Steam mistaken for smoke near K-96 and Rock

Heard on: Wichita and Sedgwick County Fire Resource / OPS-1

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

00:00

Sulphur smoke outside K-96 and Rock, George's Car Wash Station 18.

00:09

Engine 18 smoke out K-96 and Rock.

00:12

Rocking K-96 smoke out.

00:13

Engine 18 map page 5951 .

00:18

Sulphur party three fall (number withheld) North Payne Station three.

00:26

Engine three, priority three, fall (number withheld) North Payne.

00:29

Thirty 0630 North Payne, priority three, fallen.

00:31

Engine three, map page 5451 .

00:37

Engine 20 , we have you on the call with CMS lifting a patient at (number withheld) South Shiloh.

00:43

EMS is already on scene.

00:49

Three, we have you on the 33 fall at (number withheld) North Payne Street.

00:53

Calling party says his neighbor, 84-year-old female, fell and hit her head.

00:57

She's bleeding.

00:59

EMS is showing five and a half minutes away.

01:08

Engine 18, we have you on the call to check for smoke outside at K96 and Rock.

01:13

Client party says at George's Car Wash they're just seeing some smoke outside.

01:21

Engine 18 is on scene.

01:23

We've got steam coming out of a car wash.

01:26

Normal operations, we'll check it out.

1/27/2026 05:43 AM

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E Central Ave, Wichita, KS 67208

Steam mistaken for smoke near K-96 and Rock

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As discussed during the dispatch call, emergency crews investigated a report of apparent smoke near K-96 and Rock Road by a local car wash. Engine 18 determined the source to be steam from the facility, and no fire was found. In a separate call, responders assisted an elderly resident who reportedly fell and sustained a head injury at a residence on North Payne Street.

Steam mistaken for smoke near K-96 and Rock

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