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Firefighters extinguish chimney fire in Stephenson County, Freeport IL
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a chimney fire at a residence near West Stevenson Street in Stephenson County. The homeowner had put out the visible flames, but smoke and embers remained. Firefighters investigated and applied water to fully extinguish the fire.
Audio|Heard on: Stephenson County Public Safety
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04:32
Transcript:
00:00
City fire, fire command.
00:02
Fire is needed near West Stevenson Street.
00:07
Caller stated his chimney had a fire.
00:10
He has extinguished the flames out of the chimney, but there is still smoke and embers coming through.
00:19
Commandant four, station one, tower three.
00:24
For instance, an engine one, tower three.
00:37
For ambulance and engine one, near West Stevenson Street.
00:45
General, (number withheld).
00:49
(number withheld).
00:51
(number withheld) Battalion 3-1.
00:59
Section 2 when ambulance 3-1, you guys also respond to we can verify.
01:07
Sam, 03.
01:14
Florida Tower 3, near West Stevenson Street.
01:17
He states the flames are out but there are embers coming out of the top of the chimney.
01:26
(number withheld).
01:34
City fired.
01:39
City fire engine one, ambulance one corner on the stage.
01:43
We have a large three-story residence.
01:45
We do have members coming out of the chimney.
01:50
Everyone is out of the house.
01:52
We do have a hydrant across the road at Stewart and Stevenson.
01:57
We'll be going to investigate engine one as command.
01:59
Okay.
02:03
Stand for engine and ambulance.
02:09
Charles 2, Charles 02.
02:16
Queen 3, Charles 2, Queen 3.
02:17
Charles 2, Queen 3.
02:29
Every night.
02:39
It's 1042.
02:44
Look, it was burning a little bit.
02:46
Still in here, I did put some water on it.
02:48
You might see a little smoke right now.
02:55
Engine 2 and ambulance 2 that are in route to Stevenson.
03:02
Central ambulance and engine 2.
03:10
Complete 360 feet.
03:13
We still have embers coming out of the chimney and we're putting water onto the down side.
03:23
04. 4.3, why don't you come in behind engine 1?
03:35
Ambulance 3 block the next intersection of...
03:48
Steve, let's see if we can get the power up there, if we can,
03:52
to the chimney.
03:54
Okay.
03:57
Hey, boy.
04:03
Italian 3, which direction do you want us to come from?
04:09
You guys can probably come from Park Boulevard and just your manpower.
04:21
You need to go, Tower 3.
04:28
Ambulance 3 is on 4 o'clock in the road at Steven Paley.
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