Smoke odor investigated at Rome Meadows building

Heard on: Washington County Sheriff, Fire and EMS, Mt. Vernon Fire Dispatch

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Attention Jefferson Fire, you're responding (number withheld) Rome Meadows.

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This will be the lowest floor.

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Caller is reporting the smell of cigarette smoke inside the building.

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He's unsure where it's coming from.

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Come out 920.

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5251.

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5251 en route 922.

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5251 information.

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(name withheld), the maintenance supervisor, is my caller.

00:45

He did advise that they are grilling outside, but believe it smells different inside.

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He said before I disconnected, possibly smelled like burning paper.

00:56

I will have a deputy en route.

00:57

He gave me a description of a male that had walked out of the library area prior to him coming in.

01:10

Temper, I'll get him en route.

01:17

Copy message received.

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5251, I do have a deputy en route as well.

2026-09-12 07:20 UTC

Fire

Rome St, Dix, IL 62830

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As discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews were sent to a building near Rome Meadows for a reported smell of cigarette smoke or burning paper on the lowest floor. The caller, a maintenance supervisor, noted people were grilling outside but the interior odor seemed different. A deputy was also sent after the caller described a male who had left the library area before he entered.