Tameside hoax call transcripts

Call one  - Boyds walk fire

Control Operator: Fire Service, what’s the address of the fire?
Hoax Caller: There is a fire
Control Operator: Yes, whereabouts?
Hoax Caller: On Boyds Walk
Control Operator: On where?
Hoax Caller: Boyds Walk
Control Operator: How do you spell that?
Hoax Caller: Pardon?
Control Operator: How do you spell the name of the road?
Hoax Caller: B… o… y… d… s… W… a… l… k…
Control Operator: Which part of Manchester is it?
Hoax Caller: Pardon?
Control Operator: Which part of Manchester is it in?
Hoax Caller: Ashton-Under-Lyne
Control Operator: Is it Dukenfield?
Hoax Caller: Yes
Control Operator: Right, what’s on fire there?
Hoax Caller: Pardon?
Control Operator: What’s on fire?
Hoax Caller: I don’t know
Control Operator: You don’t know what’s on fire
Hoax Caller: No, its not big and its not small
Control Operator: Right so how do you know about the fire then?
Hoax Caller: It’s medium
Control Operator: How do you know if there is a fire if you don’t know what’s on fire.
Hoax Caller: Because my friend told me and its in her house
Control Operator: What is the fire in her house?
Hoax Caller: Yes
Control Operator: Alright, are you telling me the truth here?
Hoax Caller: Yes
Control Operator: Because we have got this phone taped and there are cameras there
Hoax Caller: Ok, what number Boyds Walk is it?

Call two - Youth Club fire

Control Operator: Hello Fire Service, what’s the address of the fire?
Hoax Caller: Hyde
Control Operator: Sorry
Hoax Caller: (the caller muffles his words and is difficult to understand) Bennett Street
Control Operator: Where? In what town?
Hoax Caller: Hyde
Control Operator: In Hyde? What street in Hyde?
Hoax Caller: It’s on fire the youth club.
Control Operator: The youth club is?
Hoax Caller: Yes
Control Operator: So, the youth club in Hyde is on fire
Hoax Caller: Yes
Control Operator: And what road is the youth club on?
(Silence)
Control Operator: Hello?
Hoax Caller: Errr Bennett Street
Control Operator: Bennett Street. Are you telling me the truth because if you are not there is a camera in that box and the Police will know because your name is on tape. Tell me if its not true.
Hoax Caller: It is true.
Control Operator: You are saying that the youth club is on fire, the one on Bennett Street?
Hoax Caller: Yes
Control Operator: And, how do you know its on fire?
Hoax Caller: I have just seen it when I was driving past in my mum’s car
Control Operator: Where is your mum? Why is your mum not phoning me and telling me?
Hoax Caller: I don’t know (mumbles again and is difficult to understand)
Control Operator: From the phone box. Has she not got a mobile she could phone on?
Hoax Caller: No
Control Operator: So, you're telling me the youth club on Bennett Street is on fire
Hoax Caller: Yes
Control Operator: What part of Hyde is it in?
Hoax Caller: Quick, quick it is going up on flames.

Call three - Petrol bombs

Control Operator: Fire Service, where is the fire?
Hoax Caller: Do you know where Leigh Fold field is?
Control Operator: Which field?
Hoax Caller: Leigh Fold
Control Operator: Leigh Fold?
Hoax Caller: Yes
Control Operator: Leigh Fold field? And, what road is that on?
Hoax Caller: Harbour Farm
Control Operator: Harbour Farm what?
Hoax Caller: Harbour Farm road
Control Operator: Harbour farm road
Hoax Caller: Yes
Control Operator: What district’s that?
Hoax Caller: Pardon.
Control Operator: What district is it in?
Hoax Caller: What?
Control Operator: What town is it in?
Hoax Caller: What area?
Control Operator: Yes
Hoax Caller: It’s in Newton
Control Operator: In Hyde is it?
Hoax Caller: Yes
Control Operator: What’s on fire?
Hoax Caller: All these lads there are putting petrol bombs on it and its awful
Control Operator: What are they putting it on?
Hoax Caller: They have burnt loads of wood and they are putting loads of cans of petrol on it and everything
Control Operator: How do you know it is petrol?
Hoax Caller: Pardon
Control Operator: How do you know its petrol?
Hoax Caller: Because they are shouting its petrol, they are putting petrol on it.
Control Operator: Well, what does it look like?
Hoax Caller: It’s in a green tin
Control Operator: In a green tin or a green container?
Hoax Caller: Green container
Control Operator: So, how many lads are round there?
Hoax Caller: About four
Control Operator: How old are they?
Hoax Caller: They look 16
Control Operator: Right, ok, we are on the way
Hoax Caller: Thank you
Control Operator: Thank you, bye