Vacant house fire with heavy smoke on second floor, Evansville IN
Fire & ArsonA vacant two-story wood frame house near North Third Avenue caught fire. Heavy smoke and flames were visible from the second floor. The fire was declared defensive due to its intensity. No other structures were reported involved, but the nearby houses are very close together. Homeless people are known to sometimes stay in the vacant house.
Audio|Source: Vanderburgh County Police, Fire, and EMS
07:44
Transcript:
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There's near North Third Avenue for 1-Agin 3, 1 engine 10, 1 engine 5, 1 ladder 1, 1, 1 rescue 1.
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In the area of near north third avenue for one engine three, one engine ten, one engine five, one ladder one, one rescue one,
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one Adam 13,
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one safety one.
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Coordinators are near north, 1,000 west.
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Other one route.
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Any round?
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503 in route. The other five in route.
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Clear.
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Battalion's reason route.
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60 once in route.
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Being advised near north third avenue is the caller's address.
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Caller was advising it's the house just to the northwest of this address.
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It's going to be a vacant house on fire.
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Caller did advise that homeless people stay here often.
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It has not spread to any structures at the time, but houses are extremely close together.
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Traffic will be on fire ground one, fire ground one.
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Incredible.
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This match engine 30 zone 3-2 story,
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residential structure, uh,
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fire shown on the B-side mark this awarding fire.
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This match is clear.
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San 310 round out with them.
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Engine 3 arriving, this is a working fire. This is going to be a defensive fire.
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Defensive fire.
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As for nation 3.
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Agent 3, go ahead.
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This left's clear.
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As right now, Mark, is a defensive fire.
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This latch is clear.
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On fire down one, fire down one.
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Battalion 3 is arriving, assuming command where you have a working fire and a T-story wood frame structure,
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heavy smoking fire showing from the second floor on multiple sides.
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Command to be on the alpha side.
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Affirmative engine.
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The battalion three for the latter ones.
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Just to let you notice the worst house in the whole district, walls are bulging, ceiling's falling in, holding the floor.
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We're gonna put on the air on.
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Tadion three is, I'm clear, we are defensive.
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Thank you.
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451, St. Joe or Mel.
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I'm being rough.
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Claire,
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she was northbound 41 and it's showing that she's near radio.
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She swerved to miss a deer and she went over down a ravine on the southbound side.
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She doesn't know she can get out.
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We're going to attack four, attack four.
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In the area of near North 3rd Avenue, request to units 1 out of 62, 1.2,
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1.28. Me in Vision 10.
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Loud one, all companies be advised, we have walls collapsing on the exterior.
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Go ahead. Jim, Ken,
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go ahead with your traffic.
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Go ahead and shut off fourth to second.
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We have lines laid down and people are going to be driving over them.
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Clear.
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On Columbia.
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This next is there.
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Go ahead.
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Engine 10 is requesting that you shut off fourth to second. They have lines down across the roadway on Columbia.
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We got it.
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Okay.
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Command the ladder one, I've got engine five laying into you.
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Engine 10's got a plug for engine three.
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All right, one's clear.
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Fortressor, I'm in the area of the accident.
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We think she went down a ravine of the southbound side or northbound type.
06:06
They were originally northbound, but they should be on the southbound side now.
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Okay.
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I've looked at it again.
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Quick.
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411, I'm in the area.
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Okay.
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Injinton, Portable D from C.
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Stand by for just a second, Hygris.
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Clear.
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Tinhidrine, you can go ahead and charge it.
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Affirmative.
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Just that's the command.
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Command, go ahead.
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Ten-minute benchmark, we're at the 10-minute benchmark. We're at the 10-minute benchmark.
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I'm clear.
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Starlight.
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Thanks.
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What we can, let's get an exposure line on the D side, exposure.
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Where we'll get it?
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Dispatch engine 5.
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And we have third and Iowa shutdown for a plug-in-the-road.
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Dispatch is clear.
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Location mentioned:
Near N 3rd Ave, Evansville, IN 47710
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