Cooking causes false fire alarm in apartment, Suffolk County NY
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Fire & ArsonFire department responded to a cooking-related fire alarm at an apartment on the second floor near Montauk Highway. No active fire or smoke was found during the check.
Audio|Heard on: Eastern Suffolk County Police, Fire, and EMS
Listen to dispatch call
01:14
Transcript:
00:00
The phone was at 1330.
00:02
Your arrival was 1341.
00:06
Time now is 1446.
00:09
One was set off by cooking.
00:12
No, 3.
00:14
Silence fire war on arrival.
00:18
Then reset.
00:20
Signal 10[1] was on team.
00:23
If you could.
00:24
Back to copy over to the farm marshals over.
00:34
Strait 20, was it in the apartment or was it in a business?
00:41
I was on the second floor.
00:43
The alarm was fired before anybody investigated the second floor.
00:47
It was definitely cooking in one of the apartments.
00:53
We could not gain access to the apartments.
00:56
We were able to determine there was no smoke coming out of them.
01:01
And the issue we're having is...
01:02
The alarm sure went off in the apartment long before it got to the hallway.
01:09
1220. It cleared from the loft at 1447.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Signal 10: Fire incident or agency-specific emergency signal code.
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Location mentioned:
Montauk Hwy, New York
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