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Investigation of possible fire or burning smell at 1700 East West Road, Midwest Dye Center, two-story commercial structure., Calumet City IL

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Fire & Arson

Reported: 12/11/2025 05:25 AM

Calumet City, IL

Investigation of possible fire or burning smell at 1700 East West Road, Midwest Dye Center, two-story commercial structure.

Audio|Heard on: Calumet City Fire Department

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02:21

Transcript:

00:00

Engine 11, ambulance 11, engine 12, truck 12,

00:05

ambulance 12,

00:07

1,700 east west road, investigation,

00:10

0725, engine 11,

00:13

ambulance 11, engine 12, truck 12,

00:17

ambulance 12, ambulance 12,

00:18

1,700 east west road, investigation,

00:22

0725.

00:38

Calumet City companies responding to 1700 East-West Road, 1,700 East-West Road for the Small Something Burning,

00:47

mainly on the second floor.

00:58

Wall on that dupe.

01:05

All Calumet City companies responding for the investigation 1700 East West Road.

01:15

I dispatch it's all going to be on the scene here at the Midwest Dye Center.

01:19

I got a two-story

01:22

commercial structure and I got nothing showing on three sides.

01:26

I'm going to be taking it interior here and we'll have to take it over to red fireground to investigate.

01:36

Okay, engine 12 are on the scene of a two-story commercial structure.

01:40

You have nothing showing from three sides.

01:41

You're going interior.

01:43

You're moving all companies to the red fire ground at 1700 East West Road.

01:48

Dispatch from Officer 12.

01:51

Officer 12.

01:57

Officer 12, go ahead, sir.

02:01

Just a quick update here, we do have just a slight smell of something burning on the interior.

02:06

Up on the site.

02:16

All right, messengers see if you do have a slight smell of something burning on the second floor, you will advise.

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