Smoke detected with power outages in commercial building, Torrance CA
Fire & ArsonFire responders arrived at a building near Maple Ave due to smoke and a burning odor. They found smoke coming from ducts and noted power outages in different areas of the building. When power was restored, smoke began to appear again from a duct on the first floor. Utility company Edison was contacted to address ongoing electrical problems. No active fire was confirmed, and ventilation units were checked and shut down to isolate the smoke source.
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Transcript:
00:00
Hey Sam, we made access to the roof.
00:02
No ACs are running at this time.
00:04
I mean, it appears to be normal.
00:08
Confirming all the ACs are off?
00:13
That's affirmative.
00:14
They're off.
00:15
The one,
00:17
about 50 feet in over the affected unit, it's still on, it's just not tripped.
00:23
Copy. Copy.
00:29
Anyone Torrance?
00:33
Go ahead, Torrance.
00:35
Your status?
00:38
We're still on scene near Maple Ave.
00:42
I'll also check to see if there's a reset at that location.
00:47
10-4[1]. We'll try.
00:48
We're pretty busy right now.
00:51
Copy.
00:59
Go ahead.
01:02
Do we have an elevator number at the facility?
01:09
They just stated it was ground level.
01:15
Okay.
01:20
Engine 93 from Truck 91.
01:22
You need any additional information from us up here?
01:31
Chuck NG-1 from Engine 93.
01:33
That's it, thanks.
01:36
Copy.
01:40
Go for Engine 97.
01:44
Just confirm that you're on the third floor.
01:50
We're on the first floor.
01:51
We're on the first floor.
01:57
Copy that and you are clear on the first floor.
02:02
That's affirmative.
02:03
I'm here with an RP.
02:05
They saw this one coming out of the ducts on the first floor.
02:08
I'll go ahead and walk the additional floors, but we do have an all clear.
02:13
Everything's cleaning down here.
02:17
Okay, copy that. Just have a good index of the building.
02:19
How many floors are inside?
02:24
We have two floors here.
02:27
Everybody's out of the building.
02:28
I'm here with the RP.
02:33
Copy that and smoke's clear on both floors.
02:38
That's affirmative.
02:39
We'll smoke on the second floor.
02:42
They did have some power outages throughout the structure of different areas.
02:48
And then when the power came back on, that's kind of when the smoke started coming through the exactest.
02:57
Go ahead and contact tourists to get Edison out here.
03:00
It appears we had a couple calls in the area, so this might be a bigger Edison issue.
03:05
I'll see if they're coming en route.
03:09
Yeah, copy that.
03:15
Agent 97 from Truck 6-1.
03:20
Go ahead.
03:22
Can you give me a better location on kind of where the smoke is? We're trying to check all these units.
03:28
There's a lot of units up here on the roof.
03:34
Truck 6-1, give me a sec, I'm getting the HVVAC map in a second.
03:40
The ducting runs throughout the structure, but it was coming mainly from a first floor duct in the southeast corner, kind of by Engine 97.
03:54
Copy that.
04:00
Hadison been contacted for the Mariner incident?
04:09
Not the chance to call them yet.
04:11
Two, good night, A one on one.
04:17
Go ahead, Lawrence.
04:24
Per the alarm company, the pole station has reset.
04:28
However, there is still a supervisory signal coming from the server room suppression system.
04:39
Engine 91 copy, thank you.
04:55
The line of side of the unit is, it goes to the docking train in the middle of the structure book of the line side.
05:03
If you, uh, check the south side.
05:09
It left my cue, 991, a 4-1.
05:17
27 on Tor 1.
05:19
If you could get Edison out to the Mariner location, they still have some electrical issues,
05:27
power went off, having come back on in certain areas.
05:32
10-4[1], we're on the line now with them, we'll update.
05:36
10-4[1], thank you.
05:51
Engine 97 ports.
05:54
Go ahead.
05:58
Engineers set off the emergency activation.
06:05
Six-one, one, four.
06:15
We do have a slight burning smell up here from one of these units.
06:19
There's a lot of units up here, so we're trying to isolate exactly which one.
06:22
Just an update for you.
06:27
Yeah, I copy that.
06:28
If you just want to start shutting down units, that's fine.
06:31
We can have building engineer restart them when they're ready.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment or affirmative; message received and understood.
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Location mentioned:
Near Maple Ave, Torrance, CA 90503
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