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Heard on: Spokane City and County Fire / EMS Dispatch · 1/19/2026 08:42 AM
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Alpha call, Valley Engine 9-1. This is Engine 11. 29th Avenue, Channel Valley Primary, fall. Engine 11, go ahead. We're en route. Engine 11 en route. Engine 11, we're on the phone meeting for this detail. Calling party reports they can see a haze of smoke behind the Primera Blue Cross building. Think that smells electrical or chemical. Can you get an exact address? Copy, electrical or chemical. Calling nine, seven-year-old male with a non-injury lift assist call from family on scene. That's not copy. Engine 11, be advised the reporting party states there's lots of debris in a nearby alleyway and is concerned the smoke may be coming from a known drug dealer in the area (reference withheld). Copy that. Go ahead. For one with one to Sacred Heart, ladder 41 back in service. Engine 33, squad 30. Well, that's maybe my first three. Dispatch, squad 35 is out with two. Squad 35, in reference to law, requesting stage for a D assault, possible psych issues. 105 is staging from near 99th and 5th. 135 copy. Dispatch 11. Dispatch. Digital loads in the area. No haze or smell of electrical or chemical. Take those truckies and the living area, nothing obvious. And returning.
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Possible chemical odor near Primera Blue Cross

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As discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a possible smoke or electrical or chemical odor near the Primera Blue Cross building in Spokane. The caller noted a haze behind the building and debris in a nearby alley. The report mentioned that the odor may have been connected to a nearby unspecified location, but nothing obvious was found once crews investigated.

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E Sprague Ave BLDG C, Spokane, WA 99202
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