Burnt food found in apartment no active fire, Reading PA
Fire & ArsonFire department responded to an apartment near S 5th St reporting a burning odor. They found burnt food in an apartment with no active fire or smoke detected. Investigation confirmed no electrical or HVAC issues causing the smell.
Audio|Source: City of Reading Fire/EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
Tower 121.
00:04
Go ahead.
00:09
I take it nobody's from maintenance down there that they come up and kind of help us out here because I'm not familiar with any of this equipment up here.
00:18
There's nothing obvious. There's no smoke coming from anything. There's no heat signatures from anything.
00:24
And there's no obvious electrical component burned out that we can see in plain sight, but I don't know if we need to open these up and access them better.
00:36
Yeah, just stand by for a second.
00:38
7 or 8.
00:40
Tarzan.
00:42
Apartment C.
00:44
Burnt food.
00:45
This is restored.
00:47
and you can make the assignment available. Mr. Department C, firm food restored, salmon available 1850s.
00:56
Also, what's on right now? Is the air conditioning on or the heat for the building or just circulation and is it coming through every part, I mean,
01:06
every register in the building that's coming through or just an isolated area?
01:11
Stand by up there. We think we might have the culprit back here in this refrigerator room.
01:17
Okay.
01:22
If you didn't find it, I think I just did.
01:29
One air handler, there's two heat units or pumps.
01:36
The three is the four of them are registering around 90 to 110 degrees or so. I found one hotspot hit around 16, 170.
01:54
21 of the tower.
01:56
Go ahead.
02:02
All right. I didn't hear what you guys were saying, but we're pretty confident that it's not the HVAC so you guys can sew the truck.
02:13
Brian, we're coming out to get your fan.
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Near S 5th St, Reading, PA 19602
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