Fire alarm prompts evacuation at Albany department store, Albany NY


A fire alarm activated near the escalator area on the second floor of a department store at 1417 Central Ave, Albany. The building was evacuated as a precaution while the fire department investigated the cause of the alarm.
Audio|Source: Albany City and Colonie, Police, Fire and EMS
03:15
Transcript:
00:00
The 23, the spectrum respondent. Is there any additional information? I couldn't hear the call.
00:06
Okay, starting from the second floor escalator east duct detector.
00:12
Okay,
00:17
thanks.
00:25
Dispatch for answer 412 is arriving.
00:30
Forward to 1838.
00:37
Dispatch engine 9, you can return engine 9, Mohawk 19 and move to Memorial, BLS.
00:45
Engine 9, 1838.
00:51
You can copy.
00:52
Gov's 7.
00:56
Thank you, 3.9.
01:03
6.15 to 6662.
01:08
Good.
01:12
How much longer are you think you'll be?
01:15
A couple minutes. I'm just getting up to 4 now.
01:20
receipt.
01:22
Metcount 615.
01:24
All the young, well-to-Wolford has,
01:27
for the bowl.
01:28
Thank you. 1839.
01:34
239.
01:39
23 to dispatch. I'm arriving. I'll stop with the floor recommend.
01:42
Buildings evacuated.
01:45
Arriving with him in 1840.
01:47
We're arrived, Samaritan.
01:50
1840. 40.
01:56
406, and root with five.
01:59
406, 91841.
02:03
9.1841.
02:05
9.5 quarters.
02:10
Engine 918.482.
02:17
Back,
02:19
loading dock, toilet chondra, head to dock there, 1822.
02:24
Okay. Uh,
02:30
okay.
02:36
Do you want to go for the reset, or do you want to keep investigating?
02:42
Well, all the escalators check negative at this time, so we will leave that up to commands.
02:56
The floor committee's gotcha. Okay,
03:01
Your Honor.
03:07
Here's to be an alarm issue.
03:09
We're going to make this signal 15. We'll hold 412 while we figure out if we can reset it or not.
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Location mentioned:
Near Central Ave, Albany, NY 12205
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