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Elderly man reports smoldering object near bus station 

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Near Cherry St, Des Moines, IA 50309
An elderly man on the ninth floor of an apartment is refusing to come down and reports a slowly burning object near a concrete wall across from the bus station.
Audio|Source: Polk County, Dallas County, and Warren County Public Safety and ISP
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Transcript:
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calling the caller back.
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He is elderly using the walker, and those are the ninth floor of a nearby apartment building, and he's refusing to come down, but states that if you look for the blue parking sign across the street from Dart, there's a concrete wall or some sort of partition that people sit on a smoke all the time.
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He said that it's just slowly burning and probably burning itself out, but you should be able to find it, he said.

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Near Cherry St, Des Moines, IA 50309
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