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Smoke detected in home from damaged water heater cord, Camanche IA

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Near Middle Rd, Camanche, IA 52730

Fire crews responded to a home where smoke and haze were seen. They found smoke coming from a water heater that was plugged into a burned extension cord. There was no active fire, but water was leaking inside the home.

Audio|Source: Clinton County Sheriff and Fire, Clinton City Police
02:26
Transcript:
00:00
Copy, two exiting, two inside.
00:02
Fine.
00:03
Can we get the west overhead, please?
00:06
Okay.
00:07
Go on on time.
00:08
Interior 1 from command.
00:09
Go ahead. Can you check the floor in that bathroom area? We do have a light haze.
00:12
We pulled some of the skirting off.
00:13
There's a light haze underneath there.
00:14
Seems to be somewhere centered around the water heater here, but there is some smoke below as well.
00:19
See if there's any heat in the floor.
00:20
Yeah, we had a week four and put a foot through right here in that back bedroom.
00:26
We don't really see anything.
00:27
We'll dig down a little further into that hole.
00:31
Copy that. Yeah,
00:33
we can see ground. We don't see any active fire at this point from the back bedroom.
00:36
13-0-2 in round 603 Middle Road.
00:39
Captain Rob? Interior 2 is back in the building.
00:41
Come in from Interior 1.
00:43
Go ahead. From the back bedroom, we have a pretty significant amount of water that's leaking from a fight down there.
00:48
Copy, I believe the water heater, I believe we found the issue also is water heaters run by extension cord, which is burned up, so that's where we get our smoke from, I believe.
00:55
1302 from Cedar High City.
00:56
Go ahead, the 1302.
00:58
Here by yourself, if you need something, let me know.
01:00
I'll try to cut some of loose.
01:01
We've got Clinton here as well, so.
01:02
Kathy, I'm by myself in the truck right now, so I'm about to investigate.
01:06
Okay, just let me go.

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Near Middle Rd, Camanche, IA 52730
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