Fire from electric blanket causes burns and smoke, Rome GA
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, an electric blanket caught fire near Woodcreek Way apartment B, causing burns to one person and filling the residence with smoke. Emergency responders arrived to assist.
Audio|Heard on: Floyd County Police, Fire and EMS
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03:13
Transcript:
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In fact, Chiquet 5, squad 5, response to near Woodcreek Way apartment B,
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near Woodcreek Way apartment B.
00:08
Callers advise their electric blanket caught on fire.
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It has burned one subject.
00:15
They're having difficulty breathing as well.
00:17
There's a lot of smoke in the residence.
00:22
Blanket got on fire, suffered burns.
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Near Woodcreek Way, near Woodcreek Way apartment B,
00:33
service to an electric blanket that caught on fire, burned the patient, and house is on fire.
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That's where that's that three going with Med 2?
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Med 2 to Med 3.
00:50
Stand down, that's the West Room call.
00:58
Now on dispatch, 2nd, Rome City, P.D.U.N.
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(number withheld).
01:06
Trust in Floyd County, P.D.U.S.
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(number withheld).
01:17
(number withheld).
01:23
(number withheld).
01:27
Fifty five.
01:30
Double.
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Affirmative.
01:35
Affirmative.
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Five and a rough.
01:47
Quipa squad five, you're responding to near Woodcreek Way apartment B.
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Callers advise their electric blanket caught on fire.
01:55
It burns their hands.
01:58
So they're advising the house is full of smoke.
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They are getting out of the residence.
02:15
Two, you're right to near Woodcreek Way, near Woodcreek Way, soft Wilkerson, apartment B.
02:21
The caller had a heated blanket catch on fire.
02:25
Subjects are having difficulty breathing and burns on the hand.
02:33
That too, just five fires en route as well.
02:38
It's clear.
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That's match 64-10-4[1].
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Affirmative. 5-5.5 on scene.
03:00
3.4. Med2 fires on scene.
03:12
Two.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Affirmative (Acknowledgment/Message received)
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Location mentioned:
11A Woodcreek Way SW B, Rome, GA 30165
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