Sprinkler system leak detected at commercial property, Westerly RI
Fire & ArsonFire department responded to a water flow alarm at a commercial property near Franklin Street. They found a leak in the sprinkler system's backflow preventer. A sprinkler company was called for repairs.
Audio|Source: Westerly & Chariho Area Fire Departments
05:23
Transcript:
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Ladder 1 is responding near Franklin Street.
00:03
Block 4. Driver only.
00:07
Roger, water one.
00:10
Roger, one.
00:14
Engine 4 is unseen.
00:18
Roger, engine 4.
00:26
I'm going to the rear to access the panel in the box.
00:37
Dispatch, we got water flow from one of the drains in the bravo side.
00:46
Roger 33 report and water flow from one of the drains at B.
00:52
1035.
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Engine 4 to 33.
01:02
Go ahead, Dennis.
01:05
Into the alarm panels in Napa.
01:10
Yeah,
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I'm accessing it via the rear.
01:19
I don't want something.
01:26
31, I just find.
01:29
Roger Cross 31.
01:31
33.
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33 to 31.
01:42
Go ahead, Joe.
01:45
John, it may be the dry system, but it's not saying on the panel, and we do have a water flow out of the green on the problem side, got in the alley.
01:53
Checking the sprinkler room now, the water, the sprinkler room.
01:59
Okay, the system is a little complicated.
02:01
There's a shutoff in all these, the shutoff in the mezzanine of Napa,
02:05
and there's a shutoff in the pet store.
02:08
33. It's dispatch.
02:14
33.
02:19
It looks like you may have a leak in the back flow preventer.
02:27
We're going to definitely need a sprinkler company.
02:30
We're going to definitely need a sprinkler company.
02:33
Received.
02:41
Dispatch,
02:42
the emergency contact, I believe, is (name withheld).
02:50
Where is the same two?
03:07
303.31.
03:11
Go ahead.
03:14
John, it looks like the backflow preventer off the domestic water tie-in, which is somehow fed by the pipe coming in for the sprinkler.
03:26
Okay,
03:28
so what is your location?
03:31
I'm in the all-these sprinkler room.
03:36
Corrections.
03:37
Petspot sprinkler room.
03:42
Roger.
03:43
I'll be there in two minutes.
03:47
Okay, we'll have someone standing by the door.
03:50
These are pretty well labeled to see opposite side, which I believe is labeled for possibly Petsmar.
04:01
Okay,
04:03
you want me at the rear of the building, correct?
04:07
Yeah, that's the rock.
04:09
That's right when I went in.
04:15
Dispatch to 31.
04:19
Can I dispatch? Dispatch.
04:24
Meet contact with the emergency contact.
04:26
They're going to be getting the Sprinco Company out immediately on an emergency call-out.
04:34
Thank you.
04:40
Major 3 to 31.
04:41
You want me to stand by on quarters?
04:46
Roger.
04:47
31 at dispatch.
04:49
Units on the scene can handle.
04:53
Roger 31 Uniton Seen handled 1043.
04:56
Chief, they're going to attempt to get a representative for the building out as well.
05:04
Roger. Was the name I gave you the correct name?
05:11
It was not the correct name, but it was the correct phone number.
05:18
Thank you.
05:22
I'll put the name in the cap.
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Location mentioned:
Near Franklin St, Westerly, RI 02891
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