INCIDENT REPORT 11-08B
Source: City Infrastructure & Public Safety Division
Status: Archived (Restricted)
LOCATION: 1400–1498 ███████ Avenue
DATE: 11/08/██
TIME: 02:14–04:52
INCIDENT SUMMARY: At approximately 02:14 hours, emergency services responded to reports of a structural fire at ███████ Avenue. Fire was contained by 04:11 hours. No accelerants detected. Cause listed as electrical pending review.
During post-incident assessment, multiple responders reported abnormal conditions, including:
- Surface-level pavement fractures are inconsistent with thermal expansion
- Elevated ground temperature without a detectable heat source
- Acoustic anomalies described as “breathing,” “pressure,” or “movement” beneath the street
CASUALTIES: • One (1) deceased, male, found three blocks from the primary incident location
• No smoke inhalation
• No external trauma
• Cause of death listed as cardiac arrest
Addendum A: The victim had a lifelong residence within the incident radius.
WITNESS STATEMENTS (REDACTED):
“The street felt wrong. Like it knew us.”
“Concrete doesn’t crack like that unless it wants to.”
“We were told not to talk about the breathing.”
RECOMMENDATIONS:
- Seal pavement fractures within 48 hours
- Limit overnight foot traffic
- Suppress public speculation
- Reclassify the site as a low-risk infrastructure anomaly
FINAL NOTE (HANDWRITTEN, UNOFFICIAL):
The block isn’t unstable.
It’s aware.
Cross-References:
- Archive Entry: Urban Development Displacement Logs
- Community Complaints (Unresolved)
Enter the archive. The block remembers more than this.
INTERNAL MEMO 11-08B (REVISION REQUEST)
FROM: Deputy Director ██████
TO: Records Oversight Committee
CLASSIFICATION: Do Not Distribute
The language used in Incident Report 11-08B implies abnormal environmental awareness. This phrasing is unacceptable.
Terms such as “breathing,” “pressure,” and “movement” suggest agency where none can be substantiated.
Revise all instances to indicate:
- Structural stress
- Psychosomatic response
- Community hysteria
Additionally, remove handwritten annotations before archiving.
There is no benefit in allowing infrastructure to appear conscious.
Note: Failure to comply will result in “reassignment.”
EMERGENCY CALL TRANSCRIPTS
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EMERGENCY CALL TRANSCRIPTS — LOG SET A-17
SOURCE: City Emergency Communications Archive
STATUS: Partial Recovery / Audio Degradation Present
CALL 1
TIME: 23:41:09
DISPATCH: 911, what’s your emergency?
CALLER: I—I need someone to come now. The street is moving.
DISPATCH: Sir, streets don’t move.
(There’s a pause here. You can hear him swallow. Like he’s choosing which lie will hurt less.)
CALLER: That’s what I thought. That’s what everyone thinks.
(Background noise: a low rumble, not quite thunder, not quite traffic. Something dragging itself slowly across concrete. The mic catches a faint, rhythmic scrape, like fingernails learning patience.)
DISPATCH: What is your location?
CALLER: Same block as before. The one with the cracks. I told you last time.
(Audio distortion. The signal warps, stretches. A pop like a knuckle cracking.)
DISPATCH: Sir, calm down. Take a breath for me.
CALLER: I stayed. I wasn’t supposed to stay.
DISPATCH: Stayed where, sir?
CALLER: It knows I stayed.
(Call terminated.)
CALL 2
TIME: 00:03:52
DISPATCH: 911, what’s your emergency?
CALLER: Don’t send fire. Don’t send police.
(His voice is steadier than the first one. That’s worse.)
DISPATCH: Then what would you like us to send?
CALLER: Someone who remembers what this place was.
(Extended silence. The kind that presses back against your ears.)
DISPATCH: Sir? Are you still with me?
CALLER: It’s louder when you pretend not to hear it.
(A sound bleeds through—concrete settling, or maybe bones. Hard to tell once they start to sound alike.)
DISPATCH: I need you to tell me what’s happening right now.
CALLER: The cracks are wider. They weren’t like that this morning.
DISPATCH: Cracks in what, sir?
CALLER: Everything.
(Call terminated.)
CALL 3
TIME: 00:19:11
DISPATCH: 911, what’s your emergency?
(Breathing detected. Slow. Careful. Like whoever’s on the line is trying not to scare something.)
DISPATCH: Sir or ma’am, can you hear me?
(No verbal response. The breathing syncs with a deep vibration, measured and heavy. Structural vibration matches Incident 11-08B, though no incident report was ever finalized.)
DISPATCH: Units have been dispatched to your location. Please stay on the line.
(A second sound joins the breathing. A soft exhale that doesn’t belong to the caller. Close to the mic. Intimate.)
CALLER: (whispering now) If I don’t look scared… will it still—
(Audio cuts out mid-sentence.)
CALL 4
TIME: 00:27:44
DISPATCH: 911, what’s your emergency?
CALLER: Yeah. Hi. I’m calling about the noise complaint on Winchester.
DISPATCH: Can you describe the noise?
CALLER: It sounds like… like the block is shifting its weight.
(A short laugh. Nervous. Practiced.)
CALLER: I know how that sounds. Probably construction, right? Late-night work. City’s always tearing something up.
DISPATCH: Is there any immediate danger?
(Another pause. Longer this time.)
CALLER: Depends who you ask.
(In the background, faint music leaks through—bass-heavy, warped, like it’s being played underwater. A jukebox melody slowed to a crawl.)
DISPATCH: Sir?
CALLER: Never mind. I’m good. False alarm.
(He hangs up too fast, like he doesn’t want to hear what answers if he waits.)
ARCHIVE ADDENDUM
TIME: 01:02:18
Automated system registered multiple open calls from the same geographic location. No voices detected. Only ambient sound.
Review notes describe:
— Repeating low-frequency vibration
— Sounds consistent with large objects being dragged
— Brief laughter on one channel, high-pitched, skin-thin, not matched to any caller
One dispatcher noted the laughter “sounded like someone practicing how to be human.”
ARCHIVE NOTE
No responding units reported arrival.
No follow-up calls logged from the block.
At 06:14, city maintenance flagged the address for “sudden structural fatigue.”
By 09:00, the cracks were taped off with orange cones and a laminated sign that read: TEMPORARY HAZARD — USE CAUTION.
The tape didn’t last long.
Nothing ever does.
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