Burning odor traced to rooftop hvac alarms in public building, Virginia Beach VA
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a faint burning odor in a public building's lobby. They traced the smell to rooftop heating and cooling units showing active alarms. Power was secured to the affected unit and no fire was found.
Audio|Source: Virginia Beach EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
Okay, there's a slight odor or something burning in there.
00:03
I'm going to go ahead and go up to the roof, check the H-back units.
00:06
As far as a meter goes, all readings were normal.
00:12
Okay, step four.
00:13
I'm going to hold what we got too, Dave,
00:15
unless you think we need to upgrade it.
00:18
Negative, it's not getting any worse.
00:20
It's very faint.
00:23
Take four.
00:28
We're not able to pick up any odors from the rooftop.
00:35
The smell isn't going to any worse.
00:42
It's located in the front lobby area.
00:44
We can hold with Engine 9 ladder 7 until we track it down.
00:47
All right, I copy.
00:50
Engine 9 ladder 7 attack 4.
00:53
Ladder 7 driver to command.
00:59
But this, one of the rooftop units has like an alarm panel.
01:04
It says it has five active alarms and it's in a shutdown process.
01:12
... tamped up the heat to see if the units would run.
01:22
Yeah, scratch all that.
01:23
You can, uh,
01:25
we can isolate it to one of the rooftop units up here.
01:32
I got.
01:38
Engine 9 to ladder 7, we're going to retack.
01:40
We're going to retack.
01:44
This is a security area.
01:46
And it's near 14th Street for medical alarm.
01:48
7.48 heavy drive at 1624.
01:55
Usually 9-117 driver.
01:59
Go ahead.
02:01
Can you isolate the power up there? Do we need you at the breaker down here?
02:05
I've got the power secure on the rooftop unit.
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Virginia Beach, VA
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