Fire alarm triggered by furnace at maintenance facility, St Charles IL

Fire & Arson

Reported: 10/24/2025 06:55 AM

41W952 Burlington Rd, St. Charles, IL 60175

A fire alarm at a commercial maintenance facility near Burlington Road was triggered by smoke from the startup of their furnace. Fire crews arrived and found no visible fire or immediate danger, determining the alarm was caused by furnace smoke.

Audio|Source: Elgin Fire

01:56

Transcript:

00:00

Fox River with our fire alarm[1], District 12 is near Burlington Rd shown KDOT.

00:06

Again near Burlington Rd KDOT.

00:10

It's going to be for a truck maintenance, duct maintenance and smoke.

00:14

U.S. 1811, 1812, 1851 in Battalion 18181818. Again Fox River with a fire alarm[1], District 12, near Burlington Rd KDOT for commercial fire alarm.

00:30

11th in route.

00:36

12 is in route, Coney.

00:41

151's en route.

00:45

151's en route.

00:48

Do you want to have any route?

00:52

Can I, 8252 is going to be around, place at 851?

00:56

That's your take.

00:57

1812's on the scene. We've got one-story maintenance, road maintenance facility, nothing shown from two sides. We'll be out investigating.

01:04

1812 is Burlington Command.

01:10

1812 is Burlington Command. 12 on scene, nothing showing[2].

01:13

1812's command,

01:14

message received.

01:20

He's on-scene.

01:23

18502 on-see, must address it.

01:32

1812, go ahead.

01:35

You can hold up everybody coming in here.

01:38

They just started their furnace,

01:40

activated a local detector.

01:43

We're going to try for a reset in a couple of minutes, but you can hold everybody up coming in.

01:51

Message receives hold up.

01:53

All other incoming units due to the furnace started.

Police codes explained

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

[1]

fire alarm: Automatic fire alarm activation reported

[2]

nothing showing: On arrival, no visible smoke or fire observed

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Location mentioned:

41W952 Burlington Rd, St. Charles, IL 60175

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