False fire alarm caused by battery change at Lost Island Rd, Beaufort SC
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Fire & ArsonA fire alarm near Lost Island Road was reported but found to be false. The alarm was triggered by a resident changing the batteries.
Audio|Heard on: Bluffton Township and Hilton Head Fire
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01:58
Transcript:
00:00
The engine 224, Battalion 20, response to a fire alarm near Lost Island Rd, cross street Hester Lane, timeout 189.
00:12
Special Battalion 20.
00:15
Battalion 20.
00:17
Battalion 20, engine 220 in route, fire alarm.
00:22
If we're returning 20, I copy you and engine 220 are in route to a fire alarm near Lost Island Rd, coming in as a living room heat and smoke alarm.
00:38
The Fetch, 224, in-row, fire alarm.
00:42
Temple engine 224, I copy you are in route to the fire alarm near Lost Island Rd.
00:54
221 EMS 7 on fire dispatch.
00:59
Go ahead.
01:02
You guys are not going to be able to make it down here to where we go and do the trees overgrown.
01:08
I'll let you know here shortly what's going on.
01:12
All right, we're just going to stage over at.
01:16
10-4[1].
01:21
Is there a batteries?
01:27
Engine 220?
01:32
Is this a false alarm per catnotes?
01:36
Affirmative, the caller was changing her batteries.
01:39
The alarm company received proper pass request to cancel.
01:43
According to this match, Shaw, ladies on the unit is cleared available.
01:46
According to 220.
01:48
My call responding is to the fire alarm near Lost Island Rd can cancel.
01:57
It's 2.24, caught-week-4.
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10-4: Acknowledgment / Affirmative (Message received)
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Location mentioned:
Lost Island Rd, Beaufort, SC 29907
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