Vehicle fire develops at Westview Apartments, Mason City IA
Fire & ArsonOfficers responded to a vehicle smoking inside the Westview Apartments parking lot. The smoke worsened and the car caught fire, posing a risk to nearby parked vehicles. The fire department was dispatched and arrived to control the vehicle fire near the apartment building.
Audio|Source: Cerro Gordo County Sheriff, Mason City Police and Fire
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Transcript:
00:00
If you can send a fire department, I got a car smoking here pretty bad.
00:06
It's not on fire or anything, but it's smoking a lot.
00:24
Ten-four.
00:25
The White-13 Chevy Malibu?
00:29
Ten-four, it's smoking pretty bad from the inside.
00:42
Ten-four.
00:58
Mason City Fire, you are needed to Westview Apartments.
01:03
Again, you're needed to the Westview Apartments.
01:05
Have officers out there with a car that's smoking on the inside, no fire seen, and they said it smells burnt.
01:13
Again, make the State Fire, you're needed to the Westview apartment, L-N-48.
01:22
Stormlight, C-360, same traffic.
01:28
Just around 17.
01:32
17.
01:34
In the area.
01:50
Could you have a fire department maybe start at all.
01:52
That car looks like it's about a starting fire.
02:24
The vehicle is now on fire, at Westview Apartments.
02:32
So that's 2317.
02:35
2317. We're in route.
02:41
And it should be in a small parking lot west side of the building there, the apartment.
02:52
This match from 2317, can you ask your officer how close to the building the car is?
03:07
How close is that vehicle? Too many buildings there.
03:10
We're pretty close here.
03:12
There's a car parking right next to it.
03:14
Um, yeah, it's starting to get bigger and bigger.
03:29
Officer on scene device, it's fairly close.
03:31
There is a vehicle next to it, and a fire is growing.
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Location mentioned:
Westview Dr, Mason City, IA 50401
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