Smoke in laundry room caused by overloaded washing machine, Forest Park IL
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, a fire report at an apartment near Circle Avenue involved smoke in a laundry room, later found to be caused by an overloaded washing machine. Fire and police units responded, investigated, and determined there was no active fire.
Audio|Heard on: Westcom Fire Dispatch
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04:47
Transcript:
00:00
Park structure fire, near Circle Avenue.
00:05
North Riverside truck, Cicero ambulance, ambulance (number withheld), engine (number withheld), engine (number withheld), and command (number withheld).
00:20
Does does verb? Do they need a truck?
00:27
First of all, do you need?
00:34
Can you advise that North Riverside says they're responding with the truck from mutual aid or did you want to make.
00:43
Four (number withheld), you're en route.
00:45
Yep.
00:50
Any updates on this?
00:52
Otherwise,
00:53
yeah, PD's going to be responding.
00:55
What I have is there's smoke in the laundry room.
00:58
I don't have anything additional at this time.
00:59
The caller was from apartment near Circle Avenue.
01:02
And River Forest, do you copy? One (number withheld), you read?
01:07
Got it.
01:13
(Number withheld) for (number withheld), park out of the way on Adam.
01:18
Out of the way on Adam.
01:22
Three, parking on Adam.
01:28
Covering forest (number withheld).
01:30
Is that (number withheld) circle or? Five ten circle.
01:40
It's (number withheld) circle.
01:41
It's a correction on the address, (number withheld) circle.
01:46
All right, message received.
01:47
We're gonna go ahead with the (number withheld) on that.
01:49
You don't have any other open fire engines responding, correct?
01:53
Affirmative, I don't have any of their engines.
01:55
All right, put (number withheld) on there and we'll meet them out.
02:00
This is com (number withheld)'s route mutual aid to Forest Park.
02:07
Park.
02:13
Okay, (number withheld)'s rerouting here to (number withheld) Circle.
02:18
Teams from (number withheld), we are going to be northbound on Circle.
02:22
Northbound on Circle.
02:24
There's going to be a mid-rise, so we'll see if we need you.
02:29
All units, a correction on the address.
02:36
Two is on scene.
02:39
Nothing showing from three sides.
02:42
(Number withheld) is going to be going to investigate.
02:45
(Number withheld) message received, nothing showing from three.
02:51
(Number withheld) on scene.
02:53
(Number withheld) message received.
02:57
Rich, pull up and go around the corner so we got room for the truck if we need it.
03:01
(Number withheld), pull up and go around.
03:04
And be advised, PD was saying that they were going to go investigate smoke that was coming from the (number withheld).
03:14
Thanks Rich.
03:15
(Number withheld)'s on the scene, we're northbound (number withheld).
03:17
You're going to have to leave progress.
03:19
We got nothing showing just like (number withheld) said.
03:21
Switch to red, we're going to go up and investigate.
03:23
(Number withheld) message received, units switch to red upon arrival.
03:29
Forest Park was coming down southbound.
03:37
13th and 13th.
03:40
Sorry,
03:43
290.
03:46
Hi guys.
03:54
(Number withheld). You got PD coming for traffic control?
03:59
Affirmative, I've got two of my units on scene.
04:06
I think you need another one for outside for traffic control.
04:08
They're inside investigating it.
04:13
Yeah, probably because they're not really black or much.
04:16
I said she could go get another unit.
04:20
Westcom,
04:26
you can return all our auto aid.
04:29
Just keep (number withheld) and (number withheld) on this team.
04:33
Somebody overloaded a washing machine.
04:36
Unfortunately not too exciting here.
04:38
Message received.
04:40
All incoming mutual aid units, you guys can all return.
04:43
(Number withheld), (number withheld), (number withheld), and North Riverside.
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Location mentioned:
Circle Ave, Forest Park, IL 60130
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