False fire alarm activates at Sidney Square Apartments, Pittsburgh PA


A false fire alarm was triggered at Sydney Square Apartments near Sidney Street. Firefighters responded but found no smoke or fire. The alarm was set off accidentally or deliberately by someone pulling the alarm on the first floor.
Audio|Source: Pittsburgh Fire Dispatch - Channel 1
03:30
Transcript:
00:00
Got it. Dispatch, 24-encent, found a point of activation, no smoke, no fire, return to companies.
00:06
24 will stay.
00:08
Finish their report.
00:13
That's received. I'll come to use for zone 424 return the service, with the exception of 24 engine.
00:18
Again, no company is for zone 424 return to service, near 5th Street, with the exception of 24 engine for the report, 615.
00:29
Truck 4 is end.
00:36
AC1. BC1 and Dispatch Deputy Chief.
00:46
Your head for the deputy.
00:50
We have an update that staff was reporting it was a false alarm and accidental is an issue with the panel.
01:02
Copy that. Continue the first-day-unit return arrest.
01:06
W.2G Mackin Service.
01:12
That's received.
01:14
All companies for Zone 1-4 return of service with the exception of 3 engine for the report. Again, all companies,
01:21
zone 1-4 return of service 3.03 Avenue with the exception of 3 engine for the report at 616.
01:30
22 agents back.
01:33
22 engines back.
01:36
Tension all company, 17 engine is back in service.
01:57
22 engine, 22 engine only, first responder detail,
02:01
zone 424. 1st, Sydney Square, apartment 303, near Sydney Street, off the south 21st and south 22nd, 32 year old male having a seizure.
02:11
Again, 22 engine, 22 engine only, first responder detail zone 424, Sydney Square, apartment 303, near Sydney Street, off the south 21st and south 22nd.
02:25
32-year-old male having a seizure.
02:28
24 engine is also unseen at this address for the fire alarm activation.
02:39
This is that from 24 engine.
02:44
Go ahead, 24.
02:47
We have paramedics coming here. We have an injury at the firewall.
02:55
They should have just been dispatched. I just got a first responder decal for apartment 303 for a male had a seizure.
03:06
He's in the lobby.
03:11
That's received.
03:13
In that case, can 22-hundred disregard that first responder?
03:20
Yeah,
03:21
you can disregard 22.
03:23
This alarm was set off, Mr.
03:24
Policiously, someone pulled the alarm on the first floor or no fire.
03:28
We'll be back from the alarm, we'll take the first responder.
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Location mentioned:
Near Sidney St, Pittsburgh, PA 15203
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