Smoke alarm triggered by burnt food in apartment hallway, West Hartford CT


A fire alarm went off at an apartment building near Newington Road due to smoke smell in the third floor hallway. Firefighters arrived and found the cause was burnt food, not a fire.
Audio|Source: West Hartford Police, Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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Car 4, Medic-21, Medi-22, squad, one, truck, three, and engine, fibers, lunche, near Newington Road for the structure alarm[1], coming in as an order of smoke in the hallway on the third floor.
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That's car four, medic-21, Medi-22, to squad one, truck, three, and engine, fibers, punch, near Newington Road, on the structure alarm[1], coming in as an order of smoke in the hallway on the third floor. You can go to fire incident of one year, time off 1143.
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Corp. Yes,
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as truck three is on scene on the third floor.
00:32
We have a slight smell of burned food.
00:35
It's time we can slow everybody down.
00:38
Precinct truck three, you can go find one.
00:41
This next of all units, truck three is on location with an order of burnt food on the third floor.
00:47
They're requesting you to go non-emergency for now.
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The front floor acknowledges holding the assignment, everyone else going on emergency.
00:55
And your 5 is in route.
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Truck 3, all units are coming. This is burnt food, truck 3 on handle.
01:03
This crash copies, truck 3.
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Burnt food on the 3rd 4.
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Truck 3 can handle all other units are clear at 1144.
01:10
That's 6X-ray.
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21 is clear going back.
01:15
Good boy, thank you.
01:17
Engine 5, same traffic.
01:20
4 is clear.
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21.1.
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Squad, Andrew.
01:37
Yeah, I don't know if you caught that on Incident 1.
01:40
They cancel everybody burn food from the structure.
01:43
Recease.
01:44
Scott, what's the three, fiddle?
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
structure alarm: Reported fire/smoke alarm at a building
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