Smoke report near Federal Street is a controlled fire pit, Montague MA


A call reported smoke near Federal Street in Turners Falls. Upon investigation, responders found the smoke came from a fire pit and multiple tiki torches at a residence near New Street. There was no sign of criminal activity, and all emergency units were cleared to stand down.
Audio|Source: Franklin County Police, Fire and EMS Dispatch
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Transcript:
00:00
The RP stated, she's calling from the smokehouse, states it's one street over.
00:03
Not sure if it's going to be South Lyman Street or not or a new street.
00:07
Okay, really, thank you. Control, turn is any one.
00:09
First falls into one.
00:10
Any other calls on this?
00:12
Just the one from the smokehouse.
00:13
Okay, Rici, we'll be taking us over to fireground.
00:16
Sixth, this will be on South Island.
00:17
Receive, going to Fireground 2128.
00:19
Receive.
00:20
Oh, six, fish. Nothing on South Lyman, no smell of smoke.
00:24
I'm going to circle back to the smoke out, see if I can get a view from her vantage point.
00:29
Okay. Control Greenfield Engine 2.
00:30
Greenfield Engine 2.
00:32
Responding to Turner's Falls, can we get the address? Is that Montague Center?
00:35
It's going to be Turner's Falls area near Federal Street.
00:39
One of the side streets near it, RP wasn't sure of the exact address.
00:43
Safe Dispatch.
00:44
Can you call the RP back? See if she's still there.
00:47
The few cars in the parking lot, nobody in the parking lot trying to flag me down.
00:50
Breaking. Control Greenfield Engine 2.
00:52
Confirming Federal Street F-E-D.
00:55
Yes, Federal Street Therapy was calling from the smokehouse on Federal Street.
01:01
States it was across the street in that area.
01:03
Six. That phone's going straight to voicemail.
01:06
It is still mapping at the smokehouse, so it was an employee there.
01:12
Yeah, receive, Millers.
01:13
Received, did you have a name?
01:15
Sure, Mike. Control. Turn is engine one.
01:17
Turner's on. Yeah, we're off in the inferior area investigating.
01:20
We'll get back yet.
01:21
We're off in the area investigating at 2131.
01:24
Greenfield's engine is on the road responding.
01:26
It's going to be a first name of Christine.
01:27
Control from Turner's Engine One.
01:29
Turner's engine one.
01:30
They go up on New Street, up at the top of the hill.
01:34
See if I, we've checked New Street, we have nothing here.
01:36
We're going to check South Lyman.
01:38
Receives. I just kind of got a quick glimpse.
01:40
It looks like it might be some like sticky torches, but I'll head up.
01:43
Check it out. I received.
01:44
Very safe.
01:45
Turners vaults into one fire alarm.
01:47
On fire ground.
01:48
On fire ground. 156. Go ahead, fire alarm.
01:49
Go ahead. All right, all right.
01:50
Yeah, from the smokehouse parking lot, there's a house up on New Street, multiple peeking torches on the porch.
01:57
I just speaking with the owner of near New Street, the last house on New Street.
02:02
I did have a fire pit going and there's some Tiki Torses with.
02:04
Great. Yeah,
02:05
receipt. We're just confirming that right now.
02:07
Break. Shelver control turns off into one.
02:09
There's Falls Engine 1.
02:11
18, what street was there?
02:12
Chevrovertrolled the Greenfield Engine 2.
02:14
New Street. Yeah, you can hold all additional units to stand down Greenfield.
02:18
This is going to be a cooking fire with peaky torches on a deck.
02:22
We're going to be going up to speak to them.
02:24
Greenfield engine, too.
02:25
Greenfield. Thank you. Thank you. Turn to false advice as you may cancel.
02:27
It looks like it's going to be a cooking fire.
02:29
They're going to be off speaking to the homeowner.
02:30
Thank you. Thank you.
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Turners Falls, Montague, MA
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