Vehicle fire reported on I-29 off-ramp in Council Bluffs, Council Bluffs IA
Police and fire units responded to a vehicle fire reported on the I-29 northbound off-ramp near South 24th Street in Council Bluffs. Smoke was seen on traffic cameras but no flames were visible at the scene. The vehicle's occupant fled on foot toward nearby businesses, prompting a brief search by authorities.
Audio|Source: Council Bluffs Public Safety
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Transcript:
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All cars be advised rescue, I'm sorry, engine companies are being dispatched to
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I-29 and near South 24th Street for a vehicle fire, 135.
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District safe status.
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I have one in there. Eighty- ten minutes, please.
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Clear and car 24 status?
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8.
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136, district 8.
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8.
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8. I'm going to show you en route to that vehicle fire. Clark 10.
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Clear.
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Stay clear. Clear.
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It's going to be the exonerant from I-29 north down to near South 24th Street.
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It is smoking.
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The caller keeps running away from it and coming back to it.
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Clear.
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The 24 will be done here in a second. You can cancel one of those cars going to the vehicle fire.
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Tendu Knew Knushkar.
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Doing clear.
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I'll still.
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Keep going until 24 arrests.
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24.
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24. 24.
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We are code 7 here. We'll be enraud to the fire.
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Code 17 here will be enraud to the fire.
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Code 113 and I.
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See arriving.
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Cut.
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Clear. Be advised,
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the owner of the vehicle or the oxygen in the vehicle ran over to Casey and went inside.
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Clear, I'm not seeing any smoke or flames from the vehicle.
02:09
Claire, we saw the smoke a couple of times on the Public Works camera. It's that vehicle that is right there on the off-ramp with its hazards on.
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Clear. 1.40.
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They're arriving.
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Clear, one for doing.
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Cars out with that vehicle on South 21.
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Sorry, near South 24th Street. The advice is the occupant of that vehicle is now running towards RVs.
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Fair aid, I'll stay with the vehicle.
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Their description of the female?
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I look like a male.
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He was last scene headed towards the truck lot to the east of Arby's.
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We're in gray pants in a dark hoodie, and it looked like he had his hood up.
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Clear.
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going to look for that party. Just be advised, we're not 100% sure.
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We can't verify that as the same exact person, but it matches the description of a person that walked away from that vehicle.
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Aid, can you add Iowa plate?
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It's going to be personalized, Nora, Ocean, Tom, Tom,
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George, Robert Lincoln.
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Claire, it comes back to the one in a gray 2013 lander over to a Nathan Krogan out of Carter Lake.
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Clear, if there's a picture of the RO, maybe we could use that for a description of the individual we're looking for.
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So the male party, we just ran, somebody else just ran it and the male party is older. The male or the party that we saw on camera looked way younger than the RO.
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And ran pretty fast.
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Time traffic.
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And go ahead.
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North a eighth and then stir with a for escape, no place.
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Whatever officer just pulled out to Minamara drive from this west western area, that was the drive he was last thing going into.
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Very good.
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144.
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24 on call.
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24, 144.
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I might be out with that mail out of the Super 8.
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Claire, 24 are you able to assist?
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Free, I'm stuck pulling.
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Claire, possibly out the male of Super 8, 145.
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24, wrong in the lake.
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Claire, 145.
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Okay.
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Are you clear? 145?
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Then you can disregard that. I'll think that's our mail.
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Claire, be advised.
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Casey should have the video.
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He was inside and asked Casey's for help and that's who called 911.
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Clear.
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145.
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Location mentioned:
Near S 24th St, Council Bluffs, IA 51501
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