Smoke triggers fire alarm at dormitory, no active fire, Spearfish SD
Fire & ArsonA fire alarm sounded at Heidi Hall dormitory in Spearfish due to smoke detected from burnt food on the stove. There was no active fire or flames. The building was evacuated, and the fire department ventilated smoke from the second floor.
Audio|Source: Spearfish PD, Fire, Lawrence Co Sheriff
04:55
Transcript:
00:00
Captain 3, Acknowledging Page, fire alarm, Heidi Hall.
00:03
Captain 3, 1936.
00:05
Spearfish control, Captain 3-1.
00:07
3-1, go ahead.
00:10
Captain 3-1 is a duty officer and I'm responding to Heidi Hall in Command 3.
00:14
Hi. No, S-9BH2.
00:16
On scenes, no flames and smoke visible from exterior building.
00:21
We'll be making entry.
00:22
Bye. Do you want sparefish control?
00:24
I copy it is radio traffic direct, thank you.
00:30
The other units know he's on scene, nothing showing he's making entry.
00:34
We risk control engine three.
00:35
We go ahead.
00:36
Three in a row hiding for all with force.
00:39
Be advised it is smoke from burnt food on the stove.
00:46
Okay. Command 3 copies, the smoke is from the burn food on the stove.
00:49
But he didn't say if the food was still burning.
00:52
...stove and there's grease on the stove and the stove is off.
00:55
Sign 4. Sign 3.
00:59
Sign 4.
01:00
3 copies down, right.
01:03
Station 1. Stand by.
01:06
We might need your fans.
01:07
I'm almost there.
01:08
I'll let you know. To advise the fire department that we will need fans, it's full of smoke on the second floor.
01:18
Bring truck one up.
01:20
We'll use the ventilation fans from truck one along with engine three.
01:23
Break,
01:24
spearfish. 1-1 engine 3
01:26
Spearfish control command 3 is on scene nothing showing 3 story
01:30
dormitory building it's evacuated I'll get together with security here and figure out where we need to ventilate
01:37
station 1 command 3
01:39
No for station one.
01:40
Easier to talk on the radio, what's up?
01:42
We have no driver at station one.
01:44
Can you throw the fans in Rescue One, too, and come up? Sounds like there's a lot of smoke to get rid of.
01:52
So then we can do that.
01:53
Thank you for your...
01:55
...Captain 2-1.
01:56
...Captain 2-3, engine 3.
02:03
Just letting you know we do have two fans on the engine.
02:05
Copy that. I thought we might use this as it.
02:08
Captain 3, Captain 2,1.
02:10
Yeah, station two, you can cancel, thank you.
02:13
And four.
02:14
Engine three, sorry about that, the radio on here is breaking down.
02:17
I'm on portable.
02:18
I thought we might use this as our training drill also, so...
02:26
Yeah, copy that.
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