Fire burns pile of furniture near Route 8 in Potsetown, Peoria County IL


Firefighters responded to a fire involving a pile of items including a couch and mattresses near Route 8 in Potsetown, Peoria County, Illinois. When crews arrived, the fire was mostly embers. Deputies inquired if anyone responsible for starting the fire was found.
Audio|Source: Peoria County Fire - Digital
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Transcript:
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Let me dispatch the C3.
00:05
Go ahead.
00:06
Saying this is possibly going to be somewhere in that area of Route 8 in Potsetown.
00:09
Mr. She said Route 8 in Potsetown?
00:11
That's, yeah.
00:12
Yes, that's the other thing.
00:13
Message received, thank you.
00:15
You're welcome, thank you.
00:16
Around (number withheld) in the area of Route 8, checking around.
00:19
(Number withheld) in the area? Town.
00:20
Checking the area is past down, row 8.
00:22
Dispast (number withheld).
00:23
Dispast (number withheld) is on the scene.
00:24
(Number withheld) on scene.
00:25
If you're (number withheld) is on scene.
00:28
(Number withheld) on scene.
00:29
Line is under dispatch, (number withheld) on scene.
00:31
(Number withheld) on scene.
00:32
C3-on-2. C-3 on-thin.
00:36
C3 to (number withheld). Go ahead.
00:37
I took it right, right at the road road tracks and followed it all the way back.
00:40
It's very tight back here, but I'm at the fire now.
00:43
I don't know, can you, have you trying to make a way back this way?
00:45
Yeah, I'm back here a little bit now we're getting narrow.
00:47
I'm just getting ready to drop off a little hill.
00:49
Mr. Sheet, I'm back here.
00:51
Steve freeze I'm seeing. Got a probably 30 by 20 pile on fire, not much fire, mostly December's.
00:59
Samper. C3.
01:00
C3. (Number withheld) to C3.
01:01
Sir, go ahead.
01:02
I don't think if I'm going to make it back here.
01:03
These two concrete piers, pretty narrow.
01:06
Yeah, I think I may have scripted myself.
01:07
I can come back and get you guys.
01:09
There's not much here.
01:10
It looks like it was a couch and a couple mattresses.
01:13
They're almost out, but they are right at the edge of the field.
01:15
Okay, I can walk back with shovels if you want.
01:17
Yeah,
01:18
let me just, let me move some stuff around here.
01:19
I don't know, it's pretty far back from those two pillars there.
01:22
Still quite a ways back from there.
01:23
C3-(number withheld). We got two water cans send it back to your wife.
01:27
This is received.
01:28
Dispatch, C-3.
01:29
Same blood. Deputies are wondering if you were able to locate any of the people that started that fire?
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IL-8, Illinois
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