Traffic lights out after electrical explosion near Nottingham, Chicago IL
TrafficTraffic lights are out at the intersection of Harlem Ave and W Foster Ave. An explosion was heard near Nottingham Ave, suspected to be from a transformer or electrical device. Multiple reports of shots fired in nearby areas were also mentioned but are separate incidents. The caller heard loud electrical bursts from a neighbor's house and reported the traffic lights are not working.
Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 01
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Transcript:
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Information ticket, the answer 16 over at Harlem Ave and W Foster Ave, Foster in Harlem.
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The traffic lights are out. She said it's already been notified.
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I know I've got an explosion.
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Near Nottingham Ave.
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Near Nottingham.
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Caller said she heard two loud electric bursts from the neighbor's house. Caller is unsure what's going on. Suspected electrical incident like a transformer exploding.
00:33
And now we got shots fired at 51, 29 West Henderson.
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5129-9-Henderson, callers business shots fired in the area, no visuals.
00:43
Somebody for Simovacast?
00:47
It's in 16 and citywide. We got one ticket for shots fired, 5129 West Henderson, 5129 Weston-Henderson. Anonymous caller states there's shots fired in the area, no visuals, nothing further, 60 distance, so one clear.
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6-0-6-4-5-10-4 15-0-6-4, we can off the road on our bus.
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104.
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Second call in Leclair and Henderson. Henderson and Leclair.
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Caller says there's 12 shots fired in the alley off Henderson.
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Three male Spanish ran up Leclair towards Belmont southbound. One was on a Lyme scooter.
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16-663, Ireland, 4 to 4 to our jobs and so we're going to that.
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10.4.
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16 put in the box.
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What unit was coming in?
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1620. 10.4.
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064. We were already in the area. We're here already. We don't see anything. We talk to a few people here. They haven't heard anything. But we'll keep going.
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Ten four.
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Sixty-06 boy was already in the area. They didn't hear anything. They spoke to a few people who also didn't hear anything, but they're going to keep touring.
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1602, Sam.
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1602, Sam.
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Yeah, I had one male Hispanic running south on on Leclair from Henderson,
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from school, I mean.
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All right, 16,0, Tuesday, and wearing a gray sweatshers.
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How long ago?
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15, 20 seconds ago.
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Is he, did he go south on Belmont?
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He's north of Belmont.
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He said one male is Spanick running southbound Hederson from LeClair about a minute ago now.
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We're in gray sweatshirt.
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What he didn't cross Zoma?
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He did not cross Soma.
03:29
He was I would declare going southbound school.
03:36
Correction, it was on LeClair going southbound from school.
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Correction, northbound, northbound.
03:48
Correction, northbound LeClair from school. Did not cross Belmont.
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17 and 24.
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724. Can we get lunch in 17?
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104. 10 4.
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And so you know, 25th District also had a shots fired call on their side from Laverne and Nelson.
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It's pretty big though, which is nine shots fired.
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1611.
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1611.
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We were just going to code this and ask for lunch.
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611. I was hoping you could check out that explosion first.
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I don't have anybody else to send.
04:46
Yeah, that's right. Where's it at?
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Near Nottingham.
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Two loud electrical firsts were heard from the neighbor's house and caller didn't know what was going on.
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I'm going to say Transformer because all the lights are around here, but what you know?
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All right, thank you. And then 60-0-2, Sam, your description was he's wearing gray sweatsuit, correct?
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Location mentioned:
W Foster Ave & Harlem Ave, Chicago, IL 60656
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