A construction worker called 911 as he frantically honked his horn to warn other workers away from a fire at an unfinished apartment building in Overland Park — one of 69 calls reporting a massive blaze and flaming embers raining down on nearby homes.
The 911 dispatch recordings, released to The Kansas City Star on Thursday, reveal workers’ and residents’ frantic pleas for firefighters.
The fire started in an apartment building under construction at the CityPlace development at Nieman Road and College Boulevard. In one of the first emergency calls from the construction site, a dispatcher said, “Tell me exactly what happened.”