91-year-old woman causes heavy smoke in home, Evanston IL


Emergency responders were called to a home near South Blvd unit E for a 91-year-old woman experiencing a mental health issue. She may have tried to start a fire, causing heavy smoke inside the house but no active fire was found. Police and ambulance arrived to evaluate her condition.
Audio|Source: Evanston Fire
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Transcript:
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The detail assignment for engine 22, near South Blvd Unit E. Pete is going to be around as well for a 91-year-old female having a mental health issue.
00:10
The caller states that there is a lot of smoke in the house that she possibly tried to start the house on fire, but there's no active fire.
00:19
The detail assignment for engine 22, near South Blvd Unit E.
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PD is going to be around as well for a mental health issue. It's a 91-year-old female.
00:29
The caller said that that female possibly tried to start the house on fire. There's a lot of smoke inside, but seeing no flames at all, reporting no actual fire. Time is 5.58.
00:45
Engine 22 from dispatch.
00:49
Go out for 22.
00:53
PD is on scene. They are now asking for the ambulance for an evaluation.
01:01
Can I change your call type code to an ambulance call or do you want me to pull a separate ticket?
01:08
No,
01:10
just changes to an ambulance call 321, send the ambulance, please thank you.
01:26
To me, MS assignment for ambulance 22, near South Blvd Unit E, knee engine 22, on scene is going to be for an email.
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The NEMS assignment, ambulance 22, near South Blvd Unit E.
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It's going to be an evaluation for a 91-year-old female.
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Time to 602.
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