head that was activated and the head is completely missing. We'll need the sand pipe shut down.
05:18
Receive.
05:19
And that's only in apartment 112?
05:23
Affirmative with water going into the hall and spreading the other units.
05:27
Understood. While we get that taken care of, check the hallways, because if it's a sprinkler water flow, the sprinklers for each level should have a shut off in the hallway.
05:42
Copy that. It is confirmed that sprinkler head, the pipe is completely broken.
05:48
We opened the dry wall.
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RISC, so there's no way to shut it off from the, uh,
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from that stairwell.
05:56
No way to shut it off from the unit. We're checking the stairwell now.
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Location mentioned:
BuildingD, Everett, WA 98208
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