False fire alarm triggered by chimney dust in vestal home, Vestal NY


A fire alarm was triggered by reported smoke in the basement near Main Street in Vestal. The alarm company confirmed there was no fire; the homeowner was cleaning the chimney and the dust triggered the alarm. Responding units were cancelled.
Audio|Source: Broome County Fire/EMS (P25)
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Transcript:
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Near Main Street in the Village of a residential fire alarm and basement smoke activation.
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Station 23.
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Station 24 and Station 36 on standby.
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Near Main Street in the Village have a residential fire alarm basement smoke activation.
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Crosses of Old Cortland Street and Walker have responsive battalion 4 in 1706.
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From 2.23s in the room.
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What do you, you just get a while coming to those, right?
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Station 23, that's affirmative station 24, station 36 to be around standby.
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Copy that, thank you.
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Operations 3 West is 1706.
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Stopping through west.
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From County to Chief 23.
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Go ahead, Broome.
01:02
Received a call back from the alarm company, reporting no fire problem or cleaning out the chimney.
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Happy you can cancel everything.
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I'll be at there, I'm almost totally.
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From front of copies, Chief 23, you'll be continuing to the scene,
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handling all the other apparatus at 1707.
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Station 23, 18204, 2016, a call for command 23 and 2014-7308-08.
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C-C-123.
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Go ahead.
01:56
Can I just confirm it with the unletter from his dust?
02:05
Copy that.
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We'll go ahead and cancel the call.
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T20 for canceling the call.
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Confirmed dust by the homeowner, 1709.
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Location mentioned:
Near Main St, Vestal, NY 13850
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