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Smoke from oven cleaning triggers fire alarm at apartment, South Bend IN

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Near W Washington St, South Bend, IN 46619

Fire crews responded to a fire alarm at Ellison Apartments on West Washington Street in South Bend. They found smoke from a tenant cleaning an oven with no active fire or danger. The area was ventilated and the alarm cleared.

Audio|Source: South Bend Metro Fire
03:24
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 6. Fire 102.
00:02
Refue 1. Truck 6.
00:05
Near West Washington Street.
00:08
Alarm response.
00:09
High life hazard.
00:11
Near West Washington Street.
00:14
Ellison Apartments.
00:15
Respond on fire ground 1.9.45 hours.
00:24
South and Company is on Fireground 1 and onto near West Washington Street, Ellison Apartments.
00:31
Alarm Company driving general fire alarm activated in an unknown zone.
00:37
Priority 4.
00:42
Agent 4 is rail release.
00:45
Release.
00:51
Clear at 947.
00:58
Dispatched off by Agent 6.
01:01
Not from Agent 6.
01:02
Agent 6 is on scene, three-story apartment complex.
01:09
Nothing showing for two sides.
01:12
Agent 6 will be watching the street and investigation.
01:19
7 and Gen 6 is on scene of a three-story apartment complex, something showing from two sides.
01:24
Engine 6 will be Washington Command and investigating.
01:32
Sorry to dispatch from Michigan Medical 1.
01:36
(name withheld), Medical 1.
01:40
Could you put out a test tone for (name withheld) Station 1?
01:42
(name withheld) Station 1?
01:44
Okay, clear.
01:52
This is a test, repeat, this is a test.
02:01
Structly, call the one.
02:07
Special Alkamedic one, sorry, dispatch.
02:12
Go ahead.
02:14
Did you get that, Tom?
02:19
Yes, we did, thank you.
02:26
Andrew 4 is back in row.
02:29
Clear engine 4 at 950.
02:32
This is that you command.
02:41
Command.
02:43
Yeah,
02:45
the apartment tenant was cleaning the oven.
02:49
All units can just regard.
02:50
We don't open up the fire ground.
02:53
Clear on cleaning the building, additional units can just your guard.
03:04
Truck six, send in six.
03:10
Help for a truck six.
03:14
We're not going to be able to reset this because it's still pretty smoky up in that apartment.
03:18
Could you swing back and just bring the fan out to blowout?
03:22
We're not going to take.

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Near W Washington St, South Bend, IN 46619

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