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False fire alarm with electrical smell at building in San DiegoSan Diego CA

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B St & 16th St, San Diego, CA 92101

A fire alarm was activated at a building near 16th Street and B Street in San Diego. Responders detected a smell of burnt electrical material but found no visible smoke or fire. Fire units investigated the situation and cleared the building. The alarm panel showed trouble status, requiring further inspection.

Audio|Source: San Diego City and Poway Fire
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Transcript:
00:00
Mark 11, were you, uh,
00:03
I'm going to design you to the fire attack.
00:09
Let me know what you got.
00:11
All right, engine, force,
00:13
stage on hydrants.
00:14
Engine 7, stage, 16th, and B.
00:18
Coming units, go to primary state unit.
00:22
I see a truck one staged.
00:25
I stage at 301, stage.
00:31
I see Battalion 1 at See. Battalion 1, I see.
00:38
Battalion 1. Can we get FD for traffic control at B Street and 16th? We need to get that intersection shut down.
00:55
Fire attack[1] from IC[2]s.
00:59
Superfire attack. I didn't get anything from the panels,
01:04
do we have multiple alarms or any information?
01:08
All we have is an generator panel,
01:11
sitting floor alarm is just up the floor right now.
01:17
Right now it's clear.
01:19
I see, copy.
01:26
Metro.
01:28
From 16th IC[2].
01:30
16th IC[2], go ahead. On conditions.
01:34
We have no smoke in the building, just apparently a smell of burnt electrical.
01:41
I'm going to keep all units, so we can investigate a little bit further.
01:47
IC[2] fire check, hey, Bravo.
01:50
Good.
01:51
Dry, please.
01:57
I see you start two at least stage.
02:04
Do we have a lobby established or get anyone on the main panel? Get more information.
02:10
All right, I just seem to have the put screen,
02:13
info, and TV's just running around and opening up different buildings.
02:18
Are you working two, repeat? Start two at the stage stage.
02:27
I see a copy.
02:28
Do you feel comfortable with the fact that yourself, engine lemmy, track the lemon can handle?
02:38
Affirmative.
02:40
Looks like we lost like a reset.
02:42
Um,
02:45
currently we do not have any opportunity to verify that.
02:48
Copy.
02:49
Engine 23-0 can straight down the line.
02:52
All units on the 16th incident can go available with the exception of engine 11, engine 1,
02:58
and truck 11.
03:01
Uh, uh, before, uh, there's no, get out the...
03:05
IC[2],
03:06
and one engineer.
03:08
Go for IC[2].
03:11
Copy, flow it for a minute.
03:12
Do you,
03:14
thank you.
03:17
Metro from 16th IC[2].
03:20
16th I C, go ahead.
03:21
I'm taking a reset.
03:23
I released all units with the exception of Engine 11,
03:27
Engine 1, and Truck 11.
03:30
We'll remain at a scene for another few minutes. All units will be available for their MDC.
03:35
We can go ahead and stop the timer.
03:39
Engine 11 copy, stopping this timer.
03:42
All units can go available with the exception of Engine 11, Engine 1 and Truck 11.
03:51
I see the fire attack.
03:53
Yeah, the whole force was clear and all adjacent buildings. Right on now.
04:02
I see copies.
04:05
Yeah, you guys can come on down if you're not finding anything.
04:10
The alarm panel, we're still saying that there's a trouble,
04:14
but they might just have to get somebody out here to go through the alarm system.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Fire attack: Crew assigned to interior fire suppression operations
[2]
IC: Incident Command or Commander established to manage and direct response at an incident scene.

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B St & 16th St, San Diego, CA 92101
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