Smoke reported at medical building found to be false alarm, Redondo Beach CA
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Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a report of smoke on the upper floor of the Beach Cities Medical Building near North Prospect Avenue. Upon investigation, no active flames were found. The smoke appeared to be fogged windows or spray snow on the windows, and the situation was determined to be a false alarm.
Audio|Heard on: South Bay Fire: Culver City, El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Torrance
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04:37
Transcript:
00:00
Attention, Battalion, 6-1, engine 6-2, and gym-6-4, squad 62, and truck 61, one alarm modified.
00:08
Beach Cities Health District, 514 North Prospect.
00:11
3rd floor, no flames seen, only smoke. RP is a neighbor in the area, only one RP.
00:19
Battalion 61, Engine 62, Engine 64, Squad 62, and Truck 61.
00:25
All units switch down to.
00:31
The principal neighbor near North Prospect.
00:44
Okay.
00:48
Let's route you to the RP near North Prospect.
00:56
I'm from Battalion 6-1-2.
01:03
Let's have you make access to the center drive and we'll have you read the building and make entry based on what you see as you arrive on the alpha side.
01:11
This is going to be the Beach City's medical building.
01:22
Here we have nothing showing, nothing sounding.
01:29
Engine 60 is going to be asked for further investigation.
01:32
Engine 60 will go ahead and stand by your water and the squad 6-2 come over for further assistance with the investigation.
01:46
Engine 6-2, Battalion 6-1 on Channel 2.
01:54
Go ahead.
01:58
Looping around from the south side,
02:01
unremarkable, no findings to report.
02:09
Go ahead, Chuck.
02:14
From my vantage point, I spoke to the RP, it appears it looks like spray snow on the windows on the fourth floor of the alpha side of the structure, alpha side being the address site.
02:29
That's affirmative.
02:31
The windows are fogged out on the fourth floor outside of the building.
02:38
Copy, Engine 6-2 from Battalion 6-1.
02:43
Go ahead.
02:47
Based on Truck 6-1's description, that's the Alcove.
02:52
If you want to make your way straight to the 4th, it looks like they're doing business as normal if you want to touch base with that part of the building.
03:04
Copy that, we're headed that way.
03:08
All units from Battalion 6-1, the north aspect of the complex is unremarkable.
03:15
I'm back at the turnaround on the Alpha side.
03:18
I'll be assuming Beach City's Command correction.
03:22
I'll be assuming Prospect Command at the Beach City's Health District Complex, Prospect Command at the Battalion 6-1, Alpha Side at the Turnaround.
03:36
Also I come in from Truck 61.
03:38
We're going to stage on the west side of this structure here.
03:42
Let us know of where you want to,
03:43
once you get the information.
03:46
Truck 6-1, once you sit tight where you're at with the RP, once engine 6-2 gets up to the 4th, we're going to have them a flashlight back to you so you can confirm what the RP,
04:01
they're at the location to which they're visualizing the hazard.
04:07
Got me.
04:16
Go ahead.
04:21
I don't know if you're hard or lost traffic, once you make access to the alcove on the fourth floor,
04:26
if you can give a couple flashes with a flashlight from the Alpha Side windows, so Truck can confirm that you are indeed where the RP is reporting the observed hazard.
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Location mentioned:
N Prospect Ave Suite 309, Redondo Beach, CA 90277
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