Heat detector triggered by gas heater in storage room, Arlington Heights IL
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According to the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a heat detector activation in a storage room above a gas heater. They found that the heat from the heater triggered the detector but there was no smoke or fire present.
Audio|Heard on: Northwest Central Dispatch (NWCD) - FD1 and Firegrounds
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01:28
Transcript:
00:00
BenjiA tube, got it, I'm on seeing.
00:02
What do you got?
00:07
All right, we're in a storage room.
00:10
We've got a heat detector above a,
00:12
like a local gas heater for,
00:15
like a backroom storage area.
00:18
It's directly above this mountain heater unit.
00:22
I can see why it's activated, but there's no other reason for activation.
00:27
Be clear, I'm above a gas-powered resinore-forced air kind of heater unit that you would put in a garage and it's three feet from it is this heat detector that's activated.
00:40
Okay,
00:42
activation right now, no reason for the activation.
00:49
If we're contemplating, shutting off this heater,
00:52
leaving the storage room door plots open so they've got ventilation, in fact, there's no freezing issues.
00:59
Do you have an outside wall with piping on it as a concern?
01:07
Is it causing some kind of problem besides just creating heat to try to remove heat detector for now if that's the issue and leave the heat around?
01:18
Yeah, that's probably better options.
01:19
Deep detector is about 15 feet in the air.
01:21
I got to figure out how to get to it.
01:24
We'll work on this.
01:25
Samma.
01:28
Appreciate.
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Location mentioned:
E Davis St, Arlington Heights, IL 60005
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