Minimal smoke from smoldering debris near commercial area, Norwalk CA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to minimal smoke near a commercial building close to Alondra Boulevard next to Del Taco. The smoke was traced to smoldering debris either in a dumpster or a drainage culvert connected to the riverbed. There was no active structure fire, and the smoke was very light, likely from smoldering materials rather than flames.
Audio|Source: Los Angeles County Fire - LAC C-21
06:40
Transcript:
00:00
Hey 20, why don't you guys go on Alondra and see if you can make access to this building from Alondra.
00:07
It's right next door to Del Taco. We're going to try to jump the wall back here.
00:14
Chavi.
00:21
Major 115, Quint 20 on scene.
00:26
Quint 20 from 115, stand by.
00:36
LA Engine 115,
00:39
we're pretty sure this is a burnoff from a commercial building that we've dealt with in the past. We're making access right now.
00:45
Let's go ahead and hold Station 20 and Station 115.
00:50
Cancel the rest of the assignment. We're going to keep the comp plan.
00:57
Only copy is keeping Fire Station 20 and Fire Station 115, all other units cancel.
01:03
Keeping conference.
01:10
Pelley 115, can you have the RP come and meet us and let us know where they saw the smoke from?
01:18
115. 15.
01:21
Region 115, ALAM.
01:26
L.A., go ahead for 115.
01:29
Engine 115 format was a pass-your-by. They said that they were going westbound on Alondra, and they saw fire to the left of the Del Taco.
01:41
115, copy.
01:44
L.A., can you pull an EBI emergency contact for us?
01:48
It's going to be 106-36-Awanda Boulevard.
01:59
Quint 20, engine 20.
02:07
Engine 20. I'm going through traffic.
02:13
Yeah,
02:14
from your high point there, can you guys see anything in that backyard?
02:17
There's a waft of like some plastic that's possibly burning.
02:25
As affirmative, we are seeing something smoking.
02:32
Do you have a direction for us to the property here?
02:43
The report that we got, we can see, it's through the gate where you're standing at right now.
02:50
Agent 20, copy our traffic.
02:55
Affirmative.
03:02
115, engine 20.
03:06
Go ahead.
03:09
Hey, do you copy that traffic from the Quinn? They went up on Alondra here and they could see in the backyard there's a little smoldering something going on. Do you have best access over there?
03:22
In the backyard of this building?
03:28
Permitive.
03:33
Yeah,
03:34
we're going to get through the gate right now,
03:37
but we don't see anything smoldering back here.
03:39
Is it to the east or the west of the building?
03:45
The west off the driveway off of Laundra here.
03:52
Angel 115 from Quint 20. Yeah, we're seeing it smolding from a, looks like,
03:58
a dumpster right to our 3 o'clock to west of your position.
04:05
Okay,
04:07
you know what? I don't think it's this business. There is a drain that comes from the riverbed. We're going to drive around to that location.
04:13
It has to be accessed over here off Payuma.
04:16
It looks like a dumpster from Alondra, and you guys can still see smoke coming out of it?
04:22
That's affirmed.
04:26
Engine 20, can I get you to go up into the riverbed on our side of the river?
04:32
The very first outlet into the river, there's probably something burning in there that's coming out of that drainage that they're seeing from Alondra. We're going to make access to that drainage culvert, but I need one of you guys to go down into the riverbed and see if they lit something in the riverbed.
04:55
Hey Pat, it's a dumpster, not a, not the drainage.
04:59
There's a dumpster in the yard here.
05:03
Quit 20 and confirms that it is a dumpster.
05:15
Correction.
05:16
Actually, engine 115, you are correct.
05:18
My firefighters recon the areas that it is coming from the drainage.
05:22
It would be best for us to access it off of the riverbed.
05:28
Copy, thank you.
05:35
Engine 115 L.A.
05:39
L.A. 115, go ahead.
05:44
Engine 115, no EBI info for that address.
05:50
115 copy. We believe it's not that building. It's going to be a culvert attached to the riverbed.
05:56
Give us a few more minutes to figure it out. 1 15.
06:07
Andrew 115 from Quint20. Yeah, that's affirmative.
06:10
It looks like there's an axis that comes from the riverbed and that we found there's a ladder down below where the smoke is coming up.
06:23
Copy that. We're going to make access to the yard and look at the culvert, but I believe that the actual fire is in the riverbed at that first inlet,
06:31
or outlet, I guess.
06:36
Copy that. It's very, very minimal smoke, so if there's any fire at all, it's probably smoldering.
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Location mentioned:
Near Alondra Blvd, Norwalk, CA 90650
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