Fire producing black smoke near Breckenridge Ln, Granite City IL

Fire & Arson

Reported: 09/06/2025 08:36 AM (PDT)

Near Breckenridge Ln, Granite City, IL 62040

A notable fire producing black smoke was observed near Breckenridge Lane. It is not close to any house. Emergency units are responding to the scene to address the fire.

Audio|Source: Granite, Pontoon, Madison (City), Mitchell, Long Lake

02:47

Transcript:

00:00

See that big black smoke right there?

00:01

Yeah.

00:02

Possibly near Tinktown or maybe behind it.

00:05

I'm not sure. Yeah,

00:06

I was just trying to pull up my map to see if I could orientate it.

00:09

Maybe Takedown.

00:10

Anton, you can show both units responding to Takedown.

00:13

There's black smoke coming from back.

00:17

Both of those are some place.

00:18

Seventy-four.

00:19

Definitely. Okay,

00:20

can you get another check for us also, please? Is there a city camera at the center section? Okay,

00:26

okay. Number. One, five, five.

00:28

Any of anything other than the transport thing at this point? Thanks for going.

00:32

No, I just need them to check for it.

00:34

I'm filling out the toe sheet now.

00:36

One job.

00:37

9.30, I'm checking down north,

00:39

north leg of Lake Drive.

00:41

Hey, five.

00:42

That. I'll go down like I'm rich.

00:43

I'm clear from out here.

00:45

I'll be en route to DER and drop to Tokyo.

00:46

Okay.

00:47

I just told by a pass-by on Breckenridge that it's the second to last house on the left-hand side of Breckenridge.

00:55

10-4[3], I'll start circling that way.

00:57

You can show me out near Breckenridge.

01:01

24[2] in back in.

01:02

Okay,

01:03

from 31. Go, sir.

01:04

Hold on, real quick. On your way back south from that 1050[1], will you stop by that Clark address, the 274 we're speaking of, and address that call, please?

01:11

That's right. I can see it through the trees over here.

01:13

It's pretty decent-sized fire.

01:15

Not near the house though.

01:16

Can you see weather, Bernie?

01:17

Thank you. Good back.

01:18

But I can see the plume.

Police codes explained

The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:

[1]

1050: Traffic Accident (may reference location, but not an event here)

[2]

24: Unit identifier (not relevant as event code)

[3]

10-4: Acknowledgement

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