Fire crews investigate electrical heat at Chesapeake mall, Chesapeake VA
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Fire & ArsonFire crews investigated a possible electrical heat source at the ceiling spotlights in a commercial mall near Greenbrier Parkway in Chesapeake. They checked the elevator, attic, and electrical rooms but found no active fire. They identified charred spotlights as the likely origin of the heat but no fire extension was found.
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05:21
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 14 to Engine 4.
00:05
J.
00:06
14 to engine 4.
00:08
engine 4. Go ahead.
00:14
A.L.P. Can you get someone to check that elevator?
00:20
Also, Ainsworth found an opening to the attic near that area you're working in.
00:27
Can anybody get eyes up in there as well?
00:34
We have somebody in the attic right now.
00:35
We'll check the elevator.
00:39
Engine 14 in command.
00:42
Brander 14.
00:44
We got all clear in the electrical room, no issues.
00:52
Command of 14, do you think this site lighting could be somewhere else in the mall?
01:01
As far as the panel?
01:05
Yeah, that's a strong possibility.
01:07
I'll ask the manager if there's any other panels located elsewhere in the building that may be with a street light.
01:18
Command engine 2 and clear.
01:33
Engine 11, Versa-R3-39, Time Out, 1739.
01:47
Inge 11, District 12839, the legal stride, off of three point tries in response to there's pipes.
01:56
Timeout, 1740.
02:02
Cap Wooten said there's possibly a panel where the President's Security Office is on the back side of the food court.
02:11
14, copy.
02:15
Rescue 15 in command.
02:18
Okay, 15.
02:22
Hey, Chief, above this overhang,
02:25
there are probably 15 spotlights.
02:30
We've got one that we can see some charring on,
02:33
and we're opening up now and looking at the bulb.
02:37
Confident we found a source.
02:40
Okay, and you're on top of that, the Oetney, the pillars right here, we're in your four walls.
02:46
Copy that, yes, sir, I'm up here on ladder, too.
02:50
Yeah, I, thank you.
02:56
Lighter 5, Chesa, Ply, Plyter 5 is on the same proper side.
03:01
Okay, so on the same point on.
03:07
Later 5, you can clear.
03:11
Plus.com.
03:19
Command, Engine 3.
03:22
Agent 3, Gotcha.
03:25
You at the front there with the rest of the crews?
03:30
Yes, sir, that's permanent.
03:31
We also walked the second floor when we first got here, Dillard's, but we didn't have any smells or heat signatures.
03:39
Okay,
03:40
Command of 14.
03:45
14, go ahead.
03:47
Are you going to try to find that panel and want a crew with you? Yes,
03:55
sir. We are going to try to make a way to it and I think we're good with just 14's crew.
04:02
Okay, once,
04:03
looks like the rescues identified the source and the origin.
04:10
Probably a couple of companies.
04:18
Okay.
04:25
Command a trustee PD can clear.
04:30
Okay, sounds like through. Okay, sounds like through.
04:36
Engine 4, command.
04:39
Command, engine 4.
04:42
We have two firefighters in the attic.
04:44
They're showing 130 degrees on these can lights that are not lit right underneath the underhang.
04:50
And they say they're warm to the touch.
04:57
Okay, I copy.
05:02
I don't have any char extension outside of those cans, correct?
05:13
Minute 6, Alpha Bravo, 912, Madelfield Boulevard South.
05:19
Timeout, 1746.
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Location mentioned:
Greenbrier Pkwy, Chesapeake, VA 23320
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