Fire units respond to smoke and fireworks near Garfield Avenue, Des Moines IA
Fire & ArsonFire and emergency units responded to reports of smoke and loud fireworks or explosives near a residence on Garfield Avenue. Police are also assisting to investigate the situation. The homeowner reported seeing someone set off fireworks in a nearby alley.
Audio|Source: Des Moines Fire/EMS
02:47
Transcript:
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Engine 4, Truck 3, East 27th, Court and Garfield for a smoke investigation.
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East 27th, Court, and Garfield, Engine 4, Truck 3, Response 1, Channel 5.
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Engine 4, Truck 3, East 27th, Court, and Garfield.
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You can keep Engine 4 in service for now.
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All right, Engine 4, you're back in.
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Engine 4, you're back in.
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Truck 3, I'm going to have police assist you on this.
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I took a call on a person at near Garfield who apparently is setting off loud fireworks or explosives in the front yard.
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The person is a white male,
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unknown clothing description.
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And we have another caller now saying that there's smoke in the area.
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He's near Garfield, so I imagine they're probably both related.
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Truck three copies, thank you.
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Copy.
01:04
Yeah, like some TDOB assisting you.
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There'll be a route there.
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This is a truck three.
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Go ahead, truck three.
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We see some light haze off of East 28th.
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Do you have a numerical at all?
01:24
Well, the call that I took on the guy that's shooting off explosives or fireworks or whatever he has was near Garfield, so I imagine that might be where it's coming from.
01:39
Near Garfield, we'll go check that out, thank you.
01:46
Several people there and there's been some issues with that residence from what the caller told me, so I don't know if you might wait till the police get there, but they should be on the way.
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This bad truck 3 has arrived near Garfield.
02:03
We'll check out this residence.
02:09
All right copy, it looks like the officer is coming down there is at Hubble and Easton, so they're on the way.
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Three copies.
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754.
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To finish truck three.
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Go ahead, truck three.
02:36
Yeah, the homeowner near Garfield says that he saw somebody shooting out some fireworks in an alley nearby, so we're going to check that out.
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Okay, copy.
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Location mentioned:
Near Garfield Ave, Des Moines, IA 50317
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