Fire alarm caused by busted sprinkler at apartment complex, Blacksburg VA
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, a fire alarm was triggered at English Meadows apartment complex in Blacksburg due to a broken sprinkler causing water to leak from the second floor to the first floor inside the building.
Audio|Heard on: Blacksburg, Town of Fire Ops
Listen to dispatch call
02:10
Transcript:
00:00
Unit to Blacksburg Fire, we're on for a fire alarm in English Meadows, Blacksburg, near South Point Drive, cross of Hightop Road, well right on the vehicle and RV is cleared, 1336.
00:13
N-RV engine 1313.
00:19
Engine 13.
00:24
Responding in English Meadows.
00:29
Hey, for engine 13, I have you responding to English Meadows.
00:32
It's going to be for a fire alarm.
00:34
The alarm company has us, keyholder, (name withheld), on site was notified.
00:37
They say that they have a busted sprinkler.
00:40
It's 1338.
00:51
10, 4 inches 10, 1339.
00:54
Engine 10 in Arby.
01:00
Engine 10.
01:03
Long scene, two stories is 11, soody nothing shown that alpha-delto.
01:09
Outfuscating.
01:14
Ten, four, 1343.
01:20
We've got water coming out of the second story, into the first story,
01:25
and exit into the building.
01:30
Inger.
01:35
Enron engine 13.
01:38
Engine 13.
01:39
Engine 13.
01:43
A robin.
01:53
104 FM10. We're in the sprinkler control room.
01:57
Mainz been cut off or can about to open a drain.
02:02
Okay.
02:05
Don't forget about the jockey pump on the fire pump.
02:10
Get ten four.
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Location mentioned:
S Point Dr, Blacksburg, VA 24060
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