False commercial fire alarm caused by wet smoke detector, Braddock PA


A commercial fire alarm at a location near Brent Avenue was triggered, but firefighters found no fire. The alarm was caused by a smoke detector that was left outside in the rain and malfunctioned.
Audio|Source: Allegheny County Fire - East
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Transcript:
00:00
Commercial fire alarm activation, near Brent Avenue, North Braddock.
00:05
Station 207, east fireouts, 4, 1827.
00:14
(name withheld), in 2007, Chief, you can pull me up.
00:20
Job, Chief.
00:27
County, two-seven chief, put me on team.
00:31
Two-store, multi-unit,
00:34
nothing showing Alpha Delta.
00:37
They give the unit number on this.
00:42
Two-sun Chief.
00:49
Negative on the unit number, the alarm committee did see something about patient activation.
00:57
All right. All right.
01:02
Johnny, two, seven,
01:08
chief.
01:10
Go ahead, chief.
01:18
This was a discorded smoke detector out in the rain.
01:24
Go ahead, return all units.
01:29
Copy that, discorded smoke detector out in the rain. It is clear, 1831.
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Location mentioned:
North Braddock, PA
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