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Fire with heavy smoke reported at Royal Inn motel

Fire & Arson

Reported: 08/08/2025 01:12 PM (PDT)

Near N Fares Ave, Evansville, IN 47711

A fire with heavy smoke was reported coming from the laundry room at a motel. Multiple fire engines and rescue teams were sent to handle the situation.

Audio|Source: Evansville Police and Fire Dispatch

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Transcript:
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Royal Inn 1901, Old Business 41, for 1 engine 8, 1 engine 4, 1 engine 10, 1 minor 1, 1, 1 rescue 1, 1,
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1, 1,000, 1,000, 1,000, 1 engine 4, 1 engine 10, 1 1 engine 10, 1, 1, 1, 1, rescue 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1,000, 1, 3, 1, safety, 1.
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Good night, they're out.
00:32
The next to Nile.
00:39
Safety ones are out.
00:41
One.
00:42
The rest of you're round.
00:49
Safety once in row.
00:59
Pleasure.
01:01
And there's a lot of smoke coming from the laundry room.
01:09
Also getting another call from here saying it's room 120 for the traffic fireground one fireground one.
01:20
This is a fifth.

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Fire at Royal Inn motel with smoke and brush fire

08/08/2025 01:14 PM (PDT)

Near N Fares Ave, Evansville, IN 47711

Commercial structure fire at Royal Inn 1901 Old Business 41 for 1 engine 8, 1 engine 4, 1 engine 10, 1 ladder 1, 1, 1 rescue 1, 1, 1, 1,000 3, 1 safety 1. For a commercial structure fire at Royal Inn 1901, Old Business 41, for 1 engine 8, 1 engine 4, 1 engine 10, 1 ladder 1, 1, 1 rescue 1, 1, 1 battalion 3, 1 safety 1. Clear engine CIN 8th. Clear engine 8th and route. Clear engine 8th. Cetus 4 is in route. Clear Line 1 is in route. Clear ladder 1 is in route. Clear sixty one. Battagin three is in route. Third Battalion three companies responding to the Royal Inn. Porter is on scene but says his wife is in the laundry room and there's a lot of smoke coming from the laundry room. Also getting another call from here saying it's room 120 for the traffic fire ground one, fire ground one. Jean-8 on scene. Royal Inn Motel, we do have like smoke showing. All companies continue. There's an 8. That's 5'10. 5.5.10, go ahead. Do you by chance have an ETA for AMR? Stand by. All companies be advised. The fire is on the backside of this building, not in the parking lot. This best, go ahead and make this a working fire[1]. Clear on working fire. 2.8 just a plug right front of the building from inch 4 you want to catch that plug and bring our water in. It's clear. We're going back on this other side here. Medica assist 1509 Genet Avenue 114 for a medic assist at 1.509 Jinnett Avenue 114. Drivers training. Five digits in, ETA is 15 minutes. 15 around the other set of building, you want to grab that plug on the cross-paws, please. Clear on one, five. Italian two is on scene, some command. Clear command. I'm clear on that working fire. Go ahead and put me on the run, show me there, Ralph, please. Is that just clear? Engine 8th, engine 10. This is a power line that's down on the back side of the building. It's a brush fire. It doesn't seem to be in the structure. We're still going to check for extension. 14th and Ralph. In June 14, it's a 6-year female patient with chest pain, difficulty breathing. She's conscious and alert, claiming having closed legs. Engine 8, engine 10. Do you need this plug? Not yet, just hold it for us for now. Four tankerate, on air, three, the area. Battalion 3, you can show this fire, not down. Engine A's command. Go ahead for inch 10. Chief, we got the bulk of knocked out out here. You got any companies inside? Checking forks. Negative, not yet. I've got engine four in the back here. They knocked it down from this side. I don't think it got in anywhere. It's right at the seal of the roof. Oh, we got right there. Do we need somebody get a plug or anything? Engine 8th, engine 10. Go ahead. Can you go ahead and get us water? Two and a half should be fine. We're at half a tank. Tankwater good enough or you want to plug? I think tank will be fine for now. That's fine. 6.0. 5.9.6.0. Personnel's been picked up in Shaw. 6.0 available. This is actually clear. The battalion 3. Do we have a... investigator in route. I have one at them, six one is in route. Clear. Engine 8th command. Command, go ahead. We're going to need center point to the rear of this building for down lines. Clear, just by two clear on that traffic. Just not too clear.