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False fire alarm triggered at Shady Hill School gymCambridge MA

audio iconFire & Arson
Near Coolidge Hill Rd, Cambridge, MA 02138

A fire alarm was activated in the gym of Shady Hill School near Coolidge Avenue in Cambridge. Multiple fire units responded. The alarm and beacon lights were confirmed active. Upon investigation, the cause was found to be burnt food and there was no actual fire.

Audio|Source: Cambridge Fire
04:35
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 9 truck 4, near Coolidge Avenue, Shady Hill School on the alarm.
00:05
851.
00:10
Major Ford a fire alarm. Can't answer.
00:16
Back in service.
00:20
You're in service. You're in service. All I'm calling the Gen 8.
00:25
Agent 8.
00:28
You're all set to head to you, Cambered.
00:31
Thank you. We have that.
00:40
Thank you. Good at a file.
00:42
Stand by.
00:47
Logs 46, your location on near Havitt Street.
00:50
Channel 6.E.
00:53
Strikingbox 46 row location at near Harvard Street.
01:01
Daneer and Ellery.
01:03
Carter is in the lobby.
01:05
Engines 1, 5 and 6, trucks 1 and 3, the Rescue Squad, 4 Division 2.
01:09
Fireground Channel 14 to 856.
01:12
Ninja 9, I have you on location.
01:34
Engine 5, Tom.
01:37
Responding to the box.
01:39
To the box.
01:44
Let's get a final one. And from the rest. The rest. The rest.
01:53
We respond.
01:56
Angie 5, Tom.
01:58
Engine 5, Tom.
02:00
Engine 5.
02:02
I'll okay, Jackabair.
02:04
Five-year-off, command, they secure.
02:12
Hey, he'll come in the Father.
02:15
Sadie, he'll come in.
02:26
We have no audible alarms and the panel read normal.
02:30
We get a report that there's an alarm activation in the gym. We're making our way over there.
02:47
Engine 9-01 command.
02:51
Yes.
02:53
Can't answer.
02:55
We do have alarm, sounding, and beacon light activated,
03:00
investigating.
03:03
Okay.
03:06
Now, I'm in engine fire, switch channel 14.
03:11
Commanded out of board.
03:20
By the Borough.
03:24
Again, stay in that park, I'll tell you know if I need your web, I'll get in the gym right now.
03:30
We have it, thank you.
03:33
We have it, thank you.
03:48
I don't want to come.
03:51
Yeah,
03:54
sir.
03:56
Finn will just be normal.
03:58
Goal, I'm sorry.
04:00
Got a, uh,
04:01
all the birds,
04:02
engine five.
04:03
I don't want to let's get.
04:08
All right, at Fox 46, investigating an order of burnt food, 9 o'clock.
04:13
All right, that Fox 46, investigating an order of burnt food, 9 o'clock.
04:19
Division 2 to file out.
04:21
Hey, answer in Division 2.
04:23
With the company's well-up command, General 14.
04:27
Division 2 off, Assuming Harvard Street Command, 901.
04:32
Division 2 off, Assuming Harvard Street Command, 911.

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Near Coolidge Hill Rd, Cambridge, MA 02138

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