Abandoned home catches fire; man detained on scene, Herrin IL


Firefighters responded to a fully involved fire at an abandoned residence near North 11th Street. A man was detained at the scene, and investigators along with the fire marshal's office were called.
Audio|Source: Herrin Fire Department
02:34
Transcript:
00:00
Tension fire-fire, structure fire.
00:02
Pettstown firefighters respond to the area of near North 11th.
00:09
Officers see an abandoned residence with fire inside.
00:13
Timeout 2110.
00:14
Receive dispatch and join there.
00:16
Careful.
00:17
Air and PD engine one.
00:19
The engine one, go ahead, please.
00:23
Well, we heard part of the PD traffic.
00:26
Little fire or big fire?
00:28
I'm assuming a smaller fire they do have a mail-in detained right now.
00:32
Let me check with it.
00:35
Andrew Warren, fully involved[2].
00:36
All right.
00:37
Go ahead, give me a general warm.
00:39
If you've got a mail detained,
00:40
go ahead, call your investigators and call fire marshal's office.
00:45
Okay. Temple. Attention your hand-fire, general alarm[1].
00:47
Tension, air, fire, fighter, general alarm[1], 1,000 blocks of near North 11, fully involved[2] structure.
00:55
Engine one here.
00:56
Go ahead.
00:57
Do you want Marion to the scene or to your station?
01:01
Well, to the scene for now, we're not there yet.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
general alarm: Indicates an escalated fire response
[2]
fully involved: Structure is completely on fire
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Location mentioned:
Near N 11th St, Herrin, IL 62948
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