False fire alarm at commercial building in Germantown, Germantown TN
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire crews responded to an alarm at a commercial building near South Germantown Road in Germantown. They accessed the Knox Box, checked building systems, and found no signs of active fire. The alarm was later confirmed false after camera review. Crews noted the possibility of separate alarm systems between different parts of the building.
Audio|Heard on: Germantown Police and Fire
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04:48
Transcript:
00:00
He asked Jack, I'm located in Knoxbox.
00:03
It's on the rear of the building.
00:04
Door 16.
00:06
I'm parked hard in front of the door.
00:13
This is Squad 43.
00:15
We're headed your way to the Knox Box.
00:24
We're at near South Germantown Road on the road.
00:26
Can you check and see if we have any previous call history at this address?
00:38
1300 results in the past five years.
00:42
Yep.
00:48
7-8-263.
00:51
Go ahead.
00:53
Hey, this half of them that is good.
00:54
Do you want me to print a tail of them with the different names for the insurance?
01:02
I'll just send you here's area.
01:06
Okay, thanks.
01:13
Dispatch, Redville, come in.
01:16
Okay, dispatch.
01:18
Dispatch. We get a key holder around.
01:22
That's right.
01:25
Battalion 41 will be operating on fire ground.
01:31
Time 41, check.
01:33
The alarm company did call back.
01:35
Say that the key holder requested to disregard, didn't see anything on the cameras.
01:45
Okay, the vehicle.
01:46
I was lovely.
01:49
Check. Point out of 46.
01:56
The tank 41 struck 41, will you get a dispatch and ask if they set up an active fire alarm here? They're probably going to have a burglar alarm now since we've made entry.
02:11
Yes, got on.
02:17
Dispatch, we're welcome in.
02:21
Are you showing an active fire alarm at this location? Hey-bye.
02:32
921.
02:34
They say that they have not gotten any additional accusations.
02:39
Couldn't advise if it was still showing you're actively not.
02:43
Alright this check.
02:45
Crews just made entry so you might get a burglar alarm.
02:49
26
02:55
237 and 0.0.
02:58
0-0-47. 20147.
03:04
Truck 41, but 10441.
03:08
Oh yeah.
03:12
Contact the dispatch, as he said, they didn't have any more, um,
03:16
any more logs going off at this time.
03:26
Man, we're going to go ahead and walk the building real quick, just make sure it's before we leave.
03:32
All right, let's check what's the panel say.
03:36
The only thing that we're showing is on the Annunciators, we haven't found the fire alarm finally yet.
03:45
The Annunciators are just shown a burglar alarm.
03:48
Right check.
03:57
I wonder if this do this size of the building, if they have two different systems for the main entrance area that's the new part of the building versus the old elementary school in the rear.
04:12
That's very possible.
04:14
I'm toward the rear of the building now and I'm showing a simplex at the annunciator, it's a fire line,
04:22
and it's just showing system as normal.
04:28
All right, just check.
04:32
Engine 93, can you guys move to the rear and make entry on the back side of the building and see if there's a separate system back there?
04:42
We're going to shot right now, so we're going to walk around.
04:45
We're going to be that way now.
04:47
That's check.
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Location mentioned:
S Germantown Rd, Germantown, TN 38138
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