Small fire from cardboard box near playground extinguished, Elgin IL
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a report of smoke near South State Street across from a new playground under construction. Upon investigation, the smoke came from a small cardboard box that was burned inside a backhoe bucket. The fire was quickly put out and no further danger was found.
Audio|Source: Elgin Fire
05:14
Transcript:
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Engine 4, engine 5, Battalion 5, Ambulance 4, Battalion 1, Battalion 1, Battalion 21.
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Structure Fire,
00:11
near South State Street.
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Between Middle Road and Route 2 eastbound exit ramp, routeway eastbound entrance,
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ramp. Timeout (number withheld).
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Engine 4, Engine 6, Engine 5, Quint 1, Ambulance 4, Battalion 1, and Battalion 21 Structure Fire near South State Street.
00:45
Engine 4, ambulance for Battalion 1, Battalion 21, Engine 5, Engine 6.0.1 for a possible shed that's on fire across the street from South State Street, across the street from South State Street.
01:06
Apparatus responding, switch to Ops 2 for South State Street.
01:17
Units responding near South State Street is going to be across the street from this location.
01:21
The caller says where the new playground is being built.
01:24
He sees a large show that's got smoke coming from it, no vehicles on site.
01:29
Now it's inverted battalion.
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I'm in the area near South State.
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I don't see anything.
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Can you get a better description?
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Is it across the street to the west or is this the Little League fields behind?
01:54
The caller was stating across the street,
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they're building a new playground,
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and that's what he's seeing this smoke coming from.
02:05
All right, we'll continue to look.
02:13
I'm not sure if that's engine 5 or engine 6 behind me.
02:16
Can you guys head to the east of South State down by the Little League field to see if there's something going on down there?
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Engine 4. We'll just copy that there.
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We'll check out.
02:32
Yeah,
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when that was ended four is going to go east of the building.
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We're going to follow you to the west, to the new playground that's being built at the EMHG property as a door set there.
02:47
Okay, yeah, I'm not seeing anything now over here yet.
02:56
Italian 1 from the Italian 21.
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I'll go in by the Little League also.
03:02
Okay, thanks.
03:09
Italian 1 from Engine 6, there is smoke from the stack on the lower side of the old power building here at E&C.
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That's the only smoke that I'm currently seeing.
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Okay,
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Elephant Fire, I'm going to tell you one.
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Telling one, go ahead.
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Did you just get the one call on this?
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Affirmative, just one caller and he's not answering callback attempts for clarification.
03:48
Okay,
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as soon as we clear the east side of South State, we're probably going to return to everybody.
03:53
There's no sign of a fire in this area.
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That's just a failure one.
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I got to work around here.
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I got to go talk to him for mention 6.
04:03
Take your hand from the edge of four.
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East side is clear.
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Okay, thanks.
04:15
Petitone from Elgin Fire.
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Go ahead.
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The caller called back.
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He's stating it's across the street by the Mental Hospital.
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There's no indication of fire.
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It was most likely the smoke sticks.
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Message 1 from Engine 6.
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Our culprit is a cardboard box that was burned inside of the backhoe.
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Okay.
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No, I'm fired from Italian 1.
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Italian 1. Italian, go ahead.
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Apparently there was a little cardboard box and set a backhoe bucket.
05:03
The fire is out.
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You can return everybody engine six.
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He'll be here for a few minutes.
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Message to see fires out from the back of the backhoe.
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All companies can return except for engine six.
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Location mentioned:
Near S State St, Elgin, IL 60123
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