Water leak causes flooding at Wintonbury Mall, Bloomfield CT
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Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a water flow alarm at Wintonbury Mall in Bloomfield. They found flooding and water leaking from the ceiling behind a closed restaurant. The flooding affected an open restaurant and also reached the electrical system. Maintenance and fire marshal were notified.
Audio|Heard on: Bloomfield Center Fire
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05:20
Transcript:
00:00
Dispatch, car one on scene, two story strip mall.
00:04
Nothing's showing.
00:05
Car one will be commanded.
00:09
Car one on scene two story strip low, nothing showing has commanded, 1928.
00:18
Fire three is up, yeah as well.
00:22
Car three on scene 1928.
00:30
Suspetched.
00:31
Rescue 6 is responding to 3.
00:37
Wintonbury Mall near Park Avenue.
00:40
Activated water flow.
00:42
Cross-street Jerome Ave and Bloomfield Ave.
00:44
One Hydrant near Park at the south side of the mall, another near Park at the corner of Jerome.
00:49
Knoxbox on location by the movie theater entrance.
00:52
The Shelby Fire Round 1.
00:57
Copy two is on.
01:01
Complete 2-1, 1929.
01:02
3,000. Card 3 from Command[1] of U1 Fireroom.
01:14
Head 4.
01:22
Mike,
01:24
if you want to take the utility down by Ginza, I'm going to walk down.
01:31
Squad 3 is responding with 3.
01:37
Squad 3 is following 3 in 1930.
01:44
Right there, rest of 6.
01:52
Rescue 6 on Cairns.
01:58
Rescue 6 on C, 1931.
02:04
Dispatch from command.
02:09
Go ahead, command.
02:12
Yeah, if you want to make a notification to the maintenance,
02:16
we have an excessive amount of water coming out of the ceiling behind the old Ginza.
02:23
Roger, Wally, behind the old Ginza, 1931.
02:33
This bad, squad two is responding, drive rolling.
02:40
Squad two responding, drive rolling.
02:48
Detach from Rescue 6.
02:55
Go ahead, Rescue 6.
02:58
Boxbox keys accessed by Firefighter 134.
03:03
1932.
03:10
This bit, Tower one's going with one.
03:15
Tower one respondent one 1933.
03:24
Dispatch from command.
03:29
Go ahead.
03:32
All right,
03:33
notification to the fire marshal's office.
03:35
Up to him if he wants to respond.
03:37
And doving department as well, we do have one of the open restaurants that's also flooding at this time.
03:44
And it appears we have water in the electrical system as well.
03:51
Roger,
03:53
do you need a response from the building department or is that their decision as well?
03:59
Yeah, I'd probably advise them to come if they can, but it's up to them.
04:04
Roger.
04:13
And command all incoming units, everybody can continue to code one at this time, call the response.
04:24
Squad 3 is on the seat.
04:27
Squad 3 on C 1934.
04:32
Tower 1 at C.
04:33
C.
04:35
Tower 1 in 1935.
04:43
Squad 2, copy.
04:45
Covert bus.
04:53
Squad 3 from command, if you can send your crew into the restaurant in front that's open and see how bad the flooding is in there.
05:03
Squad 3, copy.
05:11
This bad, squad 2 is on scene.
05:15
Squad 2 unseen.
05:17
Squad 2 unseen.
05:19
Team 36.
Police codes explained
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[1]
Command: Incident Command established for managing the incident
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Location mentioned:
Wintonbury Mall, Bloomfield, CT 06002
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