Smoke odor investigated at pet retail store in Monroeville, Monroeville PA
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Fire & ArsonFire crews investigated a smoke odor at a single-story commercial pet retail store near Stroschein Road in Monroeville. They found a slight smell near a dryer and HVAC unit but no active fire. The dryer may have burned a belt, causing the odor. The premises were partially evacuated as a precaution.
Audio|Heard on: Monroeville Fire and EMS
Listen to dispatch call
05:35
Transcript:
00:00
We're going to stand by at the hydrant.
00:10
Truck go past us.
00:15
Truck 5 cross the vehicle.
00:17
Truck 5, we're on the side of Alpha.
00:21
Truck 5 on the scene, side alpha, engine 61 on the scene with the hydrant.
00:31
Medic 1-9 acknowledges.
00:36
Copy, Medic 1-9, acknowledge.
00:43
See you, Townsend.
00:45
See it.
00:46
One-story,
00:48
commercial pet retail.
00:51
Nothing evident from the office side.
00:55
360 being conducted.
01:00
Seaton on the scene of a single-story pet retail, nothing evident alpha side.
01:04
360 being completed, 1539.
01:11
Truck 4 is on the same.
01:13
What?
01:15
The truck's a lot of this one.
01:23
Communications command, we do have partial evacuation, nothing evident from the Delta or Charlie either.
01:31
61, truck five, send in cruis, that escape.
01:39
Copy partial evade, nothing evident on a 360.
02:01
PETCO,
02:02
near Stroschein Road.
02:03
Order something burning in the utility room.
02:07
Engine 12, engine 31, re-alerted.
02:09
Public safety, 1541.
02:17
1-9's in route.
02:23
Medical 1-9, PECO, near Stroschein Road.
02:31
Command, interior.
02:35
Go ahead, interior.
02:40
This time, this on a smoker fire, we do have a slight odor in the forward utility route.
02:46
We're checking what they take now.
02:49
Coffee, slight odor, nothing else, evident.
02:59
Matt Chris, commande,
03:02
go ahead.
03:07
Engine 12, engine 31 is out to respond with your wishes.
03:12
We can hold at this, we got crews from 61,
03:16
Truck 5,
03:18
and Truck 4 conduct an investigation.
03:22
Copy 3. Holding the assignment is dispatched.
03:25
Units investigating.
03:26
1543.
03:47
Go ahead. See if you can check if there's an H-pack unit right above the area of the main entrance, kind of where the odor is sticking around.
04:03
I'm going about 10 feet back from the entrance, I'm checking it out.
04:15
Toward roof command.
04:20
Go ahead, roof.
04:28
Slide odor from the H.ICHI unit around the main entrance.
04:32
My neighbor would open it up beneath the key.
04:38
Any power disconnects up there or is it all interior into the unit?
04:49
Command Drive-Fi?
04:52
Do you try-five?
04:57
In the front room here we have a dryer.
05:00
Seems to be where the smell's the strongest, still warm.
05:03
I can maybe have burned up a belt or something.
05:07
But there's no active fire at the time.
05:14
Sounds good, any management in there we can inform or they'll come out.
05:21
They appear to all be outside, I'll try to find someone.
05:26
I'll talk to these people out here.
05:29
All right,
05:30
see if you can disconnect the dryer just to be safe.
05:34
All right.
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Location mentioned:
Stroschein Rd, Monroeville, PA 15146
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