Smoke investigation in multi-floor building on Broad Street, Richmond VA
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire department is investigating and ventilating smoke in multiple floors of a building near Broad Street in Richmond. Rooms on the second and third floors are reported full of smoke. Crews are checking each floor and adjusting ventilation efforts to clear the smoke.
Audio|Heard on: Richmond City Fire Dispatch
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04:12
Transcript:
00:00
Second floor investigative group to the Broad Street Command.
00:03
Can I have,
00:04
do you send me another engine company at the second floor that smoke is picked back up on the second floor?
00:12
I think stuck a fan adjacent to the tube that was full of smoke, so you're going to get some more smoke on the second floor.
00:21
Engine 12, can you go ahead and proceed to the second floor to assist truck 7?
00:35
Engine 12 from command.
00:39
Affirmative, sir.
00:40
We're on our way.
00:43
Okay.
00:50
Second floor investigative group to Engine 12.
00:54
You could find a key holder or master key for the second floor.
00:57
I appreciate it.
01:01
12, I'm sending you two firefighters now, and then I'll look for the master key and bring it up.
01:07
18 to truck 7.
01:12
Go ahead.
01:16
Could you have somebody check room 205? Why are y'all up there?
01:26
203, 205, full of smoke.
01:36
207, 209, full of smoke as well.
01:44
All right, you're going to get an update on the first floor lobby ventilation efforts.
01:51
The man, we'll try through your reference that.
01:56
Go ahead.
02:00
So we're changing the location of our ventilation.
02:04
The smoke from the patio there was coming in, we're just going to change up location with a fan.
02:11
It should be good in about 10 minutes.
02:16
I copy. Do you need any additional resources with your efforts?
02:25
Not in here.
02:29
Truck 7 from command?
02:37
Truck seven from command.
02:43
Seven, go ahead.
02:45
All right.
02:48
Do you need any additional resources on the second floor to access any rooms or any other functions up there?
02:59
Negative. We have two master keys right now.
03:02
We're just going to have trouble pushing the smoke.
03:04
There's no windows that are open in the hotel rooms.
03:13
I copy.
03:17
Need to check on the third floor as well to see if any residual smoke is up there.
03:24
Engine 12, are you in position to check the third floor?
03:33
It's affirmative.
03:34
We've checked rooms 301 to 309.
03:38
It's mimicking the second floor.
03:40
There is more smoke as you approach the rooms towards the end, 309.
03:46
That could be because the fan is pushing it that way or it could be that we have an additional source.
03:54
Okay.
03:56
We're going to need to go all the way up all the floors and ensure those rooms are ventilated properly.
04:08
We're headed to the fourth now.
04:11
Okay.
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E Broad St, Richmond, VA
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