Fire alarm triggers evacuation at Avon residential building, Avon CT
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Fire & ArsonA fire alarm activated in a three-story wooden residential building near number 47 in Avon, Connecticut. The alarm was triggered by a heat detector on the third floor. The building was evacuated, but no visible fire was found. The apartments on the third floor are reported vacant. Fire crews are checking the area to ensure safety.
Audio|Heard on: Avon Fire Department
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02:48
Transcript:
00:00
Base, Engine 7.
00:09
By chance, did they give you a building number besides 46? That's like the main office.
00:17
Negative all he gave us 46.
00:20
Okay,
00:23
thanks. I'm responding, rolling along.
00:27
(number withheld).
00:35
Responding 2 from 1.
00:38
11.2.(number withheld).
00:46
14.9. 2.11.
00:53
Respiting 2.12.8.
00:56
Space Engine 7 is on scene,
00:59
three-story wood frame.
01:01
This is building number 47,
01:04
where the fire was.
01:08
507 on scene, three-story wood frame, residential, nothing showing.
01:13
Building.
01:19
And the building is evacuated.
01:29
12th. Flat or 12 responding, 1 in 1.
01:40
Ladder 12 responding 1 in 1.
01:42
Flood 12.
01:57
Base engine seven.
02:00
Base, son.
02:03
At this time, the alarm system is reading third floor heat detector.
02:08
We don't know which apartments.
02:10
I'm told that the apartments up there are vacant.
02:14
We're going to have to just walk that area and check it.
02:17
I'll be waiting for some other resources.
02:22
The third floor heat detector activation, unknown location on that floor, 12, 13.
02:38
When you get here, I'm just going to need you guys to come in.
02:46
Like I said, we've got to walk the third floor.
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Avon, CT
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