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Heard the sirens, but where were 50 fires in Mesa Feb. 21-24?

The Mesa Fire and Medical Department was dispatched to the following fires Feb. 21-24:

  • Fire alarm — no incident found on arrival at dispatch address; 2:39 a.m. Feb. 21, 1100 block of West baseline Road.
  • Unknown fire — warming fire; 3:57 a.m. Feb. 21, 1600 block of West Rio Salado Parkway.
  • Unknown fire — rubbish fire; 3:57 a.m. Feb. 21, 1600 block of South Country Club Drive.
  • Check smoke — prescribed fire; 4:53 a.m. Feb. 21, 1800 block of South 82nd Street.
  • Passenger vehicle fire; 5:24 a.m. Feb. 21, 1400 block of South Westwood.
  • Fire alarm — unintentional transmission of alarm; 6:34 a.m. Feb. 21, 800 block of South Dobson Road.
  • Unknown fire — no incident found on arrival at dispatch address; 1900 block of North 65th Circle, 6:38 a.m. Feb. 21.
  • Illegal burn — outside rubbish fire; 8:23 a.m. Feb. 21, 100 block of North Val Vista Drive.
  • Fire alarm — dispatched and canceled en route; 11:27 a.m. Feb. 21, 9500 block of East Minton Street.
  • Fire alarm — detector activation, no fire, unintentional; 11:44 a.m. Feb. 21, 900 block of South Alma School Road.
  • Passenger vehicle fire; 11:50 a.m., Feb. 21, 700 block of West Southern Avenue.
  • Illegal burn — outside rubbish fire; 1:09 p.m. Feb. 21, 400 block of West Sixth Place.
  • Appliance fire — public service assistance; 4:24 p.m. Feb. 21, 100 block of East Ingram Street.
  • House fire; 5:41 p.m. Feb. 21, 2100 block of North Ashland.
  • Stove fire; 6:16 p.m. Feb. 21, 2100 block of South Sabrina.
  • Check smoke — no incident found on arrival at dispatch address; 10:12 p.m. Feb. 21, 1800 block of West Southern Avenue.
  • Unknown fire — authorized controlled burning; 11:48 p.m. Feb. 21, 100 block of North C Street.
  • Dumpster or other outside trash receptacle fire; 1:35 a.m. Feb. 22, 200 block of East Brown Road.
  • Fire alarm — no incident found on arrival at dispatch address; 7:33 a.m. Feb. 22, 6700 block of East Encanto Street.
  • Fire alarm; 8:49 a.m. Feb. 22, 7100 block of East Monterey Avenue.
  • Fire alarm — dispatched and canceled en route; 11:22 a.m. Feb. 22, 1600 block of South Stapley Drive.
  • Vehicle fire; 1:33 p.m. Feb. 22, 2300 block of West Baseline.
  • Dumpster or other outside trash receptacle fire; 1:56 p.m. Feb. 22, 2000 block of North Country Club Drive.
  • Unknown fire — good intent call; 4:43 p.m. Feb. 22 2300 block of South Compton.
  • Unknown fire — good intent call; 7:37 p.m. Feb. 22, 4200 block of East Virginia Street.
  • Fire alarm — detector activation due to malfunction; 7:42 p.m. Feb. 22, 1900 block of South Stapley Drive.
  • Illegal burn — smoke scare, odor of smoke; 9:23 p.m. Feb. 22, 3300 block of East Inglewood Circle.
  • Dumpster fire — dispatched and canceled en route; 3:30 a.m. Feb. 23, 1200 block of South Alma School Road.
  • Commercial fire — no incident found on arrival at dispatch address; 7:25 a.m. Feb. 23, 1100 block of North Higley Road.
  • Fire alarm — alarm system activation, no fire, unintentional; 9:34 a.m. Feb. 23, 1500 block of North Recker Road.
  • Fire alarm — smoke detector activation due to malfunction; 12:25 p.m. Feb. 23, 1900 block of West Isabella Avenue.
  • Fire alarm — false alarm or false call; 2:42 p.m. Feb. 23, 300 block of East Main Street.
  • Unknown fire — dispatched and canceled en route; 4:37 p.m. Feb. 23, 1100 block of North Loma Vista.
  • Fire alarm; 5:17 p.m. Feb. 23, 1500 block of West Couthern Avenue.
  • Fire alarm — dispatched and canceled en route; 5:18 p.m. Feb. 23, 6100 block of East Southern Avenue.
  • Fire alarm — dispatched and canceled en route; 5:23 p.m. Feb. 23, 1800 block of South Horne.
  • House fire — natural vegetation fire; 6:34 p.m. Feb. 23, 1100 block of East Ninth Avenue.
  • Fire alarm — no incident found on arrival at dispatch address; 7:02 p.m. Feb. 23, 2300 block of East Carmel Avenue.
  • Fire alarm — alarm system sounded due to malfunction; 7:25 a.m. Feb. 24, 2000 block of South Don Carlos.
  • Mobile home fire — “electrical wiring/equipment problem; 9:41 a.m. Feb. 24, 1800 block of South 77th Street.
  • Fire alarm — system malfunction; 4:04 p.m. Feb. 24, 5000 block of East Fox Circle.
  • Fire alarm — system malfunction; 4:42 p.m. Feb. 24, 1200 block of East Main Street.
  • Tree fire — outside rubbish fire; 4:51 p.m. Feb. 24, 3900 block of East Broadway Road.
  • Vehicle fire — good intent call; 4:57 p.m. Feb. 24, 3300 block of East Main Street.
  • Fire alarm — dispatched and canceled en route; 4:59 p.m. Feb. 24, 1800 block of East Kenwood Street.
  • Unknown fire — good intent call;6:25 p.m. Feb. 24, 1400 block of South Power Road.
  • Fire alarm — no incident found on arrival at dispatch address; 6:27 p.m. Feb. 24, 8800 block of East Luna Avenue.
  • Fire alarm — alarm system sounded due to malfunction; 7:48 p.m. Feb. 24, 11500 block of East Laguna Azul Circle.
  • Fire alarm — alarm system activation, no fire, unintentional; 10:58 p.m. Feb. 24, 6700 block of East McDowell Road.
  • Unknown fire — dumpster or other outside trash receptacle fire; 11:58 p.m. Feb. 24, 700 block of North Miller Street.

Incidents are taken from data from the city of Mesa.

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