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Smoke detected in cigarette disposal near building 68Cambridge MA

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Near Ames St, Cambridge, MA 02139

Smoke was reported coming from a cigarette disposal container outside Building 68 near the Hockfield Courtyard on the Main Street side. Police and facilities staff responded and confirmed light smoke. Facilities personnel poured water into the container to put out the smoke.

Audio|Source: MIT Police and EMS
03:24
Transcript:
00:00
Can you take a ride over to Building 68 outside on the closest to the Main Street side? I just a call for one of cigarette ashtrays they have outside.
00:15
An employee called and said that it's smoking. I have facilities responding as well. Can you just head with there and just let me know if you need anything else?
00:25
I can do that.
00:31
Comptu. Thank you. Let's say.
00:34
Thank you.
00:38
Thank you. Thank you, Dr. 58.
00:41
Do you have a better location closer to a door or just set off some place?
00:50
They just said 68 on the Hockfield side,
00:55
courtyard,
00:57
Main Street, closest to Main Street.
01:05
And I'm off.
01:08
Is the caller still on team?
01:11
No, they're not, and I don't have a callback number.
01:14
She just said she'd smell an odor of cigarettes.
01:18
I'm sorry, ma'am. Let's go again.
01:21
She just said she's smelling odor of cigarettes.
01:28
And that one of the, um,
01:31
still's disposable where people put cigarettes out, art, uh, with smoking.
01:40
Yeah,
01:42
I'm out here walking around, building 68, close to Main Street,
01:48
and I don't even see one of those receptacles.
01:51
Nothing on the Hockfield Courtyard.
01:55
I didn't see one coming yet.
02:03
The computer control facilities is off as well.
02:07
Proceed.
02:12
Control of sector one-two.
02:15
Okay, sir.
02:21
I just got off the phone with that party. They said that it's going to be Hawfield Court on the main street side.
02:29
The end of the building near the bike racks right next to the pillar.
02:37
All right, my cell phone facilities were bolted right there and did not see a cigarette receptacle.
02:47
Sir,
02:49
you have a camera that faces this door where I think she says she smelled it, but we can't find a receptacle.
03:04
Nearby.
03:09
Computer control.
03:11
I think I found it. Thank you.
03:18
Sir. Facilities have got some water.
03:21
It's just going to pour it in and you can show me, Claire.
03:24
Proceed.

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Near Ames St, Cambridge, MA 02139
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