Smoke caused by burnt belt in overloaded washer, Ithaca NY
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to smoke on the third floor laundry room near Cinema Dr. The smoke was caused by a burnt belt in an overloaded washing machine. No active fire was found and smoke was being cleared.
Audio|Source: Tompkins County Fire/EMS
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Transcript:
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569 to the engine, Harlan.
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Go ahead.
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I'm going to have to transfer a command to you so we can get in and get eyes on.
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Can you do a face-to-face will be at the door, please?
00:25
31 to 562, 561 will be arriving in about 30 seconds.
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At the corner just above the entrance that we're going to be going in, that's going to be your target for the aerial that we need it.
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Recorded by PD is moderate smoke, third floor laundry room.
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Small amount of smoke, third floor laundry room.
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He's here to command.
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He advised somebody pulled the pole station.
01:00
It's notified upon the firearm panel.
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1201 to Dryden Command[1].
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Off 5.
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Claim 1201 to Brighton Command[1], Office 5.
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Claim 1201 to Brighton Command[1], Office 5.
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Triton Command[1]'s on.
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562's resuming command.
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Go ahead.
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Let's pull on the barbie drive now.
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What's your pleasure and we're eyes.
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You can come in behind 531 and do you have manpower?
01:40
Mayfair, two interior, one exterior.
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Time forward.
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They can stand by at the door.
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We're just evaluating right now until we get eyes on.
01:51
That's reported moderate smoke condition.
01:55
Got to that.
02:01
Next unit on the scene that we can get a up-end station at the door soon.
02:08
Interior Command[1],
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silence the alarm, please.
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Time for Samble.
02:16
Definitely have a smoke condition.
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in so far view drive command on county fire.
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Five, six nine, go ahead.
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Orlandoville Fast Team is en route to your location.
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Are they needed?
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No, here shortly.
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Stand by.
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Command[1] 2 Interior, just be advising up mutual aid coming in so if I can get an initial report, please.
03:09
Command[1], you're going to have to come back with that.
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Command[1] 2 Interior, we have mutual aid coming, so I'm going to need a report when you can.
03:23
Yeah,
03:24
smoke condition seems to be contained to the laundry room.
03:27
Have a fan,
03:29
bring a fan up just in case we're going to need it pretty soon.
03:32
We're investigating still.
03:35
No obvious fire.
03:38
Smoke condition seems to be contained to the laundry room, bring the fan to the third floor.
03:44
Would it be safe to return at least Cortlandville and stand down the fasting?
03:50
That sounds good.
03:51
That's affirmative.
03:53
Councilor, thank you.
03:59
Corkinville Chief is here.
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They're going to take care of standing down their responding units.
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All other units are maintained.
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See you.
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That's for command.
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Yeah, our initial investigation.
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We feel it's a belt that was due to a belt burning due to an overloaded washer.
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Copy that, looks like a burnt belt from an overloaded washer.
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That's a permanent.
04:36
Simple. Smoke mitigation and let me know when you're ready to try an alarm reset.
04:43
And then it's like I turn it on the way up.
04:47
Traffic, sorry.
Police codes explained
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Command: Incident Command established/command unit speaking
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Location mentioned:
Near Cinema Dr, Ithaca, NY 14850
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