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Fire alarm at Merrillville caused by burnt food, Merrillville IN

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audio iconFire & Arson
Indiana St, Merrillville, IN 46410

According to the dispatch call, a fire alarm was reported near Indiana Street, Merrillville, but it was determined the alarm was caused by burnt food, not an actual fire.

Audio|Heard on: Hobart Area Public Safety
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02:3
Transcript:
00:00
Fire alarm, near Indiana Street, engine 7011, Merrillville Fire Department.
00:09
Timeout, 8,
00:11
17 hours. Fire alarm.
00:21
Coming on Kelly, a minute, a hundred and nine point.
00:24
Maroon colored Nissan-type, Indiana, short plate, Tom King, 917, Nora, William, Nora.
00:32
Copy.
00:38
County 660, and the colonel said,
00:42
he's out of the ping, any of the first place, I'm going to transfer at the north unit, Illinois.
00:52
Plus 641 or plus 662?
00:57
641. 641.
01:00
This is we should wait down to look for the school subject.
01:09
Any information?
01:15
Negative is just advising that he was drinking it sounds like in a vehicle and that he was going to be dying soon.
01:25
Very?
01:28
Yeah.
01:32
That's where I'm done.
01:34
Yeah. Yeah.
01:38
County calls six five eight.
01:44
I'll be 10706.5.
01:47
Okay.
01:53
711, 7011, 7421.
01:56
You guys get this regard.
01:58
The alarm company said the alarm is going off because of burnt food.
02:02
All right, I'd be 108, morning.

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Indiana St, Merrillville, IN 46410

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