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False fire and carbon monoxide alarm near Windsor Moss, Ellicott City MD

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Fire & Arson

Reported: 12/14/2025 06:13 AM

Windsor Moss, Ellicott City, MD 21042

Fire and carbon monoxide alarms sounded near Windsor Moss, but fire crews were dispatched to a false alarm with no actual emergency.

Audio|Heard on: Howard County Police, Fire and EMS

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01:59

Transcript:

00:00

1331 Respond, near Windsor Moss for the fire alarm.

00:04

After 2917.

00:05

Charlie 3-2.

00:07

3-2. 3-2.

00:09

Property damage only, which is all here is squared today in our Bill 7.

00:21

Howard to Tower 10, Portable Bravo, Signal 2.

00:25

Tower 2, Tower 2, Portable Bravo, Signal 2, Alpha 2.

00:29

1-Daker 5-1 for a residential alarm.

00:32

Tower to Tower 10, Signal 2.

00:35

Bigger problem.

00:37

Howard to Tower 10.

00:44

NB- near Windsor Moss.

00:47

We started the fire department as well.

00:50

The alarm company said that it was a residential burglar alarm,

00:53

also a carbon monoxide alarm.

00:55

I'm trying to clarify if it was a fire department call, they stressed that it was also a burglar alarm.

01:03

No work.

01:07

Tower 10 and Howard on Alpha 2, accidental?

01:10

Can you advise where it came from?

01:13

Bigger 5-1.

01:14

Bigger 5-1.

01:16

That's right, Tower 10, portable B, Bravo.

01:19

Got it. Accidental 3.6.20 should be reset.

01:25

I have a call in the lobby to return some lost items.

01:29

Can you put that back in pending and I'll attach myself when I clear?

01:34

That's correct.

01:35

That's right.

01:38

Forman maker 3-1.

01:39

I'll pick up that alarm.

01:41

Actually, 5-1-3-1, you can disregard.

01:43

We just got a call from the alarm company back to cancel.

01:46

Engine 3-1, you're responding to near Windsor Moss near Homeland Way.

01:51

It's for a carbon monoxide detector alarm.

01:55

We've spoken with a keyholder at the false alarm.

01:59

And quarter.

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Windsor Moss, Ellicott City, MD 21042

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