False fire alarm with smoke odor at Peabody building, Peabody MA
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Fire & ArsonFire units responded to a box alarm near Walnut Street in Peabody. Crews detected a light smoke odor on the second floor but found no fire. The alarm system was activated by mistake and a frozen knockbox made entry difficult.
Audio|Heard on: Peabody Police and Fire
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03:57
Transcript:
00:00
41 Walnut, dispatch to follow.
00:33
Reported box alarm, near Walnut Street, engine one, engine four, engine five, ladder one, car two, nearest cross streets, Upton Street and Wallace Street.
00:46
Reported box alarm, near Walnut Street, engine one, engine four, engine five, ladder one, car two,
00:55
nearest cross streets, Upton Street and Wallace Street.
01:00
File, I'm Cartoon who's going out and issue ready to report.
01:04
Good.
01:06
Two-story residential commercial on the bottom.
01:09
Nothing showing three sides.
01:11
It's going to be right on the corner of Wallets and Walnut.
01:13
Cytto is investigating.
01:16
Receive.
01:25
Box 836, test only.
01:27
836 is a test only.
01:36
Test only,
01:47
test.
01:49
Test.
02:06
I'm going to be able to be.
02:16
I'll see more station.
02:31
I'll see more staging.
02:40
File, I'm well-in-command with call up.
02:42
Good.
02:45
Nothing showing all four sides, no hazards, no hazard, notice.
02:49
And the one's investigating division two.
02:53
Receive.
03:00
I'd be advised, Ford Vennelach, we get a hydrant.
03:04
Saved.
03:11
Time two, vendor one.
03:15
Two-outy-one.
03:18
He sound off the tail?
03:21
Yeah,
03:24
two-oddy-one.
03:29
T5. No fire.
03:31
Will you have a small, strong smell of our water on the second floor.
03:35
Can you silence?
03:39
Trying to the knockbox is frozen.
03:49
Phylon, we're going to hold into one ladder one, just turn the other company.
03:53
Received, engine one ladder one only.
03:56
Return another company.
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Location mentioned:
Walnut St, Peabody, MA 01960
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