Small fire in woods near Foster Street building extinguished, Peabody MA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to reports of smoke and a small fire in the woods near building 12 close to Foster Street. The fire appeared to originate from a homeless encampment. Crews confirmed the smoke and visible fire and extinguished it using a water can. No buildings were involved and no signs of criminal activity were found.
Audio|Source: Peabody Police and Fire
05:49
Transcript:
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Cut two, within a box assignment to near Foster Street, ten.
00:07
Receive. Show me responding. Do you have a building?
00:12
Building three.
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Building three.
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Reported box alarm.
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Near Foster Street Unit R.
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Engine 1. Near Foster Street Unit R. Engine 1.Ladder 1.
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Car 2. Nearest cross streets.
00:29
Washington Street and Lowe Street.
00:32
Reported box alarm.
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Near Foster Street Unit R, Engine 1, Engine 4, Ladder 1, Car 2, Nearest Cross Streets, Washington Street and Low Street.
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Car 2, Engine 1, Engine 1, Engine 4, Ladder 1.11, Rear, Foster Street, Building 3.
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Smoke in the building and then the parking lot, please investigate the area.
01:08
Control copies.
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Cartoon's investigating. We have a large three-story brick,
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nothing showing three sides.
01:26
Receive, large three-story brick, nothing showing three sides.
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Firearms, stop me another engine this way.
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Receive.
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Five respondent. Two-five, fire alarm. Fire alarm[1], show five respondent.
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Receive, thank you,
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five.
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E5, carpool.
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This is 500, go ahead.
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Come in back to yours and check that area.
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Nothing's going on at Building 3.
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All right.
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We do have smoke in the area.
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It smells like a structure fire. I'm just trying to locate it.
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Receive got you.
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Are here?
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Engine one's on scene.
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Uh,
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I'm kind of true.
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Silence.
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Getting report of coming from building, I believe it's number seven.
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Poverty 21 call, Peabody Control.
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City Control.
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I'll be clear, and route to Loon Spring.
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We're deep.
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Go around the back side.
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Receive, yeah, we got smoke in the area, we're out front.
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He won a command.
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You want to come in?
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You want to?
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Command[2],
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we're on the Charlie side by building 12. There's a small fire in the woods looks like from the homeless encampment.
03:47
We'll be investigating out here.
03:58
Car two fire alarm.
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You did not, but I'll take them.
04:07
All right, I'll call you at 03. Roger.
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Andrew 4 is off from Kirtu. Inj4 is off, level 1.
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Inj4 from Kirtu.
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Thank you, four.
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Four, hangout on Foster Street, right by that hydrant just in case we need it.
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Racing.
04:49
Five's on scene.
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At D.O.C. level one.
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Fire alarm[1] carter is off with engine one and five.
05:01
It's a pretty good fire out in the woods.
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Receive tie two.
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Do you need any additional resources at this time for that?
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Negative three engines are the ladder. If you want to re-position to the, which would be the delta side.
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We're on the way.
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You want to command.
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We'll locate the source of the smoke.
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We're going to use a water can to extinguish the fire.
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All right, you don't need a line up under one.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Fire alarm: Automatic or manual fire alarm activation
[2]
Command: Incident Command established by first-arriving unit or chief
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Location mentioned:
Near Foster St, Peabody, MA 01960
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