Resident Sick After Contact With Suspicious Mail in Apartment, Los Angeles County CA


Firefighters responded to a two-story apartment building near Mully after a resident felt sick from contact with a suspicious piece of mail. The mail, containing a driver's license, was isolated in a trash can in the street. Hazmat units investigated the situation as a precaution. The patient refused treatment and transport.
Audio|Source: Los Angeles County Fire - LAC C-22
05:12
Transcript:
00:00
L-A engine 162 is on scene near Mully.
00:05
A two-story apartment over parking, nothing showing, no occupants outside.
00:11
162 will be investigating.
00:12
Let's have all units hold out on the Molley.
00:21
Near Lomale Avenue two-story apartments over parking nothing showing all units hold on Lomoli 1-62-point 161 holding I copped you were trying to look at the exact ad just here right now.
00:46
159, hold it out on the Moly.
00:55
L.A. Battalion 18 on scene.
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19.
01:00
18.
01:04
Andrew 162 from Battalion 18.
01:06
I'll be staged just north of your location off LaMali.
01:13
We're trying to locate the exact unit right now.
01:17
The address might be bad.
01:18
I'll give you an update here in a second.
01:26
918, from Engine 162, we made contact with the RP.
01:30
Sounds like a possible piece of mail made the patient feel sick.
01:34
I think we're okay to handle with the C engine, maybe continue HAZMAT for now while we investigate.
01:40
We're trying to locate the package right now.
01:45
Copy. Do we have a description on the package?
01:50
Sounds like a possible piece of mail with driver's license.
01:59
Copy let. Let's go ahead and we'll just isolate that area and I'll continue.
02:07
The hazmat.
02:11
I copy.
02:16
LA battalion 18.
02:19
This is going to continue to investigate this situation.
02:29
Let's go ahead and continue our hazmat units.
02:33
Health hazmat,
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our J-hat. I'll stay on scene myself, engine 162s, and squad until we continue to investigate.
02:44
You can cancel the rest.
02:51
Copy engine 115.9.
02:56
The one that 61 canceled.
03:04
2-162 from Squad 21.
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We're out front.
03:07
Do you want to step to come in?
03:11
Squad 21, stand by one.
03:15
Copy. McCormick's pulling up behind us, too, it looks like.
03:21
Hey squad, let's go ahead and hold out to let them do their investigation.
03:26
If we have a patient coming up, then we can handle that.
03:32
Okay.
03:39
918 from 1-2.
03:41
Yeah.
03:44
Yeah, go ahead.
03:48
The patient and I want any treatment, doesn't want to be transported.
03:52
We've located that piece of mail is isolated in a trash can right now out front.
03:58
We have in the middle of the street.
04:04
Copy that. I'll meet you up on the A side and if it's on the street, we'll take a better look at it.
04:19
Battalion 18,
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Hazmat 105.
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On direct.
04:30
Battalion 18, Hazmat Task Force 105, on command.
04:38
Yeah, go ahead for Battalion 18.
04:41
Yeah,
04:43
Chief, we're just advising RET is about 15 minutes, just so you're aware of the timeframe.
04:50
Copy that. It looks like this is going to be not too big of a deal, but we're just going to be a precautionary.
04:58
We're just going to go through the steps right now.
05:01
Patient is, if you haven't heard,
05:03
refusing any treatment or transport,
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be psychotic right now.
05:10
As9-105, copy.
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