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Residential fire alarm with no visible smoke or flames, Mechanicsville VA

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Fire & Arson

Reported: 12/11/2025 09:19 AM

Cherry Leaf Way, Mechanicsville, VA 23111

A residential fire alarm sounded near Cherry Leaf Way in Mechanicsville. Smoke detector was sounding in a hallway, but no smoke or flames were visible when firefighters arrived. The homeowner was outside, and no fire was found inside the single story residence.

Audio|Heard on: Hanover County Fire / EMS

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02:17

Transcript:

00:00

Engines 417 and 407 and Battalion 401.

00:05

Fire alarm, residential,

00:08

near Cherry Leaf Way.

00:11

Engines, 417 and 407 and Battalion 401.

00:16

Fire alarm, residential, near Cherry Leaf Way.

00:22

Cross streets are Bald Cypress Drive and White Oakwood Drive.

00:25

Station 17's district, TAC 6.

00:28

Time out 1219.

00:41

Understood.

00:42

I'll use the turnaround on text 6 near Cherry Leaf Way.

00:46

For smoke detector sounding in the hallway, the first-party caller is on scene.

00:52

No smoke or flames are visible.

00:56

All that's been good.

01:02

One of your arrival states at the entrance of the driveway.

01:08

Copy, we'll stage you at the entrance and hold our personnel.

01:14

Engine 408.

01:15

Engine 408.

01:18

Show us on scene, single story residential structure.

01:20

I've got nothing shown from the Alpha Bravo side.

01:24

I do have the homeowner outside.

01:25

Engine 408 will have command investigate.

01:28

The engine 408 is on scene.

01:36

Full 21.

01:41

I think it was a chirping tone, not the fire alarm activating in the background.

01:46

Caller was (name withheld).

01:47

94, (number withheld).

01:49

Full 21.

01:55

2417, now I'll merge it.

01:57

You can return everybody else.

02:01

I said engine 417 respond to verify non-emergent engine 407 battalion 401 in service 1222.

02:11

360 complete.

02:13

Nothing found on the side to Charlie or Delta so it's hard to enter the structure.

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Cherry Leaf Way, Mechanicsville, VA 23111

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