False fire alarm at Elwood Energy on South Patterson Road, Elwood IL


A fire alarm was triggered at Elwood Energy near South Patterson Road. Fire units arrived and found no smoke or fire. The alarm was determined to be false, possibly caused by unrelated testing. The fire alarm system was set to test mode until 1800 hours.
Audio|Source: Grundy County Consolidated Dispatch Center
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Transcript:
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Elwood Fire.
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For the fire alarm.
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Battalion 6, 612, and 411.
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Near South Patterson Road.
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Near South Patterson Road.
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Elwood Energy activated fire alarm on Keltron 1333.
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You can show us on, Pete.
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I have a single-story warehouse facility.
00:45
Nothing showing from three sides.
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You can show us out investigating.
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I have everybody switched on off-point-free upon arrival.
00:51
Sixthroll will have come in.
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All right, six-12.
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You're on the scene on Patterson.
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You're advising single-story warehouse, nothing from three-sides.
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You'll be out investigating, Office 23 upon arrival.
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Secure 30.
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Talk.
01:16
Talk to Westcombe the battalion is going to stay in quarters.
01:20
We see the battalion is going to remain in quarters.
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Thank you.
01:34
All right, first be close.
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I spoke with Dave in the control realm.
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He stated that FD was actually already there for an unrelated training.
01:41
No smoke, no fire, and he did place the system on test until 1800.
01:46
Does not believe that the activation was in relation to the testing, but he placed it on test anyway.
01:55
Message received, we made contact with him right now.
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We'll go ahead and keep that update on there.
01:59
They're going to keep this system in the test until that time frame show us, basically,
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available on the team.
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All right, message received.
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602, copy. 411, you can return.
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That's not clear out there.
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Standing with us, thank you.
02:29
Pretty much one end the roadway's clear.
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612.
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612. They're aware of the issue.
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They're going to keep working on the system.
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They will call back and advise you if the alarm needs to be funded into further timeframe.
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Otherwise, just keep that time frame for now for that 1800 out of service.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Location mentioned:
Near S Patterson Rd, Elwood, IL 60421
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