Sprinkler line breaks causing water damage at commercial building, Asheville NC
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, at a commercial building near Sweeten Creek Road in Asheville, a broken sprinkler line caused water damage. Fire crews found no active fire but a minor blaze may have been extinguished by the sprinkler system.
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04:39
Transcript:
00:00
Battalion 3, Battalion 2, Safety 10, Ladder 4, Engine 4, Engine 11, FM 10, Quint 10, Engine 1, Rescue 3, Tanker 12, Battalion 1, near Sweeten Creek Road.
00:15
Building fire.
00:17
Battalion 3, Battalion 2, Safety 10, Ladder 4, Engine 4, Engine 11, FM 10, Quint 10, Engine 1, Rescue 3, Tanker 12, Battalion 1.
00:30
Near Sweeten Creek Road.
00:32
Building fire.
00:34
Wayman Boulevard and Kensington Place.
00:36
On fire 2.
00:48
Engine 4, go ahead.
00:51
We're on the scene of a single story commercial store facility.
00:55
We've got nothing showing.
00:57
We're out to investigate and offensive strategy holder assignment.
01:00
401 will be Sweet and Creek Command.
01:04
Engine 4 and a scene of a one story.
01:07
Industrial building nothing showing now for investigation of offensive strategy hold your assignment in command.
01:15
Linafores level 1421.
01:20
Go ahead, sir, Sweet Creek command.
01:24
Go ahead, sir.
01:29
We have no fire.
01:32
We've got a sprinkler line that is busted and shooting water everywhere.
01:38
You can go ahead and cancel everyone with the exception of engine four, ladder four.
01:44
Let's keep quick five coming at this time and keep a battalion sheet coming as well, please.
01:57
A copy no fire.
01:58
Cancel your assignment with the exception of Battalion 3,
02:03
Quint 5 and ladder 4.
02:07
And the alarm was due to a busted springboard line.
02:12
1423.
02:15
Ladder 4.01 from command?
02:21
Go ahead, sir.
02:23
Can you try to attempt to locate a rise of room and turn this water off?
02:32
Sounds good.
02:42
I've been Ken from Sweden Creek Command.
02:44
Are you still on scene?
02:49
Ten 4.
02:54
Man from Battalion 3.
02:58
Go ahead, Battalion 3.
03:02
I'm on scene.
03:03
Did you need that since then?
03:08
That's affirmative.
03:09
He was on the scene here.
03:11
We're having a hard time to examine this.
03:13
There is a possibility,
03:15
after we examined it, that we may have had a small fire here that was put out by the sprinkler system.
03:22
I was going to have him hang out, hang around, take a look at it when we get swar cut off.
03:27
Two,
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four. I don't see them here outside, but I'll try to raise them.
03:32
Thank you.
03:34
FM10 copies, sir, Act Chief.
03:38
Ten-four, thank you.
03:40
Command from a time three, I'll go ahead and take command from you.
03:45
Copy that.
03:47
Our biggest thing is, it looks like we're going to have a pretty big water issue to deal with, once we'll get this shutdown.
03:56
Ten-four, we'll work on getting the water shutdown and we'll get responding units to help with dewatering activities.
04:08
Communications from FMTown, Part 2.
04:12
I'll pitch you back on the call, sir.
04:15
Good, four, thank you.
04:21
On the latter one.
04:24
The ladder one, go ahead.
04:27
We're in service.
04:31
Number one, copy and service at 1427.
04:38
402 from 401.
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Sweeten Creek Rd, Asheville, NC 28803
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