Roommate sparks smoke fire in Utah home amid eviction fight, Hurricane UT
Fire & ArsonA Utah resident reported their roommate deliberately filled the kitchen with smoke by turning on all burners, which responders confirmed, while no flames were found. This act occurred amid eviction tensions.
Audio|Source: Washington County Sheriff, Fire and EMS - East
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Transcript:
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This is going to be 75 West, 1125 North.
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It sounds like the roommate is trying to burn the house down.
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No flames being seen, there is smoke in the kitchen, believed to be intentional.
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Sounds like the roommate turned on all the burners on.
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Roommate certainly in her bathroom and not at storing the bathroom door.
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The RP is exiting the home.
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Okay, well, with the patient in the Stokes basket and backboard, do you want us to hold off on packaging them until our night gets here or what? They bring in the row? We do have law en route as well.
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Yeah, they usually have their own system that they'll use if we need to put the patient into the Stokes, just to kind of adjust them to keep them in a safe area.
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Use your best judgment on that.
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But they have their own lifting system that they'll put them into.
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Usually they'll put the backboard into that system.
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It's kind of like a wrap.
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Just 14 on the structure fire, the RP believes the roommate did this for retaliation for her eviction.
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It's fine, so long as they got that in the bridle, otherwise we're building it here with the Stokes.
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N, Hurricane, UT 84737
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