Apartment building fire with heavy smoke in El Dorado, El Dorado KS
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Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to an apartment building near West Towanda in El Dorado after reports of heavy smoke and a structure fire. Residents reported smoke and fire inside the unit. Fire crews declared it a working fire and requested additional support. Traffic control measures were placed to manage the scene safely.
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05:43
Transcript:
00:00
Now there are any informationally we're getting a report of a structure fire.
00:03
Apartment building near West Towanda.
00:10
329-104, call the email.
00:16
301, I'm saying, from the office.
00:17
I'll be in round today.
00:21
Yeah, we're selling the phone with the occupant gathering additional.
00:31
307 in-road.
00:33
Yeah,
00:37
we're still on the phone with the occupant gathering additional.
00:47
11-10-4[1], switching the event one.
00:51
Min,
00:53
scattering further now.
00:59
Department number 15.
01:06
Correction 43 degrees, Fahrenheit, humidity 42%.
01:09
Wind speeds to the northwest, 14 miles per hour, gusting at 21 miles per hour.
01:20
Come around, take up one.
01:29
And we do hear your smoke alarm's going off in the background.
01:38
307.23.
01:41
Right aside.
01:48
Medicines in route.
01:49
Medicines in route.
01:51
Medic 1-9-1, bud.
01:55
The one's in route.
02:07
116. Go ahead.
02:11
Call through on Park One.
02:16
There is heavy smoke coming out of it.
02:24
Northbound 77 at the 13.9.
02:28
It's going to be a white Lincoln correction.
02:31
So here, Gold, Lincoln Town Card, no 28.
02:38
185.44 being on 77 northbound of the 13.9.
02:42
845.
02:49
Can you reply the second? Ambulin.
02:52
11 and 19. Aved. Medic 11-104.
03:09
This is a problem 15.
03:12
Does anybody have contact with her?
03:19
Correction, make code one.
03:27
254, Wichita.
03:29
254, Wichita.
03:32
254.
03:33
1024.
03:38
846.
03:40
846.
03:42
Two-story apartment complex.
03:44
Go ahead and page recall for outer into fire.
03:58
Enj10, stretch smooth board.
03:59
We're going up the stairs to the left.
04:08
Dispatch is going to be a working fire.
04:16
200 County Fire, go ahead and page Tawanda for an engine.
04:23
Invo.
04:27
Can't wait to do it.
04:32
Revised after Denton.
04:35
24.
04:37
And we're out making note of it.
04:41
I spoke to the resident, he said that (name withheld) was staying inside the apartment with him.
04:45
He was asleep and when he woke up is when he saw all the smoke in the fire.
04:54
So 307, do we have an active fire?
04:59
As far as I know, there's a lot of heavy smoke.
05:01
We don't have enough to go inside the room, fire's about to go in now.
05:07
Elder Fire is on a bit one advice this is going to be a working fire and is a request from Detroit from Tawanda.
05:11
10-4[1]00 traffic 501.
05:17
If you've got some people that you can start down this way to block off, Tawanda and Haverhill, keep traffic from coming east and then any westbound traffic on Tawanda, probably from Arthur.
05:36
10-4[1], I'll get some people headed that way.
05:41
Thank you, 300 on 1023.
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment/Message received
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Location mentioned:
W Towanda Ave, El Dorado, KS 67042
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