False fire alarm activation on Market Street, Passaic County NJ


A fire alarm activated on Market Street, but firefighters found no smoke or fire. The alarm company confirmed the system was being tested, causing a false alarm. Firefighters checked the building and cleared the scene.
Audio|Source: Passaic Fire Dispatch
02:52
Transcript:
00:00
Dispatch Battalion 3 is responding, 565 minute.
00:11
Market Street, Command, Fire Dispatch. Market Street, Command, Fire Dispatch.
00:16
Market Street, Command.
00:18
It's going to be switching over to Frequency 2 for this incident.
00:23
I'm Market.
00:27
Received cap.
00:31
Out of one response.
00:33
No one responding.
00:36
No one responding. Measure 4 respondent.
00:54
And then three responding.
00:59
All right,
01:05
receive, all units respond to MADAF at 1704.
01:18
Dispast Battalion 3 is on scene 565, May 1 half. You've got two-story ordinary, be establishing command.
01:27
Receive, Chief, alarm company reported a basement smoke detector activation.
01:34
Command is dispatch.
01:39
Command,
01:40
dispatch.
01:43
Cad, command.
01:46
You can break this down to the first two engine, first two ladder.
01:50
The system was apparently on test all day for work being done in the building. We're going to verify that, don't we'll be.
02:01
All right, receipt.
02:03
Holden first ado, engine one, engine three, ladder one, you can go available, 1706.
02:11
A lot of ones on.
02:21
Dispatch to main app command.
02:25
Go ahead.
02:28
All right, Chief, I just got an update from the alarm company.
02:32
They transmitted this in an error and confirmed the system was on test.
02:38
I received. We verified. There's no sign of smoke or fire.
02:41
We saw up with the occupant.
02:43
You can terminate Maynath command.
02:45
Battalion 3 is available.
02:50
Received. Demands terminated 1707.
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Location mentioned:
Market St, New Jersey
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