Smoke in high-rise due to burned HVAC belt, Oakton VA
Fire & ArsonA burned belt on an HVAC unit on the roof of a six-story residential high-rise near Jermantown Rd caused smoke to fill the 5th and 6th floors. Fire units worked on ventilating the affected floors. The situation was declared stable after ventilation efforts.
Audio|Source: Fairfax County Fire and Rescue
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Transcript:
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18 from Fairfax?
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Are you with Division 6?
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Come in from Division 6. I'm here.
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We got the alarm silence up here.
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Copyar. Conditions being better on 6th floor.
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About 30 more minutes.
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She'll be releasing the writ units here momentarily.
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Okay,
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understood.
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I'm going to move Tower 403,
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truck 430 out of Division 6 to make them the Venture. Copy.
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Copy.
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Tower 403 from command.
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Top 403.
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You'll be the vent group with truck 430.
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Move all your traffic to 4 Fox truck.
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Ventation group move to 4 Foxtrot.
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Vent group 4 Foxtrot.
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Lobby from command.
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430, you're on Fox Truck.
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596, EMS level 3, 5982, Founders Hillport, 204, Cross Street, Founders Hill Drive.
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Engine 404, Medic 425.
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On Channel 4, Bravo, Fox, 4400,
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EMS Level 1, 875, Gray Street, Herzen Harbor House, 307, Cross Street, 4909 Boulevard.
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Engine 404, Metac 425, on Channel 4, Bravo, Fox,
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40440,
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EMS Level 1, 875, Grey Street, Herzen Harbor House, 307, Cross Street, Fortniteley Boulevard.
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Engine 444, truck 429.
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On Channel 4, Bravo, Box 42901, Elevator Incident, 72923, Jones Branch Drive, cross street, Leighton Street.
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Engine 444, truck 429.
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On Channel 4, Bravo, Box, 42901, elevator incident,
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7923, Jones Branch Drive, Cross Street, Meiton Street.
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Ambulance 410, engine 410.
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On Channel 4, Bravo, Fox, 41095, EMS level 3, 5622, Bradley Boulevard, cross-street, north-north-north-steven street.
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Ambulance 410, engine 410.
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On channel 4-BRO, Fox 41095, EMS level 3, 5622, Bradley Boulevard, Cross Street, North North-N-Steven Street.
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The HVA's unit, no scores you hear anything on the outside.
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I think it just burned off a belt and made a little bit of smoke that went back in the intake and smoked up the 5th and 6th floor.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Fairfaction, come in.
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Let me hand, go ahead.
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It's confirmed to be a burned-up belt on a rooftop unit.
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We have smoke on 6 and 5. Units are working now for ventilation. We're in place all written units in service.
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10-4[1]. Are you still going to use for Echo?
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Yes, we'll still hold the command channel operation channel and ventilation channel.
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Attention all units. Rit task force is placed in service.
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1322.
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I'm from Lobby. We have reset with the alarm system.
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Command copies.
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If you can reset the elevators as well.
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I'll be able to make sure then.
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Hurt 403 from command on the ventilation group.
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Tart 403.
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Did you need Tire 440 before they actually did the thing for a fan? Or are you good with the Grisdell Contrust Service?
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I'm good with the current units.
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The majority of the smoke cell was blown out already.
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All right, Gary.
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Power 3 from truck 30. I have four fans available. Do you need them?
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I just stand by with your fans for now.
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Before we having service right now, they take care of everything.
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Okay.
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From command.
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The man's below who?
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Yeah, near Jermantown Rd, 6-story,
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residential high-rise, declared it's stable.
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Had an HVAC unit on the roof with a burn-up belt, sent smoke into the 5th and 6-4.
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Cruiser continued ventilating the 5th and 6-4. We're in.
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scale it back to 2 and 2, but we are going to keep the tactical channel for DELTA and the 4 Foxtrot channel for ventilation.
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We can declare it stable,
Police codes explained
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10-4: Acknowledgment or affirmative; message received and understood.
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Location mentioned:
Near Jermantown Rd, Oakton, VA 22124
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