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Fire extinguished in storage area of metal-clad buildingTorrance CA

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S St Andrews Pl, Torrance, CA

Firefighters responded to a building fire near St Andrews Pl in Torrance. They found heavy black smoke from vents on a metal-clad building but no fire inside. Later, they located and extinguished a fire in a high-piled storage area at the rear corner of the building.

Audio|Source: Los Angeles County Fire - LAC C-21
08:36
Transcript:
00:00
159, 162 right behind you, Gravenhydra.
00:02
What do you need?
00:09
Quint 158 on C.
00:14
Copy. Go ahead.
00:15
Stage out on Gramercy.
00:17
Let us get a better location.
00:19
I'm not sure if we'll need ventilation or not.
00:24
Got it. 21 on scene.
00:31
21, go ahead and bring us water and I'm going to give you a fire attack with my firefighter.
00:40
Water, I'm bringing you water.
00:46
1-161 on being come in from the north.
00:48
And water.
01:00
Quad-158 on scene.
01:08
Engine 95 on scene, we're on St.
01:10
Andrew's place.
01:11
It's like we have access back here as well.
01:14
2.161 on scene.
01:21
5 from engine 159.
01:24
Could you repeat?
01:30
159 to 95 is on scene.
01:32
We're on St.
01:33
Andrew's Place, one street to the east.
01:35
It looks like we have access back here as well.
01:41
Copy if you have access, go ahead and engage.
01:43
Let me know what you need and any other pertinent info.
01:52
Copy that. We're opening the gate right now, let you know.
01:57
895 is from 161.
01:58
Is there room for truck back there?
02:09
161 for engine 159.
02:11
Your best access is going to be over here on this side at 1365050.
02:26
Clear 161, midge 159.
02:27
I'll find out if there's other access on this side that you might be able to go roof through.
02:34
Okay, copy. If not, we can back out to 159 to go the opposite direction.
02:45
LA, Battalion 18 on scene,
02:48
break, ANJ 159, continue to give out a sign, so I'm going to get ready and we'll transition when they're available.
03:01
Battalion 18, L8 copies.
03:05
Angel 159, 12-158 on scene.
03:12
Copy 5-8, come out in, I will give you an assignment once you get here face-to-face.
03:26
Fire attack from engine 159 on command.
03:38
Do you have any info update on what's burning back there and location?
03:46
We're going from 21.
03:49
We do have some folks coming from the back of all.
03:53
We're on debating if it's coming from the building.
03:55
We're going to investigate still.
03:57
We do have no active fire inside.
04:05
Fire action is 159.
04:07
You came in on reedable, you can repeat that when you have the opportunity.
04:14
One-five-nine.
04:15
One-five-nine.
04:21
One-five-nine, please turn on side, Dave.
04:25
That outside on the rest, we're going to try to give you something.
04:35
Square 158 from engine 159.
04:38
You came in on aureate, a book, can you repeat.
04:43
It's metal flab, but I'm going to try to give you some relief if possible.
04:53
I copy. Point five eight.
05:02
159 for fire attack.
05:04
We've been it all the way in the back of the building.
05:06
We have no active fire.
05:07
We don't have snow coming from the exterior wall.
05:10
We're not to investigate any dot.
05:15
Fire attack, I copy.
05:24
Engine 95 from engine 159, I'm command.
05:32
159, go ahead for 95.
05:36
You have access on Gramerstein.
05:39
Do you have eyes on the fire?
05:44
I got eyes on a building.
05:45
It is metal clad.
05:46
I have three vents on the east side here with heavy black smoke coming out.
05:51
We don't have a door, but we're going to put a quick hole in this metalclad site here.
05:55
I'll let you know in a second.
06:00
Copy. We've searched the interior of the building at near St Andrews Pl, and they got all the way to the end, unable to locate a fire.
06:15
Yeah, this metal client attaches way in the rear, attached to the concrete filter.
06:23
Copy.
06:25
Quint 161 from engine 159.
06:30
Go ahead.
06:34
I'm going to assign you to Quint 158 with ventilation, get with them on 63 and see if they need anything.
06:40
You may need to go around the block and get better access.
06:45
Okay, copy off.
06:46
For fire attack, we've located.
06:49
Here's me a content fire.
06:51
Put up fire out and I was going to fix our station.
06:58
Fire attacks from Inj10159.
07:02
I read that you located the fire in about how far in and what, where's your location at?
07:11
We're all the way in the back of the...
07:21
One-559 for fire attack, we're into rear the building on a Charlie Delta site.
07:32
Unit calling engine 159, can you repeat?
07:37
Fire attack, the 159, the contact is in the Charlie Delta corner of the room.
07:49
Copy, Charlie Delta Corner, you have approximately distance to end.
07:56
It's about two hour feet in.
08:03
Fire attack from RUVs, he advised high pile storage from our vantage point.
08:14
Engine 14 from engine 159, on command.
08:31
1-5-9-0 report, you know, stand.
08:36
Stand by.

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S St Andrews Pl, Torrance, CA
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