False alarm at electrical fire caused by burnt food, Lowell MA
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Fire & ArsonFire units responded to a reported electrical fire on the second floor of a building near Riverside Street. Upon arrival, firefighters found burnt food causing smoke and determined there was no fire.
Audio|Heard on: Lowell Police Department
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04:20
Transcript:
00:00
K&V866, Lowell Fire, announcing a telephone alarm for a possible electric fire.
00:06
164 Riverside Street on the second floor.
00:09
Engine 6, 3, 10, ladder 4, rescue, and car 2 to respond.
00:14
Telephone alarm[1] for possible electric fire.
00:17
164 Riverside Street on the second floor,
00:20
engine 6, 3, 10, ladder 4, rescue, and car 2 to respond.
00:25
Cross streets are Standish at University of...
00:28
strike in box 75.
00:36
Right,
00:40
you can't cancel that stop and hold.
00:43
We just looked at our text messages and there's no suicidal state.
00:50
Copy nine.
00:53
So when I got to the train station, can you take that number out of the system? We won't be needing it.
00:59
Copy, I'll take it out.
01:17
Tandiv866 Lowell Fire.
01:18
Engine 2 respond to 193 Middlesex Street, Far Medical.
01:23
Engine 2 respond to 193, Middlesex Street, Farmedical.
01:27
Cross streets are south at Robinson.
01:34
Yeah,
01:37
it's correct. I have Officer Breton Corpredus, and I will have Officer Granton.
01:42
Okay.
01:47
on the second floor.
01:54
Perth four.
01:56
All right, minor damage, paper, clenching, you can clear, so.
02:02
Call.
02:07
He's on, team. We have a three.
02:08
It's in the back, yeah, I think.
02:12
The engine three on team, three story and up and showing you're in rescue.
02:16
Car two's off.
02:18
Car two on team.
02:34
Cesar hydra.
02:36
Ladder four, just go right in front of sixers.
02:39
Yeah,
02:43
we're trying to get through traffic.
02:51
A clue.
02:53
Core 5.
02:56
You can show me clear from the emergency room,
03:01
the little girl is going to be getting transported to Boston Children's.
03:07
There's a hydrant in front of the rescue ladder.
03:28
We have burnt food on the first floor.
03:30
Engine three checks in the second floor.
03:35
Milam has that. You have burnt food on the first floor, engine three is check in the second.
03:45
Ten times.
03:53
We all set three, now you said.
03:56
Yeah, we all set up here.
04:04
Engine 2 is on team.
04:07
Engine 2 on 2.
04:15
This is burnt food, strike it out.
04:18
The fire has a burnt food striking it out.
Police codes explained
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[1]
Telephone alarm: Incident reported by telephone (not via an alarm box)
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Location mentioned:
Riverside St, Lowell, MA 01854
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