Firefighters respond to third floor building fire, Okemos MI


Firefighters responded to a fire on the third floor of a building on Bennett Road. They noted heavy smoke in the hallway and used ventilation fans on the second and third floors. A lockbox code was needed to access part of the building. Two residents had left, and crews continued search and fire suppression activities.
Audio|Source: Ingham County Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
Copy that, check a parking on third floor.
00:03
Doing a secondary hunting target 3rd 4th.
00:05
Truck 41 from command.
00:09
Truck 41, go ahead.
00:15
You guys got any knees on the interior?
00:21
You know, we're actually coming out to recycle.
00:25
We just need some ventilation stands for this third floor.
00:32
We've got quite a bit of smoke in the hallway.
00:38
Copy.
00:39
Truck 41, when you come out, go ahead and do your recycle. Engine 48,
00:44
can you guys kind of coordinate that ventilation? I saw a fan come up to the door. If you need more than one, go ahead and relay that.
00:56
Command from Major 48, we're going to take a second fan.
01:00
We'll do one fan on the second floor, one fan on the third floor.
01:04
Also,
01:06
did a 360 of the building, there is no Knox Box.
01:09
There's a four-digit lockbox that enters, you have to enter a code on the Charlie side.
01:16
So somebody can locate a code for that, maybe that's a Knox Box.
01:20
Copy. You're taking the fan to the second and third floor.
01:24
You do the 3-6th of the building unable to find the Knox Box key.
01:29
Can I'm from Engine 42?
01:31
Agent 42, go ahead.
01:36
Yeah, if they're an interior, let them stay in place.
01:42
Copy that. Staying in place.
01:48
This back from Capitol Command. Go ahead.
01:54
Can you have the on-duty head this way?
01:57
Yep.
02:02
Man from safety 49.
02:08
The set of resident informing that the four-digit code to the potential Knox boxes, 2022.
02:16
Does she know the location?
02:23
I believe it's on the Charlie's side. I'm going to look at it.
02:30
I don't have a side and just there are a hit here says the side of the building but that's the code that I have as well
02:37
copy yeah I know there's an oxbox somewhere I just don't know exactly where but thank you
02:45
Sam from engine 42
02:50
go ahead engine 42
02:57
Secondary of floor two is complete.
03:03
Two residents did leave.
03:05
We did not make access to 105.
03:08
We're going to need the keys for that to go in and check.
03:12
Dispatch from 911.
03:14
911.
03:15
Yeah, we're trying to locate them now.
03:17
It looks like they're at the front door. Come down and get them from the safety.
03:22
Okay, I'm going to be staging two ambulances and an engine of Italian chief of myself at 242 church for the incident at the high school.
03:30
Just the Edge medic 46. Forty-second.
03:34
Copy.
03:36
Please show us off the fire ground trip, 41 to sprue.
03:40
Command from engine 41.
03:43
Okay.
03:45
Flash unit. Go ahead with your friend.
03:48
Command from 14, 2nders, complete on the 3rd floor.
03:52
It's a remarkable.
03:54
However, we are going to need some ventilation on this floor.
03:57
We'll be pushing up from the 2nd floor at this moment.
04:04
Copy.
04:05
Agent 48 is working on primary,
04:08
on positive pressure on the 3rd floor currently.
04:12
They're working on it.
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Location mentioned:
Near Bennett Rd, Okemos, MI 48864
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