Smoke detector malfunction causes fire alarm at home, West Babylon NY


A fire alarm was triggered by a smoke detector malfunction while the homeowner was changing its batteries. Fire units requested a washdown. Water was found in a smoke detector in the basement, which was inaccessible behind drywall, causing the malfunction.
Audio|Source: East Islip Fire
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Transcript:
00:00
Deer park units of 528, homeowner was changing out the batteries.
00:08
Robert is (number withheld).
00:16
All right, seven.
00:20
Can we get a washdown at this location?
00:25
It's totally unreadable.
00:29
Can we get a washdown at this location?
00:35
Okay.
00:43
We're going to stopler. We're supposed. We're established.
01:00
The Cineau's 16. So I want Zonzoan to respond, repeating a Cineau 23 at the Cinevacineau 16016 to respond at (number withheld) response to 33.
01:19
No,
01:21
16,
01:22
Zone 1 and zone 3 to respond.
01:25
On 11th, Your Great Eastnard,
01:28
Road. Near East Neck Rd, it's nice to take.
01:35
I'll trade one three.
01:37
One three, 32,
01:38
11.
01:40
11.3.3.
01:44
Direction, 113.
01:52
1.011310.Coppy, our 18 to get in.
01:55
I have farmer to my answer.
02:05
1030. All right, we had normal readings on multiple meters.
02:11
We did find some water in one of the other smokeheads in the basement, so we're going to attribute email function to that, but the head in question looks to be behind some drywall, we're unable to access.
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