Commercial fire alarm near Lancaster Avenue possibly triggered by wax melt, Reading PA
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, a commercial fire alarm at a location near Lancaster Avenue was triggered, possibly by a wax melt causing the detector to activate. No visible smoke or fire was present, and officials planned to inform occupants not to burn wax.
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Transcript:
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Tension Engine 5, Ladder 1,
00:07
Piazza Acura, near Lancaster Avenue, between Daniels Avenue and Brookline Plaza,
00:13
for commercial fire alarm reported to be General, 1526.
00:20
7 are you?
00:25
R7.
00:26
Is this the same address and zone as a call earlier today? What was the disposition of that one?
00:37
The farm is the same as earlier.
00:40
It was supposed to be on test earlier at 9 o'clock this morning.
00:50
Okay.
00:51
We'll have Engine 5 investigate.
00:53
You can hold Ladder 1 when they go responding.
00:59
Received, Engine 5 will be investigating.
01:01
We'll hold Letter 1,
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1527.
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Letter 1, copy is right.
01:09
Letter 1 available, 1527.
01:11
Engine 5, 10 to 1, Leicester.
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Engine 5, we wrote up 1527.
01:23
Medical 9 is on scene.
01:26
Receive, medic 9 on location, 1627.
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Exeter Township 3970 Perkinson Avenue at the Penn State Health,
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Exeter Family Medicine, between East and Neverson Street on the second floor for BLS Medical, Medics 69-31, Exeter Township 3970,
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Thirkeham Avenue at the Penn State Health,
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the Exeter Family Medicine, Second Floor, Room 2, Between East Neverson Road and West 39th Street for BALS Medical, 1528.
02:10
And if I'm on team, nothing showing out about getting.
02:18
Z1529.
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(name withheld), 699.
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69-3-1-2nd.
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3-1 in around 1529.
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Penn State Health.
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Family medicine.
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Second floor, room two.
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Fifty-seven-year-old female with a headache.
02:43
Started last Thursday after a seizure and a synchapapaphypac.
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No other complaints now requesting a correction.
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I know in hospital.
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No precautions.
02:59
Where is 957.01 available?
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1057.01 available, 153.
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4.7?
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Good.
03:16
Just the same alarm as earlier and there's no parents off.
03:21
All right.
03:24
Are they putting it on test and get his service or what did they do different than this morning?
03:33
Medic 7 a radio.
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Medic 7 and routes to Reading.
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Medic 7 are running.
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1532.
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7 engine 5.
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Did you call me?
03:52
So they think it's a wax melt that's triggering this detector.
03:56
But it's not leaving a visible cloud.
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It's just an odor.
04:00
I can't believe that would be triggering a detector.
04:02
So if they said ETS is out here and check the system out,
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but we're just going to tell them not to burn wax.
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Yep, good plan.
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The webinar radio, you can make the assignment available.
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Receip the assignment available, 1533.
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Lancaster Ave, Reading, PA 19607
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