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Fire alarm activated at Richmond Corporate Center with no fire, Reading PA

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Reading, PA

A fire alarm was triggered at the Richmond Corporate Center near North 12th Street in Reading. Upon investigation, no smoke or fire was found. The alarm was likely caused by a phone system malfunction.

Audio|Source: Berks County and Reading Fire / EMS
02:37
Transcript:
00:00
(number withheld) North 12, the general file.
00:07
Attention tower 1,
00:11
you can recall.
00:12
Her car 4 goes in 26.
00:19
Engine 9, (number withheld) or 12th.
00:24
Engine 9.
00:26
Engine 3 radio.
00:34
Aging 3.
00:36
Support available.
00:40
Engine 3 available, 1328.
00:47
Engine 9, don't see an investigation.
00:51
Tengen 9, not see anvest8, please continue on.
01:01
Call for.
01:04
There's no active alarms here.
01:07
The panel's clear and they said their alarm never went off, so I'll at least look around.
01:15
Okay, Corporder Radio, confirm alarm location.
01:21
They gave us (number withheld) North Falls Street, the Richmond Corporate Center.
01:30
Okay.
01:37
Chief, apparently it might be for a separate building with the same address, I want to go check.
01:47
Retailer to go for.
01:51
Good, 9Cruman.
01:55
Sorry about that, I ended in increment.
01:58
They're having issues with their phones and they think that's what might have said it off because there are no active alarms.
02:06
Okay,
02:07
yeah.
02:08
I don't see anything for mine.
02:10
Do a quick walk through, make sure we're not missing anything.
02:15
Yeah, we did, we walked through both buildings.
02:22
Corpordery.
02:25
Couple.
02:26
(number withheld)-12. Looks like the system malfunctioned possibly related to a formal issue.
02:33
We'll confirm there's no smoke or fire in the building.
02:36
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