Sprinkler system pipe leak causes fire alarm in Kingston, Kingston NY


Firefighters responded to a fire alarm at a building near Smith Avenue and Grand Street in Kingston. The alarm was caused by water flowing from a sprinkler system pipe that was leaking due to rust. There was no fire, but water was leaking before the shutoff valve, maintaining some pressure in the system.
Audio|Source: Kingston Fire Department
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Transcript:
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Paral Arms Town in the area, near Smith Ave, ADVVII, plus the Cornell,
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321, 2, Sub 1, Fond, for an unknown alarm sounding area, near Smith Avenue, Plestonel, and Grand.
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1856, 56, 16.
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Counting one's up.
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Opening 1, 857. 857.2,
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857. 857. The engine weren't always been arriving.
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We need to be done.
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Agent 2, I have a yellow spot.
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File 1, 4-4-3.
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Portable 3, go ahead.
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You have a phone number for key holder management.
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That is negative.
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We got this from KPD.
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They just reported law with sounding and the person that reported it refused to provide anything further, so we've got nothing.
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I'll be the same owner.
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The Cooperations.
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Okay,
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Chief, I'm sorry, there is contact information for our duty. I don't know how old it is, I'll give them a call,
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and I'll have her respond over.
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Back for time.
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I'm inside, yeah.
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Engine two, truck one, you can stay out on the street for now.
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And it is we're up.
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Engine two on the same.
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Okay, now on the car three. Beavise, uh, we called,
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left a message on her machine. Okay.
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Stafford, thank you.
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11 of 3.
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I have two detections for the sprinkler room,
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one of the low air.
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So it's just a sprinkler alarm.
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Definitely.
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I'm guessing it's up front in the basement where it used to be.
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That's what I'm thinking. Do you have access to that?
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And it's a little different in here. I'm taking away a rampout. Okay.
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11 of 3.
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God.
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Yeah, we have a water flow from a pipe from the sprinkler system.
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Due to lack of pressure in the drivers?
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Due to rust.
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Ah.
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Need a shut down.
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It's maintaining some pressure.
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Also, the preferred message is getting to where you're in.
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The door we came in and down the stairs,
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then the basement opens back up.
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This pipe comes straight in from the street.
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The leak is before any shutoff.
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Location mentioned:
Near Smith Ave, Kingston, NY 12401
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