Fire alarm caused by burned cooking in apartment, Des Moines IA


A fire alarm went off at a two-story apartment near Irving St in Des Moines. Responders found no fire but discovered the alarm was caused by burned cooking. No one was home and no alarm was sounding when responders entered. The incident was not related to fireworks. The alarm was canceled and most responders cleared the scene.
Audio|Source: Des Moines Fire/EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
Dispatch from Engine 1.
00:01
Is it correct address, near Irving St? We're in front of 8-11.
00:05
The next address is a 600.
00:07
I just wanted 711 711 it should be about the third building west of Bankroft and Irving looks like the numbering's all messed up.
00:23
Middick 6 arrived with stage you not hydrant on Irving copy 6 all right injure 1's arrived we're gonna investigate.
00:30
Copy, engine one's on soon.
00:31
Truck six on scene.
00:32
Truck six on scene,
00:35
copy. Truck one, Ron. Copy truck one.
00:36
The engine one has a two-story apartment complex, nothing shown from the outside.
00:43
Copy-in-1-0 showing from the outside two-story apartment.
00:46
Just Matt,
00:47
let's slow everybody down.
00:48
It's not on scene to response one.
00:50
Copy, anyone not on scene, consult a response one.
00:52
Anyone not on scene, consult a response one?
00:54
We've got no fire here.
00:55
Let's keep engine one truck one on feed.
00:58
Everybody else can go back.
00:59
Copy. DC1, DC2 drives.
01:01
DC2 copies.
01:02
I'll be available for returns on 1.
01:03
DC1 copy. I've arrived.
01:05
I'll be available.
01:07
Engine portion service.
01:08
See on, see anyone else.
01:09
Go back in. Okay. They don't have a callback number or anything, do they?
01:11
I have a number for the account holder, but there was nobody responding.
01:14
Copy. I'm not seeing anybody.
01:17
It doesn't look like anybody's home.
01:18
I don't hear any alarms going off right now because they got a ring doorbell that they're not answering either.
01:24
This match, I think you can cancel the investigator as well.
01:27
This appears to be an alarm within the apartment and cooking was the issue.
01:33
There was no fire and doesn't seem to be related to the earlier issue with the fireworks.
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Location mentioned:
Near Irving St, Des Moines, IA 50315
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