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Fire crews extinguish smoldering chimney fire on 4th StreetWashburn IA

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4th St, Washburn, IA 50702

Fire crews responded to a chimney fire near 4th Street in Washburn, Iowa. Upon inspection, no active flames were found, only smoldering logs and light smoke inside the chimney. The fire was extinguished safely without further incident.

Audio|Source: Black Hawk County Fire and EMS
03:19
Transcript:
00:00
306 all units appears.
00:02
It's just a bird that's the top of the chimney place.
00:06
Everybody goes to attack two on arrival.
00:13
Everybody else from down, Greg?
00:17
All units, let's stage outside on, right there on 4th Street.
00:20
Don't come back in here.
00:23
Only unit I need is 311.
00:27
Copy that.
00:29
301 is offing staged.
00:32
Number.
00:34
302 is not seen staged.
00:42
306 from 331.
00:43
Did you want us to disregard then?
00:50
We got six, right.
00:56
300's unseen,
00:57
switching to TAC 2.
01:04
300 from 311.
01:06
When you get in that and see what you got, give us a little bit better directions.
01:15
300 from 331.
01:16
Did you guys need us this day on scene or do you want to scout today?
01:23
Stay on scene and stage for the moment until we get 311 in here.
01:26
You could have somebody follow the ladder or something.
01:29
Okay.
01:36
331 is unseen.
01:42
3.11 is unseen.
01:49
Command to 311.
01:52
Take a left there.
01:54
Go straight in and come around.
01:55
You'll see my 300 over here straight ahead of you.
02:02
311 copy 311 you're going to turn left right here and come down towards me
02:13
311 copy
02:19
34 arriving
02:24
arrived at MercyOne Waterloo ending miles 3.0
02:31
300306.
02:35
Go ahead, Charlie.
02:39
I had no active fire.
02:40
We got up here with 24.
02:42
I'm just cooling down the top of the chimney.
02:49
If somebody can go in and get a look from the bottom side up, there's a couple logs in there, smoldering, so they'll have to put it out with a little bit of water gun to look up.
03:00
Copy that, I'm in here now, talking with the homeowner, so.
03:09
306 from 300.
03:11
I can visualize up inside the chimney, and I'm not seeing any active fire now.
03:14
I just a little bit of puffle, cups of smoke off this log down here.
03:18
I'm not seeing anything active.

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