Irritant exposure causes injuries at San Jose building, San Jose CA
Medical EmergencyFirefighters and medics responded to a building in San Jose where two people were critically injured and two had minor injuries. There was no fire found. An unknown irritant causing coughing was detected on the third floor, possibly from a fire extinguisher. No one was trapped or evacuated. Multiple ambulances responded and investigation to locate the irritant was ongoing.
Audio|Source: San Jose Fire
06:13
Transcript:
00:00
Measure one on scene staging.
00:06
And... Sign one's on scene staging. Sign one on scene staging.
00:10
Sign one of...
00:16
Gen 30, send us a copy that you're staging for the active fight and progress. PD is en route here.
00:22
The email is didn't advise.
00:28
30, copy.
00:34
5.5 is not seen.
00:37
You're not five on scene.
00:45
I see Battalion 5 on command.
00:52
I see Battalion 5 on command.
00:57
Go ahead, Chiefs.
01:03
Can me a quick rundown once you got.
01:05
You had potentially five vehicles,
01:08
two critical patients, 100 yards.
01:13
That's affirmative. I have two critical patients that are being addressed right now.
01:17
One is being held up by, one is being taken care of by Medic 14.
01:21
The other one is going to be taken care of by Engine 5 and transported by Medic 78.
01:27
If we could have Truck 29, I'm going to my location, which is about... 50 yards back from where they are.
01:34
I have two minor patients with what appears to be felt pain so far. We do have a,
01:41
you know,
01:43
trying to figure out what it is. ...truck 29 to that second patient back there. We'll make you triage, so go face-a-face with them and direct to where you need.
01:51
Affirm, we don't have anyone trapped.
01:53
...and assist with investigation.
01:55
That's affirmative. No extrication on the scene at all. I see copy. Third floor investigating. No smoke, but there's an unknown odor that's possibly gas requesting the truck person, truck company to come up to help you investigate.
02:08
Truck 1 and Truck 30 are on, you know, be Truck 1 first up.
02:14
Connect 21.
02:16
Truck 30 is going to take that assignment. Thank you.
02:19
Okay. 1 copy Truck 30 is going to be the truck coming up to the third floor. Engine 5 is triage.
02:26
Truck 30 copies of traffic.
02:27
Go ahead one.
02:30
Chief, we're not buying anything up here, but there is some type of irritant, which is actually making us cough up here.
02:37
Still trying to figure out there's no active alarms or anything like that. So definitely no fire.
02:43
We just can't figure out where this air tint is coming from.
02:49
Copy. You guys just noticing it on the third floor and further do we need to do any evacuations of that floor?
02:58
Not at this time. I think it's best to keep everybody sheltered in place until we can figure it about.
03:06
Trioji. Are you guys noticing it in the commonplace or are you just getting the irritant in that apartment?
03:12
Go ahead, Chief.
03:16
It's along most of the hallway of the whole third floor.
03:24
Stay by one. We might be able to cut them loose. Copy. We'll hold resources.
03:28
Give me one second to get us to figure out if you need any other systems.
03:31
I can go ahead and take command and we can send you more crews if you need them.
03:35
Got it.
03:40
2.23 from I see you guys go ahead and stage right there where you're at Montague and Southmate.
03:49
Engine 23 staging.
03:56
We have Medics 78 leaving the scene Code 3[1] to Valley.
04:00
I don't believe we're going to need Engine 23 for the remaining patients that we have on board. I believe we have had enough manpower for it.
04:06
We will need additional Code 3[1] ambulance, however.
04:11
Copy that. You got one being transported in Valley. You're going to need additional ambulance and we can cut engine 23 loose.
04:19
Confirm.
04:22
A-firm. And just for accountability, that's going to be a total of four ambulances that we've been requested.
04:27
Three or on scene. We're requesting us one more for a total of four.
04:32
Copy that. Great.
04:34
Command 23. You copy one more ambulance. Go to three, please.
04:39
I see 104, we're getting at another code 3 ambulance for a total of 4. I see, copy, break. Engine 23, you guys can go back on service next.
04:54
23, copy.
04:55
22.
05:00
21 from Julie and IC.
05:04
IC, go ahead.
05:07
Engine 7 and truck 30 are still investigating up on the third floor.
05:12
We're going to start knocking door by door and seeing if there is anything in any of the apartments.
05:18
It might be from an extinguisher of some kind. We recommend that engine 7, truck 30 remain on scene. We can't hold the balance.
05:31
I see copy.
05:32
Engine 7 and Truck 30 still investigating you're going to knock on everyone's door by door, possibly an extinguisher of some kind. I'm going to try to find the source. Battalion 1 copies I concur.
05:46
You show me if I can serve.
05:51
Battalion 1, 104, engine 7 truck 30 to remain on scene.
05:55
ICR, are you okay to clear command?
06:01
As a permit, we can put this back to San Jose fire.
06:07
I just have a copy, command 21 clear, 2145 hours. We'll return to San Jose. San Jose 1.
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Code 3: Emergency response using lights and siren.
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