Apartment roof fire involves solar panels on South Hickory Ave, Bartlett IL
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a roof fire at an apartment complex near South Hickory Avenue. The fire involved solar panels and burned through the roof, causing smoke and debris to fall inside. Crews extinguished the main fire and were checking for further damage and safety.
Audio|Source: DuComm Fire Dispatch and Ops (All)
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Transcript:
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Falls, District 131, 361, near South Hickory Avenue, apartment, engine one, medic one, cross street of West Railroad Avenue and West Devon Avenue.
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52, you're talking about unit of 2270, right?
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Correct.
00:24
2.5.303M C.
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CASE 28 from Duccom.
00:32
Duccombe time, three.
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Go ahead. Chief 2228 from Ducon, you guys are 10 minutes into your incident.
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Ducon, Towers, 38 on 2.
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Tower 38, I want you to back down next to your engine.
00:48
There's a driveway there.
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I want you to back down that for me.
00:51
The clock for Chief 28 update.
00:53
All right. All right.
00:54
All right.
00:56
It looks like we've got a roof fire evolving solar panels.
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I'll get back in a second.
01:01
I asked if we could spread the door in force entry and she said that's fine if that's what we need to do.
01:10
All right, I don't think there's an actual hazard inside, just wanting to confirm.
01:15
We'll leave it in full fire, you could have property management come out here or make contact with the owner.
01:21
It looks like it's maybe under construction.
01:24
Okay,
01:25
sound good. Do you count up in the 28th on the same.
01:27
Passage received.
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Power 38. Power 38.
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Zoom conference, Chief 28 update.
01:37
Go ahead, Chase.
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All right, I'm going to assume command out here.
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We're confirming we have a roof fire that's involving some, what we believe, solar panels.
01:46
We got water on the fire right now via Tower 28.
01:49
We have companies inside checking for extension.
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Right now all companies are going to be working.
01:54
Chief 28 is still in the command.
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Squad 27, UNHF3.
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Deputy 26, I've made out three.
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Is this better here? Can you hear me okay?
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Yes, I can hear you now.
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G28 and Deputy 26.
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Hi.
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We've got the main body of fire knock down.
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We're just going to need to get up there and check it at some point in time, but I don't know really what the integrity of it is.
02:25
We're being told there's stuff coming inside, falling from the ceiling.
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We're not sure what that is yet, so we can't make it that way.
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And there's heavy smoke underneath there.
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Okay.
02:35
Do you want us to exit the roof?
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Operations from the interior.
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Italian 58 interior, is that you? All right, we've got a split for her holding the firing shack on the inside.
02:45
Looks like just a little bit of cardboard at the last door.
02:50
We're opening up from south side of the building right now.
02:53
Okay. Injinn to confirm, you have engine 29, two members with you, correct? Message, correct.
02:59
Two members, that's correct.
03:01
All right, message received.
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Deputy 26, 1, 27.
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38th on opt 3.
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Medellant 29 on opt 3.
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The Italian 38 off 3.
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I'm telling 38 ops 3, got you.
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159, switch over off 3.
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engine 59. 29.
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29, I got you on off 3.
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Our 28.
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Engine 29, I got you on off 3.
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Power 6 on off 3.
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Engine 37 is on option 3.
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Sorry, last two companies.
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The Italian 28th from deputy 26.
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Go ahead. Interior is reporting the fire burned through the roof.
03:38
Did you see any kind of compromise? Well, we're kind of doing some hydraulic overall right now.
03:45
We'll see if we can take a better look.
03:48
Operations at all companies, the roof is supposedly burned through.
03:52
We're not going inside the building until you talk to interior or operations on the east side of the building.
03:57
Nobody goes inside the building.
03:59
I don't know.
04:02
Deputy 26 Squad 27.
04:04
Yeah, you guys still on the roof here? Yeah, we're on a secondary roof.
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We're quite a distance away.
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Do you want to save it?
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Now the conditions are getting better up there.
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Can you see anything differently that you saw before? No, conditions are a lot better.
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And can you see if the roof is compromised at all? Yeah, we're going to have to climb up to that route that the fire is actually on, but we'll go up there.
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We're still a safe distance away.
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Don't go up there, we're good.
04:29
We'll wait a few minutes and let us see we can find some stuff on the inside.
04:33
Stay on that secondary roof or come off, coordinate with the Titan 28th.
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Okay.
04:39
Hey Jason, the one thing, there's a giant skylight right here.
04:43
I don't know if that's what they're seeing inside.
04:46
Let's hold.
04:47
That makes sense.
04:48
Because otherwise, everything looks to be like it's been past.
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We're just blasting.
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S Hickory Ave, Bartlett, IL 60103
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