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Outdoor fire reported near North University Blvd in AmesAmes IA

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N University Blvd, Ames, IA 50011

A caller reported an outdoor fire near the 300 block of North University Boulevard in Ames, visible across a creek near the bike path. Fire units responded and searched the area but found no active fire or smoke.

Audio|Source: City of Ames Fire and EMS
04:28
Transcript:
00:00
Other Fire.
00:02
Engine 2-300 block, North University Boulevard.
00:07
Other fire, 3-0-0 block, North University Boulevard.
00:13
Dispatch engine 2.
00:15
Engine 2.
00:18
We have subject training. Can you assign the next available engine for that?
00:22
Copy.
00:29
Other fire.
00:30
Engine 1-300 block, North University Boulevard.
00:35
Other fire, 300 block, North University Boulevard.
00:45
Dispatch for Rescue 2?
00:56
Can you address you to the other fire?
01:04
Copy.
01:05
My caller was up northward and north of Riverside. She said that she could see a fire across the creek to the west,
01:15
just kind of by the bike path.
01:19
Copy.
01:21
Dispatch, engine one.
01:23
Engine one.
01:25
Engine 1 is en route, we have 4 on, copy.
01:29
Can you make Rescue 1 unavailable? Copy.
01:38
Change dispatch from Engine 1.
01:41
Engine 1.
01:46
Can you dispatch attack 3 for this call, please?
01:51
Copy.
01:57
Ames, attack three.
02:10
You can add attack three of the other fire. You can show them we're en route.
02:19
Dispatch from Rescue 2.
02:21
Rescue 2.
02:27
Rescue 2 and engine 1 are in the area.
02:29
We do not see any smoke or flame. Is there any better description?
02:37
She just said she, when she'd see it, she was at North Riverside Drive near North 3rd Street, looking west across the river. I could see it from there and smell it.
02:48
But she said he wouldn't be able to access it from that point since it was across the creek.
02:53
On the west side.
02:55
The engine wanted to arrest you to what we're investigating.
03:03
Rescue 2 from Engine 1. Go for Rescue 2.
03:10
Yeah,
03:13
Rescue 2. If you can get turned around, wherever you can make that happen,
03:17
and enter on that bike path, if you can safely do that, see if there's anything down that bike path.
03:22
We're seeing nothing here at this point in time.
03:25
Copy. We'll investigate it on the bike path.
03:33
Engine 1 attack 3.
03:41
I'm coming up on scene in the area, I'll be staging on North Riverside unless advised otherwise.
03:49
This is Engine 1. Would you repeat traffic?
03:57
I'm going to a stage on Riverside, north,
04:04
unless you advise otherwise.
04:07
Copy, who's I?
04:10
Attack 3.
04:13
Copy that attack 3. At this point, you can continue on non-emergent.
04:18
Copy.
04:23
All units on this call for the outdoor fire, we are on tax one.

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N University Blvd, Ames, IA 50011

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