Fire alarm at Bloomington hotel due to water in detector, Bloomington IL
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a fire alarm at the Quality Inn near East Empire Street in Bloomington. Investigation found water inside a smoke detector causing the alarm. No fire was visible.
Audio|Heard on: Bloomington and Normal Fire
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Transcript:
00:00
Fire alarm.
00:01
Near East Empire Street.
00:03
Quality Inn, East Empire Street.
00:05
Cross Streets North Prospect Road, North Veterans Parkway, Mount Vernon Drive and North Williamsburg Drive, Gantysburg Drive.
00:14
Timeout 1326.
00:20
Starting to come in at the south end.
00:23
I scraped it a couple times.
00:29
I just go all the way down.
00:31
I just had enough to hit the ramps.
00:35
Anymore.
00:40
Okay, Ken.
00:45
You're welcome.
00:51
27 is 1070 yards from Ontario.
00:54
This matter, Italian one's in route.
01:01
The Battalion 1 en route, 1329.
01:05
Madik two from Medicare.
01:08
We're just four out of the pad.
01:13
Message, dispatch.
01:15
You can't tell Medic 2 and put Medic 3 on that.
01:18
We are in quarters.
01:20
The test is received.
01:22
I'll show Medic 3 in route to the quality and a medic 2 in service with 1329.
01:26
Suspatch the card 3.
01:32
What you can?
01:34
Car 3, go ahead.
01:37
I'm on Cain Equality, nothing showing, I'll be investigating.
01:40
I'll take command.
01:44
Cros-3, unseen at the quality and nothing showing out on investigation with command at 1330.
01:54
Engine 3 from command.
01:58
Go for engine 3.
02:01
Hey, when you get here, go check out the north upper level.
02:05
That's where the alarm's going off at.
02:10
Let's see north upper level.
02:14
Command from engine three.
02:17
Go ahead. Yeah,
02:19
we're up here on the north end, but I'm not sure we're going to be able to gain access without so many coming down here.
02:28
All right, I'm walking through now, I'll let's him.
02:37
Come on, engine three, we're in.
02:39
We're headed up to the second floor.
02:46
Twenty to ten eight.
02:51
Dispatchroom, quality command.
02:55
Quality command, go ahead.
02:58
We'll just keep engine free here and clear anybody else.
03:05
Maddoch three, battalion one, truck two, truck one in service, 1334.
03:13
It's true from back, sir.
03:17
Go ahead, sir.
03:20
There's water driven out of the smoke detector that's in.
03:29
Okay, Jeff, if you back up, just a little bit more, I'm just making it get hit.
03:38
Thank you, sir.
03:44
three sides at the front.
03:48
Let's receive, hey, let them know they've got some water in the smoke detector down here.
03:54
It doesn't look like it's from a pipe, though,
03:57
but that may cause this detector to malfunction.
04:05
All right, I'll send her up so she knows worth that.
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Location mentioned:
W Market St, Bloomington, IL 61701
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