Fire in apartment unit causes heavy smoke and activates sprinklers, Franklin WI
A fire started in an apartment unit possibly caused by a candle, triggering sprinklers and producing heavy smoke inside. Multiple emergency units responded. No one remained inside the unit during the incident, but heavy smoke made access difficult. Screams were heard from the stairwell during the response.
Audio|Source: Milwaukee County Law Enforcement
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Transcript:
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At 244 and 246, we have a fire.
00:07
44. 6.
00:12
Head near West Umcourt.
00:13
It's in unit E like Edward.
00:15
It was a candle fire.
00:17
Sprinklers may have put it out, but we've got a lot of units coming in.
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45-10.
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6-10. Dixion.
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Dixing keeps going.
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T. Yeah,
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the TV, a bunch of trash.
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929.
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Midway. Then far as the person there now.
00:53
Hello.
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The advice that might be (name withheld) who doesn't like police.
01:05
Twenty-three on all day, we'll have no one all five.
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Harry.
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Hey John Beck.
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Timber.
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Tambour. The dispatcher.
01:50
Detective Stitch and I will be doing rope with the Department of Corrections.
01:54
Thank you.
02:02
There is your friend?
02:04
Not with him, he's kind of conscious and breathing, boiling around on the ground.
02:08
Got a big goose egg to his head and some small cuts all over his body.
02:13
Sorry. His broken glass in here.
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Sorry.
02:19
Yeah,
02:24
it sounds like they're in traffic.
02:30
104. 12.57 does.
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To clear my...
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My... Air that way.
02:37
Okay. Which is right?
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6.2521 West Boyte Road,
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number 15.
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6.2521 West Boyte Road, number 15.
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Stanford.
03:07
Thank you. 93 dispatch.
03:09
We are all heading from that complaint.
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Senator.
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It's smoke showing from the outside?
03:24
Negative.
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4523.
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Same first.
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42,
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there's nobody inside,
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there's a lot of smoke inside,
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and you...
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42, it'll be on the second floor.
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The second floor, no one's left inside in smoking.
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Okay.
04:10
C-19, C-11.
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Copy.
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36-23
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45
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Denver 45
04:29
Breakters are still going.
04:30
There's so much smoke, white smoke in there that you can't see to make it up the stairs to tell if the fire is still going or not.
04:38
Cabby
04:53
Screams coming from the stairwell.
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It was a male, heard slight commotion afterwards, and she left.
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Time one.
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Tina back.
05:07
What will advise? Did she say which stairwell, or is there only one?
05:12
Negative, there might be only one.
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She said it's the closest to the Skybridge.
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30-2-3.
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