Fire alarm at Ithaca College caused by overloaded washing machine, Ithaca NY
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Fire & ArsonA fire alarm was activated at Ithaca College near Terrace 9 because of smoke from an overloaded washing machine in the second-floor laundry room. Fire crews aired out the area and reset the alarm.
Audio|Heard on: Tompkins County Fire/EMS
Listen to dispatch call
01:18
Transcript:
00:00
That's the engine one, engine three in the truck.
00:03
Ithaca College is requesting you near Floral Brown Drive, Terrace nine, across the Tower, Skyland Drive in College Circle.
00:11
They have two second floor smoke detectors in the laundry room.
00:16
Again, that's, that's engine one, engine three in the truck.
00:21
Ithaca College is requesting you near Floral Drive, Terrace No.
00:26
9, cross the Tower Skyline Drive in College Circle.
00:29
They have two second floor laundry room smoke detectors activated.
00:34
Your time is 1445.
00:47
Hey, we got a fire line going off.
00:49
Harris and I, second floor, laundry room.
00:52
Looks like someone overloaded one in the machine.
00:55
We're just going to have to air it out and reset.
00:57
If you guys don't want to bother comments, just let us know and we can advise when we get a good reset.
01:06
Copy that, smoke from overloaded washer.
01:10
Reset at your convenience, we're going to return.
01:14
God, I appreciate it.
01:15
And that one, we got a good, really best.
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Location mentioned:
T9, Terraces, Ithaca, NY 14850
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