Smoke reported on train at Garfield Red Line, Chicago IL
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency personnel responded to a possible train car fire at the Garfield Red Line Station in Chicago. Smoke was observed from one of the train cars, and there were initial reports of possible occupants, though no injuries were confirmed. Fire and police units assisted with evacuation and crowd control, and nearby traffic was managed during the response.
Audio|Heard on: Chicago Police Department Zone 13
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05:5
Transcript:
00:00
Yes, we're going to be coming from underneath the train car (number withheld), which is going to be about three cars back.
00:11
Five (number withheld), cars back.
00:17
I can't, uh, somebody said there might be some people in that car.
00:19
I'm not sure.
00:20
It is all smoked out.
00:21
The doors aren't open.
00:24
All right,
00:25
Per witnesses, it might be people in car (number withheld).
00:29
The doors are not open.
00:34
31 zones?
00:38
Charlie one.
00:41
That fire on the CTA is the third car from the beginning.
00:45
We definitely need FD out here.
00:49
So we can get them back up on the concourse, get them away from these cars.
00:52
Please.
00:56
Check four.
00:57
33, are you on scene yet?
01:03
973, can you head that way? Red Line Garfield.
01:08
73 on the way.
01:11
I need to get the people back.
01:13
Fire and everything.
01:15
Go ahead that way as well.
01:19
Ten four, nine ninety-nine.
01:22
Make sure ISP knows as well.
01:26
Help four.
01:28
Nine twelve.
01:30
Nine twelve.
01:33
You can give me eleven, disregard it's going to be five.
01:41
Help four.
01:45
Echo.
01:50
That sound assuming you got CC on the stop with these southbound trains for us.
01:56
Ten four, one.
02:02
Twenty.
02:04
Nine twenty. Then you could put me going there and then yeah,
02:10
Looks like in district no black traffic going westbound behind the car fuel.
02:16
Ten four.
02:17
Three, where's the sergeant need us?
02:20
They're just trying to get the pedestrians on the platform away.
02:29
All right, (name withheld), I think we're good down here now.
02:34
543 got.
02:40
Okay, 973-910 said they're good down there.
02:43
He has everybody pushed away.
02:50
And was that 99 wanted 2nd district to block westbound traffic?
02:57
Yeah, you probably.
03:01
All right, they're asking westbound at Wentworth.
03:11
Yeah, I mean everybody's going making it right from.
03:21
At 933, I have you on paper.
03:24
And can we confirm there's no injuries at this time?
03:34
910 doesn't look like anybody was on the train when I got here.
03:38
Nobody else is reporting any injuries right now.
03:45
10-20.
03:48
Nine hundred and twenty.
03:50
Yeah, it needs another B card.
04:01
Sergeant, need me?
04:04
Yeah, I need a platter card of black.
04:08
What's his Wentworth? What car is going northbound?
04:17
Northbound on Wentworth.
04:20
I got a car.
04:25
All right, we have two 2nd district cars responding.
04:34
934.
04:39
Show me going with Ambulance 19 over to UIC Hospital on Taylor.
04:45
UIC on Taylor 10-4[1], it's 1118.
04:48
A unit's over the Red Line at Garfield.
04:50
We're getting an info ticket from CTA.
04:52
There's another train behind the one that's on fire and they're going to need fire assistance to evacuate that train.
05:03
Or I should say they're evacuating with fire.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment; message received or affirmative (OK).
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Location mentioned:
Garfield Red Line Station, Chicago, IL 60609
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