Fire alarm at Richmond apartments with armed person reported, Richmond VA
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, firefighters were dispatched to a fire alarm at Foundry Apartments near Sledd Street in Richmond. Upon arrival, they reported a man carrying a gun in the parking lot and waited for police to secure the scene before entering.
Audio|Heard on: Richmond City Fire Dispatch
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Transcript:
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Engine 5 and truck 3.
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Fire alarm.
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near Sledd Street, at Foundry Apartments.
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Engine 5 and truck 3.
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Fire alarm.
00:11
near Leigh Street, at Foundry Apartments.
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Cross streets are Wester Street and Brook Road.
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On, TAC Channel 2.
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Time out, 20 to 30.
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Engine 5 from truck 6.
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Go ahead.
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Just to let you know, when we were leaving out of there, there's a guy walking around the parking lot waving a gun.
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Mr. Mention 5,
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can you have RPD dispatcher's location? We're going to stage.
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We're not going to enter the facility until RPD is clean as seen.
00:56
Christian copy in trucks.
00:57
Did you have a description of the person that was waving the gun?
01:02
Yeah, it was a black male, about five foot five with a black jumpsuit on, black sweatshirt, black sweatpants on.
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Correction copy.
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Showing Engine 5 and Truck 3 en route.
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944 is Fles Street, Foundry Apartments for the general fire alarm, just called in by the alarm company.
01:22
See me the same point of activation of Zone 69.
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And Engine 5 and Truck 3 to stage for RPD, be sent an armed person in the parking line, 2232.
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Location mentioned:
Sledd St, Richmond, VA 23220
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