Small deck fire reported at apartment complex, St Charles IL
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a report of smoke at an apartment complex near Brook Street in St. Charles. They found a small fire smoldering on a deck outside a second-floor unit and worked to extinguish it by tearing apart the deck.
Audio|Heard on: Dekalb & Southern Kane County Public Safety.
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03:10
Transcript:
00:00
St. Charles Fire, Engine 103, Truck 101, Engine 102,
00:06
and Battalion 100, respond to inside smoke investigation.
00:10
At near Brook St,
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near Brook St, St.
00:15
Charles, cross streets are North 15th Street.
00:24
Young 24668
00:29
I got on truck 101
00:32
Go ahead
00:35
We're en route from Cedar and Third Street after Cedar Cedar and Third Street
00:46
California companies are in route near Brook St.
00:48
You've got a 16-year-old caller who's giving conflicting information, said they stop smoke and then they didn't see smoke and there's no visible flames.
00:57
Caller is an apartment (name withheld).
00:59
Edore.
01:03
I take Charles received it.
01:05
We'll keep everybody coming in.
01:07
Mr.C., you don't know your option.
01:08
Caller is going to be waiting outside of the building.
01:13
Okay, thank you all that's out.
01:16
I'll check it. Thank you very much for him and nothing showing.
01:28
Chuck, I'm telling one hundred on the scene as well, the command switching up.
01:32
I don't know how the truck's coming in, too.
01:45
The 101, did I copy you on the scene?
01:48
Yeah,
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we're right behind, 103.
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Okay.
01:55
Okay.
01:58
It was good.
02:00
I had a fire and then somewhere I'm going to throw it on the deck, so we're going to go check it out.
02:15
Okay.
02:21
I mean 100,
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103.
02:25
So it looks like outside of unit (name withheld) as an Edward,
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second floor.
02:36
Looks like we had a little bit of a fire on a deck here.
02:39
I'm going to ask that the truck move up here and see if they can start tearing apart this deck from the bottom.
02:49
Okay, you're gonna need one or two.
02:55
I'll let you know in a few minutes here.
02:58
I've still got some smoldering going on here.
03:01
I'd like to see what the truck can uncover once they start taking this thing apart.
03:09
... staging on 15th Street.
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Location mentioned:
Brook St, St. Charles, IL 60174
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