Fire alarm triggered at educational building, Mercersburg PA
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Fire & ArsonFire alarm activated at an educational building on Academy Drive. Crews found no smoke or fire upon investigation. The alarm was caused by a fault in the fire panel and was reset with no hazards found.
Audio|Heard on: Franklin County Fire Operations
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03:4
Transcript:
00:00
Franklin Chief 9 is responding.
00:03
4E6 Academy Drive at the U4 to Hall.
00:06
You're going to have a fire alarm.
00:08
General activation zone 0 and 1.
00:11
I don't know how many further information.
00:17
Okay, Frank and Cheethon coffee.
00:24
Franklin, Cardinal and Chief Dines on the scene.
00:27
I have a two-story educational building.
00:30
Nothing evident on the Alpha Bravo Charlie's side.
00:33
I do have audible and visual detectors active.
00:42
Copy educational building, nothing evident ABC and active alarms.
00:52
Engine 9-1's on the scene.
01:00
Frank, one ambulance, (number withheld).
01:05
It's (number withheld).
01:09
Tracker from Chief Nod.
01:10
Do you have anything out of the academy security?
01:19
Chief Nye out of this time.
01:22
Okay.
01:26
Chief Nile, I have campus safety with us here in the back.
01:30
He says showing ground floor, water flow.
01:34
He said you've got nothing.
01:35
We're going to see if we can reset.
01:39
Okay.
01:40
Let's check the sprinkler room before you go for the reset.
01:43
Make sure we don't have a waterflow there.
01:49
Unless he's already checked the building.
01:56
He's checked the building.
01:57
We had a good reset.
02:04
We have it as just a trouble here at the panel,
02:08
but it's in fault.
02:10
We call them this all the time.
02:12
We have it silence, we're just going to make sure it doesn't trip again.
02:19
Okay, 911, you're all burnt up.
02:20
I can't understand your transmission.
02:25
We had a good reset.
02:29
It looks like the panel was in trouble, alarm itself,
02:33
like as a fault.
02:35
It declared just now, we're just going to get at a minute here to make sure it doesn't trip all over again.
02:41
East states, the building's clear, no water anywhere,
02:44
no smoke, no fire.
02:45
We're just making sure it stays good.
02:51
Okay, Franklin from command, you copy that? That's correct.
02:57
Okay, you can show all units available.
02:59
I'm going to switch back to fire dispatch.
03:03
Copy on available, 2046.
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Location mentioned:
Academy Dr, Montgomery Township, PA 17236
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