Smoke incident investigated at Castelar Villas, San Diego CA
Medical EmergencyA medical emergency response was dispatched to near Castelar Street and Loring Street for a reported smoke incident. Firefighters investigated an 11-story residential building at Castelar Villas after reports of light smoke on the third floor. They found no fire sources, with smoke dissipating through natural ventilation. A vehicle's exhaust pipe was identified as a minor smoke source with no hazard. All floors were checked and cleared, and no further action was needed.
Audio|Source: San Diego City Police and Fire Dispatch
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Transcript:
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Engine[1] 16, medical, 7 Echo, 7 Fox strut, near Loring Street, Westry P-A-LMS Retirement, cross streets, Quincy Street, and Lamarck Street, Engine 16, 7 Echo, 7 Fox Strunt.
00:16
Go for Lobbye, Bravo.
00:17
Yeah, can you give me an update? What do you have on the panel?
00:19
An engine tank copy responding.
00:21
Silence, still a pole station on the third floor.
00:24
Division 3 copies that direct.
00:26
I'm standing by the pole station.
00:28
Let me get this reset up the end of conditioning.
00:30
Still very light haze and is dissipating.
00:33
We've opened all dorms, rooms down towards where the smoke is accumulated,
00:38
all clear on primary and no source of fire.
00:43
We're just checking all the rest of the doors up here.
00:45
Okay, copying all clear on the primary and utilizing natural ventilation with just a light haze on the third floor.
00:52
Any additional resources or needs?
00:54
Negative Division 3 is given, and then I have the engine 10 firefighters on their way up to 7 and 8 to get equipped to get an update.
01:02
We're checking the seventh and eighth floors.
01:04
We're going to do a sweep of the entire building here.
01:06
Division three copies.
01:07
We're just going to get everything opened on this floor and then I'll update you a little bit.
01:10
I see Division 4.
01:11
Division 4 go.
01:13
Price the on-Tack.
01:14
I see the division for floors five, six, seven, and eight are clear of any smoke or hazards.
01:23
We copy that.
01:27
Identify how many floors, what the top floor is.
01:31
I see truck 45.
01:33
It's going to be 11-story building.
01:35
Truck 45 has cleared floor 11.
01:37
No smoke. The roof is clear also.
01:39
Okay, I copy that.
01:40
Truck 45, can you also address floors 9 and 10? Give me it all clear.
01:48
Break. Division 4, I see.
01:49
TAC. Go for Division 4.
01:51
Okay, just need you to check one more floor, which is going to be the second floor.
01:55
Floor 2.
01:56
Copy that, checking 4-2.
01:57
Once we get your pull station reset, we will try an alarm reset through Lobby.
02:03
Let me know if you need anything.
02:04
We do have PD out here with keys.
02:05
We do three copies break.
02:06
Lobby, you can try a system reset.
02:08
Try Remington, I see.
02:09
Remington, I see. Reming through a PEC.
02:11
I see LLLON.
02:13
Engine[1] 25. Carbon an oxide alarm.
02:16
7 Juliet, 7 Kilo.
02:17
(number withheld) Chicago Street.
02:19
(number withheld) Chicago St.
02:21
Unit 7. Cross Streets, Jellet Street, and Ingulf Street.
02:25
Engine[1] 25. 7 Juliet, 7 Kilo.
02:28
This is going to be a smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe.
02:32
We were able to reach the owner of the car, access, turn the vehicle off, there's no hazard here.
02:37
I see from Division 3.
02:38
Smoke has continued to dissipate.
02:39
We've opened all the dormitory, all the apartments.
02:43
There's no source of fire or any other smoke.
02:45
Okay, I copy that.
02:46
Any indication of what the source of the smoke was on the third floor?
02:49
Negative. We've looked up into the drop ceiling as well as the oxygen season.
02:53
There's nothing.
02:54
Most of it was accumulating when we came upstairs, kind of the center area where the elevator's dump off and it migrated down to the north side of the building.
03:01
And it's kind of hung there, and that's where it's dissipating from.
03:03
The other couple wings, they're clear smoke.
03:06
Okay, I copy and are you thinking we're good with natural ventilation or do we need to implement a ventilation plan?
03:11
Negative on the ventilation plan, natural ventilation will be fine.
03:15
The system's evacuating it pretty good.
03:17
We're moving smoke through and out.
03:18
USR2 from Renington IC go available.
03:22
Okay,
03:23
copy. Floor's 910 and 2.
03:26
All clear.
03:27
before we've traveled eastbound on the 56th real sign of smoke there are some sprinklers however that could have been conceded
03:35
Engine[1] 15, medical, 7 Echo, 7 Fox strut, near Castelar Street, Castelar Villas, Unit (number withheld), cross streets, Soyo Street, and Eddie Wonder Street.
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Location mentioned:
Near Castelar St, San Diego, CA 92107
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