Street sweeper vehicle catches fire near southern avenue, Mesa AZ
Fire & ArsonA street sweeper vehicle caught fire in a parking lot near Southern Avenue and Alma School Road in Mesa. Fire crews were dispatched, and officers blocked lanes to keep people safe because there were gas cans inside the vehicle causing popping sounds.
Audio|Source: Mesa Police Department Fiesta Patrol District
02:11
Transcript:
00:00
720 and it's a break for a 909[1] street sweeper on fire, no one inside the vehicle.
00:05
Southern normal school.
00:08
Grants, what you can make me?
00:13
Coffee, I'll get you at 906 in a fan unit to copy.
00:16
Southern Alma School.
00:17
Fire will be en route for the street-sweeper vehicle on fire.
00:23
He'll be on the road while hitting there.
00:26
Sorry.
00:27
Unfortunately, you can send me around close.
00:30
It's going to be in the parking lot on the northeast corner.
00:40
Happy.
00:41
Do we have any information as to where the driver is? He's possibly across the street.
00:51
He was with one of the ARP.
00:56
For now I just have lane 2 in the turn lane,
01:01
blocked off east of the intersection to keep vehicles from roaming this way, but just waiting on fire.
01:10
Copy. They should be going 97 shortly.
01:15
They're coming up to my extension right now.
01:21
R's 1097 from the heat.
01:24
Okay.
01:30
Adam 14 to the other units, just make sure you keep some distance, you think that there are some gas cans in there, just in case those go off.
01:43
So we are having some popping coming from the streamkeeper if you get any 421s.
01:49
Copy.
01:54
Can you find out from fire if we're good to leave westbound traffic flowing or if we need to stop cars from getting this flow? So fire says they're good for now but they'll let us know if we need to.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
909: Traffic hazard / traffic problem
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Location mentioned:
S Alma School Rd & W Southern Ave, Mesa, AZ 85202
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