Minor fire and water damage in an apartment building, Ithaca NY
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, a small fire triggered sprinklers and caused water damage in an apartment building near Cherry St, Ithaca. Fire units checked the apartments and found no active fire or smoke. Water was being shut off and cleanup efforts coordinated. At least two apartments were affected, with residents displaced and some needing Red Cross assistance. One occupant has a cat.
Audio|Heard on: Tompkins County Fire/EMS
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05:55
Transcript:
00:00
The bedroom of near Cherry St.
00:04
There is no active fire.
00:06
You can pop some doors down here and just double check this hallway.
00:15
There we'll see if I'm on a third floor.
00:22
Let's get the water shut off, but whoever's shutting the water off, so I'm guessing that's you.
00:29
Stay at the control, please.
00:34
All copies.
00:35
Albert Smith and I are in the control room right now.
00:38
We'll work on shutting it off unless someone has its own valve, so that's where they want to hit.
00:47
Offsall, Watris, there's a shutoff for the floor in the stairwell,
00:51
too.
00:53
Yeah, I'm going back there right now.
01:00
Yeah,
01:05
we're not sure what's going on here yet at Cherry Street, but can you just have IPD respond emergent? We need an extra set of eyes.
01:15
I see.
01:20
Jason is the water shop to this work for now?
01:27
Not at the moment.
01:29
So active.
01:34
Dylan, you got to also open the drain.
01:42
Whatever at the shutoff, I think you got the right one that's decreasing.
01:48
I guess it's draining out now.
01:56
Baker, if you have the ability to silence, go ahead and silence.
02:03
Man from 942.
02:12
We've checked all the apartments in the hallway of the apartment with blown sprinkler.
02:18
No smoke condition in any apartment.
02:24
Hi, Kappi. No smoke.
02:28
Baker,
02:30
you and your crew lose your air packs and then you can head up to floor 3 and see what you can do to help.
02:37
Dobby, the panel first said electrical room 417 and now staying in the electrical room 517 for trouble.
02:49
Command, Engine 1, we're going to definitely need the water back up here.
02:55
I'm going to chat with maintenance and see what they have.
03:05
Saul,
03:08
can you get the butt back?
03:13
Hey, from.
03:16
Hey, we should be able to push the water down there.
03:24
If we can get some squeegees up here, we can probably start that process.
03:32
Copy that.
03:34
Let's see what we can do.
03:36
If we can do any sports,
03:38
sort of salvage for floor one and floor two.
03:43
Hamilton is on his way in the building to meet with Lawrence and also the emergency contract who's going to get a company and help clean up.
03:59
salvage tarps to the second floor that probably helps.
04:06
Number two at this point, why don't you guys come out lose your air packs and you guys grab the tarps?
04:15
And now?
04:21
Command engine one.
04:24
There's going to be one resident that's going to need probably Red Cross services.
04:28
Building Rep said that they have no vacancy.
04:31
He has a cat, at least one.
04:34
I don't know what the subsequent floors below us look like, for if they're livable.
04:42
For now, I just looked at the second floor.
04:44
That's pretty flooded.
04:46
It's just going to get worse.
04:54
Can you contact Red Cross? We have three different apartment occupants affected by a small incendiary fire as well as some water damage.
05:09
One of the occupants has a cat as well.
05:13
Red Cross, please.
05:18
Just commercial safe.
05:26
I've got water running through all these electrical boxes too.
05:32
Pretty bad.
05:38
Just three people or three apartments that are affected.
05:45
At this point, it's actually just two apartments.
05:49
I will get a phone number and a actual number of tenants.
05:55
Stand by.
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Location mentioned:
Cherry St, Ithaca, NY 14850
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