Sparking electrical outlet causes smoke in home, South Bend IN
Fire & ArsonA caller reported hearing a popping sound and seeing smoke in the front room of her home near West Colfax Avenue. Fire crews responded and found no flames. The cause was determined to be an overloaded power strip causing a sparking electrical outlet, not an active fire. The breaker was turned off, and the situation was safely resolved.
Audio|Source: South Bend Metro Fire
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Transcript:
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Southern companies are signed near West Colfax Avenue for a structure fire. Caller stated that she heard a popping noise now sees smoke coming from her front room, no flames.
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She did disconnect that there is one cat in the house and she was advised to leave.
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This match, under 4.
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Engine 4. Engine 4.
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This match, engine 4, medic 4, 103,
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and engine 2 are railroaded.
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7.4. 7 engine 6, 3 to stack.
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Please aren't seen, advise, there's no active fire, but the outlet is sort of popping and smoking.
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Clear, edge of six is going to be on scene of a single-story, uh, residential structure.
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The out of investigation, though, all of you can be told.
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Engine six is unseen. The single-story residential structure, nothing's showing, will be investigating all incoming level one.
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Just match command.
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Go ahead, command.
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Call text, command, go ahead. Incoming units can slow down.
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It is just an outlet that is sparking.
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We're going to try and kick the breaker off.
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We'll keep everybody coming for now.
01:52
Incoming units can slow down. It's a sparking outlet.
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Dispatch, command.
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Go ahead, command.
02:04
We're going to get the breaker off. We've unplugged everything that was the issue. It seems that it was just a power strip that was overloaded.
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All incoming units can disregard.
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We'll keep the fireground for now.
02:18
Clear, the breakers now off. It was an overloaded power strip. All-incoming companies can disregard engine 6 will stand.
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Dispatch engine 6.
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Engine 6.
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We'll go ahead and release the Fireground, TRO.
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We'll go back to County Ops. We'll stay on for a little bit to make sure all of this gets handled.
02:44
Dispatch is clear, releasing Fire Ground 1 going back to County Ops.
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Location mentioned:
Near W Colfax Ave, South Bend, IN 46619
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