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Kitchen fire on stove at Merritt Drive residenceEl Cajon CA

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Near Merritt Dr, El Cajon, CA 92020

Firefighters responded to a report of a fire near Merritt Drive. Upon investigation, no fire was visible. The cause was determined to be food left on the stove causing smoke. The situation was controlled and most units were canceled except for one remaining engine.

Audio|Source: Heartland Fire
02:46
Transcript:
00:00
On scene, one thing, 7, Merritt 5, and that's visible.
00:04
We'll be in bed eight on the Merritt 5.
00:09
Nonridge, IC[1]1, FoxTRA.
00:10
Some copies engine 2p.m.
00:12
near Merritt Drive, nothing visible, investigating Merit IC[1].
00:16
Mary, IC[1], and 6-Mage on Hyder.
00:18
Copy, 6-page on Hyder.
00:23
You have a set timer.
00:24
Can I copy, thank you.
00:30
In coming here, this is Mary-I-C.
00:33
Reduce and continue.
00:39
I'll end you and it's near Merritt Drive reduce and continues and continue okay 18 go ahead 19
00:52
Who is the currently digging trying to get access there and just setting at least 30 minutes before they can access the line? Can I copy 30 minutes?
01:06
Essentially.
01:07
Don't reach I see. Go ahead. The text are estimating 30 minutes, dig time to get to the week.
01:12
Another 20 minutes, 30 minutes after that.
01:15
So we'll look at about an hour.
01:17
Set some copies.
01:18
One hour commitment time.
01:20
It's going to be a top five minutes on top.
01:23
It's going to be a soap park with memo extension to the event.
01:32
Can we handle it for cells with another engine or do you want to drop it? It's just us and the next incoming engine we got it and that's it.
01:40
Have you got a hose or anything?
01:42
I got you grabbing D.PW right now.
01:45
Copy.
01:47
And like sight engine to medic traffic related incident, Maple View Apartments, 1-229 Ashwood Street.
01:53
K-N-1-Troll.
01:59
I-C Engine A-P.
02:06
I-C-21-C.
02:12
Central Vitire 1-1, Charlie.
02:19
Copy. Central Merit I.C., go ahead.
02:23
Put on the stove, we've got a little bit next to one of the commits.
02:27
We can cancel the balance except for one engine.
02:30
Central copies, put on a stove, Venture, Cabin, and cancel the balance with keeping one engine.
02:39
And Merit I.C., additionally, your 10-minute timer[2].
02:42
Copy, you stop the timer.
02:44
I'm a terminating IC[1], engine 20 PC contact.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
IC: Incident Command or Commander established to manage and direct response at an incident scene.
[2]
10-minute timer: Incident time benchmark notification every 10 minutes

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Near Merritt Dr, El Cajon, CA 92020
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