False fire alarm caused by faulty detector in basement, Fall River MA


Firefighters responded to a fire alarm near Manchester St. Upon investigation, they found a faulty fire detector in the basement. No fire was present, and all units cleared the scene.
Audio|Source: Fall River Police and Fire
03:34
Transcript:
00:00
Roger, card three, card three,
00:02
still alarm[1] response, alarm sounding near Manchester St.
00:06
Pisa is responding like yourself, sir, along with engine 249, letter two, letter four, rest of one.
00:20
Affirmative, sir.
00:21
Engine 4 is already on the air responding, your time 914.
00:29
Latitude is responding.
00:33
Latitude, 915.
00:35
Ingen 9, Latter 4, responding.
00:38
Engine 9, Latter 4, 915.
00:41
Engine to Rescue 1, responding.
00:44
Engine 2, Rescue 1, 915.
00:46
1,
00:48
915.
00:51
Run, roads clear, report to follow.
00:55
Receive 291.
01:01
24-8-1.
01:04
I'll second two still need that 18.
01:20
Paul calling Fire Alam.
01:23
Firelum is on youvo.
01:25
Engine 4 is on scene[2], near Manchester.
01:30
Roger on the scene of Manchester at 916.
01:33
Engine 4. The show and investigate.
01:37
Not concrete.
01:42
Mediq 2, Fireland.
01:44
Go ahead, Maddie 2.
01:47
Letting go out of service trauma.
01:50
Out at Chiltern at 917.
01:57
You guys do not, if you want us to make a call?
02:01
Can you just call and have him step off this?
02:05
See?
02:09
In the file home, copy, honey, copy will be command.
02:14
Carthry, you'll be on the scene assuming command, 917.
02:18
Sir, a few, three six, so I can show me 9-1.
02:22
Receive, 9-1.
02:25
In the medic 4,
02:31
and on the medical, this one's going to be near Alden Street.
02:41
Near Alden. Roger,
02:45
thank you, 919.
02:52
Fire Prevention 3 to Fire alone.
02:56
Fire one's on, fire prevention 3.
02:58
We're going to be conducting a fire drill box 121. There'll be a school, that's box 121.
03:06
Received,
03:07
box 421.
03:11
We have a basement detector at the bottom of the stairs right here.
03:17
Recease, command of power along.
03:20
Firearms on command.
03:22
We got our faulty detector in the basement, all apparatus clear, command terminated.
03:29
Faulty detector in the basement, all apparatus will be in service with command terminated at 921.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
still alarm: Single-company, non-Box fire response dispatched without a full alarm assignment (lower-priority call)
[2]
on scene: Status indicating a unit has arrived at the incident location
Disclaimer:
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Location mentioned:
Near Manchester St, Fall River, MA 02721
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