Small fire suspected during maintenance at supermarket, Hilliard OH


A fire alarm was activated at the Giant Eagle supermarket on Britton Parkway. Fire crews found a large single-story commercial building with no visible fire outside. Maintenance was being performed on rooftop units, and a slight odor was detected on one side. A contractor was conducting preventive maintenance and some grease was present. Initial indications suggest a small fire may have started on the roof, but this is not yet confirmed.
Audio|Source: Northwest Fire Dispatch
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Rescue 81, 401, Britton Parkway, Giant Eagle, Fire Alarm[1].
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Rescue 81, 401, Britton Parkway, Giant Eagle, Fire Alarm[1], Cross.
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Eagle Large single story commercial building.
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We got Tj. 3, Battine 80 on the scene, large, single story commercial, nothing showing on the outside.
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Chief Packett Hasbrook, Parkway.
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Directive alarm chief, footstrobes, then looks like it's partially evacuated.
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Okay.
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Jay-2 in service clear training?
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Chief 83 Northwest.
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Good, sir. We're down Glenwater and all of Norwich companies are in service, thanks.
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Sounds good, thank you.
00:32
Engine 81 should be pulling up and you also have point 84 and ladder 81 on the way.
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Do you want me to cancel one of them?
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You can cancel the point, thank you.
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That's received, point 84, you're cancel.
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And John and go.
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Permit to a three.
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CARES 72 and 73, doing an SRC at 33351.
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Abby, we're...
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That's correct. MSRCE, thank you.
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To tell you, 101 Northwest on dispatch.
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I am back in the district in service.
00:55
All right, now I want a service in the district.
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Engine A3 command.
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Go ahead. Smoke detector, the rooftop unit is what we're checking.
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The switch to build.
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Okay, you're a little broke up.
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I got smoke detection.
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The food area.
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Present.
01:11
That maintenance on the roof working on a couple of units.
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We do have a slight odor on the Bravo side of this structure.
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Nade3 to command.
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Go ahead, engine 83.
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Yeah, they go just to front of the ladder,
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straight back to the Charlie's side.
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The rooftop unit can be up there.
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I already want to command, go ahead.
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Yeah, just making sure you copy that traffic from Engine 83 looks like.
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...procée, probably tire late form.
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...dating three to commence.
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Go ahead.
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They brought the contractor,
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she was doing performance, preventive maintenance on the rooftop units that we're looking at.
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I said there was some grease and some other things that were up there.
01:52
You can contain it to engineer three battalion, ladder, if you want another company.
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Okay, do you think we still need to put the ladder on the roof?
01:59
We're going to need to get some pictures of what happened.
02:01
It sounds like it did start a fire up there.
02:04
I'll have to look at it a little bit closer.
02:06
We're coming out with the...
Police codes explained
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Fire Alarm: Automatic fire alarm activation incident
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Location mentioned:
Near Britton Pkwy, Hilliard, OH 43026
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