Cooking smoke sets off apartment alarm

Heard on: DuComm Fire Dispatch and Ops (All)

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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.

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Smoke/burglar alarm, multifamily, district 897, (number withheld) Woodward Avenue, (number withheld), Woodridge, Battalion 89, Engine 89, Engine 90, Tower 102, cross street of Center Drive and Center Drive.

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You got Battalion 89, you're up.

00:24

103A from B.

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103.

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103.

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There's nobody in the elevator at 3450.

00:37

Can you call back by chance?

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See if they're at 16.

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Um, not sure if this was an elevator phone that called in.

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I could try.

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We're usually not able to call back on those.

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Hang tight 1 s .

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This was the 1st party caller in unit (number withheld) reporting that it was wrong cooking smoke that caused it to go off.

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All right, you can keep this to myself and engine 89.

8/14/2026 05:06 PM

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Building 2, 7413 Woodward Ave #104, Woodridge, IL 60517

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Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, fire units responded to a smoke and burglar alarm at a multifamily building near Woodward Avenue in Woodridge. The first-party caller from an apartment in the building reported that cooking smoke apparently triggered the alarm, and the response was reduced to a smaller crew.

Cooking smoke sets off apartment alarm

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