Smoke and burning odor reported at junior high school, St Cloud MN
Fire & ArsonFire department responded to a report of smoke and a burning odor at South Junior High school near 15th Ave S. Occupants were evacuated. Responders found a light haze and a strong burnt belt or electrical smell in the mechanical room but found no active fire source. Crews conducted a walkthrough of the building to locate the cause.
Audio|Source: Benton and Stearns County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Could you upgrade this to a structure provider?
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Copy.
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I can advise.
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Copy.
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Engine one's on scene, a cell junior high, nothing showing from the exterior.
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Occupants evacuating.
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Engine 1 will be investigating.
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Inj1 will be an offensive strategy.
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Engine 1 will be...
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Engine 1 will be Alpha Side Command.
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Engine 1, Tower 1, Battalion Chief 1, Engine 5, Engine 3, and Squad 2. Structure Fire at near 15th Ave S.
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Dispatch from 218, go ahead.
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Just making sure you receive the page for the medical and county roadies.
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We copy. We'll be enrolled shortly.
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948. 948.
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Squad 2nd. Squatitude.
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We need to do.
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Slighting.
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We are currently enraught hospital, go ahead.
01:47
We are currently enrable with an 83-year-old female from a memory care facility,
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chief complaint of the left-sided rib paint.
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Something she did have a fall this last Friday, where she was evaluated at her facility. No findings noted there.
02:07
Today she was unable to get out of bed.
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Had the persistent pain. Let's make it ready to find out of visit.
02:13
The printed out of battle's heart rate of 78. The pressure is 97 over 66, citing 92% down for the bear.
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Pish free there in about 6 or 7 minutes. Do you have any questions?
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No questions, then call properties at 950.
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Ninja 1 to responding unit.
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Ginger 1 will be out with maintenance going to the Pantellas for a smell of a burnt valve.
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Awesome.
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55-39. What are you going to say?
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Tell us.
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Frank (number withheld).
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You can't just hit.
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Tower one's out there.
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And then,
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so we're in the mechanical room.
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We do have a light haze, a strong odor smell of like a burnt belt or electrical.
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Anyone is investigating.
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Priority to stage for a possible structure fire, St. Claude 5.
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Station coffee.
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We're for five in road. So, junior high, routine, the standby.
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Copy-N-Raw.
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Working with maintenance on the roof investigating a rooftop unit with light haze in the building, is that correct?
04:19
That is correct. And we're still unable to find the source of where the smoke is coming and the smell. But we do have a light haze in the mechanical room.
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Ten, four,
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this time if you walk the building in its entirety?
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Negative, we went straight to the mechanical room with the maintenance.
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That's where the majority of the smoke was.
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Battalion 1 copies.
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Potential units, Battalion 1 will be assuming that Seltz Junior High Command.
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360 has been complete, no other information at this time.
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Engine final 1.
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Okay, none there you.
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Engine 5 from Siltz, Your Night Command. Bring your crew forward, just your apparatus out of the way.
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I want you to make entrance on the Alpha side of this structure.
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See if you make contact with staff on the inside. Just want you to do a light walkthrough.
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Make sure that we don't have this haze coming from somewhere else.
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75 copies,
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bring the through Elphoside to a walkthrough, meetup the staff.
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Engine 3 from Selt Junior High Command.
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I want you to do the same thing. I want you to come forward,
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make entry in the Alpha Side of the structure with Engine 5. Between you and Engine 5, I want you to coordinate and walk through this building.
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Engine 3 copies, coordinating with Engine 5, Elfonside, Walk through the building.
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Potentially hits on the fire ground.
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Outside of this structure will be the main entrance, which is facing at 15th Avenue south.
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Command is set up on the opposite side.
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26-18 to Jersey State. Copy text.
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Command from engine one.
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Command go.
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Charlie.
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Bring in their mechanical room where the big AC unit is, which is, the H-Factor system is, we're going to move to the industrialist room.
07:02
Command copies, nothing found, moving to industrial archroom for investigation.
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Squad 2 from South Junior High Command.
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Once you bring the unit around, you'll face-to-face with Battalion 1 on the Alpha side of structure, I'm going to assign you a set of eyes probably on the Charlie side of this building for now.
07:25
Squad 2 copy, face-face.
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Thank you.
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2322.
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2322.
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I'm going to be trying to make contact with the occupancy of the semi-aed filter.
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Location mentioned:
Near 15th Ave S, St Cloud, MN 56301
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