Smoke detected in sewers near Speedway and North Anita Avenue, Tucson AZ
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, smoke was reported coming from manholes in the sewers and tunnels near Speedway and North Anita Avenue. Emergency units are coordinating traffic control and searching for the fire source underground.
Audio|Heard on: Tucson Police West Division
Listen to dispatch call
02:40
Transcript:
00:00
Can you start TFD to Speedway and the frontage road,
00:06
northbound, looks like we have a fire in the sewers or in the tunnels underneath the bridge, there's smoke coming out of every manhole,
00:15
which is serving a unit as well to help block northbound of the frontage from Speedway, please,
00:23
so I can direct them.
00:27
Two or four one.
00:31
Two ocean four one or something.
00:35
Gee, we're probably going to need at least two or three more units to help kind of go around the whole intersection here and maybe try to pinpoint its origin because it's definitely coming from underground.
00:48
There's smoke coming up from every,
00:52
every manhole.
00:56
So far.
01:00
798, I'll start.
01:03
20670 will be a row.
01:06
Copy.
01:07
For a couple of those units to go on the west side of Speedway and start to look for the origin or access.
01:21
It looks like there's a really high concentration on the east side here, on the northeast corner.
01:31
2.06, where do you mean? Do you guys code 3?
01:37
Oh, not at this time, because I really don't know exactly how far this smoke is traveling.
01:42
So I don't know where it's coming from.
01:48
Or do we have a drone unit that can maybe go up above and see if we can find an access point?
02:01
Any drone unit monitoring?
02:05
I'll see for them as same clearance of you all right.
02:08
Okay.
02:13
Adam 44 to 2U4.
02:15
The tunnels under Speedway right there, you can gain access to North Anita Ave.
02:24
Let's do the unit over there, but do not enter into the tunnels.
02:28
Let's just see if you guys can see any open flame or a higher concentration of smoke.
02:36
All right, I don't need him.
02:40
Okay.
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Location mentioned:
N Anita Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705
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