Warehouse fire with heavy smoke in East Chicago, East Chicago IN
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Fire & ArsonA warehouse near East 143rd Street in East Chicago experienced a structure fire with heavy smoke reported. Multiple fire units responded to the scene and established water supply operations to contain the fire.
Audio|Heard on: Lake County South Fire Dispatch
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05:47
Transcript:
00:00
Rescue 2531, car 2509, engine 2511, engine 2612, engine 2713, truck 2521, ambulance 2561.
00:13
Structure fire,
00:16
near East 143rd Street, time out,
00:20
15,
00:21
03 hours, structure fire.
00:28
from 6121.
00:31
6011.
00:34
Patients being transported to North Lake, all Lake Ridge Fire units are back in service.
00:41
Stafford. Stafford.
00:43
September 13.5.
00:49
Copy near East 143rd Street for the structure fire.
01:01
2511, are you the temple?
01:11
2511, reset your radio.
01:18
2531 en route.
01:21
Copy.
01:22
I copy.
01:29
District 12 in the county we can see a case with smoke for a profile and they're blocked away happy We need to close approaches you've been in full miss Mm-hmm.
01:51
District 12 we have that external.
01:54
Twenty-six miles unseen.
01:56
We have heavy smoke showing coming from inside the warehouse.
02:03
Heavy smoke showing coming from inside the warehouse.
02:08
25-1-9 unseen, heavy smoke showing.
02:12
2521,
02:14
Position yourself in case we've got to flow that water.
02:24
2521 copy.
02:31
2531 on scene 2531 on scene.
02:37
2521 stay on Euclid, is a hydrant on the east end of Euclid just stay out here.
02:44
2521.
02:50
2612, the county, are you able to get a hold of C.
02:53
Holder? We've got a bunch of semi-brug that will be needed to move from the area.
03:00
Happy, we'll try to get in contact with one.
03:07
2612 from Central.
03:10
Go ahead for 2612.
03:12
What's the name of the business?
03:19
I don't see one on the building.
03:21
There may be one on the front entrance of the injury that we came in if one of the engines are 2511 can advise.
03:31
Hi. Hi.
03:38
2511 come up to my vehicle and bring your bolt cutters bring your bolt cutters central we've got a partial part of the building burning outside of a stack of wood pellet.
03:55
Okay see if we're gonna need the water supply to 2612 we're about to fill water and we do want to throw away.
04:05
2713 on scene stage near 142nd.
04:10
Okay.
04:15
2561 is on scene.
04:17
We're going to be staging right at the front of the building.
04:20
Okay.
04:24
2713, let's get a water line established 2612 if you can.
04:35
2713 can you pull in 2713 of 2509 8 chief uh is there a hydrant you want me to hit over there because I'm over here on the corner of 149th.
04:54
There's one right at the entrance to where we're at on Euclid.
04:58
East of Euclid, right on Euclid.
05:00
There's one right on the entrance when we come in.
05:06
Copy that.
05:10
26-0 to 2509.
05:12
Be advised the spot that we're meeting at, we got multiple propensates for keeping them cool at the moment until we get more lines.
05:21
Copy, I was just going to let you know, PD advise me there's no pay-takes there, where you're at.
05:27
2,509 from 2521.
05:35
I'm over by 2612.
05:40
Copy. Okay, 1612 to half a tank.
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Location mentioned:
E 143rd St, East Chicago, IN 46312
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