Smoke testing mistaken for house fire on Richwood

Heard on: Freeborn MN Fire Dispatch Group Calls

01:51

00:00

(number withheld) Richwood Drive West, house fire.

00:03

House fire.

00:13

Twenty 402 Red Shift.

00:15

This is a callback.

00:17

Callback for Red Shift for a house fire.

00:19

(number withheld) Richwood Drive West.

00:23

Channel One, 2400 .

00:26

Nine hundred and one.

00:28

Nine hundred and one and 917 are both responding to (number withheld) Richwood Drive West for the house fire.

00:34

Copy and out.

00:36

Nine hundred and one, 917 , 901 , all fire command.

00:40

FR two.

00:43

Copy 901 , all fire command.

00:44

FR two.

00:45

901 from 902.

00:50

901 from 902.

00:52

It might be smoke testing.

00:56

2400 from 902 will be on scene.

00:59

Nothing obvious from the alpha side.

01:01

They are smoke testing in the area.

01:06

10-4, per PD on scene too.

01:08

They just stated that there's no actual house fire, believes it's a testing going on.

01:13

98-2400.

01:18

Go ahead.

01:21

We are headed toward the area of the reported house fire, non-emergency at this time.

01:27

10-4.

01:32

901, 2400.

01:35

901?

01:37

901, 917 are on scene.

01:40

We do have the smoke coming out of the sewer vent stacks of multiple structures in this area.

01:46

It appears to be the sewer testing that has happened in the area.

01:49

We do not have a structure fire at this time.

9/1/2026 05:41 AM

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West St, Hayward, MN 56043

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Smoke testing mistaken for house fire on Richwood

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