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Compiled by AFD Captain Jim Colburn and Sharanth “Lawrence” Kumarasivan

Friday, Aug. 4Nothing found at dispatch

address: at 8:22 a.m. on the 2100 block of Alameda Avenue.

Service call, unspecified: at 10:49 a.m. on Beach Road.

Report of a natural gas leak: at 11:15 a.m. on the 1400 block of Ninth Street.

False alarm, unintentionally set: at 8:51 p.m. on the 1100 block of Peach Street.

Call dispatched and canceled en route: at 11:09 p.m. on the 1100 block of Harbor Bay Parkway.

Emergency medical responses: 7:04 a.m. Park Street; 10:12 a.m. and 1:39 p.m. Webster Street; 11:22 a.m. Clement Avenue; 11:33 a.m. Bay Street; 12:45 p.m. Fair Haven Road; 1:49 p.m. Buena Vista Avenue, can-celed on scene; 4:15 p.m. Blanding Avenue; 6:36 p.m. Shorepoint Court; 6:40 p.m. Otis Drive, motor vehicle accident with injuries; 7:45 p.m. Paru Street; 9:57 p.m. Fernside Boulevard; 11:58 p.m. Kitty Hawk Road, care refused.

Saturday, Aug. 5Three requests for assistance

from Alameda Police Department: at 4:07 a.m. on Sherman Street; at 7:38 a.m. on Singleton Avenue; and at 8:06 p.m. on the 2200 block of Webster Street.

Service call, unspecified: at 6:29 a.m. on the 600 block of Taylor Avenue.

Nothing found at dispatch address: at 1:12 p.m. on the 1700 block of Webster.

False alarm, unspecified: at a residential property: at 4:24 p.m. on the 400 block of Buena Vista Avenue.

Good intent call, unspecified: at 10:06 p.m. on the 2500 block of Barbers Point Road.

Emergency medical responses: 2:18 a.m. and 8:04 p.m. Clement Avenue; 2:26 a.m. Clinton Avenue; 5:55 a.m. and 6:41 p.m. Buena Vista; 8:48 a.m. Fernside Boulevard; 2:44 p.m. Robert Davey Jr. Drive, motor vehicle accident with no injuries; 3:19 p.m. Haight Avenue; 4:02 p.m. Versailles Avenue; 5:29 p.m. Alameda Avenue; 9:41 p.m. High Street, care refused; 9:56 p.m. Mariner Square Drive, care refused; 11:39 p.m. Third Avenue in Oakland.

Sunday, Aug. 6Report of excessive heat, no

ignition: at 7:13 p.m. on Haight Avenue.

Emergency medical responses: 12:35 a.m. and 8:20 p.m. Blanding Avenue; 12:36 a.m. Orr Court; 5:34 a.m. Regent Street; 8:14 a.m. Sterling Avenue; 10:45 a.m. and 10:57 p.m. Island Drive; 1:26 p.m. Stardust Place; 2:45 p.m. Peralta Street in Oakland, dispatched and canceled en route; 3:41 p.m. Lincoln Avenue; 4:59 p.m. Constitution Way, care refused; 5:29 p.m. Grand Street; 5:45 p.m. Rainbow Court; 7:46 p.m. Barbers Point Road, care refused; 8:12 p.m. Shorepoint Court; 8:54 p.m. Willie Stargell Avenue, care refused; 9 p.m. High Street; 9:32 p.m. Bannister Way, dispatched and can-celed en route; 9:48 a.m. Britt Court.

Monday, Aug. 7Four incidents of nothing found

at dispatch addresses: at 4:05 a.m. on the 1700 block of Central Avenue; at 10:54 a.m. on the 1800 block of Webster Street; at 4:35 p.m. on the 500 block of Buena Vista Avenue; and at 9:17 p.m. on the 700 block of Eagle Avenue.

Two requests to assist invalids: at 6:41 p.m. on Wood Street; and at 6:47 p.m. on Cypress Street.

Emergency medical responses: 12:22 a.m. Marion Court; 12:33 a.m. Clement Avenue, care refused; 3:24 a.m. Clement; 6:36 a.m. Bay Street, dispatched and canceled en route; 7:04 a.m. Sheffield Road; 7:47 a.m., 11:51 p.m., and 6:40 p.m. Willow Street; 9:04 a.m. Lincoln Avenue; 11:14 a.m. Park Street, motor vehi-cle accident with injuries, care

refused; 11:55 p.m. Island Drive; 12:44 p.m. Main Street; 1:10 p.m. Catalina Avenue; 1:54 p.m. Sixth Street; 2:16 p.m. Rainbow Court; 2:59 p.m. San Antonio Avenue, motor vehicle accident with inju-ries; 4:28 p.m. Mariner Square Drive; 5:51 p.m. Capetown Drive; 6:29 p.m. Cottage Street.

Tuesday, Aug. 8Four incidents of nothing found at

dispatch address: at 12:41 a.m. on the 1600 block of Webster Street; at 11:41 a.m. on the 1800 block of Webster; at 3:55 p.m. on Webster; and at 5:04 p.m. on Buena Vista Avenue.

False alarm due to malfunction: at 3:29 p.m. on the 1900 block of Willow Street.

False alarm, unspecified: at a commercial property: at 8:12 a.m. on the 1200 block of Harbor Bay Parkway.

Call dispatched and canceled en route: at 9:09 a.m. on the 1500 block of Oak Street.

Emergency medical responses: 12:03 a.m. St. Charles Street. 9:09 a.m. Fir Avenue, canceled on scene; 7:32 p.m. Otis Drive; 7:32 p.m. Washington Street; 9:13 p.m. Buena Vista; 11:32 p.m. Santa Clara Avenue.

Wednesday, Aug. 9Service call, unspecified: at

11:48 a.m. at the intersection of Santa Clara Avenue and Park Street.

False alarm due to malfunction: at 1:49 p.m. on the 2300 block of Blanding Avenue.

Emergency medical responses: 1:08 a.m. Blanding; 6:18 a.m. South Shore Center; 11:04 a.m. Lincoln Avenue; 11:25 a.m. Centre Court; 12:12 p.m. Brown Street; 12:47 p.m. Santa Clara; 12:51 a.m. Fair Oaks Avenue; 2:27 p.m. North Loop Road, motor vehicle accident with inju-ries; 3:29 p.m. Shorepoint Court; 4:15 p.m. Buena Vista Avenue, canceled on scene; 4:40 p.m. Elm Street; 6:38 p.m. Central Avenue; 7:15 p.m. Sherman Street, canceled on scene; 8:55 p.m. Ohlone Street, care refused.

Thursday, Aug. 10Call dispatched and canceled

en route: at 10:07 a.m. on the 1700 block of Harbor Bay Parkway.

Report of steam mistaken for smoke: at 3:36 p.m. at the intersec-tion of Park Street and Buena Vista Avenue.

Outdoor fire: at 8:28 p.m. at the intersection of Shore Line Drive and Willow Street.

Emergency medical responses: 3:20 a.m. Shorepoint Court, care refused; 3:43 a.m. Shorepoint; 7:06 a.m. Webster Street; 7:16 a.m.

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