Heating unit issue causes burning odor at commercial building, Bloomsburg PA
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Fire units investigated a burning odor from a heating unit on the roof of a commercial building at E 2nd St and S Penn St, Bloomsburg. No active fire was found. The heating unit may need replacement.
Audio|Heard on: Eastern Columbia and Western Luzerne Fire and EMS
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01:27
Transcript:
00:00
Perthing alarm.
00:02
Nobody's in the stress in the elevator.
00:04
Elevator's working properly.
00:06
I'll cut a block, hopefully, at 1355.
00:13
Okay, I'm on my way to the back of the building through the nail salon.
00:17
There's somebody back here with the ladder up at the roof saying that the roof heater isn't speeding,
00:24
so they're trying to do something like that.
00:29
She copy that.
00:40
County, you can go ahead and clear all fire units from 2nd and Penn.
00:44
13 by 6.
00:49
On Charlie.
00:53
On team.
00:55
Yep.
01:00
Okay,
01:01
the contractor back here said he got called because the building had no heat.
01:04
He went up there and he said it smelled like something burning from the heat unit.
01:09
He took it apart.
01:10
They didn't look like anything was burning.
01:12
He thinks they're going to have to replace the heat unit.
01:15
So if you're ladder in the front, you probably just want to send somebody up to the roof and then we'll chuck it.
01:23
Yeah, she's setting the tower up.
01:25
I'm going to send her out a camera and look camera, everything, before we go.
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Location mentioned:
E 2nd St & S Penn St, Bloomsburg, PA 17815
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