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Portable charger smoking in snowbank outside lobby

Heard on: New York City NY Fire Dispatch Group Calls
00:49
00:00
Box 1294 . Can we get a ten seven? Can you have the caller meet the members if they're still on the scene?
audio iconFire & Arson
Manhattan, New York, NY
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Emergency services are responding to a report of a portable phone charger or cell phone battery that was overheating and expanding. The caller, waiting in the building lobby, said she threw the device into a snowbank outside the entrance to keep it away from people and the building. Fire units are being directed to continue to the scene while other units are released.

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