Small cooking fire extinguished at homeless encampment, Jersey City NJ
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to reports of smoke near Patterson Plank Road in Jersey City. They found a small cooking fire at a homeless encampment and extinguished it quickly without it spreading or causing injuries.
Audio|Source: Jersey City Fire
05:57
Transcript:
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Dispatch, N14 is on the seat.
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Addison, Plank Rose, and Congress, we're investigated.
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714,000, C,
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Congress, you command.
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Dispatch on a good fortune.
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Do you have any further information from the caller?
00:31
I received one call from a passerby, stating that they saw smoke and smelled a smell of burning wood near Patterson Plank Road, no further information.
01:06
Thank you.
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Dispatch Battalion, please, on the scene.
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We are on the scene on the scene on 14.
01:29
Have all companies proceed with caution.
01:32
We're unable to locate an odor or source at this time.
01:38
Company's responding to box 457, proceed with caution.
01:41
Your company is responding to the box 457, proceed with caution.
01:53
Command, a measure 14.
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All right, 14.
02:00
Wherever the northern part is,
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no brush, nothing up here smoking either.
02:12
Receive. Nothing here as well,
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proceeding down the Plank Road from the light rail station.
02:29
Received.
02:30
Dispatch, do you have that caller's number? Are they still unseen or they just showed by and said they smelled something?
02:35
The negative was passed by and they refused to give any more information.
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Command,
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from engine 14.
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Go ahead, 14.
02:58
From a passerby, they said they saw smoke coming up Patterson Plank Road further down.
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Okay,
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received.
03:16
Just remember last year we had the brush burning up behind the park there.
03:20
Is that area all clear? Anything showing up there?
03:28
We're over by the light rail so we wouldn't have a visual.
03:31
We need to make our way down.
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Patterson's plank roads towards Hope Street.
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She said it was on the right-hand side on the way down.
03:45
Okay, received.
03:48
Engine 18, could you head out down that way?
03:53
Yeah, G4 no way.
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The man ladder is three.
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We're over by River Park.
04:00
We're going to take the look.
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Okay, we see about a 3.
04:15
Dispatch has some blood road come in.
04:17
We're going to hold all hands for a short while, so we can't see the area, good.
04:22
We keep holding all hands.
04:52
It's a redirect.
05:06
Command from Engine 18.
05:10
Got, 18.
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Yeah,
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we got it. It's a homeless encampment.
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There's a cooking fire.
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We're going to extinguish here.
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There's no extension.
05:20
We could hold with Engine 18.
05:29
Okay, receive.
05:30
That's where we had the brush fire last year.
05:34
Yeah, it's a permanent machine.
05:39
Okay, receive.
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This flash, hold engine company 18 on Patterson Plank Road, you to return the balance.
05:45
Battalion 3 is ready. Channel 1.
05:49
Received, holding engine 18 at box 457.
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All the company's ready, deputy, 1.
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Did you receive that?
05:55
Deputy One Rinty.
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Paterson Plank Rd, Jersey City, NJ
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