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Steam mistaken for smoke near Scotland Road house, City Of Orange NJ

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Fire & Arson

Reported: 12/15/2025 05:39 AM

Scotland Rd, City of Orange, NJ

As discussed during the dispatch call, smoke reported near a house on Scotland Road was investigated and found to be steam from a pipe beside the garbage cans.

Audio|Heard on: Orange Fire Department

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01:45

Transcript:

00:00

I'm modified full assignment, car two, engine two, engine three.

00:05

This is in place in Scotland.

00:07

Scotland Road.

00:11

Call came in from police reporting caller driving by.

00:15

He spoke in the area, possibly out of a garbage can.

00:18

The modified fall assignment, car two, engine two, engine three.

00:22

This place,

00:23

Scotland Road.

00:25

Smoke investigation.

00:27

Call reported, possibly coming out of garbage can in the area.

00:31

Jury 39.

00:38

74 response.

00:45

23 response.

00:46

That's your tool response.

00:49

That's your tool response.

00:55

All right, same zero any morning.

01:05

754 alive in place of Scotland Road.

01:08

We got two-story wood frames, with some smoker steam apparently to be coming out of the garbage can,

01:16

right front of the house.

01:21

Seventy-four has to man.

01:28

30 feet. Cary 41.

01:38

Correction, we have steam coming out of a steam pipe running alongside the house on the side of the garbage cans.

01:44

74 is investigation.

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Scotland Rd, City of Orange, NJ

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