Malfunctioning furnace causes smoke in residence, Dubuque IA
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a two-story home near North Main St in Dubuque after reports of smoke and smoke alarms activating. Investigation showed the smoke came from a malfunctioning furnace with no fire or injuries.
Audio|Source: Dubuque County Fire, Dubuque City Fire and EMS
08:24
Transcript:
00:00
For the trucks out of training, I can see you guys kind of listening. For information, we're getting reports that it has smoke alarms going off and smoke inside the resident.
00:13
Truck 4 is responding from the training center.
00:17
Okay.
00:23
This cosmetic cord will be available.
00:25
You need us for anything else?
00:28
Stand by.
00:33
This is Trump One responding from the ice arena.
00:38
Stand by.
00:42
Just as go ahead with your update.
00:50
Yourself, Engine 1, Engine 2, Engine 3, Engine 6, Magic 1, Truck 1 and Truck 4 are responding 62071, North Main Street.
00:59
So the Vig and a half being removed.
01:01
I've got a bit of smoke going off and a heavy snow coming out. You go to the chimney.
01:06
Code 1[1].
01:09
4.4, smoke coming from the chimney.
01:12
All units are responding, let's go to Fireground 2.
01:22
Enter one? Agent two.
01:32
Four.
01:35
One.
01:39
Smith, Clint.
01:42
Engine six.
01:47
All right, everyone's on the firegroundsew.
01:49
It's going to be on the corner of Lowell in North Maine. There's a fire hydrant right on the corner.
01:59
Engine 1 is out on the team. We have a two-story residential area. We do have some motion from the chimney.
02:04
We've had a hydrant, so we'll be going to fly.
02:06
Battalion 1, you're going to take command on this.
02:08
Engine 1 is going to investigate.
02:14
Copy.
02:16
All units, battalion 1 is North Main Street Command.
02:23
Andrew 1 is going to do investigation.
02:28
The one is on team.
02:35
Medical one from Fan.
02:37
Ed.
02:41
Why don't you team up with engine one?
02:45
One from command.
02:49
Go ahead.
02:51
I'm sending you, Medic 1.
02:53
You guys are gonna be interior.
02:59
Okay, just working off R360 now.
03:02
I spoke with some calls from the outside, they said there should be nobody here.
03:06
They have someone that's occasionally working here, but Pete, they don't believe he's here as well. So according to that, we have an all clear as far as people go.
03:14
Okay.
03:15
The report is all clear.
03:16
Happy. Okay.
03:22
May I find you one something.
03:25
Go ahead.
03:29
We're on the Delta side, Charlie Corner where we're making access there. I'm gonna force the door.
03:34
Just making entry now.
03:38
I understand you're making access to the house on the Charlie Delta Corner.
03:48
Battalion 1p2 is joining us with Engine 1.
03:56
Battalion 1, P2, join up with Engine 6.
04:01
Engine 6 from Command.
04:09
Alright, Command.
04:22
Connect from Edge 1.
04:24
Go ahead.
04:28
We're interior, main floor was cleared, just making our way to the basement now to check that.
04:35
How we got?
04:37
Interior, you're heading to the basement.
04:41
Our phone number on team, waiting for assignment.
04:48
Why don't you guys go on deck for now?
04:54
Actually, truck one, I need you to do event assessment.
04:59
Truck one, then assessment, Kathy.
05:06
Command from Edge 1.
05:08
Interior, go ahead.
05:12
Yeah, we are inside the basement.
05:14
Those are a possible malfunction furnace, getting a lot of heat the furnace itself.
05:18
So I'm just looking to shut this down.
05:20
We still need to get up floor two, check those conditions.
05:24
Copy.
05:25
Engine 3, command.
05:30
Go ahead for engine 3.
05:33
Can you make the attic?
05:35
Floor 2 in the attic?
05:38
We'll check this.
05:40
Second floor in the attic.
05:45
Engine 2, stay shuttle 1, okay, shuttle 1.
05:52
Interior from Palm.
05:57
Go for interior.
05:59
Let me know if you guys need that line charge, if you just want to keep it dry for now.
06:07
Charge.
06:10
Hemel.
06:13
Engine two from command.
06:21
Not sure why you guys got this patch of this, but just don't commit to anything and just stage.
06:30
Copy.
06:36
Come here's from interior.
06:40
Go ahead.
06:43
Yeah, if you have somebody go ahead and just shut the gas off at a meter, just a killer furnace.
06:50
Okay, thanks.
06:52
Our phone's in the area, we'll get the gas.
06:55
We'll get the gas.
06:58
Italian one from this touch.
07:02
Go ahead.
07:04
This is your first five-minute check.
07:10
Okay, we have crews operating the interior right now. Okay, we have crew operating the interior in the chimney.
07:20
Okay, sorry. All right. Me, the attic.
07:22
You have no heat, no smoke.
07:25
Is that correct?
07:29
Correct, there's no issues in the attic. Okay.
07:39
Command from interior.
07:42
Go interior.
07:45
Yeah, as long as 4-2 is good, it looks like this is all contained in the furnace itself. So we just got to work on shutting this down and ventilating that we should be good.
07:54
Okay.
07:56
Engine 2 from Quinn. All right.
08:03
Return to service.
08:07
Copy in service.
08:09
And drop one.
08:14
Check one girl.
08:16
360 instruction shows no gas meter on the structure.
08:21
Okay.
08:24
Okay.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Code 1: Routine/non-emergency response (no lights or sirens)
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Location mentioned:
N Main St, Dubuque, IA 52001
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