Smoke caused by overheating AC unit at Panda Express, Los Angeles CA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to light smoke inside Panda Express on Osborne St. They found smoke from an overheating air conditioning unit but no fire. The situation was contained safely.
Audio|Source: Los Angeles City Fire
04:43
Transcript:
00:00
I see MS5. I spoke with the one employee. He is not going to be a patient. We have no medical issues at this time. Copy. Are they occupying the Panda Express this morning? Were they working in there? Yes, he said he just showed up to open the store. He was the only employee. He noticed the light and smoke, so he did say it will be alarmed. Call 911.
00:26
Engine 82, engine 76. We're going to hold you for a minute until we find the cause. 76, Roger. Yeah, I see alpha. Cold, light, leaves the smoke inside. Still trying to investigate. We've got the forward.
00:54
I see you from Truck Flight 7AO. Yeah, Lightforce 27, you'll be known as roof division. Go with your message. Yeah, I see you from roof division. I hear the blower starting up. We do have some smoke coming out of an AC unit on the roof here on the alpha bravo corner. We turn the power off to it.
01:22
but once they fired up the blowers we stopped with both on the top sides the roof division I copy if you could start coordinating with division alpha yeah roof alpha I copy a little bit spoke coming out of the AC and if we're kicking the AC ducting right now we shut the blowers off
01:45
Yeah, roof alpha. Roof, Alpha. We're good with it.
01:46
We're going to fire that lower up again.
01:48
There's no indication of any smoke in the AC ducting, attic clear,
01:54
just a light lazy cold smoke in the Panda Express.
01:58
I'll throw from Ruth copy.
02:00
If firing the blower up it doesn't show anything else, we're just going to call it an overheating AC unit.
02:07
I see Alpha is copy.
02:10
The Alpha copy, let's find out for certain.
02:13
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02:16
3-entry intersection of wheelchair and flower.
02:18
That's true, we can take Ducine with an AAC Furn drill.
02:21
Root from Alpha.
02:23
No for room.
02:24
Any more smoke from that age? We got the Pandit Express that's clear.
02:29
More smoke.
02:30
Allison from Rift.
02:31
Same here, no smoke.
02:32
AC unit is cold.
02:34
Copy that isolated to it overheating AC unit.
02:37
AC unit. I see Alps did you copy that to the IC unit[1]? Hour shut off at the AC unit.
Police codes explained
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[1]
IC unit: Incident Command Unit
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Location mentioned:
Osborne St, Los Angeles, CA
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