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Fire alarm at commercial storage facility in St. CharlesSt Charles IL

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E Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174

A fire alarm was activated at a commercial storage facility near East Main Street in St. Charles. Fire units responded to investigate possible water flow and pressure issues in multiple buildings. No fire was visible upon arrival, and crews were working to access the main office with keys from a Knox Box to continue the investigation.

Audio|Heard on: Dekalb & Southern Kane County Public Safety.
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03:22
Transcript:
00:00
St.
00:04
Charles Fire, Engine 102,
00:06
Truck 101, and Battalion 100.
00:09
Respond the commercial for alarm at near East Main Street, near East Main Street, St.
00:17
Charles, Crossy.
00:19
St. Bill Drive and Fieldby, Drive.
00:29
I was going to be.
00:37
The fire alarm at Exorcisee Storage, near East Main Street.
00:45
This was for a water flow 600 riser battalion 100 U.S.
00:50
St. Charles is up.
00:56
Side, we'll be out investigating.
01:01
Did you want to do on the scene, multi-building storage facility, nothing showing from Porcide that investigation.
01:10
We can show Battalion 100-on will be commanding ops.
01:15
Battalion 100 on scene, taking them going out.
01:21
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01:27
(number withheld), Redwood Circle, Crossrow, Winding, Hill Drive, and Faroe Circle.
01:31
Need for the female, difficulty breathing on option, O2 levels are dropping.
01:35
You're due to the mentions in the scene.
01:37
Attention, Finger Grove.
01:38
Autoway responds to Elgin at (number withheld), Renwood Circle Cross Foreroke, Circle, Winding, Hell Drive, for this email, difficulty breathing to this mansion.
01:50
Do you already look at the panel?
01:57
Yeah, do you already look at the panel on the main building or not?
02:04
Do not go to the main panel yet.
02:06
We do have strobe activation of Bell going off in the 6,000 building.
02:11
We've had two other buildings have the same problem.
02:23
All right. We have a tamper and a pressure, too.
02:31
All right.
02:34
We have a tamper and a pressure switch in the 6,000 building.
02:43
If there's any water plug out, we got to the unit.
02:50
From trucks,
02:51
we can't get into this main office about a key from the Knox Box.
02:57
I'm heading over to grab it from them now.
03:04
Left and let me get those keys so they can check the...
03:15
I'm not to receive.
03:21
You go ahead and shut down.

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E Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174

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  1. Incident Concluded
  2. System Drained and Reset
  3. Access and System Checks
  4. Alarm Source Identified
  5. Units Arrive and Begin Investigation
  6. Fire Alarm Dispatched

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