Furnace issue causes elevated carbon monoxide at residence, Simsbury CT
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Multiple fire units responded to a two-story wood-frame residence near Terry's Plain Road for a reported potential fire. Upon investigation, no fire was found, but elevated carbon monoxide levels were detected due to a malfunctioning furnace.
Audio|Heard on: Simsbury Fire Dispatch
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06:57
Transcript:
00:00
Again, near Terry's Plain Road is the closest hydrant, a dry hydrant near Terry's Plain.
00:08
Nine seven,
00:10
two and that's twenty-four.
00:16
Seven with twenty-four, crew two, twenty-twenty-one.
00:21
Engine 189-033
00:27
14 drives us.
00:32
Are we at 8 and 14 responding, 2021?
00:36
16 and 4.
00:38
16 and 4.
00:39
16 and 4.
00:47
Base 20 unseen.
00:50
Two-story wood, nothing shown.
00:53
We'll be out checking.
00:56
20 unseen, two-story wood frame, nothing showing out, checking at 2023.
01:04
The engine six responding, 135 crew of four.
01:10
Engine 6 with 135, crew 4, 2023.
01:16
Tanker 9, respondent, with 2.
01:19
Tanker 9 with 2.
01:24
Clint 5, 37, crew of 5.
01:28
Quint 5, 37 with 5.
01:31
Quint 5, 37 with 5.
01:37
Please,
01:39
why don't you show 20 command across the street, A-side?
01:44
20 assuming command across the street at A-side, 24.
01:50
Command 20-0.
01:53
Go ahead.
01:56
Owners are reporting a smell similar to a backfire and a boil.
02:02
All right, ten-four.
02:04
Sounds like eight's pulling up.
02:10
Tower thirty four, crew six, twenty-four, two twenty-two.
02:20
Engine, commit.
02:24
No, come in.
02:28
Bring your crew to 21 for investigation.
02:33
Eat okay, base to show, Engine Aftime.
02:37
Engine 8 unseen, 24.
02:42
Seven crew size.
02:45
No,
02:47
2 with 24. All right,
02:51
10,
02:52
4.
03:01
Seven on scene, actually.
03:06
Seven on scene, 2025.
03:14
Mike, why don't you hold the crew together? We'll stretch a line off here as if we need to.
03:23
Bring a meter in too, please.
03:30
Tower 12, commit.
03:34
Tower.
03:37
Investigation 2 with a meter, meet up with engine.
03:45
Tower, okay.
03:50
201 you got no fire in the basement
03:54
Nothing I can see from the exterior the doors to the interior is wide open nothing found no smoke just a little Okay sorry eight's coming up behind you
04:11
I'm gonna command what's on here?
04:16
We have engine 2, quimp 5, engine 6, 7 and 8 on scene, tanker 9, 10 or 12, rescue 14, engine 16.
04:31
Okay,
04:34
10, 4. 16, come in.
04:38
16's on.
04:40
Okay,
04:42
stand by the dry hydrant.
04:44
Bacon spot.
04:49
Three-two, sixteen stages of dry hydrant.
04:56
And surgery, commit.
04:59
Go, command.
05:04
The remaining units can respond cold.
05:10
Copy that, all remaining units to respond out of code status, 2027.
05:20
Towers arrival.
05:24
Turn 12 on scene, 2027.
05:30
Command 21.
05:32
Verified, it's the furnace.
05:35
7,
05:37
8, 12, okay?
05:40
Yep.
05:43
Cesarite, command.
05:46
Go, command.
05:49
7, 8, 12, dismissed the rest.
05:53
Good copies, holding a timement.
05:55
207, engine 8, tower 12, all others are released at 2028.
06:07
8 or 12, you can send in a fan.
06:10
12, you can send in a fan.
06:13
12, okay.
06:19
12, we have the fan off-self.
06:24
12, okay.
06:30
Command,
06:31
we're catching 25 parts of million, number 1-4.
06:35
All right, 10-4[1].
06:39
Cusory, Command, can you just make a note, 25 Parts-Million on the number 1?
06:45
Thanks, Cappies, 25 Parts for Million, Number 1-4, 20-29.
06:52
Also, the owner is on the phone right now with the west side.
06:57
10-4[1].
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment or confirmation that a message was received and understood.
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Location mentioned:
Terry's Plain Rd, Simsbury, CT 06070
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