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Smoke from excavator mistaken for vehicle fire near canalSedgwick County KS

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W Pawnee St & S 135th St W, Illinois Township, KS 67227

Emergency responders received reports of a vehicle fire near I-135 and Pawnee streets. Multiple units responded to the scene. Upon arriving, they found smoke was actually coming from an excavator in the canal, not a vehicle fire. All units were cleared from the scene.

Audio|Source: Wichita and Sedgwick County Fire Resource / OPS-1
01:40
Transcript:
00:00
Surfer, vehicle fire, I-135 and Pawnee, Station 11.
00:07
Engine 11, Squad 11, vehicle fire, I-135 and Pawnee, I-135 and Pawnee.
00:11
Engine 11, your map, pages 5-644.
00:15
There is possibly a vehicle fire in the canal.
00:23
Engine 22, we'll respond with Station 11 for the vehicle fire.
00:28
Stand forward like a pack.
00:34
Not for time.
00:36
10-4[1] units transfer to the vehicle fire, just one caller, correction out two callers.
00:41
They're pointing south of Pawnee in the canal.
00:43
There's possibly black smoke coming from a vehicle.
00:47
I'll just truck one.
00:51
Truck one.
00:54
Yeah, you can clear 11s off that vehicle fire in the canal.
00:59
That's just an excavator down there with the smoke from the exhaust.
01:08
You did the squad 11.
01:09
Are you 104 for that?
01:13
The option, Retain, too.
01:14
You can show me on Cine on Douglas, I'll go ahead and Sim command.
01:18
Send for A26.
01:20
11s,
01:23
copies.
01:26
I was from Engine 11.
01:27
Did you say Truck 1 is disregarding an engine?
01:32
11 from engine 22.
01:34
All units can disregard.
01:35
This is just an excavator walking its way up the canal.
01:39
All units can go available.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment of message received and understood; affirmative response.

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W Pawnee St & S 135th St W, Illinois Township, KS 67227

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