Cooking smoke triggers alarm at nursing home

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01:19

00:00

Battalion 16, Engine 16, Squad 18, and Tower 16, respond to fire alarm, Gross Point elderly housing, at (number withheld) Gross Point Road.

00:13

Received.

00:15

Skokie Squad 18 is en route.

00:16

That's received.

00:21

Sixteen companies en route.

00:23

Skokie Squad 18 is on the scene.

00:25

We've got a four-story nursing home, nothing showing.

00:27

We do have strobes activated.

00:29

Partial evacuation.

00:31

We'll be out investigating.

00:32

Squad 18 has command.

00:33

Received, Squad 18.

00:36

Crews coming into a gross point.

00:37

We've got word that there's cooking on the 3rd floor, three M's.

00:41

We're going up to investigate.

00:44

916 copy squad.

00:47

Command from squad 18, you can hold this to us only.

00:50

We've got smoke from cooking.

00:54

Doesn't look like we need any equipment up here, all good.

00:57

Cooking smoke, squad 18 to handle, all other companies can return.

01:00

18, you can hold squad 18 only.

01:03

Squad 18,

01:04

only other companies can return.

01:07

Squad 18, driver from squad 18, you want to try for a reset?

01:11

Looks

01:14

like we got a reset.

01:16

It's just in trouble.

01:19

Message received.

2026-10-22 01:53 UTC

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Gross Point Rd, Skokie, IL 60077

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