Fire alarm caused by nearly empty propane tanks at Dumfries town hall, Dumfries VA
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Fire & ArsonA fire alarm was activated at Dumfries Town Hall near Main Street. Fire units found normal readings and no odors. The alarm was likely caused by nearly empty external propane tanks used for cooking. The area was secured and monitored with no further issues.
Audio|Heard on: Prince William County Police and Fire
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03:33
Transcript:
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box zero three ten on 5 Bravo fire alarm dumfries town hall near Main Street engine five three truck five twenty three sixteen forty
00:21
9503 from Indian 517.
00:23
We checked the first floor, more readings, no smells.
00:27
We're right into the basement now.
00:29
You can hold everybody at their apparatus for now.
00:34
Okay, normal readings, first floor is going to the basement.
00:36
Okay, normal readings, first floor is going to the basement.
00:39
Okay, 10505 clear.
00:43
Okay,
00:46
155 clear. It's 1641.
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1107, I'll be clear by us.
00:55
Okay 1107.
01:01
1601, you see a child call 12.
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Okay, 1601, I'll show you're out to 45,
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43.
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Dorset Drive.
01:16
Meet with (name withheld) in a gray BMWX-7 at Morley in Cranford.
01:26
It's reference to a little girl that she took home inside and then walked away.
01:46
Child is a white female long brown hair is in the fourth or fifth grade was wearing a pink jacket.
01:59
I'm in service.
02:02
Okay, 1410 in service.
02:09
No orders. We're heading to the second floor now.
02:13
If I got a copy basement, has normal readings no orders.
02:17
Here in the second floor.
02:23
It's a 515, go ahead.
02:26
Do you have an order at the front door, normal readings throughout the residents right now.
02:30
Homeowner is cooking when it started.
02:32
Appliances are secured the external propane tanks less than 5% from the tanks running dry and just tucking through the house.
02:39
Secured at the house and at the tank, we can just hold it with us, we'll continue to monitor, speak with the homeowner in places of balance and service.
02:50
Engine 515, copy.
02:53
No readings about the house.
02:55
Tanks, five percent are below.
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Hold it with engine 515.
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Prince Williamary Direct,
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scale back to engine 515.
03:03
Please about 5 in terms.
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Please vote, Direct, holding engine 515.
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Okay, rescue 607 is returning.
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Okay, rescue 607.
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Central units on team responding to the inside gas leak.
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16,017 quarters lane.
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Holding engine 515, all the units have been placed in service.
03:29
At 6.03,
03:31
through the channel, units switch your traffic to 5 Bravo.
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Location mentioned:
Main St, Dumfries, VA 22026
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