Ex-boyfriend broke in and tried to set house on fire, Chicago IL


A woman reports that her ex-boyfriend broke into her home near W Grace St, Chicago, and tried to set the house on fire. She claims to have video evidence from a nanny cam. Fire department, police, and gas company were notified and responded to the scene.
Audio|Source: Chicago Fire - Digital
02:18
Transcript:
00:00
If you're talking to a male, the caller is the actual person who lives there, and she claims that she has some type of little nanny cam inside her house as she saw the ex-boyfriend in there trying to sell her house on fire.
00:14
So I'm the car of that, or are you talking to a guy?
00:20
Nothing going on? He doesn't know anything about a nanny cam, maybe it's a tip.
00:27
Doesn't know, hold on, we'll just call it really quick.
00:35
Angel 104 to England.
00:38
404.
00:41
Yeah, we are ventilated.
00:44
We got everything down at zero.
00:46
The patient is processing, occupying the place is okay.
00:51
We've notified a gas company come.
00:53
We set down all their passes, and we are returning the quarters, engine the truck.
00:59
As a drink.
01:04
Our truck 24 and we're truck 24.
01:11
Truck 24. All right, truck 24 for the call, or he is not aware of this camera situation.
01:19
She saw what he was doing.
01:20
She's at (number withheld) in Hallstead right now.
01:23
She should be there in a minute.
01:24
She is very positive and frantic that she saw him starting her house on fire.
01:29
She'll be there in a minute.
01:33
She also said he broke in the house that he doesn't belong there.
01:36
So if you have the police there with you...
01:42
923 is in a service return from the school.
01:46
Okay, but then, 23.
01:51
D-3. 43.
01:55
43 domain, we have zero readings at this address, but can we have a gas company respond per resident request?
02:02
All right, did we turn off anything? No readings, but anything turned off?
02:09
No, no appliances were shut up there, there are no clients that were on for zero readings, but just to double check.
02:16
Okay, for a double check, we'll know if I guess go.
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Location mentioned:
Near W Grace St, Chicago, IL 60641
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