Loud bang heard in Bar Harbor triggers multiple fire alarms, Bar Harbor ME


Residents in Bar Harbor heard a loud bang, possibly from a transformer blowing. Multiple fire alarms went off at Hamel House and Blair Tyson complex. Fire crews investigated but found no active fire.
Audio|Source: Bar Harbor, MDI and Acadia Police, Fire, EMS, Park Rangers
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Transcript:
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Go ahead, 413.
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Is it a complainant to see whether it was inside the building or outside the building?
00:08
She said she heard the noise from outside and behind the building.
00:13
I also have someone else on the phone from a different location who's also reporting hearing a loud noise.
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I'm getting additional information now.
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Time for, thank you.
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Control to 413.
00:32
Go ahead.
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The second caller is currently staying at the Queststone Inn.
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She says that she heard the same noise last night around 4 a.m.
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And this time she was able to pinpoint.
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She thinks that it's coming from either the Blue Nose Inn or the new building that they just built.
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10-4[1]. We'll go take a look.
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Ladder 4.
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Go for ladder 4.
01:06
I got information that the alarm is actually, you know, the KWD at the Hamel House.
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They also just got a trouble alarm at Blair Tyson.
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So we're going down to KWD if you want to check the player Tyson.
01:18
Complex?
01:20
We'll do.
01:29
Edge of Vibre Armour.
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I'm seeing that KWD, Hamel House alarm was sounding.
01:45
By the Bible being investigating that.
01:49
Codget.
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Ladder 4 Barber.
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Go ahead, ladder 4.
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Off at the Blair Tyson's Torp.
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Fire 17 will be in this beginning.
02:16
8.13 heat and that guy just talked to say you hadn't heard anything.
02:28
Loud report, I see.
02:33
Go ahead.
02:36
I have a city here reported that a bunch of people heard a loud bang, tackling, so the former.
02:46
Yeah, I got to report of that too.
02:48
Let me get this alarm file over here.
02:54
I have the fire department out on a call at College of the Atlantic and they're getting reports of people also hearing a loud bang.
03:01
Uh,
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you might have something to do with the alarm that they have going on there.
03:09
Yeah, ten four, I thought I heard of say something about a transformer blue, but I'll check you with them real quick.
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Four.
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COA, command bar harbor,
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fireline set off by cooking.
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That's not enough.
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Control, C.
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Command, I copy that that alarm is caused by cooking.
03:50
It's going to be a transformer that blue somewhere in the area, but can't find it as of right now.
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I'm going to campus the area and see if I can locate something.
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10-4[1]. Okay.
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Commandable, Arler, alarm is reset.
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And fly copy the alarm reset.
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Command a letter for any findings over there.
04:28
Let's go again.
04:32
Do you have any findings that for patient?
04:38
Uh, the alarm panel is showing trouble.
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You get the knockoffice now.
04:43
Uh,
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no long number.
04:47
Alright, I'm not going to worry about the trouble.
04:50
Uh, there's nothing else going on.
Police codes explained
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10-4: Acknowledgment / Message received
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