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Small fire caused by battery charger at cancer center, Cleveland OH

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Fire & Arson

Reported: 12/17/2025 10:44 AM

Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106

As discussed during the dispatch call, a small fire occurred at the Seidman Cancer Center due to a battery charger that exploded in a patient's pocket. The fire department and facility team responded to the scene.

Audio|Heard on: Cuyahoga OH Security Group Calls

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02:2

Transcript:

00:00

Are you getting that Code Red, Seidman Cancer Center,

00:03

4-8?

00:05

Negative. I'm not getting anything in the office.

00:09

Copy. I'll go check it out.

00:11

It might have been 6th floor, room 8.

00:15

Is it a Code Red or Code Blue?

00:19

They're Code Red.

00:24

36 radio, can you call officers and confirm? I heard that Code Red overhead page as well.

00:30

Copy, call on now.

00:33

49, 4-7.

00:37

45.

00:39

49-247. 49-47.

00:40

47 radio, I'm out.

00:44

Okay.

00:46

Radio 4-9.

00:49

4-9.

00:53

Radio 4-9. Get the panic alarm.

00:58

Cats lab.

01:02

3403.

01:04

47 Radio, can you go again with the cathode if you were kind of broken up?

01:11

Rule 3403, get the panic alarm,

01:14

and the Calf Lab.

01:17

How?

01:19

4-9-9-9-9.

01:22

40-4-9-R-R-D.

01:24

4-9-9.

01:26

Go ahead, 4-9.

01:28

What was that home number? Hold on one take.

01:32

45.

01:34

Radio to 49.

01:37

49. 49.

01:39

Do you guys,

01:41

CFD is being called,

01:45

apparently a battery charger exploded on the,

01:52

in the pocket of a patient.

01:55

For fire safety,

01:58

we need to call CFD, so we'd be expecting them along with facility.

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Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106

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