Smoke and plastic odor prompt evacuation at university hall, Athens OH
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Fire & ArsonSmoke and the smell of burning plastic were reported inside Irvine Hall near East Oxford Trail at a university. The building was evacuated and fire and emergency services responded with mutual aid and staged behind a nearby building. One person initially refused to leave due to an exam but was later evacuated. No visible fire was seen from outside, and the situation is under investigation.
Audio|Heard on: Athens Fire Dispatch
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05:31
Transcript:
00:00
Happens, City Fire, Athens, City Fire.
00:03
Responding to Irvine Hall near East Oxford Trail.
00:09
Caller is reporting that he's walking through,
00:13
noticing that the halls are smoky and smell like plastic burning where the labs are.
00:19
OUPD middleware as well.
00:28
Senator Robbins, Platter, we copy.
00:31
Did you say there's a little smoke?
00:36
Callers see that the hallways are smoky and smell like plastic burning.
00:42
Copy, give us some alcohol.
00:45
Copy on alcohol.
00:48
I can report to the same off-out mutual aid company.
00:54
That's firm, we're getting mutual aid as well.
00:59
Okay,
01:00
if you're getting mutual aid as well.
01:03
Okay,
01:05
05, go ahead.
01:11
10-05[1] at all.
01:12
Okay, 05 at all.
01:13
Okay, no, no one way.
01:16
10-05[1] en route, 1740.
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Terms for engine, 10 or 3.
01:30
Taylor 3, good.
01:32
Cutter out there, a lot of all.
01:35
Taylor, are you going to clear it out?
01:43
Patens City Fire Central.
01:47
I have no.
01:49
I just wanted to update you.
01:51
There's a professor in Room 199.
01:56
OUPD has advised him that he needs to leave.
01:59
He does not want to leave, stating that he is in the process of an exam.
02:05
Copy. We'll take that you should.
02:19
That's right, N05.
02:20
Thank you, Senator 5, 1stina, 5, Paul.
02:28
We have multi-story, large academic building.
02:31
Nothing shown from the outside from wet screen.
02:33
We'll be out to investigate change.
02:34
Stand by traditional information at 360.
02:37
Engine 305, if you have accountability at this location, sent by traditional.
02:44
10 or 5, you're clear,
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multi-floor building,
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standing life additional.
02:57
I'll be advised, we just pulled a pole station to empty the building.
03:03
You're clear.
03:07
Irvine command.
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Irvine command, go ahead.
03:16
The 199 has been addressed.
03:21
Your traffic was kind of broken there.
03:23
He advised the 199 room has been addressed.
03:30
The room has been evacuated.
03:31
I do have a light age of smoke inside of the building.
03:34
Nothing's real from the outside of the time.
03:38
Copy. When is they evacuated, light he's?
03:43
The 2nd Attorney 3-1-1-0-2.
03:46
3-1-0-2.
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3-1-1-2.
04:08
1003, 203, officer.
04:12
Go-1.
04:13
No one.
04:14
No, no idea.
04:18
In 3?
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I was a base to bait.
04:30
Two,
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three. Two, three, sir, friend.
04:36
Go ahead and fly around.
04:38
We hit motion.
04:41
Got me.
04:45
Go ahead. Go ahead.
04:51
Go ahead.
05:01
Can you get Richland, McLean, and Athens County EMS, and level two staging off-go trail behind Boyd Hall? Oxbow Trail behind Boyd Hall.
05:15
You're clear.
05:23
I'm gonna pop-pun panel, can you get me at the front dollar the picture too?
05:30
John, I'm here.
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10-05: Relay (general message)
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Irvine Hall, Athens, OH 45701
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