Washing machine smoke triggers fire response in apartment, Richmond VA
Fire & ArsonFire units responded to an apartment building on Westover Hills Boulevard after a caller reported smoke coming from a washing machine on the second floor. No visible fire was found on arrival.
Audio|Source: Richmond City Fire Dispatch
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Transcript:
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Engine 20, engine 21, engine 17, engine 23, engine 24, truck 10, truck 8, safety 1, Battalion 4, and Battalion 3. Multiple dwelling fire.
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(number withheld) Westover Hills Boulevard Ridge, Apartment East.
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Engine 20, engine 21, engine 17, engine 23, engine 24, truck 10, truck 8, safety 1, battalion 4, and battalion 3.
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Multiple dwelling fire.
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(number withheld) Westover Hills Boulevard Ridge, apartment east.
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Cross streets are a name road and Duffet Avenue.
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On Tac Channel 4.
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Timeout, 1732.
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Sean, all companies responding (number withheld) Westover Hills Boulevard Apartment E.
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Caller reports the washing machine is smoking.
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The apartment will be on the second floor.
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Pliny is this area.
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The first, or correction, the second engine, if you can post up on Westover Hills, because there's no hydrants in a complex, and it's, I'm going to probably need you to lay in if there were something like that. It just sounds like it's going to be a wash machine.
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20s don't see nothing visible, second engine lay in.
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It's like an engine stage on Westover Hills. We're on saying, nothing visible.
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Second agent stage on Westover Hills, I copy.
01:43
17355. 17 is going to have the hydrant at Basset on Westover Hills.
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Location mentioned:
Near Westover Hills Blvd, Richmond, VA 23225
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