Apartment fire reported on Swanson Lane with no occupants, Valparaiso IN
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire crews responded to an apartment fire near Swanson Lane in Portage, Indiana. The apartment was unoccupied except for a cat. The fire was confined to one unit and believed to have started from a Christmas tree. Firefighters used ventilation and checked for fire spread to nearby areas.
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Transcript:
00:00
The ladder one.
00:05
Homeowner advises the apartment is unoccupied except for a cat.
00:19
Valpo Rescue 2.
00:21
Priority 4.
00:23
Fall.
00:24
Ace Hardware Valparaiso.
00:26
At 1806 Club Road.
00:29
Time on 1225.
00:38
Female through Indiana, last name, boy,
00:41
Ocean, Union, Charles, Henry, Adam, Robert, David,
00:46
first name, Jasmine, John, Adam, Sam, Mary, Ida, Nora, Edward,
00:52
730, 20407, 30,
00:55
2004.
00:57
No, first name back.
01:10
Command host, one.
01:17
verbal disturbance.
01:20
200.
01:22
B-223 Dixon Drive.
01:24
The caller's unseen to pick up his son.
01:26
The stepfather pushed him away from the door.
01:28
The caller's upset that the mail that lives here wants him to wait away from the door.
01:33
The mail will not stop arguing with the male subject that lives there.
01:42
Burlington Beach and Campbell.
01:50
And class in as home's group one.
01:56
Clear, do I need to call a first alarm?
02:04
Megan, if we've removed the fire, it's got to be strong.
02:07
Looks like it may have been a Christmas tree.
02:11
Clear.
02:17
360 is complete.
02:19
Fire is confined to the last unit,
02:23
which is going to be the Charlie side,
02:27
Charlotte's open corner.
02:29
We can use ventilation and we also need to check the paper department for expansion and make sure they're evacuated.
02:37
Clear.
02:40
I have Snyder and Hyman, I want you to check the apartment adjacent to it.
02:47
Engine 3.01 ventilation started.
02:52
Happy.
02:58
The caller faces his ankle hurts, however he's refusing EMS.
03:03
His name is Matthew.
03:05
He was standing by in a black truck.
03:07
The caller has his child on the truck with him.
03:11
Supple 177.
03:13
Parties separated.
03:14
See trails.
03:15
Myself in 194 and around to Dixon.
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177.
03:20
As the interior said, the fire is struck, we're going to perform ventilation.
03:25
At this time, I'm not going to set up rate.
03:31
Clear. Engine 2 is standing 5.
03:37
Battalion 5 from Snyder.
03:41
Go ahead.
03:45
The adjacent apartment is clear, no smelter planes visible.
03:50
We're clearing this one now.
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