Residential fire alarm at Essex home was accidental, Essex VT
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Fire & ArsonA fire alarm at a residential address near Brigham Hill Lane in Essex was activated accidentally. The alarm company confirmed the activation was a false alarm caused by a relay button being pressed by the homeowner's (name withheld). Emergency units responded but later the call was canceled.
Audio|Heard on: Chittenden County Fire and EMS
Listen to dispatch call
03:47
Transcript:
00:00
Essex to Essex Town Fire to respond for near Brigham Hill Lane for a residential alarm showing.
00:08
We're meeting Essex City to Essex Town Fire, near Brigham Hill Lane for a fire alarm showing zone 401-7-1511.
00:21
Essex dispatch, engine two is responding.
00:30
Essex Town Base, this is responding.
00:36
Essex Town Base, this is engine two.
00:48
Go ahead, engine two.
01:00
Do you want to bring your personnel on the squad?
01:10
Received. Stay Alvin Central with a page for Milton Rescue.
01:13
With our request to do respond to third in Hillary Lane in Milton, you have an eight-year-old male patient, known diabetic.
01:21
Uprescent, with a hospital, (number withheld).
01:23
For getting, said Alvin Central with a page for Milton Rescue, with a request that you respond to 30...
01:29
Hillary Lane,
01:30
You have an eighty-year-old male patient.
01:33
Our responses, you have known diabetes at (number withheld), central standing by at (number withheld).
01:41
Central Rescue Copy.
01:44
Okay.
01:46
Probably how's been (number withheld).
01:55
Dispatch, if you make a Valcore incident for fire,
01:58
All of that CAD update will transfer into first two.
02:21
What for responding?
02:33
Central Milton A1 is responding.
02:36
For A1, copy, responding.
02:45
Shelbridge Disadge, Wilson Rescue 1 is on scene as the construction.
02:56
Essex Dispatch, Wilson Rescue runs on scene, Global Foundries.
03:16
6-6 beds to responding units to Brigham Hill Lane.
03:21
Entry to copy.
03:24
I just got a call back from the alarm company.
03:27
They spoke with a homeowner who provided a proper code and said that his (name withheld) hit a relay button and everything was fine.
03:35
They were attempting to cancel response to 118 in Brigham Hill Lane.
03:41
Engine 2 is going to continue on to make sure.
03:44
104, I did advise them that that was likely to happen.
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Location mentioned:
Brigham Hill Ln, Essex Junction, VT 05452
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