Illegal burn at parkway determined as a homeless campfire, Des Moines IA
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a reported illegal burn near Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and Urbandale Avenue in Des Moines. The situation was first thought to be a structure fire but was later found to be a small homeless campfire outside a building. The fire did not affect the building and was handled by Truck 9, with other units cleared from the scene.
Audio|Source: Des Moines Fire/EMS
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Transcript:
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Truck 9, ML King in Urbondale.
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M.L. King and Urbandale started as a legal burn.
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Now I'm being told it's going to be a structure, be responsible for you on Channel 5 and all upgraded here.
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from engine five engine five yeah we didn't find anything here you got truck one engine five and engine one I'll be clearing here if you need it somewhere yeah we're
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rebuilding this if you guys all want to start for uh it's gonna be ML King and Irvindale ML King and Irvindale came into the legal burn I'm being told it's gonna be a structure I'll put you guys on it
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If you want to copy, he shows, en route.
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Sorry, going to be some changes here.
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My DC 1 and 2, Engines 1.
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Two and five.
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Actually we're going to change it.
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It's going to be one four and five.
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One four and five, medic five, seven, truck one, truck nine.
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M.L. King and Urbondale.
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This is going to be a structure firebure response for each channel five.
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That's right four.
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Mike four.
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Medic 4 is just leaving Lutheran for closer than another squad we can take it.
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Okay, medic 7 you can stay in the house, medic 7 stay in the house.
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Just you copy to add station.
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All units headed for this ML King in Irmeddale, ML King and I think it's going to be 3301 ML King.
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It was called in as an illegal burn and we're being told the fire was getting into a building here.
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And it sounds like we've got a couple calls on it that it's going to be the building next to the storage mark near the bike trail.
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This match engineer.
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As we showed, the 7 route or 18 power.
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Dispatch, truck nine's arrived.
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We've got smoke shown from the north side of the building.
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We can't see access from the street.
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Truck down will make a buscication.
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Smoke north side of the building.
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Dispression engine 8.
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Engine 8.
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Do you have us on a 5-year-al alarm?
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Dispicionary? No, it was a dispassionary.
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You guys should be back in.
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Okay. Okay.
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This guy's truck 9.
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Truck 9. Truck 9.
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This is the exterior homeless campfire on the north side of the building.
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It doesn't appear to be into the building.
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Truck 9 can handle this.
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Okay,
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DC-1 and two in all responding apparatus.
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With the exception at Truck 9, you guess, can all go back in service.
03:41
It can be a homeless campfire outside the building.
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Truck 9 can handle everybody else can go back in.
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Location mentioned:
Near Martin Luther King Jr Pkwy, Des Moines, IA 50310
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