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Fire reported in food court near west madison streetChicago IL

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audio iconFire & Arson
W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60661

A fire occurred in the food court near West Madison Street, causing smoke in one of the restaurants. Firefighters are investigating and fire units are present. Roads near West Madison Street were closed for safety.

Audio|Heard on: Chicago Police Department Zone 04
Listen to dispatch call
02:18
Transcript:
00:00
104. For the supervisor, a bona fide fire,
00:05
firemen are searching for a secondary fire nearby between walls, etc.
00:11
They're doing their fire investigation.
00:17
Okay, 10-4[1].
00:18
One ton.
00:23
110.
00:27
113's got a fire in the food court, 500 West Madison.
00:30
It's modified.
00:32
All right, 99.
00:34
I'm getting gas, so I'll get over there as soon as I can.
00:39
Okay, I'll go ahead and drop it on your box, just whenever you get over there.
00:43
90.
00:45
Well,
00:46
this place, man, nobody injurious us now.
00:49
It's just smoking out one of the restaurants in the food court.
00:53
Everything looks normal so far.
00:57
Okay, ten four.
01:03
7534 Tom, Tom.
01:05
Where's that Metra unit?
01:09
Well,
01:10
there is no metro unit anywhere, they're not going, but it's 500 West Madison.
01:15
And for Disregard, disregard.
01:23
Disregarded.
01:29
13. 13. 113.
01:32
113.
01:36
Can we get one car to assist us to close Madison?
01:41
I have fire trucks here, stage,
01:44
firemen walking around.
01:46
I don't want to be getting hurt by traffic.
01:51
1.13, yeah.
01:53
1.14, I guess.
02:00
114.
02:02
114. Can you go block Madison?
02:06
Probably like Madison and Canal.
02:09
Westbound,
02:11
there's a fire.
02:13
They got lots of fire equipment and firemen walking around.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment; message received or affirmative (OK).

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W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60661

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