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Fire alarm at retirement center due to food on stoveRichmond VA

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German School Rd # 1A, Richmond, VA 23225

According to the dispatch call, a fire alarm was activated at Renaissance Retirement Center near German School Road in Richmond. Fire units responded and found food left on the stove but no active fire.

Audio|Heard on: Richmond City Fire Dispatch
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02:29
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 23, engine 20, engine 24, truck 9, and battalion 4.
00:06
Fire alarm.
00:07
Near German School Road at Renaissance Retirement Center.
00:12
Engine 23, engine 20, engine 24, truck 9 and battalion 4.
00:18
Fire alarm.
00:19
Near German School Road at Renaissance Retirement Center.
00:24
Cross streets are a name Road and Dank Road.
00:27
Contact Channel 2.
00:29
Timeout, 0.433.
00:31
Channel companies in route,
00:37
with the exception of Engine 20 to near German School Road for the general fire alarm.
00:42
Alarm company, advising that the fire alarm received a known area of activation.
00:47
Shuttle companies in route, 0.4.34 hours.
00:50
Richmond, Engine 23 on scene, high-rise apartment complex.
00:54
Nothing, Joe.
00:55
Have command to be investigated.
01:00
Rich McAfee, Trey 23 on C.
01:03
High-rise apartment complex method visible.
01:05
We'll investigate house command, 0437-0.
01:12
Command from Battalion 4.3-7-0.
01:13
3-6 is complete, nothing visible from the exterior.
01:20
McAfee's 360 complete nothing visible from the exterior zero four thirty-nine I have for twenty-nine I have for twenty three getting reported oh they all time three and fifty four away twenty-three from truck nine.
01:48
Engine 23, go ahead.
01:55
Stand for 23.
02:00
Engine 23, go ahead with your traffic.
02:07
Can we put in the 2nd 521.
02:09
Space 9404, taking 2ndass.
02:16
I'm from Battalion 4, I'm in the lobby.
02:18
Did you say food on the stove on the fifth floor?
02:23
I did. We're going to probably need a fan up here for the chair company, blow this hallway out.
02:28
There's no fire.

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German School Rd # 1A, Richmond, VA 23225

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