Smoke detected in electrical room at hospital, Melbourne FL
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to smoke in an electrical room on the second floor of a hospital building. The smoke appeared to come from a generator or UPS battery bank. The crew isolated power and ventilated the area. No flames were observed.
Audio|Source: Brevard County Fire Tac Channels
04:27
Transcript:
00:00
Tower 74 is on tax 71.
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790-701. 790-74 on tax 71.
00:15
10774 from Tower 74. Do you have a good location to where you're at?
00:25
I'm on the second floor.
00:29
It's an electrical room.
00:30
It doesn't have smoke, but there's no smoke right now. We're trying to isolate the generator that's in here, but I don't have any access for windows.
00:42
ID 74, District 74.
00:46
Good.
00:51
You give me a rundown what's going on?
01:00
We were delayed at the door.
01:02
When we came up in the elevator,
01:05
they radioed in and said that the room was filled with smoke. We just got here. It's an electrical room on 4-2, but I can't find anything that's smoking right now, but some room is charged with smoke. What do you got?
01:20
Copy, what building and floor are you on?
01:27
We're in the main building, 4-2. Copy it.
01:35
Belrogens is 74.
01:37
Good.
01:40
I'm established Holmes Command.
01:44
I'm on the Charlie side, off Oak Street, Flint engines.
01:48
Seventy-four and Tower 74.
01:53
Copy on Charlie. I'm Charlie.
01:57
Two man, I do thirty four. We're in the second floor pharmacy.
02:03
Copy, do you need any needs up there?
02:09
We were able to isolate the generator right now and say batteries are hot. We just killed it. We're trying to get the smoke out of here now.
02:19
Coming.
02:24
Power 74 command, what's your status?
02:29
Tower 74 is made to the second floor.
02:32
When you come in where the engine is, it's going to be through a door, up a stairwell,
02:38
and we're almost above where the maintenance checks the fire panel.
02:47
Golly.
02:49
District 74 where at the 5-minute benchmark, 5-minute.
02:54
Best access is where engine 74 is.
02:59
Command engine 5 on the roach.
03:03
Copy on Roach.
03:05
Command 90-74.
03:08
Go ahead.
03:12
So we were able to shut the dial. So UPS cabinet, it's sitting that the batteries are hot, we were able to shut it down at the sun.
03:20
We're just going to be evacuated smoke.
03:22
We could probably handle it up from the truck.
03:28
Copy, Melbourne. Just give me one more engine, and you can cancel the rest of the box.
03:41
Yeah, it's probably. You can't have everybody else.
03:52
Mr. Chairman 8, take care. The command from Tower 7-4.
04:06
Got a tower.
04:09
Okay, because the battery bank, we're getting gas monitors and bringing them up.
04:15
Do you need the extinguishers from 75?
04:22
Negative, but keep him here.
04:27
Copy, we'll do.
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Location mentioned:
Near Hickory St, Melbourne, FL 32901
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