Fire alarms triggered by water leak at hospital, Glendale Heights IL
Fire & ArsonMultiple fire alarms at a hospital were activated due to a water leak in the attached parking garage. The leak was caused by maintenance work on the main fire pumps, including a failed flapper valve. There was no confirmation of an actual fire. Maintenance crews were on site to address the issue and silence the alarms.
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Tower 6 from Deputy 31.
00:01
Could you guys go to the women and children's pavilion entrance and just check in over there? I guess we have an activation over there as well.
00:08
Got it.
00:11
Dukot from Deputy 31.
00:13
We're checking on a water flow activation in the attached parking garage and the outpatient side, but they're also reporting an activation in the women's children's that Tower 6 is going to check out.
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31 from engine 31.
00:27
Go ahead.
00:28
Garage with maintenance, they do have a leak here if one of the flappers got loose.
00:33
Okay, I got Tower 6-7 over to women and children since you check that activation out.
00:42
I need the sprinkler contractor out.
00:45
Is it something they can take care of?
00:51
Medic 31, you want to go over with Tower 6 and you can give them their swipe cards?
00:57
Yeah
01:00
Stephanie 31 from 131 we're gonna go for a silence on the alarm Okay
01:10
Fantastic We have like eight alarms going on this panel
01:18
We're gonna go check them out Are they all water flows, power plant, receiving, stair H, penthouse, stair T, dry system? Correct.
01:29
Okay. Do you guys have an activation over there or no?
01:33
We've got shrubs going off, but that's about it.
01:37
Okay. You guys can return.
01:40
All right. Thank you.
01:42
Engine 31. Okay,
01:46
making a little more sense now.
01:47
They were doing some work with the fire pump before this started.
01:51
I'm just being cold.
01:52
Was it a fire pump in the parking garage? Well, the main fire pumps, they were doing some work on them and it must have triggered all these water flows and then that leak on top of it.
02:07
All right, they're currently draining the system over here in the parking garage and we're trying to locate the panel so we can hear the silence on it.
02:15
Do you have a silence on the other side?
02:22
Jeff from Deputy 31.
02:24
Go ahead. They were doing some work on the fire pump out here and caused some water flow activations.
02:30
Engine 31 and myself, we're going to be on the scene returning everybody else.
02:34
So he's holding 231 W31.
02:36
All they're returning.
02:38
Jeff,
02:43
where are you guys at? We're on the south side attached parking garage.
02:50
We just got a silence on the alarms.
02:53
We can come out.
03:09
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03:29
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31 from Engine 31.
03:49
Go ahead. We're going to be coming back out by the outpatient entrance.
03:53
It seems like we've got it isolated to this pump.
03:56
Maintenance said that the pump activating due to the failure of the flapper valve is what caused the fire pump to go off throughout the hospital and that's what caused the activation throughout.
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