Electrical odor found with overheated light ballast, Greensboro NC
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a fire alarm at Guilford County Detention Center on South Edgeworth Street in Greensboro. They found a strong electrical odor but no visible smoke or fire. The likely cause was an overheated light ballast in a classroom near the breezeway.
Audio|Source: Guilford Metro Fire
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Transcript:
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South Entry Manual Pool State.
00:06
Command, go ahead.
00:12
Don't get any signs of smoke or fire inside the building.
00:20
No signs of either.
00:22
We have a manual pull station right by the breezeway where we came in.
00:27
There's a strong electrical odor right there and it goes up to Division II but it doesn't extend in the hallway or any of the classrooms.
00:34
So we're still looking at ballast and seeing if we can find the cause.
00:39
TIFR, you go up with just yourself in aider 14?
00:46
Kempore.
00:48
For all units with exception, the engine cell, Lider 14, clear.
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The 14 engine engine engine, Captain, Route 14 engineer, Latter 14, Captain.
00:59
Roof is clear.
01:08
Battalion 5.
01:10
Engines, 4, 11 and 10, ladder 7 and ladder 10.
01:15
201, South Edgeworth Street.
01:17
Fire alarm.
01:18
Cross streets are West Sycamore Street and West Washington Street.
01:22
Tack Bravo 4.
01:31
Engine 48, 2611, Merritt Drive, 1050PI, Cross Streets are Winter Garden Lane and Fraser Road.
01:39
TAC Bravo 6
01:50
You can hold the train file.
01:51
But that...
01:59
Engine 2.3419.
02:02
Darby Place.
02:03
Unconscious.
02:04
Cross streets are Turk Place and Denny Road.
02:15
Ladder 52. Respond with others.
02:18
201, South Edgeworth Street.
02:20
Fire alarm.
02:21
Cross streets are West Sycamore Street and West Washington Street.
02:25
Pat Bravo 4.
02:31
Fort from Battalion 3.
02:35
Can you make a cat note for me that we got the leaks?
02:45
Ingeborg, where 1023, Guilford County Jail 1, Incorpor, Fane, that's May.
02:54
They're one to commit.
02:58
Go ahead.
03:00
Am I good to clear, I didn't copy me traffic if you did clear me already?
03:07
Tenfore, you can click.
03:10
Tenforth, thank you.
03:18
The source of the smell seems to be coming from this classroom and coming out of that and going into the breezeway.
03:25
But there's nothing obviously, there's no trip breakers,
03:28
nothing's showing any signatures,
03:30
anything alarmed.
03:36
So you couldn't find it like a light bouse or anything?
03:43
Alice.
03:48
T and 4 we just found a light man that shows the hundred thirty degrees on the rest of them that might be the source of it
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Location mentioned:
Guilford County Detention Center, 201 S Edgeworth St, Greensboro, NC 27401
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