Smoking dryer reported in apartment building in Hiawatha, Hiawatha IA
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Fire & ArsonFire and emergency medical units responded to an apartment building near Peary Drive in Hiawatha after a child reported a dryer smoking and the building filling with smoke. On arrival, responders found no active smoke or flames and began investigating the cause.
Audio|Heard on: Linn County Public Safety
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03:45
Transcript:
00:00
Hiawatha cars, I page Tayawatha Fire, an ambulance,
00:03
Near Peary Drive, Apartment 3.
00:05
Near Peary Drive for a dryer in the laundry room that is smoking.
00:13
My caller was a child.
00:14
They said that the building was filling up with smoke.
00:16
There are no alarms going off at this time.
00:20
Traffic is on fire.
00:24
2. 1139.
00:26
Okay. All right.
00:32
Don't have to come down Quilltail.
00:34
I got it all with the wings, so we'll go up to the next one for the north.
00:39
I got to do this again, Matt.
00:41
I'm not even close.
00:42
Yeah, I know, Matt.
00:44
I'm going to turn around.
00:51
County out of 806 and out.
00:58
Have not yet.
01:04
Lyndon's down, Lou.
01:07
Looks like this is done Luke so I need to go up and hit that other side of an English wind.
01:17
284-104? Yeah, I was in the middle of pushing those drive-throughs of those islands when I came over here, so I got one more to go.
01:25
I'll be right over there.
01:27
Alright, I'm getting ready to head in to you.
01:36
County 282 is en route.
01:39
282 some far?
01:45
Johnny 282, have you received any other calls other than one from the child?
01:57
Acknowledge,
01:58
we'll check it out here.
02:01
Copy.
02:06
I feel right, then it's turn around.
02:10
It's like there was a car park here in place and it's up.
02:19
Cool.
02:26
Oh, you got a music simple.
02:27
You got a copy.
02:37
Go ahead, hi.
02:43
So Scott did all those cul-de-sacs except for the one at like the end of Brockman and the South.
02:51
County, 282 will be on scene.
02:54
284 are going to be an investigation group.
02:57
282 going to sue him period command.
03:00
Side of 26 or something like that.
03:04
Maybe it's just hit...
03:05
282 I copy?
03:07
I don't even know.
03:08
There's one cul-a-fack you didn't do.
03:10
It's a real one.
03:12
Right south of 24th.
03:14
There's one on Kings Court, maybe.
03:18
No, it's just 26th Street, and the end of Brockman there, there's a cul-de-fact where those two streets meet up, right off McAllen there.
03:30
You might have to roll by who there or blue-looking curve that behind me?
03:37
282, 284 men.
03:39
Go ahead.
03:41
We have no active smoke or flames right now.
03:44
We'll be investigating.
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