Smoke report near Highway 34 caused by pellet smoker, Batavia IA


Smoke was reported near Highway 34 by a red house, but responders found no fire. The smoke came from a pellet smoker and no emergency was present.
Audio|Source: Jefferson County Fire / EMS
02:41
Transcript:
00:00
Jefferson County, this is Batavia Fire.
00:07
Batavia Fire, go ahead.
00:09
You said west of mile marker 206, correct?
00:14
Correct, and Deputy is not finding it either.
00:17
I'm not sure what's going on, but he's not able to locate it either.
00:23
I'm sorry, I was not direct on that.
00:28
The deputy is not locating the fire either.
00:33
He's unable to locate the house that the caller was talking about.
00:38
We just went past mile marker 206.
00:41
We're just now turning around with the ambulance.
00:46
Ten-four, I'm not sure.
00:47
I'm going to try to call the original caller back to see what's going on.
00:52
Ten-four, but I want to verify one more time is the house is on the south side of the road, correct?
01:00
On the south side of the road, it was a red house, and the smoke was rolling out the front door.
01:11
The Batavia Fire from Jefferson County.
01:18
At Jefferson County.
01:22
Our deputy stopped near Highway 34.
01:27
They advised, he believes that's the source of the smoke.
01:30
They have a pellet smoker running.
01:32
Everything is all right.
01:33
You guys can disregard.
01:41
You're breaking out kind of bad on me.
01:43
Can you give me that address one more time, please?
01:51
Batavia Fire, that's near Highway 34.
01:56
Again, near Highway 34.
01:59
Probably that advised that, or excuse me, the deputy I'm seeing advised that it's just a pellet smoker.
02:04
Everything is all right, you guys can disregard.
02:11
Ten-four, so we are cleared to go back to the station, is that correct?
02:15
Ten-four, clear to go back to the station.
02:17
It was just a mis-seen item.
02:22
Ten-four, thank you, Jefferson County.
02:25
Ten-four, thank you.
02:32
Jefferson County Ambulance out of 51 you can disregard highway 34 west of 206 again disregard it was just a pellet smoker everything is all right
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Location mentioned:
Near US-34, Batavia, IA 52533
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