Fire alarm triggered by sprinkler in garage, Lexington MA
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Fire & ArsonA fire alarm was triggered in the garage of a commercial building near Hayden Ave, Lexington. Responding units found that the level one sprinkler system had water flow activated. After inspecting multiple floors and the valve room, no fire was found and the scene was cleared.
Audio|Heard on: Lexington Fire and EMS Dispatch
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04:15
Transcript:
00:00
On arrival,
00:01
95 p.maps, full story commercial.
00:05
Nothing shall investigating.
00:06
Get rid of it.
00:11
I will next show and see through command.
00:19
Fire alarm, latter one.
00:24
Another one.
00:26
One seat. One seat.
00:29
Cerely.
00:36
Command to Ladder 1.
00:39
The latter one.
00:43
The panel's reporting garage is level one sprinkler.
00:50
Water.
00:56
Proceed.
01:02
Angel one is the teacher.
01:07
Angel on the fire.
01:08
We'll drive around at the garage.
01:13
Corridation.
01:20
Angel on the fire.
01:25
Agent 1 is on arrival.
01:27
Zero 9.
01:35
Bar alarm, medic 1.
01:39
1. Same trap.
01:45
7. 9.
01:47
Engine 1 is seen there?
01:52
Answering engine 1.
01:54
We've got an alarm sounding.
01:57
Is that a water flow, you said?
02:01
That's what it says.
02:02
It says garage and level one sprinkler water flow.
02:07
We've got alarms on no water.
02:21
Thank you. Let me sign up for now.
02:25
Let me just confirm the other nearby levels and then we'll get out of here.
02:32
We got it, we got it.
02:40
Engine 4 miles.
02:46
We're clear on the Leahy.
02:48
In service.
02:50
Sounds like they don't need us at Hayden Ave.
02:56
Engine 4. You're clear in service.
02:58
Stand by. I'm a mystery.
03:01
Can you need an engine 4 to respond.
03:07
Not at this time, they can return, thank you.
03:14
The engine or defense return.
03:18
The engine 100.
03:26
Good.
03:29
There's no water gong or electric water gong going off, correct?
03:34
Correct. We don't hear anything.
03:37
All right, I'm going to leave in silence and alarm and they can get the service and if you got to find nothing, you guys start making your way up.
03:47
Chrissy, we got nothing.
03:48
We climbed all the floors.
03:53
Chrissy, we got to start making your way back out of the floor.
04:02
We got to see three.
04:06
I found the valve room.
04:11
I believe I can hear water flowing in there if you got noxies.
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Location mentioned:
Hayden Ave, Lexington, MA 02421
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