Smoke sparks alarm at Morton nursing home roof, Morton IL
Fire units responded to a nursing facility near Parkside Ave after smoke was reported from the roof, with flames actually caused by an HVAC unit exhausting. All units cleared after confirming no emergency.
Audio|Source: Morton Fire Dispatch and Morton Fire 2 (SC21)
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Transcript:
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engine, Morton fire, on a structure fire,
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1500 Parkside at Restmore, flames coming out of the roof of the building.
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C1, do you want engine 3 right for that?
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Okay, it's a false alarm.
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Orr and see once.
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Go ahead.
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Do you want me to start paging any additional units or wait until you get on scene?
00:31
Yes, affirmative.
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You can go ahead and notify East Peoria Engine 4 for now,
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Washington for an engine.
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Central, East Peoria Engine 4 and Washington for an engine.
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Morton, everybody born to that?
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Go ahead. All right, right, ten.
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C1,
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got four.
01:03
Go ahead.
01:05
Just as I drove by head to the station, I did not see a thing as far as smoke off of 1,500.
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Copy that.
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Who just calls coming through?
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From an employee inside the bed.
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Okay.
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And evacuation was in progress.
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Did you advise there's an evacuation?
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Please hedge with attempting to get people out of the building.
01:37
Okay, if you get all our officers over there, they're already on scene.
01:45
Do you have three on the line? Yeah, just three on the line.
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Go ahead.
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I invite the officers on the scene, spoke with several residents and some employees there.
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There is nothing showing,
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and they're advising there's no emergency just for information.
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Can you repeat that again?
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There's on scene advised they have spoke with several residents that no active emergency at this time and no one is being evacuated.
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Okay,
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I'll be on scene in a minute.
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Okay.
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Foreign engine 3 is continuing goal.
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C1, you want us to continue out with action 1 as well?
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Yes, I want all units to come in until we figure out what this was.
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Time for Ro Ro Role 1, personal chair.
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On C1, you sit on East Korea, I can continue.
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If there is no emergency there, they can defer.
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Washington can defer as well.
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All right, Mr.
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Pish, Morton, Truck, One of you know.
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Morton Truck One of you know. Morton Truck One in route, fifty hundred parks a second.
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Morton C1's on scene.
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I'll be checking this out.
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Residential nursing facility.
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Hi Cotty. You're on scene.
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You'll be checking it out, residential nursing facility.
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This next, coordination one's en route with six cold.
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One engine one, arras six cold, fifteen hundred per cent.
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Fortin C1.
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Fortin C1.
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More and see one.
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Lori thought she's not flames coming from the roof.
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There are no flames, actually are.
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HAC unit that was exhausting.
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All units coming in can clear.
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There's no problem here.
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Fire spas. Fortrick 1 is clear to 3rd.
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HV.C. 1st, we want to copy.
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And please saw a flame from the roof.
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It's an HVAC unit that was exhausting.
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All units are clear.
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More than 21 copies.
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Codby. Morton, N.
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3, side back out to Jefferson.
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Location mentioned:
Parkside Ave, Morton, IL 61550
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