Fire department investigating heat signature in apartment ceilings; ventilation and power shutdown operations in progress at unit 315; elderly male sheltered in place in apartment 401., Fairfax County VA
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire department investigating heat signature in apartment ceilings; ventilation and power shutdown operations in progress at unit 315; elderly male sheltered in place in apartment 401.
Audio|Heard on: Fairfax County Police, Fire and EMS
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06:52
Transcript:
00:00
Okay, that matches up was on a heat signature earlier that we checked already.
00:09
Okay, you've already rolled that out?
00:14
I believe so, is it? Does that believe me to be by the bed in that apartment?
00:22
It is not near overhead.
00:28
How with the mom and the childs at 10th floor?
00:34
Direct. Car 41 Robbery, direct.
00:42
Did you guys open up the hot spot itself or did you just investigate with the thermal imager and decide everything was okay?
00:50
There was a heat signature in the ceilings.
00:53
The rescue 401 opened up.
00:55
Nothing was evident.
00:57
We are doing natural ventilation now in the environment.
01:00
So we're contending the search for that spot that truck 425 is identified.
01:08
Command's okay.
01:09
Truck 429 from command.
01:13
Truck 429.
01:18
You guys give a truck 425 and outside crew and just prepare for a ventilation flame when we're ready to do so.
01:25
Copy.
01:30
Two man from a 2439.
01:33
Go ahead.
01:36
I got the occupants as well as the building rest in the lobby.
01:39
Building engineers is about 20 minutes out.
01:41
You want us to work on shutting down the fire alarm?
01:47
You can silence the fire alarm.
01:52
Okay, if I'm like the rest of you want to give up a cheese.
02:01
Okay, we'll go ahead and that I don't think it comes from.
02:11
Okay, we're back, so you still on, for Julia?
02:16
That's affirmative.
02:19
We drop the channel, go back to 4 Bravo.
02:22
Channel 4.
02:23
January. Juliet's going to be clear.
02:25
1743.
02:34
Fairfax are Medic 429.
02:38
Medic 429.
02:42
Based on the weather, we're not going to be able to access this because we've got it on the express lanes.
02:46
Can you start 8-0244, please.
02:56
Uh,
03:01
it's back, the initial structure appears to be okay.
03:05
We have a return vent with the heat signature and all the elements in there have some type of signature return to west side.
03:15
It's okay and by heat signature and what kind of temperatures are we talking about here?
03:23
We're just slightly elevated in the 90s but it's a cold air return and issues.
03:34
Okay, Howard.
03:43
Engine 427, Matic 414.
03:46
On Channel 4 Bravo, Box 4278, Crash with Injury, Cross Street, Huntsman Boulevard at Old Key Mill Road.
03:54
Engine 427, Madik 414.
03:57
On Channel 4, Bravo, Box 42708, Crash with Injury, Cross Street, Huntsman Boulevard at Old Key Mill Road.
04:07
On first due,
04:09
it looks like there's individual HVC units on the roof as well.
04:14
Do you guys check that out for me?
04:18
Copy
04:25
Incheon 425 from command.
04:29
Go ahead.
04:32
If you haven't done so already, let's secure the power to 315.
04:38
In your 429, correct.
04:48
We're in truck 425, Jeff.
04:58
Just a heads off, we have a bedridden elderly male in the apartment 401.
05:03
We're going to shelter him in place.
05:08
Command, okay.
05:13
Agent 4404 from MediCorps 29.
05:19
Go ahead.
05:22
Based on what three words it looks like to be a little further up, just under Georgetown Pike.
05:50
Engine 411 on Channel 4 Bravo, Box 41138, EMS level 3, 6356, Chimney Woodcourt, Cross Street, King's Station Court.
06:02
Ambulance 411, Engine 411,
06:05
on Channel 4 Bravo, Box 41138, EMS Level 3,
06:09
6356, Chimney Woodcourt, Cross Street, King's Station Court.
06:18
The exhaust pipe is also hot.
06:21
It only makes sense with the rest of the heat signatures 10-315.
06:27
Okay, copy.
06:29
Let's go ahead and have a truck 425 x-ray start ventilation of that unit itself and we'll clear it out and investigate a little bit further.
06:43
Drop 425 x-ray from commandee, copy.
06:46
You can start ventilation in 315.
06:50
Front 425X3 copies.
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