Electrical issue causes smoke at King residence, King NC
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, a structure fire was reported at a residence near Greenleaf Court in King, North Carolina. Responders observed smoke and haze and determined the cause was an electrical issue confined to the breaker panel. The main breaker was turned off, and the fire was contained to the panel with no further spread.
Audio|Heard on: Stokes County Sheriff, Fire and EMS Dispatch, King Police
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06:5
Transcript:
00:00
The caller is confirming the 317 West 9th Street.
00:08
538, come here,
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538, come here.
00:25
6.14, y'all tend to 4.
00:27
24.
00:33
116. One more time, but uh,
00:47
cut out.
00:54
There's light haze down here in the basement.
00:59
All right, copy light haze in the basement.
01:05
I'm coming up in the basement.
01:06
I'm coming up north main now.
01:13
5.30.
01:15
Yes, sir.
01:17
Okay, if a word, it's been number five, number five, number five,
01:20
will you?
01:23
Go ahead and I'll put it re-alert on them.
01:26
If conditions start up great, now I'm saying I'll put another department on.
01:34
Deal.
01:36
One hundred trouble learning.
01:40
Go ahead.
01:42
Chad,
01:43
if you want to hop up in the attic,
01:46
I think it's this air handler breakers.
01:50
It's the hot, it's thin of them up.
01:52
Seems like that's what I was going to break you off.
01:56
All right, you're going to have to pick that you broke up.
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I'm going downstairs.
02:05
Check the air handler is what he's asking for.
02:09
Okay, thank you.
02:11
Okay, man.
02:13
One three one.
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41.
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41. 41.
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14. 14,
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17, y'all ten-four.
02:29
Copy, signal, ten.
02:36
I guess, I'm working on getting in the attic.
02:39
It's a little scuttle hole in the closet.
02:41
Can't work.
02:45
I can't see if his breaker's melted or anything.
02:52
Dr. You can cancel your ladder.
02:55
I got access to us.
02:58
Copy, cancel ladder.
03:09
137. All right,
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attic to command.
03:22
All right, everything's dim full in the attic.
03:25
Nothing's hot or anything like that up here.
03:29
All right. Just confined there to this breaker panel in.
03:32
Chief, I say you're good with canceling everything at this point.
03:36
Just melted wires and stuff in this breaker panel downstairs.
03:43
All right, copy,
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cancel,
03:46
what's not on the scene?
03:51
Stokes direct.
03:55
Taylor, Chief, copy, canceling, that's on scenes this time.
04:00
4213 is on things, Mike.
04:03
Copy, uh, 23, just, if you want to get a position to move out,
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but just stay here.
04:12
Herebole.
04:17
Any decisions, he's responding to 112 Greenleaf Court, 112 Greenleaf Court, you cancancel, and cancel authority of command 30.
04:24
Amendment 005.
04:29
Justin I'm here and just if we did have a stove incident here probably about three weeks ago
04:41
we did have some maybe a breaker or an electrical issue there too
04:50
yeah that's info was a breaker above the
04:54
Any pump breakers also got some wires that have been hot at some point.
04:57
It looks like the bus part probably just got hot on this thing.
05:01
He's like to have a new brick panel.
05:05
Good copy.
05:07
I'm out here unless you need something else.
05:11
You have to go over and run back and walk down here.
05:16
Alright, I'll be there for a second.
05:20
Justin, you don't want to pull the service connect up here for this unit?
05:27
No, Chad, we're going to have to leave the whole mainbreaker all so he's got the whole panel.
05:35
Yeah, that was quite hot.
05:37
Are we good with just a power killed there or do we need Duke Energy?
05:41
I mean, I think he's...
05:48
Man 30. Dan giving off.
05:55
I didn't copy that last about Dick Kennedy.
05:57
You good with the main breaker or June, I didn't contact Duke Energy.
06:02
Yeah,
06:03
I think we're fine right now.
06:04
If something changes, I'll let you know.
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West St, King, NC 27021
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