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False fire alarm triggered by steam or bicycle, Oxford PA

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Fire & Arson

Reported: 12/6/2025 06:41 AM

Autumn Hill Dr, Oxford, PA 19363

Fire crews responded to an automatic fire alarm at a home near Autumn Hill Drive in East Nottingham Township. The homeowner later reported that the alarm was likely set off by steam from a shower or by a bicycle near the detector.

Audio|Heard on: Chester County Fire/EMS Countywide

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02:11

Transcript:

00:00

Section 21, 239 Autumn Hill Drive, the Autumn Hill Development, East Nottingham Township, automatic fire alarm, box 21.

00:12

As the owner for Steel City Brewer is coming down to 3rd and Martin Luther King Boulevard trying to get to this building.

00:24

Station 21, 239 Autumn Hill Drive, the Autumn Hill Development, East Nottingham Township, an automatic fire alarm, box 2103.

00:36

3531. Go ahead, radio.

00:43

Can anybody know where, uh,

00:46

44 is where we go? Um,

00:48

Black 44 is.

00:50

All right, is everybody in line up and where I'm at?

00:53

I have no clue, radio.

00:56

All right, no problem, thank you.

01:02

Alan, what do you have left down there to come out?

01:09

I get handicrafters up there once they finish getting into the thing lineup.

01:13

Here they'll come up now.

01:15

And then I've got one golf cart left here yet.

01:21

I don't know.

01:22

Here comes a fun guy.

01:26

Hello, a fanatic.

01:28

Testor to Station 21, response text.

01:32

No, the guy in the break tank and Dilly Pickles.

01:38

Yeah.

01:40

Tester to Station 21, response text.

01:48

Mr. 2, 21, Officer on the year.

01:55

Squatron will be en route, reduce rate.

02:02

Okay, did you copy the note? They got a hold of the homeowner who said that it was caused by the shower steam or bicycle.

02:09

Yep, copy on the nose.

02:10

Thank you, Jesse.

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Autumn Hill Dr, Oxford, PA 19363

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