10/05/2026
🔥 **CALLS 635–639: SUNDAY WAS APPARENTLY NOT DONE WITH US** 🔥
Well… we were unfortunately correct.
We said we expected this to be a busy week.
Sunday apparently heard us and said, **“Oh, you want busy? I got you.”**
We ended up with **seven calls for service Sunday**, including the two early-morning structure fire assists we already posted about.
And because apparently two structure fires before breakfast wasn't enough, the fun continued into the evening.
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# # # ☠️ Call 635 — 5:38 PM
**CO Alarm — Wayne Avenue**
Crews were dispatched to an apartment on Wayne Avenue for a CO alarm and found approximately **20 PPM of carbon monoxide**.
There was one gas appliance in the apartment — the oven — and it had been used recently.
At first glance, it would have been very easy to say, **“Well, there's your problem,”** shut everything down and head back to the station.
But we're a little more stubborn than that.
So we started taking the oven apart.
Racks? Out.
Bottom panel? Out.
Drip cover? Out.
At this point, the oven was probably wondering if we were there to fix it or perform surgery.
With everything removed, the burner flame looked good and the oven wasn't producing CO.
Then we noticed the drip cover had **bubbling and failing coating** on it.
So we put it back where it belonged, fired up the oven and watched the CO monitor.
The CO immediately started climbing.
**Well, there it is.**
The oven wasn't burning wrong.
The burner wasn't the problem.
The **coating on the drip cover was breaking down when heated and producing CO.**
So yes, apparently we have reached the point where even the inside of your oven can decide to become a carbon monoxide generator.
🔥🍕 **“Tonight's special: dinner with a side of CO.”**
Needless to say, the residents were advised of what we found. The oven was disconnected, the landlord was contacted for repairs, and crews used positive pressure ventilation to clear the apartment.
The apartment was brought back down to **0 PPM** before we left.
The pictures attached are from the oven that decided it wanted to contribute something a little more dangerous than dinner.
**This is also a good example of why we don't always stop at the first obvious answer.**
If we had simply blamed the oven and left, we wouldn't have figured out exactly *why* it was producing CO.
And of course we checked the smoke detectors while we were in the apartment. One was 18 years old. One was 2 years old. Time to replace one.
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# # # 🚨 Call 636 — Philadelphia Street
And while crews were still working on Call 635…
**“Fire alarm, Philadelphia Street apartment building.”**
Because naturally.
Assistant 3 **Bob Henry** arrived and was met by a tenant operating a smoker that had set off the building alarm.
No fire.
No emergency.
Just a smoker successfully demonstrating that **smoke detectors remain undefeated.**
Units were canceled.
Apparently somebody wanted to smoke something badly enough to involve the entire fire department.
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# # # 🚗 Call 637 — 8:05 PM
**MVC — Warren Road & Barclay Road**
At 8:05 PM, we were off to Warren Road and Barclay Road for a two-vehicle crash.
The vehicles had been involved in a T-bone style collision, fortunately at a relatively low speed.
Crews helped the occupants from the vehicle that took the side impact. Citizens Ambulance transported them for evaluation with what are expected to be minor injuries.
The occupants of the other vehicle were uninjured and were actually able to drive their vehicle from the scene.
Both vehicles were movable, so crews got them off the roadway and into a nearby parking lot, allowing Warren Road to reopen.
We'll take the **“everybody is okay and nobody needs the Sawzall”** version of a crash any day.
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# # # 🚨 Call 638 — 9:30 PM
**Residential Fire Alarm**
At 9:30 PM, another residential fire alarm activation came in.
We're responding…
Then 911 gets another call:
**“Never mind. You can cancel.”**
So we did.
Nothing says confidence like calling the fire department and then calling 911 back to tell us we aren't needed before we get there.
We'll take the easy one.
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# # # 🚨 Call 639 — 1:03 AM
**Smoke Detector Acting Up**
And finally, because apparently Sunday didn't understand that midnight is the official end of a day…
**1:03 AM.**
Smoke detector acting up.
Crews investigated and found:
❌ No smoke
❌ No fire
❌ No heat
❌ No CO
❌ No explanation that made Sunday feel any less annoying
The detector had stopped on its own.
The detectors in the residence are interconnected, meaning one activating should cause all of them to sound. The caller reported that only one had activated.
Crews advised the resident to call back if it happens again and to have maintenance inspect the system.
And with that, we finally called it a night.
Or morning.
Whatever.
At that point, **time was just a suggestion.**
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# # # 📊 SUNDAY'S FINAL SCORE
🔥 7 calls for service
🏠 2 structure fire assists
☠️ 1 CO investigation involving an oven that apparently hated its own drip cover
🚗 1 MVC
🚨 Multiple fire alarm activations
🌙 1 smoke detector call at 1:03 AM because apparently Monday needed a head start
We expected a busy week.
**Sunday decided to get the jump on it.**
And somewhere out there, there is an oven that is currently sitting disconnected, wondering why the fire department took its favorite piece of metal away.
Honestly…
**We probably saved it from itself.** 😂
As always, our crews would rather take the extra time to investigate and find the actual problem than make an educated guess and call it good.
Sometimes the answer is obvious.
Sometimes you have to dismantle an oven to find out that **the oven isn't the problem.**
Welcome to the fire service. 🔥
