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Smoke sparks alarm at Morton nursing home roofMorton IL

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Parkside Ave, Morton, IL 61550

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:
00:00
engine, Morton fire, on a structure fire,
00:03
1500 Parkside at Restmore, flames coming out of the roof of the building.
00:08
C1, do you want engine 3 right for that?
00:11
Okay, it's a false alarm.
00:17
Orr and see once.
00:19
Go ahead.
00:23
Do you want me to start paging any additional units or wait until you get on scene?
00:31
Yes, affirmative.
00:33
You can go ahead and notify East Peoria Engine 4 for now,
00:36
Washington for an engine.
00:38
Central, East Peoria Engine 4 and Washington for an engine.
00:45
Morton, everybody born to that?
00:50
Go ahead. All right, right, ten.
00:55
C1,
00:58
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.
01:12
Copy that.
01:19
Who just calls coming through?
01:21
From an employee inside the bed.
01:23
Okay.
01:25
And evacuation was in progress.
01:27
Did you advise there's an evacuation?
01:33
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.
01:52
Go ahead.
01:54
I invite the officers on the scene, spoke with several residents and some employees there.
01:59
There is nothing showing,
02:00
and they're advising there's no emergency just for information.
02:03
Can you repeat that again?
02:09
There's on scene advised they have spoke with several residents that no active emergency at this time and no one is being evacuated.
02:17
Okay,
02:18
I'll be on scene in a minute.
02:20
Okay.
02:23
Foreign engine 3 is continuing goal.
02:30
C1, you want us to continue out with action 1 as well?
02:37
Yes, I want all units to come in until we figure out what this was.
02:42
Time for Ro Ro Role 1, personal chair.
02:49
On C1, you sit on East Korea, I can continue.
02:56
If there is no emergency there, they can defer.
03:01
Washington can defer as well.
03:03
All right, Mr.
03:09
Pish, Morton, Truck, One of you know.
03:11
Morton Truck One of you know. Morton Truck One in route, fifty hundred parks a second.
03:18
Morton C1's on scene.
03:21
I'll be checking this out.
03:23
Residential nursing facility.
03:26
Hi Cotty. You're on scene.
03:27
You'll be checking it out, residential nursing facility.
03:34
This next, coordination one's en route with six cold.
03:38
One engine one, arras six cold, fifteen hundred per cent.
03:41
Fortin C1.
03:45
Fortin C1.
03:49
More and see one.
03:55
Lori thought she's not flames coming from the roof.
03:59
There are no flames, actually are.
04:02
HAC unit that was exhausting.
04:05
All units coming in can clear.
04:08
There's no problem here.
04:10
Fire spas. Fortrick 1 is clear to 3rd.
04:13
HV.C. 1st, we want to copy.
04:14
And please saw a flame from the roof.
04:16
It's an HVAC unit that was exhausting.
04:18
All units are clear.
04:20
More than 21 copies.
04:25
Codby. Morton, N.
04:26
3, side back out to Jefferson.

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