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Residential fire alarm at Evansville home was falseEvansville IN

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Dekalb Dr, Evansville, IN 47720

A fire alarm was activated at a home near Dekalb Drive in Evansville but was confirmed as a false alarm by the owner and the alarm company.

Audio|Heard on: Vanderburgh County Fire
Listen to dispatch call
02:45
Transcript:
00:00
Residential fire alarm, near Dekalb Drive,
00:04
5 engine 10, 5-engine 5-10, 5 rescue 5, 5-adam-50,
00:11
Residential alarm, near Dekalb Drive,
00:15
5-engine 10, 5-engine 5-5, 5-8-adm 5-0.
00:21
Thank you very much.
00:23
This is going to be a laundry room smoke, audible alarm.
00:29
Further traffic on TAC 5, TAC 5.
00:38
Medic Run 2048, Maryland Street, Apartment B,
00:43
1 Engine 5.
00:44
Medic Run, 2048, West Maryland Street, Apartment B, 1 engine 5.
00:51
Coordinates 2,000 west, 900 north.
01:00
Clear five engine five.
01:08
Agent 5 is in route.
01:10
Clear five engine 5 is in route.
01:13
Clear five.
01:19
Engine 5, this is going to be for a 51-year-old male,
01:24
he's just flurring his words, he has sharp pains, believes he's having a heart attack in Coltswitz, is an apartment B boy.
01:31
I'm clear, we're on team as well as anymore.
01:36
Clear 1-engine 5.
01:45
Motorfield accident with injury, Maxwell and Weinbach, 1 engine 4.
01:49
Motorveil Coaxman with injury, Maxwell and Weinbach, 1 engine 4.
01:54
Coordinates 1,800 north, 200 east.
02:01
The engine boarder, we're out.
02:09
Clear Engine 4.
02:10
This is going to be a silver van in a trailer.
02:12
The driver of the silver van would like to be checked out.
02:18
Ingeport is clear.
02:22
Indieforth is actually going to be a silver fort escape.
02:29
Clear.
02:31
5 Engine 5.
02:38
Go for engine 5.
02:41
Alarm company called back.
02:43
The owner called in and advised it's a false alarm.

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Location mentioned:
Dekalb Dr, Evansville, IN 47720

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